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Revision as of 22:42, 8 September 2013

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

The New Naturalist Library 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 forgotten 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. Until 1985, the highly characteristic dust jacket illustrations were by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis; since then they have been 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 good condition, can command high prices. The 100th volume, Woodlands by Oliver Rackham was published in 2006. Woodlands was also published in 2006 as a leatherbound edition, limited to 100 copies. The second leatherbound New Naturalist - Dragonflies by Philip Steven Corbet and Stephen Brooks was published in 2008. The leather edition of Dragonflies was initially limited to 400 copies, which was subsequently limited to 303, and finally to 250. According to the New Naturalist website only 217 were actually sold and the remaining unsold stock is being kept secure at HarperCollins's offices.

The series won the 2007 British Book Design & Production Award for "brand or series identity", and in 2008 the official website was launched, with features including the latest news, a members only area with access to exclusive content and downloads, and a forum.

In around 1990, Bloomsbury produced a series of facsimile editions, as hardbacks with new dustjacket designs, and with all plates in black and white, including those which were originally in colour.

Main series

Number	Title	Author(s)	Editions	Bloomsbury Edition
1	Butterflies	E. B. Ford	1945, 1946, 1957, 1977	1990
2	British Game	Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald	1946
3	London's Natural History	R. S. R. Fitter	1945	x
4	Britain's Structure and Scenery	L. Dudley Stamp	1946
5	Wild Flowers	John Gilmour and Max Walters	1954
6a	Natural History in the Highlands and Islands	F. Fraser Darling	1947
6b	The Highlands and Islands	F. Fraser Darling and J.M. Boyd	1964	1989
7	Mushrooms and Toadstools	John Ramsbottom	1953
8	Insect Natural History	A.D. Imms	1947	x
9	A Country Parish	A.W. Boyd	1951
10	British Plant Life	W.B. Turrill	1948	x
11	Mountains and Moorlands	W.H. Pearsall	1950	1989
12	The Sea Shore	Yonge, C.M.	1949	x
13	Snowdonia	F.J. North, B. Campbell and R. Scott	1949
14	The Art of Botanical Illustration	Wilfrid Blunt	1950
15	Life in Lakes and Rivers	T.T. Macan and E.B. Worthington	1951	x
16	Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone	J.E. Lousley	1950	x
17	Birds and Men	Max Nicholson	1951	x
18a	A Nat. Hist. of Man in Britain	H.J. Fleure	1951
18b	A Natural History of Man in Britain	H.J. Fleure and Margaret Davies	1951 (1970)	x
19	Wild Orchids of Britain	V.S. Summerhayes	1951
20	The British Amphibians and Reptiles	Malcolm Smith	1951
21	British Mammals	L. Harrison Matthews	1952	x
22	Climate and the British Scene	Gordon Manley	1952
23	An Angler's Entomology	J.R. Harris	1952	x
24	Flowers of the Coast	Ian Hepburn	1952
25	The Sea Coast	J.A. Steers	1953
26	The Weald	S.W. Wooldridge and Frederick Goldring	1953
27	Dartmoor	L.A. Harvey and D. St Leger-Gordon	1953
28	Sea-Birds	James Fisher and R.M. Lockley	1954	x
29	The World of the Honeybee	Colin G. Butler	1954
30	Moths	E.B. Ford	1954, 1967, 1972
31	Man and the Land	L. Dudley Stamp	1955
32	Trees, Woods and Man	H.L. Edlin	1956
33	Mountain Flowers	John Raven and Max Walters	1956
34	The Open Sea: The World of Plankton	Alister Hardy	1956
35	The World of the Soil	Sir E. John Russell	1957
36	Insect Migration	C.B. Williams	1958
37	The Open Sea: Fish & Fisheries	Alister Hardy	1959
38	The World of Spiders	W. S. Bristowe	1958
39	The Folklore of Birds	Edward A. Armstrong	1958
40	Bumblebees	John B. Free and C.G. Butler	1959
41	Dragonflies	Philip S. Corbet, Cynthia Longfield and N.W. Moore	1960
42	Fossils	H.H. Swinnerton	1960	x
43	Weeds and Aliens	Sir Edward Salisbury	1961
44	The Peak District	K.C. Edwards	1962, 1974	1990
45	The Common Lands of England and Wales	W. G. Hoskins and L. Dudley Stamp	1963
46	The Broads	A.E. Ellis	1965
47	The Snowdonia National Park	W.M. Condry	1966
48	Grass and Grassland	Ian Moore	1966
49	Nature Conservation in Britain	L. Dudley Stamp	1969
50	Pesticides and Pollution	Kenneth Mellanby	1967
51	Man and Birds	R.K. Murton	1971
52	Woodland Birds	Eric Simms	1971	1990
53	The Lake District	W.H. Pearsall and W. Pennington	1973	1989
54	The Pollination of Flowers	Michael Proctor and Peter Yeo	1973
55	Finches	Ian Newton	1972
56	Pedigree: Words from Nature	Stephen Potter and Laurens Sargent	1973
57	British Seals	H.R. Hewer	1974
58	Hedges	E. Pollard M.D. Hooper and Norman W. Moore	1974
59	Ants	M.V. Brian	1977
60	British Birds of Prey	Leslie H. Brown	1976	x
61	Inheritance and Natural History	R. J. Berry	1977	x
62	British Tits	Chris Perrins	1979
63	British Thrushes	Eric Simms	1978
64	The Natural History of Shetland	R. J. Berry	1980
65	Waders	W.G. Hale	1980
66	The Natural History of Wales	William M. Condry	1982	x
67	Farming and Wildlife	Kenneth Mellanby	1981
68	Mammals in the British Isles	L. Harrison Matthews	1982
69	Reptiles and Amphibians in Britain	Deryk Frazer	1983	x
70	The Natural History of Orkney	R. J. Berry	1985
71	British Warblers	Eric Simms	1985
72	Heathlands	Nigel Webb	1986
73	The New Forest	Colin R. Tubbs	1986
74	Ferns	Christopher N. Page	1988
75	Freshwater Fishes	P.S. Maitland and R.N. Campbell	1992
76	The Hebrides	J.M. Boyd and I.L. Boyd	1990
77	The Soil	B. Davis, N. Walker, D.F. Ball and A. Fitter	1992
78	British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails	Eric Simms	1992
79	Caves and Cave Life	Philip Chapman	1993
80	Wild and Garden Plants	Max Walters	1993
81	Ladybirds	Mike Majerus	1994
82	The New Naturalists	Peter Marren	1995 (2nd ed. 2005)
83	The Natural History of Pollination	Michael Proctor, Peter Yeo and Andrew Lack	1996
84	Ireland	David Cabot	1999
85	Plant Disease	David Ingram and Noel Robertson	1999
86	Lichens	Oliver Gilbert	2000
87	Amphibians & Reptiles	Trevor Beebee and Richard Griffiths	2000
88	Loch Lomondside	John Mitchell	2001
89	The Broads	Brian Moss	2001
90	Moths	Mike Majerus	04/02/2002 ISBN 0-00-220141-4 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-220142-1 (PB)
91	Nature Conservation	Peter Marren	07-05-2002 ISBN 0-00-711305-6 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-711306-4 (PB)
92	Lakeland	Derek Ratcliffe	07/10/2002 ISBN 978-0-00-711303-3 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-711304-0 (PB)
93	British Bats	John Altringham	03/03/2003 ISBN 978-0-00-220140-7 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-220147-6 (PB)
94	A Natural History of the Seashore	Peter Hayward	05/03/2004 ISBN 978-0-00-220030-1 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-220031-7 (PB)
95	Northumberland	Angus Lunn	04/10/2004 ISBN 978-0-00-718484-2 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-718483-5 (PB)
96	Fungi	Brian Spooner and Peter Roberts	06/06/2005 ISBN 978-0-00-220152-6 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-220153-7 (PB)
97	Mosses and Liverworts	Ron Porley and Nick Hodgetts	05/09/2005 ISBN 978-0-00-220212-3 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-717400-3 (PB)
98	Bumblebees	Ted Benton	06/03/2006 ISBN 978-0-00-717450-0 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-717451-5 (PB)
99	Gower	Jonathan Mullard	02/05/2006 ISBN 978-0-00-716067-4 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-716066-2 (PB)
100	Woodlands	Oliver Rackham	04/09/2006 ISBN 0-00-720243-1 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-720244-7 (PB)
101	Galloway and the Borders	Derek Ratcliffe	03/01/2007 ISBN 0-00-717401-2 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-717402-7 (PB)
102	Garden Natural History	Stefan Buczacki	01/05/2007 ISBN 0-00-713993-4 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-713994-1 (PB)
103	The Isles of Scilly	Rosemary Parslow	06/08/2007 ISBN 978-0-00-220150-6(HB) ISBN 978-0-00-220151-3 (PB)
104	A History of Ornithology	Peter Bircham	04/10/2007 ISBN 978-0-00-719969-3 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-719970-9 (PB)
105	Wye Valley	George Peterken	04/02/2008 ISBN 978-0-00-716069-3 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-716069-3 (PB)
106	Dragonflies	Philip Steven Corbet and Stephen Brooks	02/06/2008 ISBN 978-0-00-715168-3 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-715169-1 (PB)
107	Grouse	Adam Watson and Robert Moss	01/09/2008 ISBN 978-0-00-715097-3 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-715098-4 (PB)
108	Southern England	Peter Friend	03/11/2008 ISBN 978-0-00-724742-4 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-724743-1 (PB)
109	Islands	R. J. Berry	02/02/2009 ISBN 978-0-00-726737-8 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-726738-5 (PB)
110	Wildfowl	David Cabot	28/05/2009 ISBN 978-0-00-714658-1 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-714659-6 (PB)
111	Dartmoor	Ian Mercer	17/09/2009 ISBN 978-0-00-718499-6 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-718500-9 (PB)
112	Books and Naturalists	David Elliston Allen	04/02/2010 ISBN 978-0-00-724084-5 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-730017-4 (PB)
113	Bird Migration	Ian Newton	01/04/2010 ISBN 978-0-00-730731-9 (HB) ISBN 978-0-00-730732-6 (PB)
114	Badger	Timothy J. Roper	27/05/2010 ISBN 978-0-00-732041-7(HB) ISBN 978-0-00-733977-8 (PB)
115	Climate and Weather	John Kington	02/09/2010 ISBN 978-0-00-718501-6(HB) ISBN 978-0-00-718502-3 (PB)
116	Plant Pests	David V. Alford	06/01/2011 ISBN 978-0-00-733849-8(HB) ISBN 978-0-00-733848-1(PB)
117	Plant Galls	Margaret Redfern	28/04/2011 ISBN 978-0-00-220143-8(HB) ISBN 978-0-00-220144-5(PB)
118	Marches	Andrew Allott	01/09/2011 ISBN 978-0-00-724816-2(HB) ISBN 978-0-00-724817-2(PB)
119	Scotland	Peter Friend	05/01/2012 ISBN 978-0-00-730956-6(HB) ISBN 978-0-00-730906-6(PB)
120	Grasshoppers and Crickets	Ted Benton	05/06/2012 ISBN 978-0-00-727723-0(HB) ISBN 978-0-00-727724-7(PB)
121	Partridges: Countryside Barometer	G. R. Potts	27/09/2012 ISBN 978-0-00-741870-1(HB) ISBN 978-0-00-741871-8(PB)
122	Vegetation of Britain and Ireland	Michael Proctor	14/03/2013 ISBN 978-0-00-220148-3(HB) ISBN 978-0-00-220149-0(PB)
123	Terns	David Cabot and Ian Nisbet	06/06/2013 ISBN 978-0-00-741247-1(HB) ISBN 978-0-00-741248-7(PB)

Monographs

Number	Title	Author	Editions
M01	The Badger	Ernest Neal	1948
M02	The Redstart	John Buxton	1950
M03	The Wren	Edward A. Armstrong	1955
M04	The Yellow Wagtail	Stuart Smith	1950
M05	The Greenshank	Desmond Nethersole-Thompson	1951
M06	The Fulmar	James Fisher	1952
M07	Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos	Miriam Rothschild and Theresa Clay	1952
M08	Ants	Derek Wragge Morley	1953
M09	The Herring Gull's World	Niko Tinbergen	1953
M10	Mumps, Measles and Mosaics	Kenneth M. Smith and Roy Markham	1954
M11	The Heron	Frank A. Lowe	1954
M12	Squirrels	Monica Shorten	1954
M13	The Rabbit	Harry V. Thompson and Alastair N. Worden	1956
M14	The Birds of the London Area	London Natural History Society	1957
M15	'The Hawfinch	Guy Mountfort	1957
M16	The Salmon	J.W. Jones	1959
M17	Lords and Ladies	Cecil T. Prime	1960
M18	Oysters	C.M. Yonge	1960
M19	The House Sparrow	J.D. Summers-Smith	1963, 1967
M20	The Wood Pigeon	R.K. Murton	1965
M21	The Trout	W.E. Frost and M.E. Brown	1967
M22	The Mole	Kenneth Mellanby	1971

Notes and references

Peter Marren, The New Naturalists. Collins, 1995. 2nd edition 2005.
"British Book Design and Production Awards 2007: Winners". Retrieved 2008-04-22.
An edition of Life in Lakes and Rivers was published by Readers Union in 1959.

External links

Official website for the series
- Titles currently in print
- List of main series with jacket illustrations
- Official 'New Naturalists' desktop wallpaper, featuring a collage of Giilmor's artwork for the series
List of monographs with jacket illustrations

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