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66 Profile of new Honorary Member - Ann eonolly / News of Members -
Yolande Heslop-Harrison / Book Notes - British field crops
is Harley Grange, 25 Elms Road, Leicester,
LE2 3JD (0116 270 9946).
Anyone wishing to visit should first contact
the solicitor: Mr Louis Brandt, Wilson &
Butler, 8 Huntingdon Street, St Neots, PE19
NEWS OF MEMBERS
Yolande Heslop-Harrison
lBH (01480 219229) in order to get permission
to visit, since access to her is strictly
restricted, and most of her old friends are
forbidden to visit.
JOHN BAILEY, Biology Department, University of Leicester, LE] 7RH
Yolande Heslop-Harrison is pictured at her 90 th
Birthday party in Leicester on 18 July 2009 (see
inside Back Cover). 30 friends and family were
assembled to see her presented with a birthday
cake in the shape of a Lilium pollen grain!
Y olande is still very active and living unaided
in her own home. In addition to the fundamental
research into pollination biology that she did
with her husband, Y olande also has her own
specialist research areas of insectivorous plants,
the genus Rubus and British water lilies. Her
most recent paper, the Biological Flora account
of Pinguicula was published in 2004, and she is
Paul Green
still involved in writing papers. Y olande is also
a trustee of 'Caring for God's Acres', a charity
which promotes the conservation of the biodiversity
of Britain's unique churchyards. In addition
to producing well over a hundred
scientific papers, she also found time to produce
the next generation of Heslop-Harrison
professors - Pat - who lives nearby with his
wife Trude and boys William and George.
[Editor's note - Is it something about the air in
Leicester? - this is the 3 rd 90 th botanical birthday
of a Leicester botanist in as many years!]
IAN GREEN, ]9 Bogmoor Road, Bogmoor, Spey Bay, Fochabers, Moray, IV32 7PA
Paul Green was recently presented with the
second Distinguished Recorder Award of
Ireland 2009 by Prof. Liam Downey of the
National Biodiversity Data Centre. This is an
annual award that is to acknowledge the
important contribution that recorders make to
the conservation of biological diversity in
BOOK NOTES
Ireland. It was awarded especially for Paul's
botanical work in Co. Waterford which culminated
in his magnificent Flora of County
Waterford. Looking on in the photo (see inside
Back Cover) are Dr Liam Lysaght and Dr Una
Fitzpatrick.
British field crops: a pocket guide to the identification, history and
uses of arable crops in Great Britain
DR SALLY FRANCIS: (www.britishfieldcrops.co.uk)
Dr Sally Francis has completely updated and
expanded her popular title British field crops,
first published in 2005. The second edition
contains information on 80 crop species and
covers established broad-acre crops like wheat
and barley, alternative crops like miscanthus
and borage and also 'forgotten' crops like rivet
wheat and bristle-pointed oats. It details the
crop's identification features, correct scientific
name, origins and history, uses, plus