The authors of the New Naturalist series are generally renowned experts, professionals and reputed scientists. This makes the books much revered and they are also used as authoritative introductory textbooks.

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A.D. Imms

[Augustus Daniel]. 1880-1949. Entomologist and university teacher, author of Insect Natural History (1947). Cambridge graduate, cutting his teeth on systematics of midge larvae before leaving for India .....

A.W. Boyd

1885-1959. Countryman and naturalist, author of A Country Parish (1951). One of the last of the old-style amateur naturalists; agent of the family yarn business James Boyd & Son. A .....

Adam Watson

Adam Watson was born in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. He has studied ptarmigan and red grouse since 1943 and has written numerous publications on grouse species and other wildlife. A scientist and .....

Alastair Fitter

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Alister Hardy

Adam Watson was born in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. He has studied ptarmigan and red grouse since 1943 and has written numerous publications on grouse species and other wildlife. A scientist and .....

Andrew Lack

b.1953. Botanist and university teacher, author of The Natural History of Pollination (1996, with Michael Proctor and Peter Yeo). Son of ornithologist David Lack, and a keen naturalist from childhood. .....

Angus Lunn

A native of Northumberland, Angus Lunn is a geographer and ecologist who, until he took early retirement, was Head of Adult Education at the University of Newcastle. He now lectures .....

Brian Davis

b.1934. Author of The Soil (1992). Educated at Sherborne and Aberdeen University reading zoology. Postgraduate research at Nottingham on soil fauna of reclaimed ironstone workings (PhD 1961).

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