LNHS Activities
The LNHS Library, located in the Angela Marmont Centre, Natural History Museum, is open every Wednesday and every third Saturday of the month. Please see the Library page for more information, and our calendar for ID seminars and other events held at the library. See you there!
We have a full programme of activities, both in person field meetings and virtual talks. Please check the calendar and our downloadable programme for full details. Please note that these events may be cancelled at short notice.
Virtual Talks
The LNHS Virtual Natural History Talk series brings together naturalists with experts and specialists using the Zoom videoconferencing tool.
Our talks are hosted fortnightly and are free to attend (though booking is required).
The talks cover a wide range of subjects, from birds to bats, worms to weeds, fungi to foxes and everything inbetween.
Talks are around 30-40 minutes in length and are followed by a live Q&A between the guest speaker and audience.
Find out more about the Virtual Talks
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Butterflies of London
The LNHS is very pleased to announce the publication of The Butterflies of London by Leslie Williams. For more information on this publication, please read more...
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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.
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
The 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
The London Naturalist is one of the flagship journals of the London Natural History Society and is published annually. All members receive this journal for free with their membership. The latest issue of The London Naturalist, edited by Clive Herbert, contains a number of reports, including on Odonata and London butterfly monitoring. There are also articles on fish in the Thames, water voles in the Lee Valley and the ecology of Mitcham Common.
Contents
4 London Natural History Society5 Officers & Recorders
8 Editorial
9 Presidential Address
18 Report of the Society for the year ending 30 June 2023
22 Treasurer’s report for the year ended 30 June 2023
28 Official and sectional reports for 2023
78 Odonata report for 2023: Neil Anderson
82 London butterfly monitoring report for 2023: Leslie Williams
94 Fish utilisation of bioengineered intertidal habitats in the Thames Estuary: Wanda Bodnar, Stephen Colclough & Amy Pryor
113 Water Voles Arvicola amphibius in the Lee Valley: Martin Ketcher
123 The long road to rodent recovery on the Hogsmill River: the story of a London-based Water Vole Arvicola amphibius reintroduction project: Elliot Newton
131 Soldierflies and allies of the Royal Borough of Greenwich: Joe Beale
153 The ecology of Mitcham Common: an overview: Roger K.A. Morris
186 Biodiversity and Bracken Pteridium aquilinum at Stanmore Common, London Borough of Harrow: Simon D. Braidman, J. Edward Milner &
Terrance Ng
196 The Adder Vipera berus on Hounslow Heath LNR: a 21st century success story? William Atkins
222 Book reviews
231 Instructions to contributors
The London Naturalist is one of the flagship journals of the London Natural History Society and is published annually. All members receive this journal for free with their membership. The latest issue of The London Naturalist, edited by Clive Herbert, contains a number of reports, including on Odonata and London butterfly monitoring. There are also articles on winter bats, hibernating Herald moths and a North Atlantic Right whale in the River Thames in 1658.
Contents
4 London Natural History Society
5 Officers & Recorders
8 Editorial
9 Presidential Address
18 Report of the Society for the year ending 30 June 2022
22 Treasurer’s report for the year ended 30 June 2022
28 Official and sectional reports for 2022
68 Odonata report for 2022: Neil Anderson
73 London butterfly monitoring report for 2022: Leslie Williams
84 Hibernating Herald Moths at a tunnel in Beddington Farmlands from 2003 to 2023: Derek Coleman
90 Winter bat movement in a London borough: Alison Fure & Mark Wagstaff
100 North Atlantic Right Whale Eubalaena glacialis in the River Thames: June 1658: Charles Nelson
113 London Centipedes: Anthony D. Barber & Edward Milner
134 Moths of Blackheath and Greenwich Park: 1800–2023: Joe Beale
198 Obituary: Anthony M. Hutson: Tom E.S. Langtont
202 Book reviews
207 Instructions to contributors
The London Naturalist 2018 - Contents of Volume 97
This issue of the London Naturalist contains an article on the flora of Stanmore Common. There are further articles on the NHM Wildlife Garden, on Mayesbrook Park vertebrate fauna, on the caddisflies of the River Wandle, and on a new London hoverfly species.
