Following the publication of the new Checklist of British and Irish Mosses earlier this year, we have been hard at work on a new Census Catalogue. For those who are unfamiliar with this, it lists – for each species or other taxon in the current (2020) British and Irish Checklist – the Watsonian Vice-counties in which it has been recorded, and is a useful tool for regular recorders. The last full catalogue was published in 2008.

The new Census Catalogue is due for publication in late 2021 and will be available in print and as a PDF file. More details will be included with the November issue of Field Bryology.

The Field Meeting and AGM in Barmouth were a great success and we would like to thank Margaret Crittenden for all her hard work in persisting and organising this over the past 3 years! Photos and anecdotes will be published on the website shortly (here), with the full report to follow in Field Bryology next year.

Local meeting organisers are now planning meetings for the coming season. Contact details for each group and for many of the meetings can be found under the Events heading, Local category. Some groups publish meeting details on their own website or by email to group members, so please check the contact information for the group(s) in your local area.
You don’t need to be a member to attend these meetings, so why not come along and see what it’s all about.

And for those rainy days, why not have a look through your bryophyte photos and see if you can contribute any to the new Species pages on the website. A (very) small number of volunteers are working on these pages, uploading images and writing additional identification notes. Progress is slow but we will get there!