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The London Naturalist

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LN 2022 CoverThe 2022 issue contains official and sectional reports for the year 2021, updates on the butterfly monitoring scheme, and further reports on the flora and fauna of the Hampton Court Palace estate and the wildlife garden at the NHM, London. 

Contents: 

4      London Natural History Society

5      Officers & Recorders

8      Editorial

9      Presidential Address

17    Report of the Society for the year ending 30 June 2021

20    Treasurer’s report for the year ended 30 June 2021

26    Official and sectional reports for 2021

69    Odonata report for 2021: Neil Anderson

73    London butterfly monitoring report for 2021: Leslie Williams

83    The Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum: developments of the flora and fauna update 2021-2022 – twenty-seven years of species recording: Tom McCarter, David Lees, Caroline Ware, Len Ellis, Sam Thomas, Maxwell V.L. Barclay, Michael F. Geiser & Keita Matsumoto

93    Spiders in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park Local Nature Reserve: a preliminary report on studies 2007-2022: Edward Milner

106  Fauna and flora of the Hampton Court Palace Estate: corrections to the checklist: Tristan Bantock

110  Notes on the fauna of Hayes & Keston Commons, and Holwood Park in the London Borough of Bromley; also Biggin Hill, north-west Kent, 1946-1950, with some earlier records: John F. Burton

137  Olympic Nathusius’ Pipistrelle travels from London to Russia: Patty A. Briggs & Brian H.J. Briggs 

141  The First Greater London Water Vole Arvicola amphibius Survey: 1997: Clive Herbert 

150  Obituary: John A. Burton: Tom E.S. Langton & Anthony M. Hutson 

157  Book reviews

167  Instructions to contributors