Project 4: botanical surveys 1996 and 1997
Date(s): 1996
Creator(s): Centre for Manx Studies
Scope & Content: Conservation officer’s report to MNCT council on 20 acres of land at the Phurt, Glen Dhoo, Ballaugh, for possible acquisition as a MNCT nature reserve by John Lamb; 3 A4 typed pages plus 1 page of habitat plan; dated 17 07 1995.
John Lamb’s plant list dated 20 06 1995; 2 types pages (in columns Latin and English).
List of 24 sites for which plant lists were made between 3rd and 13th September 1996; 2 A4 drafts and typed-up final version.
Plant lists for the 24 sites; 7 A4 pages in alphabetical order of Latin name; DAFOR used.
Six-page plant list ‘to be published’.
Field records made 12 04 1997 in a lined 7” by 9”-notebook by PRT; 11 sides’.
Supplementary plant lists made on 8th March and 12th April 1997; 12 A4 pages.
Master list of plants recorded in September 1996 to which have been added records from March and April 1997; DAFOR continued to be used; 14 sides in all, including some for individual sites.
Grassland analysis: handwritten in pencil by PJD; table to show which grass species occur in which survey plots, using DAFOR scores; discussion notes on Gramineae PJD; 2 pages (3 sides) in all.
Single page note, on land utilisation maps of 1932 and 1963.
Handwritten list of issues involved in the interpretation of botanical remains by PJD (2 A4 sides).
Folded A3 master plans photocopied from the 1st Edition 25”; 3 in all; 2 A4 copies of valley floor.
Photocopy of Management plans for nature conservation: a working guide; Nature Conservancy Council 1988, revised 1991.
Plant records 1997
[Formerly in black ring-binder]
Quadrat lists 1m2 and 2m2 for H1, H2 and H3 and Quadrat A; 2 sheets of lined A4 PJD; A3 photocopy of 1868 25” with positions of quadrats marked in pencil; lists for S25 (area of run-rig recently grazed) and for H1 to H4; 5 A4 printed sheets annotated in ink and pencil.
‘Ferns in the valley’; 1 A4 lined page with pencil notes; table of species (excluding pteridium) at sites: 23, 8, 9, 4, 22, 18, 10, 5, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31; six species present in all; mater list of plants in Glendhoo annotated for the presence of these species in the named locations.
List of specimens collected to be identified from sites 10, 12, 22, 23 and new sites 27, 28, 29 , 30 and 31; handwritten by PRT on 8” x 6.5” lined notepaper; new lists by PJD at sites 10, 12, 22 and 23; new records on master list for sites 4 and 5.
Plant lists for river corridor 0.5m either side of the present stream; made on 21st July 1997 by PJD; A3 25” plan copy with sites marked; lists completed for sites 27 to 31; 6 annotated printed pages with [pencil annotations and additional species written at the end.
Plant records made by NCJ on master list with his own additions for his Plots B to O; 14 x A4 lists;
Photographic record 2000
Five 35mm slides taken of pollen sampling site; dated 30 11 2000; in self-sealing plastic bag.
Language: English
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: FILE
ID number: MS 14146/35/4
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