Publications
Newsletter
The Club publishes a quarterly newsletter.
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Bulletin
The Club publishes an annual Bulletin which gives an account of the activities of the Club, particularly of the field meetings. Most of those who have kindly offered to be Club recorders for the specialist groups contribute an account of what has been found of interest in the past year.
Backnumbers can be ordered from John Badmin, the Hon Editor jbadmin@btinternet.com
Transactions
This is published on an approximately annual basis and tends to have longer more in-depth articles, often of original research into various aspects of Kent's Natural History.
Special Editions have included:
The Seaweeds of Kent.
An Atlas of Dragonflies of Kent.
The Kent Bat Book
A Provisional Atlas of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Kent.
An Atlas of the Butterflies of Kent.
Atlas of the Kent Flora by E.G. Philp an honorary member of the Club was published in 1982 and is now sadly out of print. Mr Philp is working on an updated edition.
Web-pages
Our largest feature is Trudy Side's Bryophyte Atlas of Kent, but we have a number of other pages which may be of interst and we intend to add more in the future.
Digitised Outline Maps of Watsonian Kent
These maps were produced by Laurence Clemons and David Mitchell for use with DMAP for Windows up to version 6.5f using DMAP Digitizer version 1.1, computer programmes developed by Dr. Alan Morton.
They may be used freely for any purpose provided Alan Morton, Laurence Clemons and David Mitchell are acknowledged.
The files contain a series of grid references which can be viewed and edited in any text editing programme. Users familiar with the system may cut and copy at will.
With DMAP for Windows the *.bdy files must be used in conjunction with the file KENT. par
LCKENT5.bdy
This is the main working file and shows the outline of the Watsonian county i.e. East Kent (VC 15) and West Kent (VC 16). Grid lines can be added in DMAP for Windows. The amount of detail included for the islands and mud flats in the Medway estuary is rather excessive at a small scale but potentially useful at higher scale (see below).
Detail of the Medway estuary from LCKENT5.bdy (not available separately
ATLAS2.bdy
This was produced specially for Brook, J. & G. 2
001. Dragonflies of Kent. Transactions of the Kent Field Club 16: i-ii, 1-115. The amount of detail for the islands and mud flats in the Medway estuary is reduced and 10km grid lines for the land mass only introduced. For general purposes the most useful map
ATWOODS2.bdy
A map, based on ATLAS2.bdy, showing the major blocks of woodland.
ATLAS3.bdy
The same as ATLAS2.bdy but with a dashed line showing the land boundary between VC 15 and VC 16. The latter was produced by David Mitchell and may require refinement
Laurence Clemons
November 2003