Resources

Recording Cards

(See also Scotland, Ireland & Wales. 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.)

 

Resources for county recorders

Herbaria at Home

The Herbaria at Home project now invites users to register for updates - for example, to be notified each week of any specimens that have been digitised for your county. Simply log on to herbaria at home, register, and set up your own watchlist.

Mapmate Help

Instruction sheets for users of Mapmate to help them answer some frequently asked questions. They are all in Word document format and are small files (less than 200kb).

  • 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).

    Altitudinal Ranges

    An abbreviated form of the current report is available here as a download. It is an rtf file of about 116kb in size.

    Making specimens

    Guidelines for preparing herbarium specimens, originally produced by Arthur Chater for the New Atlas project, are available for downloading here. The drawings are not included, only the text.

    Other handy things...

    Vice County Census Catalogue.

    Watsonia Records submission table

    Vice county areas.

    Annual report form.

    Back issues of BSBI Recorder.