Databases

1) Visit the BSBI Database online to search for species names, chromosome numbers and literature.

2) Visit the Vice County Census Catalogue web database to find out which species is recorded in each county.

3) Download the latest BSBI checklists of the British & Irish Flora here:

(1) BSBI 2007 list. Excel file, 922kb, showing Latin name, Authority, English name and a running integer to allow you to sort the list taxonomically.

(2) List 2007. Text file, 534kb. The same list, but with the following details:-

1. accepted Latin names
2. authorities (Brummit abbreviations)
3. common name
4. BRC number (where available)
5. Kent numbers (family, genus, species, subspecies)
6. status, native or alien (to be revised in future versions)
7. name type, A1/2/3/AC.

Making specimens

Guidelines for preparing herbarium specimens, originally produced by Arthur Chater for the New Atlas project, are available for downloading here (pdf 501kb).

Mapmate Help

>> Counting records and species by hectad in a date class.

>> Adding date classes.

>> How to create a new query.

>> How to include the determiner in a standard report.

>> How to report on all records for a 1km square.

>> Browse all records of hybrids in a year.

>> Data entry suggestions from the Scottish computerisation project.

>> Taxon Validations.

Using Get-a-Map.

Please email Bob Ellis if you have any questions or suggestions (sorry, members only - anyone else should visit the Mapmate web site for support).

Other handy things...

>> Vice County Census Catalogue.

>> Watsonia Records submission table.

>> Vice county areas.

>> >> VCRs Annual Report Form.

>> Back issues of BSBI Recorder.

Recording Cards

Each card is a pdf of about 15kb. They are customised to include only those species that occur in each county and are not too rare.)

England

Wales

Scotland

Ireland