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Agrotis cinerea (Light Feathered Rustic) Agrotish obelisca
Plusea bractea
Sterrha sacraria |
Women were not admitted as members to the Woolhope Club until 1954
and then only after some objections. But despite the ban some were able to make
valuable contributions. In 1867 the Reverend Keys read a paper to the Club about
field mushrooms. The interesting observations in the paper stimulated the
President, Dr Bull, to organise 'Fungus Forays' which led to the foundation of
the British Mycological Society.
Mrs Keys
had actually made the observations and written the paper. Edith Bull and
Alice Ellis were the illustrators of the Herefordshire Pomona published by the
Woolhope Club between 1878 and 1884.
It is extraordinary
that women were not admitted for 100 years.
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Four moths that Sarah caught at Grantsfield, Kimbolton in the 1850s that have
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Emma Sarah Hutchinson
(1820-1905) came to live in Kimbolton with her parents in 1832 and married
the vicar of Kimbolton in 1847. Her husband was a member of the Woolhope
Club and a keen botanist. Emma had three sons and four daughters, all of whom
were naturalists, Emma herself became a nationally famous lepidopterist with a
collection of 15,000 specimens shown often to the club and now in the British
Museum. A butterfly is named after her and she is remembered for her
breeding and rearing of
Lepidoptera. She compiled lists in the Club Transactions.
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