New Naturalist

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Cover of the first book in the series, E.B. Ford's famous Butterflies

The New Naturalist books are a series published by Collins in the United Kingdom, on a variety of natural history topics relevant to the British Isles. The aim of the series at the start was: "To interest the general reader in the wild life of Britain by recapturing the inquiring spirit of the old naturalists." In the editors' preface to a 1952 monograph they write "An object of the New Naturalist series is the recognition of the many-sidedness of British natural history, and the encouragement of unusual and original developments of its forgotton or neglected facets."

The first to appear was E.B. Ford's Butterflies in 1945. The authors of this series are usually eminent experts, often professional scientists. This gives the series authority, and many are or have been authoritative introductory textbooks on a subject for some years. The books are written in scientific style, but are intended to be readable by the non-specialist, and are an early example of popular science in the media.

The books of the series have had considerable influence on many students who later became professional biologists, such as W.D. Hamilton and Mike Majerus. The latter was inspired by Ford's Butterflies and Moths and later added two of his own volumes to the series.

A parallel series of Monographs was also published, but there have been no additions since 1971. Volume 82 of the main series, The New Naturalists, described the series to date, with author biographies and a guide to collecting the books.

The original Editorial Board consisted of Julian Huxley, James Fisher, Dudley Stamp, John Gilmour and Eric Hosking. Many of the highly characteristic dust jacket illustrations are by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis; others are by Robert Gillmor.

Being a numbered series, with a very low print run for some volumes, they are highly collectable. Second-hand copies of the rarer volumes, in very good condition, can command high prices. In 2006, the 100th volume was produced. The series is on-going.

1 Main Series
2 Monographs
3 Reference
4 External links

[edit] Main Series

1	Butterflies	E.B. Ford	1945
2	British Game	Vesey-Fitzgerald, B.	1946
3	London's Natural History	R.S.R. Fitter	1945
4	Britain's Structure and Scenery	Dudley Stamp, L.	1946
5	Wild Flowers	Gilmour, J. & Walters, M.	1954
6a	The Natural History of the Highlands and Islands	Darling, F.F.	1947
6b	The Highlands and Islands	Darling, F.F. & Boyd, J.M.	1964
7	Mushrooms and Toadstools	Ramsbottom, J.	1953
8	Insect Natural History	Imms, A.D.	1947
9	A Country Parish	Boyd, A.W.	1951
10	British Plant Life	Turrill, W.B.	1948
11	Mountains and Moorlands	Pearsall, W.H.	1950
12	The Sea Shore	Yonge, C.M.	1949
13	Snowdonia	North, F.J., Campbell,B. & Scott, R.	1949
14	The Art of Botanical Illustration	Blunt, W.	1950
15	Life in Lakes and Rivers	Macan, T.T. & Worthington, E.B.	1951
16	Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone	Lousley, J.E.	1950
17	Birds and Men	Max Nicholson	1951
18	A Nat. Hist. of Man in Britain	Fleure, H.J.	1951
19	Wild Orchids of Britain	Summerhayes, V.S.	1951
20	The British Amphibians and Reptiles	Malcolm Arthur Smith	1951
21	British Mammals	Matthews, L.H.	1952
22	Climate and the British Scene	Gordon Manley	1952
23	An Angler's Entomology	Harris, J.R.	1952
24	Flowers of the Coast	Hepburn, I.	1952
25	The Sea Coast	Steers, J.A.	1953
26	The Weald	Wooldridge, S.W. & Goldring, F.	1953
27	Dartmoor	Harvey, L.A. & St Leger Gordon, D.	1953
28	Sea-Birds	James Fisher & R. M. Lockley	1954
29	The World of the Honeybee	Butler, C.G.	1954
30	Moths	E.B. Ford	1954
31	Man and the Land	Dudley Stamp, L.	1955
32	Trees, Woods and Man	Edlin, H.L.	1956
33	Mountain Flowers	Raven J. and Walters, M.	1956
34	The Open Sea: The World of Plankton	Hardy, A.	1956
35	The World of Soil	Russell, E.J.	1957
36	Insect Migration	Williams, C.B.	1958
37	The Open Sea: Fish & Fisheries	Hardy, A.	1959
38	The World of Spiders	W.S. Bristowe	1958
39	The Folklore of Birds	Armstrong, E.A.	1958
40	Bumblebees	Free, J.B. & Butler, C.G.	1959
41	Dragonflies	Corbet, P.S., Longfield, C. & Moore, N.W.	1960
42	Fossils	Swinnerton, H.H.	1960
43	Weeds and Aliens	Salisbury, E.	1961
44	The Peak District	Edwards, K.C.	1962
45	The Common Lands of England and Wales	Hoskins, W.G. & Dudley Stamp, L.	1963
46	The Broads	Ellis, A.E.	1965
47	The Snowdonia National Park	Condry, W.M.	1966
48	Grass and Grassland	Moore, I.	1966
49	Nature Conservation in Britain	Dudley Stamp, L.	1969
50	Pesticides and Pollution	Mellanby, K.	1967
51	Man and Birds	Murton, R.K.	1971
52	Woodland Birds	Simms, E.	1971
53	The Lake District	Pearsall, W.H. & Pennington, W.	1973
54	The Pollination of Flowers	Proctor, M. & Yeo, P.	1973
55	Finches	Newton, I.	1972
56	Pedigree: Words from Nature	Potter, S. & Sargent, L.	1973
57	British Seals	Hewer, H.R.	1974
58	Hedges	Pollard, E., Hooper, M.D. & Moore, N.W.	1974
59	Ants	Brian, M.V.	1977
60	British Birds of Prey	Brown, L.H.	1976
61	Inheritance and Natural History	R.J. Berry	1977
62	British Tits	Chris Perrins	1979
63	British Thrushes	Simms, E.	1978
64	The Natural History of Shetland	R.J. Berry	1980
65	Waders	Hale, W.G.	1980
66	The Natural History of Wales	Condry, W.M.	1982
67	Farming and Wildlife	Mellanby, K.	1981
68	Mammals in the British Isles	Harrison Matthews, L.	1982
69	Reptiles and Amphibians in Britain	Fraser, D.	1983
70	The Natural History of Orkney	R.J. Berry	1985
71	British Warblers	Simms, E.	1985
72	Heathlands	Webb, N.	1986
73	The New Forest	Tubbs, C.R.	1986
74	Ferns	Page, C.N.	1988
75	British Freshwater Fish	Maitland, P.S. & Campbell, R.N.	1992
76	The Hebrides	Boyd, J.M. & Boyd I.L.	1990
77	The Soil	Davis, B.N.K., Walker, N., Ball, D.F. & Alastair Fitter	1992
78	British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails	Simms, E.	1992
79	Caves and Cave Life	Chapman, P.	1993
80	Wild and Garden Plants	Walters, M.	1993
81	Ladybirds	Mike Majerus	1994
82	The New Naturalists	Marren, P.	1995 (2nd ed. 2005)
83	The Natural History of Pollination	Proctor, M., Yeo, P. & Lack, A.	1996
84	Ireland: A Natural History	Cabot, D.	1999
85	Plant Disease	Ingram, D. & Robertson, N.	1999
86	Lichens	Gilbert, Oliver	2000
87	Amphibians & Reptiles	Beebee, T. & Griffiths, R.	2000
88	Loch Lomondside	John Mitchell	2001
89	The Broads	Brian Moss	2001
90	Moths	Mike Majerus	2002
91	Nature Conservation	Peter Marren	2002 ISBN 0-00-711305-6
92	Lakeland	Derek Ratcliffe	2002 ISBN 0-00-711304-8
93	British Bats	John Altringham	2003 ISBN 0-00-220140-2
94	Seashore	Peter Hayward	2004 ISBN 0-00-220030-9
95	Northumberland	Angus Lunn	2004 ISBN 0-00-718484-0
96	Fungi	Spooner, B. & Roberts, P.	2005 ISBN 0-00-220152-6
97	Mosses and Liverworts	Porley, R. & Hodgetts, N.	2005 ISBN 0-00-220212-3
98	Bumblebees	Ted Benton	2006 ISBN 0-00-717450-0
99	Gower	Jonathan Mullard	2006 ISBN 0-00-716067-4
100	Woodlands	Oliver Rackham	2006 ISBN 0-00-720243-1
101	Galloway and the Borders	Derek Ratcliffe	2007 ISBN 0-00-717401-2

[edit] Monographs

M01	The Badger	Neal, E.	1948
M02	The Redstart	Buxton, J.	1950
M03	The Wren	Armstrong, E.A.	1955
M04	The Yellow Wagtail	Smith, S.	1950
M05	The Greenshank	Nethersole-Thompson, D.	1951
M06	The Fulmar	Fisher, J.	1952
M07	Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos	Rothschild, M. & Clay, T.	1952
M08	Ants	Morley, D.W.	1953
M09	The Herring Gull's World	Tinbergen, N.	1960
M10	Mumps, Measles and Mosaics	Smith, K.M. & Markham, R.	1954
M11	The Heron	Lowe, F.A.	1954
M12	Squirrels	Shorten, M.	1954
M13	The Rabbit	Thompson, H.V. & Worden, A.N.	1956
M14	The Birds of the London Area	London N.H.S.	1957
M15	The Hawfinch	Mountfort, G.	1957
M16	The Salmon	Jones, J.W.	1959
M17	Lords and Ladies	Prime, C.T.	1960
M18	Oysters	Yonge, C.M.	1960
M19	The House Sparrow	Summers-Smith, D.	1963
M20	The Wood Pigeon	Murton, R.K.	1965
M21	The Trout	Frost, W.E. & Brown, M.E.	1967
M22	The Mole	Mellanby, Kenneth	1971