The Sorby Natural History Society, Sheffield
Covering a full range of natural history interests in Sheffield and the surrounding area, providing for both interested beginners and specialists.The Sorby Record
The Sorby Record is the flagship journal of Natural History published by Sorby. It is published annually and covers all aspects of Natural History for Sheffield and the surrounding area. It is issued free to members and the back issues listed below are available to order from Derek Whiteley, Beech Cottage, Wardlow, Derbyshire SK17 8RP (including: a cheque payable to ‘Sorby Natural History Society, Sheffield’, the publication you would like to acquire, your name and address). Email . Prices include postage and packaging for deliveries to UK addresses.
To submit an article and any other queries, contact the editor, Derek Whiteley, Beech Cottage, Wardlow, Derbyshire SK17 8RP. Email .
Download Fifty Years of the Sorby Record (1958 to 2008) (PDF).
The Sorby Record back issues:
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No. 60 |
2024 |
Stephen Toher 1964-2024
Tachinidae Flies in Sorbyshire
Oh No, Not Marsh Tits As Well. The Decline of Marsh Tits in the Derbyshire Dales of SK17 Green Tiger Beetles in the Peak District
Moths Recorded in Bradway, a Sheffield Suburb, Between 2019 and 2024
Northern Wood Ant Nest Density in Greno Wood
The Grassland Fungi of Beauchief and
Woodseats, Sheffield
Annual Weather Summary 2024
Sorby Natural History Society 2024
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£5.00 UK |
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No. 59 | 2023 |
The Rotherham Wetlands Bat Project 2021 Water Beetle Checklist for Greater Potteric Carr Area Observations of the Sempervivum Leaf Miner (Cheilosia caerulescens) Lapidary Snails in the Peak District Colin Marsden Mountain Hare Walks 1973-2023; the Final Chapter Chickweed-wintergreen in 2023 Aquatic Plants in the Stainforth & Keadby Canal at Thorne: a Decade 38 of Change, with Observations on Emergent Plants in Margin Stabilized using Pre-planted Coir Roll Harold Smith 1923-2023 Adrian David Middleton 1952-2022 Annual Weather Summary 2023 Monitoring Daubenton’s Bats at Grindleford 1999-2019 Sorby Natural History Society 2023 |
£5.00 UK |
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No. 58 | 2022 |
Aquatic Plants along the Restored Canal between Chesterfield and Staveley in Derbyshire Comparative Regeneration at Three Middleton Dale Quarries: Some ObservationsRecords of Tortricoid Moths in South Sheffield and North Derbyshire Iconic Peak District Invertebrates Green Hairstreaks in the Peak District The Status of the Solitary Bees of Nottinghamshire Common Woodpigeon – instinctive and learned skills Annual Weather Summary 2022 Alan Stuart Lazenby FRES 1944-2022 Henry Clifton Sorby’s Chiffchaffs, and other asides Sorby Natural History Society 2022 |
£5.00 UK |
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No 57 | 2021 |
The Numbers of Breeding Birds across the Sheffield Area: 1988-90 and 2016-21 Records of Solitary Bees in Derbyshire Hoverflies (Syrphidae) of Nottinghamshire: a personal addendum The Hoverflies of Coombes Valley Brian Wetton Annual Weather Summary 2020 Annual Weather Summary 2021 Carrion Crow Parent Apparently Protecting Juvenile from Passing Road Traffic. Martin Spray 1947-2021 Sorby Natural History Society 2021 |
£ 5.00 UK |
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No 56 | 2020 |
The State of Sheffield Bird’s – David Gosney Changes in Numbers of Breeding Birds to the West of Sheffield (SK27, SK28, SK29) Since 1988-90. Changes in Numbers of Breeding Birds to the East of Sheffield(SK47, SK48 and SK49) since 1988-9 Have Winter Flocking Birds become Less Numerous to the East of Sheffield (SK47,48 and 49) A Survey of the Numbers of Birds Wintering to the East of Sheffield (SK47,48 and 49) in 2020/21 and 2021/22 Bird Numbers on the Suburban Edge Of Sheffield : A Study Of EightTetrads Around Stannington in 2021 Charting the Decline of Selected Bird Species to the East of Sheffield (SK47,48 and 49) |
£5.00 UK |
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No. 55 | 2019 |
THE UGHILL VALLEY – A botanical delight, Lysimachia thyrsiflora in the Sheffield area, The Hoverflies of Matlock Moor, Analysis of a batch of Barn Owl pellets from YWT Potteric Carr Nature Reserve, Social Aspects of the Colin Marsden Mountain Hare Walks 1973-2019, The House Mouse – Notes on a Peak District Colony, Recording Nature in Sorbyshire – The Two Million Records Symposium, Moths recorded in Bradway, a Sheffield suburb, between 2012 and 2018, Pinning down November Moth aggs – The Collections of Henry Clifton Sorby, Lesser Black-backed Gulls breeding in the Dearne Valley, southern Yorkshire, Habitat and predators of the Ten-spined Stickleback at Broomhill Flash, Yorkshire, A Kestrel on the Chancel Window, 50,000 days of data – A retrospective in numbers of Weston Park Weather Station, Annual Weather Summary for 2019 from Weston Park Weather Station |
£5.00 UK |
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No 54 | 2018 | Annual Weather Summary 2018, A Survey of Nightbirds in SK29 (Stocksbridge) – A Baseline and Protocol for Future Studies, A Survey of Nightjars and Long-eared Owls in SK29 (Stocksbridge) in 2018 with Observations of Increased Numbers of Barn Owls, Breeding Birds in SK29 in 2016-Changes in Numbers since 1988-90, Breeding Birds in SK27 in 2017-Changes in Numbers since 1988-90, The 1988-90 Sheffield Tetrad Bird Count Survey, Sorby Invertebrate Group Secretary’s Report, Insects New to Yorkshire from the Barnsley Area 2017-2019, Long-Eared Owls in A Lowland River Valley, Ray Hawley 1935-2017, Colin Marsden 1935-1999. |
£5.00 UK |
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No. 53 | 2017 | John Lintin Smith 1932-2016, Potteric Carr Nature Reserve Nest Box Scheme – 1992 to 2012, Some observations on the ‘draw-down mud flora’ of Dale Dike & Damflask reservoirs during 2017, Note on a Sparrowhawk and a Water Shrew, Labou/beniales (Ascomycota), an order of ‘mobile’ fungi. New VC records and new British host beetle species, Do Sheffield’s green credentials affect the birds in urban, suburban and rural gardens? Henry Clifton Sorby’s pioneering work on the metallography of Iron and Steel, Does the wetland bird community using a disused South Yorkshire quarry change with time, during a redevelopment of the site?, Annual Weather Summary for 2016 & 2017 from Weston Park Weather Station, Swallows gathering at Masborough (in 1824), Purple Hairstreaks at Agden Bog, The Bishop’s Mitre Fly at New Park Springs, Barnsley. |
£5.00 UK |
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No. 52 | 2016 | Sheffield Area Butterfly Atlas 1991-2015, Austin Brackenbury FRES 1925-2016, Northern Wood Ants in the Sorby Area, Diptera New to Yorkshire from the Barnsley Area 2012-2016, Invertebrate Recording at Woodhouse Washlands, The Herb Paris Fly in Derbyshire. |
£5.00 UK |
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No. 51 | 2015 |
The Ewden Valley – A little known botanical gem,
Census of House Martin (Delichon urbica), House Martins – A Record from 1836, North/South Hybrids of Insects and Plants, Grey Heron and Little Egret attending Great Cormorant feeding pack, Gaynor Boon 1962-2015, Annual Weather Summary for 2015 from Weston Park, “Sheffield’s Weather” – Five Years On.
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£5.00 UK |
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No. 50 | 2014 | Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni, Common Frog behaviour, Harvestman, Buxton long-term climate change experiment, Viburnum Leaf Beetle Pyrrhalta viburni, Sausage Beard-moss Didymodon tomaculosus, Bryophytes of Reservoirs and Arable Fields, Historical Records of Ichneumons, Lichen, Alien grasses, Deer in the Sheffield Area, Weather 2013, Weather 2014. Full content. | £5.00 UK |
| No. 49 | 2013 | Sheffield Red Data Book. In preparation | ||
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No. 48 | 2012 | Eastern Moors Plants, Hobby Falco Subbuteo, Water Bent Polypogon viridis, English Elm at Maltby, Alien plants, Climate Projections, Weather 2012. Full content. | £5.00 UK |
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No. 47 | 2011 | Weather, Coleoptera, Scarce Diptera, Fungus-Gnats, Tree Bumblebee, Hemiptera Heteroptera, Earwig (Dermaptera), Wood Ant around Greno Wood, Review of the Wood-boring Weevils, Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Derby Museum, Caddisfly, Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni, Adventive Flora, Oil Beetles, British records of Red Harvestman Opilio canestrinii, Greenhouse Camel Cricket. Full content. | £5.00 UK |
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No. 46 | 2010 | Value for birds of the green corridors associated with two rivers of the Sheffield area, introduction to plant galls in the, Sorby area, Limb Valley botanical survey, recorders reports and much more.Full content. | £5.00 UK |
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No. 45 | 2009 | A check list of Derbyshire Lichens, Lichen Recorder’s report 2009, Wood Mouse Behaviour, Sorby Fungi Group Recorder’s Report. Full content. | £5.00 UK |
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No. 44 | 2008 | The 50th anniversary issue! Contents include: Historic Plant Records from the A.W.Bartlett Herbarium, A Biodiversity Map for Sheffield Based on Species Richness, Fifty Years of the Sorby Record 1958-2008, Stictopleurus punctatonervosus (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) new to Yorkshire and a summary review of other Rhopalidae in Yorkshire, The Fungus Gnats (Diptera, Mycetophilidae etc.) of Nabs Wood, South Yorkshire, Margaret Rachel Shaw (1920-2008), The effect of winter temperatures on the survival of Winter Wrens Troglodytes troglodytes in Derbyshire, Vegetation of the Don Revisited. Full content. | £5.00 UK |
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No. 43 | 2007 | ‘The Garden Centre’ spider Uloborus plumipes, Bryophyes – the return of Epiphytes to South Yorkshire and North East Derbyshire, The Flora of Longstone Edge and many other articles of Natural History interest in the Sorby area. Full Content. | £5.00 UK |
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No. 42 | Supplement 2006 | How Green is Sheffield? Full content. | included with Sorby Record No. 42 |
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No. 42 | 2006 | Aculeate wasps and bees of South Yorkshire, the Harlequin Ladybird in Northern England (including the Sorby area) and many more. Full content. | £5.00 UK |
| No. 41 | 2005 | Moths recorded in Bradway between 2000 and 2005, an analysis of breeding distribution and landscape preferences of declining farmland birds, changes in Swallow populations, land use and other background information for the Sorby recording area and many more. | £5.00 UK | |
| No. 40 | 2004 | Moths of Blacka Moor and Wyming Brook, the Lesser Marsh Grasshopper, Bog Bilberry, The Slender Groundhopper, the Sorby Breck Ringing Group annual report, Parasitoids of Ladybirds in the Sheffield area a check list of the flowers, ferns, grasses, sedges and rushes in the cloughs of the Upper Derwent and many more. | £5.00 UK | |
| No. 39 | 2003 | Hoverflies (Syrphidae) of Nottinghamshire, The Charles Waite Herbarium at Sheffield Museum, a checklist of easily identifiable flowers, ferns and grasses of Middleton Dale, Ewden Valley Bryophytes, Ascomycetes, Alien plants, Adders, Bird feeding survey, Sorby Breck ringing group report. | £4.00 UK | |
| No. 38 | 2002 | Loversall Delph : A wildlife Jewel at Potteric Carr, Mountain Hare Walks, Millipedes, Centipedes, Woodlice, Harvestmen, psuedoscorpions, Coleoptera and Hoverfly recorders reports and interesting notes on Dragonflies, Damselflies, Craneflies and a Hoverfly. | £3.00 UK | |
| No. 37 | 2001 | The Importance of Gardens for Birds, Grey Squirrels in the Limb Valley, Red and Fallow Deer, Labrador Tea, Sorby Bibliography, The genus Mycetophilain the Barnsley area, Recorders reports. | £3.00 UK | |
| No. 36 | 2000 | House Martens Nests, Water Voles at Poteric Carr, Wolves, Wasps and Bees, Ichneumons of the Sorby Area, Sawflies new to the Sorby Area. Recorders reports. | £3.00 UK | |
| No. 35 | 1999 | Freshwater macro and micro species survey, slugs and snails of Anston Stones Wood, botanical collections at Sheffield Museum, The Sheffield Biodiversity Project, Biodiversity in Rotherham at the end of the 20th century. Recorders reports. | £3.00 UK | |
| No. 34 | 1998 | Special 80th Anniversary Issue | £2.00 UK | |
| No. 33 | 1997 | The Mammal Atlas Edition. Maps of all local species. | £2.00 UK | |
| No. 32 | 1996 | Harvest Mice, Figs, Hoverflies, various invertebrate papers. | £2.00 UK | |
| No. 31 | 1995 | The Black Redstart. The Dragon of Wortley. Botanical Changes of the Sheffield Canal 1984-1995. | £5.00 UK | |
| No. 30 | 1993 | Muntjac, Warncliffe, Russian Parks, Veteran & Rare Trees, Derbyshire Lichens, railway vegetation, Polecats. | £5.00 UK | |
| No. 29 | 1992 | Butterfly Atlas Edition. | £2.00 UK | |
| No. 28 | 1991 | 20 Papers on Invertebrates Including Freshwater Jellyfish. | £5.00 UK | |
| No. 27 | Memorial Issue 1990 | The Natural History of Ecclesall Woods: History, ‘Q’ Pits, Moths, Bryophytes, Vascular Plants… | £5.00 UK | |
| No. 26 | 1989 | Census of Swallows (Sorby Area). Coleoptera Recorder’s Report (1987). A list of Ferns of Thorne Moors. Bird Life of Urban Sites. The Sorby Rocks 1950-1960. | £2.00 UK | |
| No. 25 | 1987/88 | Urban Wildlife in Sheffield. | £2.00 UK | |
| No. 24 | 1986 | Ancient Woods in the Sheffield Area. Further Additions of the Coleoptera Fauna of an Upland Pennine Valley. Limb Valley Progress Report. Long-Eared Owls – Winter Diet in Lowland Areas. | £5.00 UK | |
| No. 23 | Supplement 1985 | The Insects of Thorne Moors. | £2.00 UK | |
| No. 23 | 1985 | Bats, Mountain Hare Walks, Toads, Solitary Wasps, Wood Ant Census, Odonata and Plant Galls of Worsborough Valley, Birds of SK/49.76. | £5.00 UK | |
| No. 21 | 1983 | Indicator Beetles. Alport Dale Beetles (Pt. 2). Demolition Site Beetles. Testacella. Aeshua mixtae. Blackbird Census. Knopper Gall. Bee Orchids. Clouded Yellow. Recorder Reports. | £2.00 UK | |
| No. 20 | 1982 | £5.00 UK | ||
| No. 19 | 1981 | £5.00 UK | ||
| No. 18 | 1980 | £5.00 UK | ||
| No. 17 | 1979 | £5.00 UK | ||
| No. 16 | 1978 | £5.00 UK | ||
| No. 15 | 1977 | £5.00 UK | ||
| No. 14 | 1976 | £5.00 UK | ||
| No. 13 | 1974 | £5.00 UK | ||
| Vol. 3 | 1968-1973 | on application | ||
| Vol. 2 | 1963-1967 | on application | ||
| Vol. 1 | 1958-1962 | on application |
