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68 Recorders and Recording / Obituary notes
RECORDERS AND RECORDING
Panel of Referees and Specialists
MARY CLARE SHEAHAN, 61 Westmoreland Road, Barnes, London SW13 9RZ;
mc_sheahan@hotmail.com
We have two new referees:
Mike Bell will do bamboos. His entry reads as
follows:
Bambusoideae: Mr M. Bell. Information is
needed on the habitat, the height of the
clump, whether it has an open structure or
close compact canes; the size of branches,
the number at each node and their angle to
the stem; the size, texture and colour of
leaves, both above and below. His address
is Mr M. Bell, Beecroft, 3 Clarence Terrace,
Park Road,Wadebridge, Cornwall PL27
7NG
Rodney Burton has offered to look at records
from S.W. Turkey. His address is in the
Yearbook.
Panel of Vice-county Recorders
Also:
Allen Coombes has resigned as referee for
Quercus, as he has moved to Mexico.
However, he is prepared to help by looking
at images of specimens - his new email
address is: allen.coombes@hotmail.com
Mike Hardman, referee for Viola, has moved
to Cyprus. His new address is: Tremithos
BI7-201, 8270 Tremithousa, Paphos,
Cyprus. His new email address is:
mike@mikehardman.com.
Dr E Charles Nelson the referee for Ericaceae
and Maritime Drift Seeds has a new email
address - tippitiwitchet@phonecoop.coop
DAVID PEARMAN, Algiers, Feock, Truro, Cornwall, TR3 6RA; 01872 863388
Changes
v.c.38 (Warks). V acant. We very much regret
to announce the death of Dr J ames
Partridge, recorder since 2004.
v.c.96. (Easterness). Mr Waddell retires (Ms
S. Smyth continues as before)
OBITUARY NOTES
MARY BRIGGs, 9 Arun Prospect, Pulborough, West Sussex, RH20 1AL
With regret we report the death of Dr J ames
Partridge of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
who joined the Society in 1986 and had been
our Recorder for v.c. 38 since 2004.
It is also with much regret that we report the
deaths of the following members notified to us
since the last issue: Mr C.J. Bruxner of
King's Lynn, Norfolk, a member since 1973;
Mrs P.D. Law of Guisborough, Cleveland, a
member since 1995; Mr F.T. Palmer of
Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, a member
since 1972; Dr L.E. Perrins of St Albans,
Hertfordshire, a member since 1962; Mr W.F.
Robertson of Glenalmond, Perth, a member
since 1991; Mr M. Robinson of Macclesfield,
Cheshire, a member since 1983; Mr P.J.
Wisniewski of Burscough, Lancashire, a
member since 2003 and Mrs A.C. Macpherson,
a family member since 1991 and the wife
of our former President Peter Macpherson. We
send our sympathy to him and to the families of
all those members mentioned above.
Also with regret we report the death of Prof.
C.J. Humphries; although not a member of
BSBI, Chris was known to many as a botanist
at the Natural History Museum where he was
part of the B.M. Evolutionary Biology group.
BSBI rare plant recording was helpful to Chris
in planning his project on mapping pictorially
Rare Species of the World.