British Bryological Society

About the Cumulative Index of Publications 1896 - 2004

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This Index has come about at the suggestion of the late Professor Paul Richards and late Dr Eustace Jones and I am very grateful to them for their advice. A number of other members of the Society have provided help and encouragement including Gordon Rothero, Tom Blockeel and David Long and I wish to place on record my thanks to them. In particular I am grateful to Roy Perry who has provided counsel on points concerning format and bryology as well as generously giving advice based on his unrivalled knowledge of the BBS and M.E.C.

The Society was founded in 1896 as the Moss Exchange Club (M.E.C.) and in 1923 became the British Bryological Society (BBS). This Index includes all of its publications from 1896 until 2004. Some ephemera such as printed pages of Desiderata lists (M.E.C.) have been seen but have not been included. It is thought that all the formal publications are included in this index and details of these can be found HERE.

Later versions of the Index will include updates and corrections and these will be available at times to be announced.

SOFTWARE USED: I have used the bibliographic reference database ProCite (PC, Versions 3, 4 & 5.0), {www.procite.com}. Each database record contains a single citation. The practical advantage of this is that it is easy to switch between alphabetic sequence of citation and the sequence by journal volume and page.

STYLE and FORMAT of the Index has followed those used in the Transactions. Thus as well as citing single words or short phrases, all papers are cited by their full title and again (at least) by the author's(s') name(s). Where there are two or more authors, the second and subsequent authors are cited and referred back to the first mentioned author. Please note that page and volume numbers less than 100 are preceded by one or two zeros. This has been done to facilitate sorting by the software.

ABBREVIATIONS have been used for names of journal etc. and the can be found HERE

CITATIONS in the Index are sorted by the software so there are inevitably some sequences which the bryologist will find rather odd, for example, “Sphagnum, cell devopment” appears between Sphagnum capillifolium and Sphagnum christatum. No attempt has been made to rectify this in the current version.

GROUPS of topics. Citations of a like nature have been grouped togther, e.g. FLORAS contains floras, checklists, lists of species found in certain locations;

MEETINGS are grouped by MeeingByDate, MeetingByLocation and MeetingOther. as wll as Meeting, AGM.

ACROBAT version 5 was used to generate the PDF (Acrobat) files. The Acrobat version of the Index has tabs to allow rapid movement about the file. Using Find within the Acrobat file can be done in the conventional way.

ERRORS: Inevitably there will be typographical errors and I will be pleased to learn about them by email to Philip Stanley: bbsindex at Lumiweb.com .