Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe (Collins Pocket Guides Series)

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Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe (Collins Pocket Guides Series)

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During the Second World War he worked at the Operations research section of the RAF Coastal Command. [1] During this time he worked for two hours each evening on a comprehensive urban natural history of London, which was published in May 1945 as London's Natural History, his first book. [2] He was recruited to the Institute for Political and Economic Planning in 1936, and in 1940 moved to the social research organisation Mass-Observation to investigate civilian morale for the Ministry of Information. [1] Recent research in molecular systematics using techniques of DNA sequencing has resulted in a revision of the family relationships between some species of plants. Much of this is a consequence of an international collaborative research project, the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group or APG. The APG system has now been incorporated into the most recent edition of Stace’s standard British flora and has been followed in this new edition of the Guide. In some cases, such as the splitting up of the Scrophulariaceae and the Liliaceae into a number of separate families, this has resulted in some unfamiliar changes although in many cases they had already been predicted by traditional taxonomy."

Fitter collected 'bird inn signs.' He wrote about his hobby in the Birmingham Daily Post, published Tuesday 22 March 1955. Fitter wrote that "I just note them down in my diary whenever I see them. I started during the second winter of the war, as a kind of light relief from the somewhat grim preoccupations of those days." By 1955 Fitter had several hundred signs in his collection of some 38 different bird species. Another essential book for the natural historians ever expanding library."—Roy Stewart, British Naturalists Association Birds of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East (with illustrations by Hermann Heinzel and maps by John Parslow) 1972 Lucas, Gren (July 1996). "Alice Mary Stewart (Maisie) Fitter: 1912–1996". Oryx. 30 (3): 166. doi: 10.1017/S0030605300021591– via Cambridge University Press.Contributions to the Bibliography of the Natural History of the London Area: No.2: a Subject Index of the Society's Journals, 1941–51 1952

Fitter wrote many books and was active in various areas relating to nature and conservation. His wife Maisie was a colleague and collaborator on many of his researches. [4] They were joint authors of The Penguin Dictionary of British Natural History (1967). [1] The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (with William Plomer, illustrations by Alan Aldridge) 1973 Full of beautiful pictures and illustrations, making it easy to identify coastal wildflowers. . . . A well thought out user-friendly guide."—Alison Alderton, Towpath Talk Featuring all flowering plants, including trees and grasses, and ferns, this fully revised and updated field guide to the wild flowers of Britain and northern Europe is the most complete illustrated, single-volume guide ever published. If you have an idea of the plant name (common or scientific), enter this in the search box (top-right). Unknown plants can be identified by floral features, using selectors for colour, shape or petal number. Plant featuresFitter, Richard Sidney Richmond 1913–2005,' Contemporary Authors Encyclopedia.com. 25 Aug. 2022 < https://www.encyclopedia.com> The perfect introduction to an array of Britain’s most fascinating, and in some cases, unusual flora."—Josh Jones, Birdwatch He was also involved in the search for the Loch Ness Monster, being a director of the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau. [6] Honours [ edit ] After the war in 1945 he was appointed secretary of the Wildlife Conservation Special Committee of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, which made proposals for nature conservation as part of the reconstruction after the war. [1] [2] [4] A Field Guide to Freshwater Life in Britain and North-west Europe (Collins Field Guide) (with Richard Manuel) 1986



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