Back issues of some previous parts are available from the Treasurer at £2.00 + 50p p&p per copy.
Articles which have featured in previous issues are, as follows:
| Title | Author | Vol. | Part | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Historical Changes in the Extent of Hedgerow and Woodland in the New Mills Area | Ron Weston | 1 | 1 | 1999 |
| Obituary - Professor Brian William Fox F.L.S. | A.V. Smith | 1 | 1 | 1999 |
| Interesting finds - An Unusual Beetle [Laemostenus terricola] in an Unusual Place | S. Dobson | 1 | 2 | 1999 |
| Interesting finds - A Rare Water Beetle [Hydrochara caraboides] | S.J. McWilliam | 1 | 2 | 1999 |
| Interesting finds - Fungi | J.L. Taylor | 1 | 2 | 1999 |
| The Dryopteris affinis Group | Barbara Porter | 1 | 2 | 1999 |
| Lobed Maidenhair Spleenwort - A Cheshire Fern | Jonathan Guest | 1 | 2 | 1999 |
| Book Review - Ireland - A Natural History by David Cabot | E.P. McCann | 1 | 2 | 1999 |
| Rubus Report, Autumn 1999 | Dave Earl | 1 | 3 | 2000 |
| Book Review - Flora of County Dublin by Declan Doogue et. al. | E.P. McCann | 1 | 3 | 2000 |
| Interesting Finds, A Moss - Octodiceras fontanum in the Ashton Canal | Dave Earl | 1 | 3 | 2000 |
| Earlier arrival and nesting by Reed Warblers at a site in north Cheshire | Malcolm Calvert | 1 | 3 | 2000 |
| Obituary - Miss Ann Tallantire | Dr M.E. Newton | 1 | 3 | 2000 |
| Book Review - Lichens by Oliver Gilbert | E.P. McCann | 2 | 1 | 2000 |
| Rubus Report, Spring 2000 | Dave Earl | 2 | 1 | 2000 |
| Interesting Finds - A Fungus - Creolophus cirrhatus in the Wigan Area | Joyce Riley | 2 | 1 | 2000 |
| Interesting Finds - Interesting Finds from Suburban Lawns and Gardens | Dave Earl | 2 | 1 | 2000 |
| Interesting Finds - A Find in the Highland Folk Museum (A broom made from Polytrichum commune) | A.V. Smith | 2 | 1 | 2000 |
| Interesting Finds - Food for Thought (and blackbirds) | A.V. Smith | 2 | 1 | 2000 |
| Interesting Finds - A Rare Hybrid Fern [Asplenophyllitis confluens] in Staffordshire | B. Porter | 2 | 1 | 2000 |
| Obituary - Mr Fred Slater | Dr. M.E. Newton | 2 | 1 | 2000 |
| A Field Key to Sphagnum | Mike Walton | 2 | 1 | 2000 |
| Book Review - The Liverwort Flora of the British Isles by J.A. Paton | Dr M.E. Newton | 2 | 2 | 2000 |
| Book Review - The Sands of Time by P.H. Smith | Dr M.E. Newton | 2 | 2 | 2000 |
| Rubus Report, Autumn 2000 | Dave Earl | 2 | 2 | 2000 |
| Interesting Finds - A Small Angle Shades Moth in a Lancashire Mine Adit | Max Moseley | 2 | 2 | 2000 |
| Interesting Finds - The Moss Octodiceras fontanum | Dr M.E. Newton | 2 | 2 | 2000 |
| Interesting Finds - Yellow Bird's-Nest, Monotropa hypopitys L. | Mrs A.R. Locksley | 2 | 2 | 2000 |
| Redbrow Wood | A.V. Smith (ed.) | 2 | 2 | 2000 |
| Some Common Mosses | Fred Slater | 2 | 2 | 2000 |
| rECOrd - Biodiversity Information System | Steve J. McWilliam | 2 | 3 | 2000 |
| Recording Vascular Plants in South Lancashire | Dave Earl | 2 | 3 | 2000 |
| Rubus Report, Winter 2000 | Dave Earl | 2 | 3 | 2000 |
| The North Western Naturalist - Old Editions 1953-1955 | Barbara Porter | 2 | 3 | 2000 |
| Ramblings of a Cheshire Naturalist | Jonathan Guest | 2 | 3 | 2000 |
| Observations of the Trees in Happy Valley, Bramhall | L.A. Dobson | 2 | 3 | 2000 |
| Hieracium, Hawkweeds in South Lancashire, VC59 | Mrs A.R. Locksley | 2 | 3 | 2000 |
| Interesting Finds - Boettgerilla pallens | Max Moseley | 3 | 1 | 2001 |
| Interesting Finds - Persicaria capitata in VC58 and VC59 | Dave Earl | 3 | 1 | 2001 |
| Biodiversity in Bolton | Bolton Biodiversity Group | 3 | 1 | 2001 |
| Improvements Have Attracted New Wildlife To The Wigan Flashes | Mark H. Campion | 3 | 1 | 2001 |
| Leaf Mines - A Beginning | Eric Kearns | 3 | 1 | 2001 |
| Passengers' Views | Diana Downing | 3 | 1 | 2001 |
| Butterfly Conservation at Home | Keith Bland | 3 | 1 | 2001 |
| Interested in Wildlife and the Environment? [Biodiversity Information System] | Steve J. McWilliam | 3 | 2 | 2001 |
| The Bryophyte Collections of Anthony Gregory. [Donation to Bolton Museum] | Mrs P.M.A. Francis | 3 | 2 | 2001 |
| Vascular Plants of the Macclesfield and Peak Forest canals | Rachel E. Hunter & Eric Kearns | 3 | 2 | 2001 |
| Obituary - Doris N. Ash | Priscilla Tolfree | 3 | 2 | 2001 |
| The British Red Squirrel | Gayle Peacock | 3 | 3 | 2002 |
| Rubus Report, Winter 2001 | Dave Earl | 3 | 3 | 2002 |
| Rehousing the Herbarium of Liverpool Museum | . | 4 | 1 | 2002 |
| A Field Key to Basidiomycetes | Norman Bamforth | 4 | 1 | 2002 |
| Manchester Herbarium Field trip, August 2001 | Barbara Porter | 4 | 1 | 2002 |
| The Boggart Hole Clough Project | Dave Earl | 4 | 2 | 2002 |
| Obituary - Bess Harthan | Margaret Brown | 4 | 2 | 2002 |
| Dean Wood Invertebrate Survey, 2001 | Hannah Barlow & Dr Paul A Ashton | 4 | 2 | 2002 |
| Dispersal of young Reed Warblers from a breeding site in north Cheshire | Malcolm Calvert | 4 | 3 | 2003 |
| Watch out for Dicranopalpus | Stan Dobson | 4 | 3 | 2003 |
| Book review - Aidgap Key - British Plant Galls: identification of galls on plants and fungi | Mike Walton | 4 | 3 | 2003 |
| The Birds of Grimsargh Reservoirs | David Hindle | 5 | 1 | 2003 |
| Reddish Vale Butterfly Park | Eric Kearns | 5 | 1 | 2003 |
| Bryophytes at the Bus Stop | Heather McHaffie | 5 | 2 | 2003 |
| Local Change Project - South Lancashire | Dave Earl | 5 | 2 | 2003 |
| Collecting Plants is not a Sin, Usually | John Lowell | 5 | 2 | 2003 |
| Significant Herbarium Collections of South Lancashire Specimens at Bolton Museum | Patricia Francis | 5 | 2 | 2003 |
| Back from the Dead [Revival of the Manchester Ship Canal] | Keith Hendry | 5 | 3 | 2004 |
| An interesting reservoir moss [Physcomitrium sphaericum] | John Lowell | 5 | 3 | 2004 |
| Bryophyte survey of arable fields [Progress report for some South Lancashire tetrads] | Audrey Locksley | 5 | 3 | 2004 |
| Healey Dell, Rochdale | Patricia Tolfree | 5 | 3 | 2004 |
| The Biodiversity Action Plane Cranefly, Lipsothrix nigristigma, in Lancashire | Andy Godfrey | 6 | 1 | 2004 |
| Book Review - The Lichen Flora of Cheshire | E.P. McCann | 6 | 1 | 2004 |
| Bryophytes abound on the Wildlife Trust's Reserves in East Lancashire | John Lamb | 6 | 1 | 2004 |
| Epiphytic mosses returning to south Lancashire - How to name them | John Lowell | 6 | 2 | 2004 |
| Reddish Vale Butterfly Park - Plant recording 2003 | Eric Kearns | 6 | 2 | 2004 |
| The beetle Metoecus paradoxus - Attracted to polish | Mary Keenan | 6 | 2 | 2004 |
| Has Speckled Wood influenced the disappearance of Wall Brown in Cheshire? | Melanie Gibbs | 6 | 2 | 2004 |
| Shield Bugs from a Wirral garden | Ian Wallace | 6 | 2 | 2004 |
| A comparison of rainfall and temperature variation with the occurrence of fungi at the Ainsdale National Nature Reserve | Mike Walton | 6 | 3 | 2005 |
| Winter Wanderers | Antony Wainwright | 6 | 3 | 2005 |
| South Lancashire Flora Display at the BSBI Exhibition Meeting at Manchester Museum | Audrey Locksley et al | 6 | 3 | 2005 |
| Bank Holiday Gardening | Patricia Francis | 7 | 1 | 2005 |
| Modern Vandals [Problems of increased access] | Tony Smith | 7 | 2 | 2005 |
| Good news for once [Spread of the Nuthatch - Sitta europaea] | David Farnworth | 7 | 2 | 2005 |
| A naturalist by default? [Observation of female Dunnock 'teaching' its youngsters] | Tony Smith | 7 | 2 | 2005 |
| The spiders in your house - an update | Stan Dobson | 7 | 2 | 2005 |
| The life and times of some early Lancashire botanists | Eric Greenwood | 7 | 3 | 2006 |
| Adventurous wild flowers | Diana Downing | 7 | 3 | 2006 |
| Untold treausres; the Manchester Museum Herbarium | Suzanne Grieve | 7 | 3 | 2006 |
| Urban Rabbits | Patricia Francis | 7 | 3 | 2006 |
| Seven Acres Nature Reserve, Bolton - Butterfly Survey 2005 | James Hall | 8 | 1 | 2006 |
| Book Review; Mosses & Liverworts, New Naturalist No. 97 | Paul Hanson | 8 | 1 | 2006 |
| The Lesser Silver Water Beetle - Hydrochara caraboides - in Cheshire | Andy Harmer | 8 | 2 | 2006 |
| Garden Guests - attracting wild birds to your garden | Patricia Francis | 8 | 2 | 2006 |
| Book Review - Fungi - New Naturalist no. 96 | John Taylor | 8 | 2 | 2006 |
| New Studies in the Grindon Herbarium, The Manchester Museum and other recent Grindonia | Daniel Q. King | 8 | 3 | 2007 |
| White-Letter Hairstreak at Wallsuches, Horwich, Bolton | Jill Mills | 8 | 3 | 2007 |
| GPS and Plant Recording | Dr John Lowell | 8 | 3 | 2007 |
| Interesting Finds: Late Large White Caterpillars | Patricia Francis | 8 | 3 | 2007 |
| Book Review, The Wild Flower Key: New Edition | Paul Hanson | 8 | 3 | 2007 |
| Manchester Museum and Me | Babrbara Porter | 9 | 1 | 2007 |
| A Note on Phenology in North West Derbyshire | A.V. Smith | 9 | 1 | 2007 |
| Wigan and District Field Club 1945 - 2007 | E Stephenson | 9 | 2 | 2007 |
| Beware of Statistics | S Dobson | 9 | 2 | 2007 |
| Bad Diet for Urban Fox Cubs | J Lowell | 9 | 2 | 2007 |
| Dunham Park & Bridgewater Canal Field Report | A Locksley | 9 | 2 | 2007 |
| A Note about Packed Lunches | S Dobson | 9 | 2 | 2007 |
| Rubus Report 2007 | D Earl | 9 | 2 | 2007 |
| The Intrigues of Seed Disperal | Margaret Brown | 9 | 3 | 2008 |
| My Favourite Flower | Eric Kearns | 9 | 3 | 2008 |
| Book Review - Sedges of the British Isles | Paul Ashton | 9 | 3 | 2008 |
| DVD Review - British Ferns, Clubmosses, Quillworts and Horsetails | John Lowell | 9 | 3 | 2008 |
| Finding elusive grid reference points | Stan Dobson | 10 | 1 | 2008 |
| Lets learn from plants! | A V Smith | 10 | 1 | 2008 |
| The North West Slow-worm Hunt | David Orchard | 10 | 1 | 2008 |
| The Manchester Herbarium 62 years ago | Erica Swales | 10 | 1 | 2008 |
| Volunteers needed for a study into recent declines in the Small Tortoiseshell | Owen Lewis | 10 | 1 | 2008 |
| Promoting your club or society | Steve Halliwell | 10 | 2 | 2008 |
| Doffcocker Lodge Nature Reserve, Bolton | Rick Parker | 10 | 2 | 2008 |
| Potential Biodiversity Action Plan Species in Lancashire | Dave Earl | 10 | 2 | 2008 |
| Guides to north west plant goups (see) | John Lowell | 10 | 2 | 2008 |
| A Century for Nelson Naturalists | David Nelson | 10 | 3 | 2009 |
| Notable Members of Nelson Naturalists Society | Eddie Sutcliffe | 10 | 3 | 2009 |
| National Moth Night 2009 | Shane Farrell | 10 | 3 | 2009 |
| NWNU bryophyte and lichen annual report | John Lowell | 10 | 3 | 2009 |
| NWNU vascular plant report 2007 | Dave Earl. | 10 | 3 | 2009 |
| NWNU vascular plant report 2008 | Dave Earl. | 10 | 3 | 2009 |
| Lichens in south Lancashire | Norman Bamforth | 11 | 1 | 2009 |
| The National Biodiversity Network Gateway, a mine of information | John Lowell | 11 | 1 | 2009 |
| Interesting finds - Crocus nudiflorus | . | 11 | 1 | 2009 |
| Altrincham & District Natural History Society | M Hickson & M Pettipher | 11 | 2 | 2009 |
| From a Feather via Avian Corpses to Skins [autobiographical] | RB Girling | 11 | 2 | 2009 |
| NWNU Bryophyte & Lichen Section Report for 2009 | J Lowell | 11 | 3 | 2010 |
| NWNU Vascular Plant Section Report for 2009 | D Earl | 11 | 3 | 2010 |
| The British Pteridological Society and the Manchester and North Midlands Fern Group | Y Golding | 11 | 3 | 2010 |
| The Wildlife of Eagle Brook Valley, Bolton | B Deed | 11 | 3 | 2010 |
| An Evening's Botanical Ramble | N Bamforth | 12 | 1 | 2010 |
| Birdwatching and the Law | A Wilkinson | 12 | 1 | 2010 |
| Cheshire Active Naturalists | C Washington | 12 | 1 | 2010 |
| An Amphipod New to Cheshire: Arcitalitrus dorrieni | Author | 12 | 1 | 2010 |
| The Greater Manchester Records Centre | . | 12 | 1 | 2010 |
| Hale Ornithologists | . | 12 | 1 | 2010 |
| The Vanished Biodiversity of the Reddish Canal | E Swale | 12 | 2 | 2010 |
| Meadow Management for Autumn Crocus at Chew Moor, Lostock, Bolton | F Lovell | 12 | 2 | 2010 |
| Bioblitz in Cuerden Valley Park | D Beattie | 12 | 3 | 2011 |
| Vascular Plant Section Report for 2010 | D Earl | 12 | 3 | 2011 |
| Bryophyte & Lichen Section Report for 2010 | D Callaghan | 12 | 3 | 2011 |
| Manchester & North Midlands Fern & Lycophyte Section Report for 2010 | Y Goulding | 12 | 3 | 2011 |
| Looking Back [An early record of Fallopia Japonica in the north west] | P Francis | 13 | 1 | 2011 |
| White Satin Moths - Leucoma salicis | SJ Blackbird | 13 | 1 | 2011 |
| A Closer Look at a Smaller Patch | S Priestley | 13 | 1 | 2011 |
| The Discovery of Ringlet (Aphantopus hyperantus) in the Oldham Area in 2011 | S Smith | 13 | 2 | 2011 |
| Horrible or Beautiful ? ['Tree' Wasp Dolichovespula media] | J Riley | 13 | 2 | 2011 |
| Obituary for Colin Smith FRPS | P Kirk | 13 | 2 | 2011 |
| May Bug in Bury | P Francis | 13 | 2 | 2011 |