Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe

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https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000619/19550322/326/0015 Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 22 March 1955 Bibliography [ edit ] In 1938 he married Alice Mary (Maisie) Stewart (died 1996) [3] and they had two sons and a daughter. [1] Fitter collected 'bird inn signs.' He wrote about his hobby in the Birmingham Daily Post, published Tuesday 22 March 1955. Fitter wrote that "I just note them down in my diary whenever I see them. I started during the second winter of the war, as a kind of light relief from the somewhat grim preoccupations of those days." By 1955 Fitter had several hundred signs in his collection of some 38 different bird species. The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (with William Plomer, illustrations by Alan Aldridge) 1973

Richard Sidney Richmond Fitter (1 March 1913 – 3 September 2005) was a British naturalist and author. He was an expert on wildflowers and authored several guides for amateur naturalists. Birds of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East (with illustrations by Hermann Heinzel and maps by John Parslow) 1972During the Second World War he worked at the Operations research section of the RAF Coastal Command. [1] During this time he worked for two hours each evening on a comprehensive urban natural history of London, which was published in May 1945 as London's Natural History, his first book. [2] He was recruited to the Institute for Political and Economic Planning in 1936, and in 1940 moved to the social research organisation Mass-Observation to investigate civilian morale for the Ministry of Information. [1] Fitter, Richard Sidney Richmond 1913–2005,' Contemporary Authors Encyclopedia.com. 25 Aug. 2022 < https://www.encyclopedia.com> After the war in 1945 he was appointed secretary of the Wildlife Conservation Special Committee of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, which made proposals for nature conservation as part of the reconstruction after the war. [1] [2] [4]

Anyone who lives or holidays by the coast will love this new botanical guide . . . . [The authors are] on a mission to record and safeguard all the beautiful species found along our shores."— Coast Magazine His son, Alastair Fitter, is a professor of biology at the University of York. [1] They collaborated on three books: Guide to the Countryside (1984); Field Guide to the Freshwater Life of Britain and NW Europe (1986); and Wild Flowers of Britain and Ireland (2003). [1] In 2002 father and son jointly authored a paper in Science analysing the changing phenology of plant flowering times due to global warming. [4] Full of beautiful pictures and illustrations, making it easy to identify coastal wildflowers. . . . A well thought out user-friendly guide."—Alison Alderton, Towpath Talk Featuring all flowering plants, including trees and grasses, and ferns, this fully revised and updated field guide to the wild flowers of Britain and northern Europe is the most complete illustrated, single-volume guide ever published.Rapid Changes in Flowering Time in British Plants" (with A. H. Fitter) Science Vol. 296, Issue 5573, 1689–1691, 2002 The Ark in Our Midst: The Story of the Introduced Animals af Britain; Birds, Beasts, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fishes 1959 The Wild Flowers of Britain and Ireland: The Complete Guide to the British and Irish Flora (with Alastair Fitter, Marjorie Blamey) 2003 A Field Guide to Freshwater Life in Britain and North-west Europe (Collins Field Guide) (with Richard Manuel) 1986 Another essential book for the natural historians ever expanding library."—Roy Stewart, British Naturalists Association

Collins Wild Flower Guide is an indispensable guide for all those with an interest in the countryside, whether amateur or expert. He was also involved in the search for the Loch Ness Monster, being a director of the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau. [6] Honours [ edit ] Lucas, Gren (July 1996). "Alice Mary Stewart (Maisie) Fitter: 1912–1996". Oryx. 30 (3): 166. doi: 10.1017/S0030605300021591– via Cambridge University Press.Clare, John (1982). Eric Robinson and Richard Fitter (ed.). John Clare's Birds. Illustrated by Robert Gillmor. Oxford. ISBN 0192129775. Native Flower features plants found growing without cultivation, in natural and urban environments in the UK. This includes both 'native' indigenous plants and 'non-native' species introduced to the UK - in many cases garden 'escapes' that have naturalised. In some cases, 'non-native' plants may also be classed 'invasive', where there is evidence of harm to the environment or plants are difficult to keep under control*. These species may be listed and regulated by law, to limit environmental damage. Thus some plant (Latin) names have also changed, and the new edition reflects these changes. Where the names differ from those in the first edition they are added in parentheses following the new name for reference. The book has also been completely reset and redesigned throughout. Fitter wrote many books and was active in various areas relating to nature and conservation. His wife Maisie was a colleague and collaborator on many of his researches. [4] They were joint authors of The Penguin Dictionary of British Natural History (1967). [1] The standard author abbreviation Fitter is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [8] Hobbies [ edit ]