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Volume 2 Number 1
October 2010
©: DoncasterNaturalists’ Society 2010
Contents
| Front Cover | Photograph of Peter Skidmore in the Entomological Room at Doncaster Museum | |
| Inside front | Editorial | Paul Simmons |
| p1 | Dr Peter Skidmore – A Memorial | Pip Seccombe |
| p3 | An encounter with Peter Skidmore | Colin Wall |
| p4 | Cetacean Mystery solved? | Louise Hill |
| p5 | The Harbour Porpoise and other whales in the River Don and adjacent tidal rivers |
Colin A. Howes |
| p10 | William Casson as a naturalist | Martin Limbert |
| p17 | Where have all the flowers gone? The disappearance of rare and scarce plants in the Doncaster district | Colin A. Howes and Bob Marsh |
| p24 | Rosebay Willowherb – Chamerion angustifolium The successful adaptation of a plant to our changing world |
Tom Higginbottom |
| p26 | A Historical Review of the Royal Fern – Osmunda regalis L. in the Doncaster region. | Colin A. Howes, Martin Limbert, Michael Oliver and Ian Mcdonald |
Volume 2 Number 2
October 2011
©: DoncasterNaturalists’ Society 20211
Contents
| Front Cover | Photograph of Barn Owl (handled by a falconer) by Nora Boyle | |
| Inside front | Editorial | Paul Simmons |
| p33 | Parliamentary land enclosures in the Doncaster Metropolitan Borough |
C.A. Howes |
| p41 | Owl pellets at Thorpe Marsh Nature Reserve | M. Townsend |
| P44 | Mink takes pike | M. Townsend |
| p45 | Barn Owls at Adwick-le-Street water mill | C.A. Howes & Ken Pearson |
| p50 | Unusual Jackdaw behaviour | Sheila Hill |
| p51 | Why Collect Flies? | Peter Skidmore |
| p55 | Pip’s Pasture – an update | Pip Seccombe |
| p65 | The fascination of plant galls | Tom Higginbottom |
| p68 | American Floating Pennywort, in the River Don and South Yorkshire Navigation in the Doncaster region | Louise Hill & Colin Howes |
| p70 | Review of Japanese Knotweed in Doncaster | C.A. Howes |
| p72 | Were the seeds of the invasion of South Yorkshire by Himalayan Balsam sown in Balby? | Sheila Hill |
| p73 | Dorothy Bramley at 90 | |
| p74 | Obituaries – Elizabeth Farningham and Frank Devine | |
| p75 | The Spread of the Bird’s Wing moth | Sheila Hill & Colin Howes |
| Back cover | Contents | |
Volume 2 Number 3
February 2013
©: DoncasterNaturalists’ Society 2013
Contents
| Front Cover | A view from the Conisbrough Viaduct, showing Cadeby Quarry at the left and the Levitt Hagg landfill site at top right. |
J.Simmons |
| Inside front | Contents | |
| p77 | Ice age mammals in the Don Gorge, Doncaster: A tribute to Edward Bennett Jenkinson FGS (1838-1878) |
Colin A. Howes and Andrea Marshall |
| p84 | Notes on the ‘threshold faunas’ of caves and tunnels within the Magnesian Limestone of the Don Gorge, Doncaster | Colin A. Howes |
| p89 | Bat studies in the Don Gorge 1990-2012: The first twenty-three years | Tony Lane, Colin A. Howes, Pip Secombe, Louise Hill and Derek Allen |
| p105 | Cave spiders of the Don Gorge | Colin A. Howes |
| p107 | Notes on the Lepidoptera of subterranean sites in the Don Gorge, Doncaster | Colin A.Howes, Tony Lane and Louise Hill |
| p109 | Victorian botanical eco-tourists in the Don Gorge | Colin A. Howes |
| p111 | A walk from Hexthorpe to Conisbrough | Derek Allen and Hugh Parkin |
| p113 | The Wild Tulip Tulipa sylvestris in The Don Gorge | Colin A. Howes |
| p116 | The Flamingo Moss Tortula cernua on kiln-dried Magnesian Limestone fines in the quarries and kiln sites of the Don Gorge, Doncaster: a centenary review | Colin A. Howes, Colin Wall, Tim Kohler and Louise Hill |
| p128 | Common Cottongrass in the Don Gorge at Cadeby Quarry | Ian McDonald and Colin A. Howes |
| p129 | Dane’s blood on Cadeby Viaduct! | Colin A. Howes |
| p130 | Doncaster Naturalists Society Presidential Reports 2012 and 2013 | Louise Hill |
Volume 2 Number 4
February 2014
©: DoncasterNaturalists’ Society 2014
Contents
| Front Cover | Doncaster’s first Lizard Orchid. See p153 to follow its rescue from an untimely beheading. | Photo: T.Prosser |
| p133 | The Auckley Common Hedgerow Survey | Colin A. Howes |
| p142 | A study of the predatory behavior of the Sparrowhawk in urban Doncaster | Pip Seccombe and Colin A. Howes |
| p148 | A memorable year for plant galls | Tom Higginbottom |
| p150 | The Fungi Photographer – a short unscientific report on the species within this genus of the Family – Photographers | Ken Wooley |
| p152 | Award for Helen Kirk | Editor |
| p153 | The strange case of the headless lizard | Louise Hill |
| p156 | A study of Carp at Cusworth Lakes | Colin A. Howes |
| p159 | Doncaster Lakeside spiders have a ‘website’ in the spotlight | Colin A. Howes |
| p161 | Mouse tales | Sheila Hill |
| p162 | Breeding birds along the New Junction Canal | Joyce Simmons |
| p166 | A few things you may not know about songbirds | Sheila Hill |
| p168 | Tickhill Castle’s herbal armoury | Colin A. Howes |
| p171 | Butterfly mating puzzle | Mick Townsend |
| p171 | President’s Report, AGM 2014 | Louise Hill |
| Back Cover | Contents | |
Volume 2 Number 5
February 2016
©: DoncasterNaturalists’ Society 2016
Contents
| Front Cover | Early Purple Orchid by Dorothy Bramley | |
| p173 | Obituary: Dorothy Margaret Bramley | Colin Howes |
| p177 | High winds and tree damage in the Doncaster region during the winter storms of 2013-14 | Colin Howes and Tim Prosser |
| p185 | Sedges at Old Moor | Nora Boyle |
| p189 | Some observations on reptiles in Doncaster | Louise Hill |
| p192 | Brodsworth Hall Gardens | Tom Higginbottom |
| p196 | Owls pellets at Thorpe Marsh – further findings | Mick Townsend |
| p200 | Doncaster roads in the pink! – The spread of Danish Scurvy-grass across our region | Colin Howes and Bob Marsh |
| p204 | Doncaster’s significant Yews | Colin Howes |
| p210 | The year of the spider (for me anyway) | Joyce Simmons |
| p212 | International trade brings Black Widow Spiders to Doncaster | Colin Howes |
| p214 | Notes from Finningley Churchyard: of walls and plants | Tricia Haigh |
| p216 | Essex Skippers move through Doncaster | Paul Simmons |
| p218 | Chris Devlin (1939-2014): The Doncaster Days | Colin Howes |
| p222 | Doncaster Naturalists’ Society excursions 2015 | |
| p223 | President’s Report, AGM 2016 | Louise Hill |