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London Natural History Society - The place for wildlife in London

The London Naturalist

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The 2021 issue highlights include new and interesting spider records for 2014-2020, updates on the wildlife garden at the Natural History Museum and and overview of the LNHS's publishing history.

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Contents:

4      London Natural History Society

5      Officers and Recorders

9      Editorial

10    Presidential Address: Maria Roberts

14    Presidential Address – 1920: R.W. Robbins

18    Report of the Society for the year ending 30 June 2020

22    Treasurer’s report for the year ended 30 June 2020

28    Official and sectional reports for 2020

65    Odonata report for 2020: Neil Anderson

70    London butterfly monitoring report for 2020: Leslie Williams

79    New and interesting spider records for London 2014–2020: Edward Milner

83    Bookham Common, the botanical record brought up to date: Steve Mellor

124  The Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum: developments of the flora and fauna update 2020-2021 – twenty-six years of species recording: Tom McCarter, Sylvia Myers, Caroline Ware, Len Ellis, Maxwell V.L. Barclay, Sam Thomas, Duncan Sivell and Gavin Broad

132  Attitudes and behaviours towards Carrion Crows in London: Sabrina Schalz

141  An integrated GIS-based approach to improve fish migration within the Greater Thames Estuary: Wanda Bodnar, Amy Prior and Peter Philipsen

166  The London Natural History Society in the literary landscape: one hundred years of Natural History publishing: David Allen

173  Fauna and flora of the Hampton Court Palace Estate: Stuart Cole

226  Obituary: Keith Hyatt: Jan Hewlett, John F. Burton and Rosemary Parslow

230  Book reviews 

239  Instructions to contributors