Thanks Hengus. Just wondered if there is an easy way to join the folio society & get the new year offer of £125 for the full set & then unjoin? I don't like to be tied into having to buy at least 4 x books from them by the end of next March, 2010. I also wonder how much they pay wholesale for these boxed sets of 10 x facsimile N/N's nos 1 -10. With this offer it's just £12.50 retail cost per book & display box free! Damn fine value for money indeed!

Happy Christmas to all & could everyone reading this posting please just post something on this forum about New Naturalist books please to get the forum used more please.

Lee.

In response to your request, I hope you will find the following of interest.

1) I was reading London's Natural History last night when a couple of things intrigued me: see if you can find Aldenham reservoir on Map 1 pages 12 & 13. Not so easy but I think I finally found it.

I was looking at Appendix E, p.259 and something caught my eye. The Hon. Secretary of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society was a Miss Eileen Gibbs. I though this looked familiar and checked some of my books. My copies of Numbers 23, 26 and 54 all carry a Hertfordshire and Middlesex Trust for Nature Conservation Library stamp and were donated by a Miss M. E Gibbs. I suppose it is probable that this is one and the same person?

2) Have you seen the pictures posted on the New Naturalists Collectors Club website of the 1st symposium? I haven't seen anyone mentioning them on this forum but I could be wrong. Also a really nice article on the same subject written by Ken Davies in the latest NNCC newsletter.

3) Another possible reason for lack of postings on this site (in addition to those given with which I mostly agree)......and this is just my personal opinion - but I don't find it particularly user friendly e.g. three or four different headings where you can post. I was used to the original forum and found it easier to use.

4) Can anyone tell me what the ''howling misprint'' is in Mumps, Measles & Mosaics which is mentioned on p. 193 of No. 82 The New Naturalists 2nd edition? Is it the 'horse rug' mentioned on p.77 - should this be house rug? I don't know.

5) Have you ever noticed that nearly all of the birds depicted on the spines of Robert Gillmor's dustjacket designs look to the right of your bookshelf, with only the Lapwing of No. 91 breaking ranks as far as I could see?

Merry Christmas to all

Give them a phone call (0207 400 4200) - they might allow you to join on one of the other offers that are frequently publicised in other magazines (e.g Radio Times) and then let you buy the facsimile editions as your annual purchase commitment.   I've just checked the website (I am a member) and it shows that the facsimile editions count as 4 volumes, so I am assuming that they must count towards your total annual purchases.

Bill

Re- your helpful info/tips; I will sleep on this, but having obtained the facsimile of 'Butterflies' by E.B.Ford just before Christmas for £38.00 (instead of £75.00) I do not think it is as good as the originals but at £12.50 per volume based on £125 for the first 10 through the Folio Society then you cannot complain at that price! I like the originals better but a crisp & pristine replica of this 1945 classic book is still nice & makes good reading! I also have always liked the dustjacket of 'Butterflies' which shows Swallowtail Butterflies and their larvae on it and as I am a bit of an enthusiast on the butterfly front I have always had a bit of a soft spot for this particular D/J.

Cheers.........Lee. 

I'm keen to own the boxed facsimile editions but I'm not a member of folio. Anyone willing to sell me a boxed set for £150 plus p&p?

Thank you