Milton Keynes More Than Concrete Cows – Real Animals and Plants Too
As a project to celebrate the new millennium, MKNHS decided that a catalogue of the plants, fungi and animals found within the Borough should be compiled and published as a book with the title of “Milton Keynes More Than Concrete Cows – real animals and plants too”. This publication contained lists of flora and fauna which were known to have been seen within the Borough between 1987 and 1999 and was compiled by members and their friends.
Checklist of the Plants of Buckinghamshire
(Including Milton Keynes and Slough)
By Roy Maycock and Aaron Woods. Published November 2005.
The checklist was produced to help fill a gap in the published plant records of the county (i.e. vice-county 24 so that Milton Keynes and Slough were included). The other publication was that of George Claridge Druce in 1926. This gave details of the flora as it was known at the end of the nineteenth century together with known dates of the first record of each species. Efforts to produce a new Flora began in 1965 and continued until about 1985 but it never came to fruition. The records are still available and were used in the compilation of the checklist – but there have continued to be huge changes since then, hence the Checklist.
MKNHS The First Twenty-Five Years
The booklet, published in 1993, covers 1968-1993.
It contains a series of short articles outlining the origins of the Society, some of its early projects and individual activities together with accounts of outings at home and abroad. Early members and the slow growth in numbers are recalled with lists of various officers.
Milton Keynes Wild Animals and Plants
The booklet was published by Milton Keynes Development Corporation with many contributions from Society members. It “contains a check list of the major groups of plants and animals that have been seen in Milton Keynes during the ten year period 1968-1978 (except for butterflies and moths, which cover a longer period).