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Items recovered from Colin’s old office in Museum

Schedule of items recovered.

Press Cuttings (being photocopies of pages from various newspapers taken from ????)

Peter Skidmore’s Art

An Original Manuscript “Notes on British Spiders” by W. Robinson (1892)

Peter Skidmore’s letter “The Ecological Importance of the Trees and Shrubs of Sandall Beat”

A Letter (with list) from Stuart Foster to Hugh (1983)

St Michael’s Rectory Garden (Pip’s species list 1997-99)

West Yorkshire Flowering Plants by A. A. Dalman

Recent Posts

  • Next Meeting – Friday 14th August 2026 to Hatfield Moor 12 August 2026
  • Next Meeting – Friday 7th August 2026 for Chesterfield Canal walk 31 July 2026
  • Next Meeting – Monday 27th July 2026 to Brookfield Park. 24 July 2026
  • Next Meeting – Wednesday 15th July 2026 to Thorpe Marsh NNR 13 July 2026
  • Next Meeting – Saturday July 4th, 2026 at Denaby Delf 30 June 2026

Gallery

Uromyces ficariae on Lesser celandine, Sprotborough. Hartigiola annulipes a Gall Midge, Potteric Carr (cylindrical pouches).

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Slideshow

Wild-Daffoldils-2 Flowering Rush (Butomus umbellatus), Bentley Community Woodland. Little Egret. Lound. Lapwing, Lound. Argiope bruennichi, female, Lincolnshire. Graphomyia maculata, River Idle, Bawtry (28 May 2026). Bow-winged Grasshopper - Chorthippus biguttulus, Potteric Carr. Wood Cranesbill (Geranium sylvaticum), Brockadale. Biston strataria - Oak Beauty, (normal and aberration), Woodside Nurseries, Austerfield. Griposia aprilina - Merveille du Jour, Austerfield.
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