The LNHS Library in Lockdown

Chained Library Neil Alexander McKee

Dorset Photographic

 The Library Committee managed a last meeting at the Angela Marmont Centre in March before the country closed down for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic. We will open up the Library as soon as we can, depending on the Natural History Museum’s arrangments for access with social distancing.

In the meantime there are four new books sitting in the Post Room waiting to be added to the shelves:

Arachnologists' handbook (3rd ed) by Geoff Oxford, 2019

The Common Buzzard (Poyser Monographs) by Sean Walls, 2020

Atlas of the Mammals of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, by Derek Crawley, 2020

Field Guide to the Caterpillars of Great Britain and Ireland by Dr Phil Sterling, 2020

Raptor Prey Remains: A Guide to Identifying What's Been Eaten by a Bird of Prey (Pelagic Identification Guides) by Ed Drewitt, is on order and is due later this year.

This seems an opportune moment to remind members that they can access the London Naturalist from 1921 to 2008 online at the Biodiversity Heritage Library www.biodiversitylibrary.org
This holds digital back runs of a number of journals including Ibis from 1859 to 1922, and Watsonia from 1949 to 2010, as well as many of the classic books of natural history.
David Allen & Julie Berk