Effy Everiss Natural History Library

Over 100 books to browse from seaweed to fungi. This substantial library of botanical books was kindly donated by Orkney naturalist, the late Effy Everiss.

Scroll down for a list of the books in the Effy Everiss Natural History Library at Hoy Heritage Centre. The library focusses on flora but there are also books on moths and butterflies, soils, seaweeds, mammals and birds. Ferns, mosses and lichens feature strongly and there is a range of the BSBI handbooks and a set of Orkney Field Club bulletins.

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Biology		Biology	Campbell	1996
Biology		Biology of Plants	Raven, Evert & Eichhorn	1999
Birds		Birds by behaviour	Dominic Couzens	2003
Birds		Bird songs and calls with CD	Hannu Jannes & Owen Roberts	2011
Birds	Orkney	Stronsay’s Garden Birds	John Holloway	2006
Birds	Orkney	Stronsay Bird Report 2004	John & Sue Holloway	2004
Ecology		Plant Ecology	Ed. Michael J Crawley	1997
Ecology		Ecology, Individuals, Populations & Communities	Begon, Harper, Townsend	1990
Ecology		Wild Scotland	James McCarthy	2013
Ecology		Limnology, Lake and River Ecology	Robert Wetzel	2001
Ecology	Caithness and Sutherland	Birds, Bogs and Forestry The Peatlands of Caithness and Sutherland	National Conservancy Council	1987
Fauna	Insects	A key to the Wodlice of Britain and Ireland	Stephen Hopkin	1991
Fauna	Zoology	Invertebrate Zoology	Ruppert & Barnes	1994
Fauna	Freshwater creatures	Small Freshwater creatures	Lars-Henrik Olsen, Jakob Sunesen & Bente Vita Pedersen	2001
Fauna	Mammals	Small Woodland creatures	Lars-Henrik Olsen, Jakob Sunesen & Bente Vita Pedersen	2001
Fauna	Insects	Field Guide to Dragonflies and Damsels of Great Britain and Ireland	Steve Brooks	2002
Fauna	Insects	Millipedes	J Gordon Blower	1985
Fauna	Freshwater Invertebrates	Freshwater Invertebrates	P S Croft	1986
Fauna	Mamals	Collins Filed Guide Mammals of Great Britain	David Macdonald & Priscilla Barrett	1993
Fauna	Insects	Collins Guide to British Insects	Michael Chinery	2005
Fauna	Whales, Dolphins and porpoises	Guide to the Identification of Whales, Dolphins & Porpoises in European Seas	Peter G H Evans	1995
Fauna	Orkney	Birds and Mammals of Orkney	William Groundwater	1974
Fauna	Orkney	Sillocks, Scarfies & Selkies. The Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals of Orkney	Chris & Jean Booth	2005
Ferns, Mosses and Lichens		Collins Photo Guide: Ferns, Mosses and Lichens of Britain	Hans Martin Jahns	1983
Ferns, Mosses and Lichens	Welsh	Welsh ferns	G Hutchinson & B A Thomas	1996
Ferns, Mosses and Lichens		The ferns of Britain & Ireland	C N Page	1997
Ferns, Mosses and Lichens	Shetland	Shetland Lichens	Kery & Claire Dalby	2005
Ferns, Mosses and Lichens	Sphagnum	Microscopic life in Sphagnum	Majorie Hingley	1993
Ferns, Mosses and Lichens	Bryophytes	Mosses and Liverworts of Britain and Ireland – a field guide	British Bryological Society	2010
Ferns, Mosses and Lichens	Bryophytes	Mosses and Liverworts of Woodland	A. Roy Perry	1992
Ferns, Mosses and Lichens	Sphagnum	Sphagnum: a filed guide	M. O Hill	1992
Ferns, Mosses and Lichens	Bryophytes	Bryophytes of Native Woodlands – a field guide to the common mosses and liverworts of Scotland and Ireland’s native woodlands	Carol L Crawford	2002
Ferns, Mosses and Lichens	Bryophytes	How to know the mosses and liverworts	Henry S Conard & Paul L Redfearn Jnr.	1979
Ferns, Mosses and Lichens	Bryophytes	Mosses and other Bryophytes	Bill & Nancy Malcolm	2000
Flora		A New Illustrated British Flora Vol.1	R.W Butcher	1961
Flora		A New Illustrated British Flora Vol.2	R.W Butcher	1961
Flora		Flora Britannica	Richard Mabey	1996
Flora		Flora of the British Islands	Sir J D Hooker	1884
Flora		The Wild Flower Key	Francis Rose	1981
Flora		The identification of flowering plant families	James Cullen	1999
Flora		Field flora of the British Isles	Clive Stace	1999
Flora		BSBI Plant Crib 1998	T C G Rich & A C Jermy	1998
Flora	Grasslands	The Nature of Grazing	Roy Harris & Mary Jones	1998
Flora		The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms	Michael Hickey & Clive King	2000
Flora		The Visual Dictionary of Plants	Eye witness	1992
Flora	Pathology	Plant Pathology	George Agrios	1997
Flora		British Water Plants	Sylvia Haslam, Charles Sinker and Pat Wolseley	1982
Flora	Dandelions	BSBI Handbook No.9 Dandelions of Great Britian and Ireland	A A Dudman & A J Richards	1997
Flora	Roses	BSBI Handbook No.7 Roses of Great Britain	G G Graham & A L Primavesi	1993
Flora	Charophytes	BSBI Handbook No.5 Charophytes of Great Britain and Ireland	J A Moore	1986
Flora	Crucifers	BSBI Handbook No.6 Crucifers of Great Britain and Ireland	T C G Rich	1991
Flora	Umbellifers	BSBI Handbook No.2 Umbellifers of the British Isles	T G Tutin	1980
Flora	Fumitories	BSBI Handbook No.12 Fumitories of Britain and Ireland	R J Murphy	2009
Flora	Pondweeds	BSBI Handbook No.8 Pondweeds of Great Britain and Ireland	C D Preston	1995
Flora	Water-starworts Callitriche	BSBI Handbook No.11 Water-starworts Callitriche of Europe	R V Lansdown	2008
Flora		British Wild Flowers Vol.2	John Hutchinson	1955
Flora		British Wild Flowers Vol.1	John Hutchinson	1955
Flora		Common Wild Flowers	John Hutchinson	1945
Flora		Uncommon Wild Flowers	John Hutchinson	1950
Flora	Upland vegetation	An Illustrated Guide to British Upland Vegetation	Joint Nature Conservation Committee	2004
Flora	Stoneworts	Red data books of Britain and Ireland Stoneworts	N F Stewart & J M Church	1992
Flora		Botanical Monstrosities	Martin Cragg-Barber	1997
Flora		Flora Anomala	Martin Cragg-Barber	1999
Flora		Excursion Flora of the British Isles	A R Clapham, T G Tutin & E F Warburg	1993
Flora		The Vegetative Key to British Flora	John Poland & Eric Clement	2009
Flora	Orchids	Field Key to Wild Orchids of Scotland	Patrick Woods and Mary Bates	No date
Flora	Orchids	Orchids of Britain and Ireland	Anne & Simon Harrap	2009
Flora		A New Key to Wild Flowers	John Hayward	1995
Flora		New Flora of the British Isles	Clive Stace	1997
Flora		Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland	Marjorie Blamey, Richard Fitter & Alastair Fitter	2003
Flora	Botanists	The Golden Age of Quaker Botanists	Ann Nichols	2006
Flora		Flora of the British Isles	Clapham, Tutin & Moore	1989
Flora		The Concise British Flora in Colour	W Keble Martin	1976
Flora	Alpine	Ben Lawers and its alpine flowers	National Trust for Scotland	1972
Flora	Alpine	Collins Guide to Alpine flowers	Christopher Grey-Wilson & Marjorie Blamey	1995
Flora	Shetland	Shetland’s Wild Flowers	D Malcolm	1992
Flora	Shetland	Rare plants of Shetland	Scott, Harvey, Riddington & Fishers	2002
Flora	Shetland	Hardy Plants in the North	John Copland	1996
Flora	Violas	BSBI Handbook no.17 Violas of Britain and Ireland	Michael Porter & Michael Foley	2017
Flora and Ferns	Shetland	Checklist of the flowering plants and ferns of the Shetland Isles	R C Palmer & W Scott	1969
Fungi		Identification of the larger Fungi	Ed. Antony Kenney	1973
Fungi		Colllins Fungi Guides	Stephan Buczacki	2012
Geology	Fossils	Hamlyn Fossils Guide	Richard Moody	1986
Geology	Rocks & fossils	Hamlyn Minerals Rocks & Fossils	W R Hamilton & A R Woolley & A C Bishop	1992
Grasses & sedges	Sedges	BSBI Handbook No.1 Sedges of the British Isles	Jermy, Chater & David	1982
Grasses & sedges		Grasses	C E Hubbard	1992
Grasses & sedges	And rushes & ferns	Grasses, sedges, rushes and ferns of Britain and N Europe	R Fitter, A Fitter	1992
Grasses & sedges		BSBI Handbook No.13 Grasses of the British Isles	Tom Cope & Alan Gray	2009
Grasses & sedges	Sedges	BSBI Handbook No.1 Edition3 Sedges of the British Isles	A C Jermy, D A Simpson MJY Foley MS Porter	2007
Grasses & sedges	And legumes	Common British Grasses & Legumes	J O Thomas & L J Davies	1946
Lichens	Cladonia	Cladonia – a field guide	N G Hodgetts	1992
Lichens		Lichens – an illustrated guide to the British and Irish Species	Frank Dobson	2000
Microscopy		Adventures with a microscope	Richard Headstrom	1941
Microscopy		Introduction to light microscopy	S Bradbury & B Bracegirdle	1998
Microscopy		Practical microscopy	J Eric Marson	1983
Microscopy		Biology staining schedules	R R Fowell	1970
Moths & Butterflies	Pug moths	British and Irish Pug Moths	Adrain Riley & Gaston Prior	2003
Moths & Butterflies	Pyralid moths	British Pyralid Moths	Barry Goater	1986
Moths & Butterflies	Caterpillars	The colour identification guide to Caterpillars of the British Isles	Jim Porter	1997
Moths & Butterflies		Butterflies and day-flying moths of Britain and Europe	Michael Chinery	1989
Moths & Butterflies		Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland	Paul Waring & Martin Townsend	2003
Moths & Butterflies		Concise Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland	Paul Waring & Martin Townsend	2007
Moths & Butterflies	Micro Moths	Field Guide to the Micro Moths of Great Britain and Ireland	Phil Sterling and Mark Parsons	2012
Natural history	Orkney	Natural History of Orkney part one: Zoology1848	W B Baikie & Robert Heddle	1987
Natural history	Orkney	The Natural History of Orkney	R J Berry	1985
Natural history	Orkney	Orkney Nature	R J Berry	2000
Sea shore		Collins Pocket Guide to the Seashore	John Barrett & CM Yonge	1976
Sea shore		Photographic guide to the Sea and Shore Life of Britain and NW Europe	Ray Gibson, Benedict Hextall & Alex Rogers	2001
Sea shore		Introduction to the Marine Environment	Nicky Holt, Ian Leaver & Nichola White	c.1989
Sea shore	Sand	Sand Dune	Tim Stott, James Hindson & Robin Crump	1993
Seaweeds	Orkney	Kelp-Making in Orkney	William P L Thomson	1983
Seaweeds	Brown	A Field Guide to Brown Seaweeds	Sue Hiscock	1979
Seaweeds	Red	A Field Guide to Red Seaweeds	Sue Hiscock	1986
Seaweeds		A Key to the Genera of the British Seaweeds	W Eifion Jones	1964
Seaweeds		The Marine Biology of the Orkney Islands	Royal Society of Edinburgh Proceedings	1985
Soils & habitats		British Plant Communities Vol.2 Mires and heaths	Ed.  S Rodwell	1998
Soils & habitats		British Plant Communities Vol.5 Maritime communities and vegetation of open habitats	Ed.  S Rodwell	2001
Soils & habitats		British Plant Communities Vol.4 Aquatic communities, swamps and tall-herb fens	Ed.  S Rodwell	2000
Soils & habitats		Essential Soil Science	M R Ashman & G Puri	2002
Soils & habitats		An introduction to soil science	E  Fitzpatrick	1978
Soils & habitats		Soil types	Stephen Trudgill	1989
Soils & habitats		The Vegetation of Scotland	Ed. J H Burnett	1964
Trees & Shrubs	Orkney	Trees and Shrubs in Orkney	Alan Bremner & Elaine Bullard	No date
Trees & Shrubs		Complete guide to tress and their identification	Marcello Goldstein, Gualtiero Simonetti & Marta Watschinger	1990

We also hold Effy’s collection of Orkney Field Club Bulletins The Orkney Naturalist.