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.Outline Programme for April 2024 to March 2025
Our outline programme of activities for 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025 can now be viewed on-line…
Health and Safety
Sorby’s board of trustees has revised the society’s Health & Safety policy. All members are asked to take a few minutes to read the document…
Sorby Record No. 58 (2022)
The latest edition of the Sorby Record is now available…
Limb Valley Bibliography
The bibliography for the Limb Valley Study Group has recently been updated…
Updated list of Recorders and Recording Schemes
We have recently updated our list of Recorders and Recording Schemes…
Sir Henry Clifton Sorby Goes on a Field Meeting 1886
While undertaking research for the ‘Rotherham State of Nature Report’, I was trawling through ’The Naturalist' the journal of the Yorkshire Naturalist Union, I came across a report of a field meeting to Anston Stone Woods, Thursday 13 April 1886. It was a joint...
Sorby Record No. 56 (2020)
This edition contains a series of papers detailing the state of birds in the Sheffield area…
The Water Vole in Sheffield
Originally published in the March 2021 edition of the Sorby Newsletter, this article charts the decline of the water vole in Sheffield: sorby.org.uk/groups/sorby-mammal-group/water-vole-in-sheffield
Wildlife Excursions in Urban Sheffield 1970 – 1988
Back in the late 1980s, Sorby published a small booklet detailing write-ups of field meetings to urban sites in Sheffield, from the Societies Newsletter. The printing turned out to be very poor and some pages are difficult to read. Bob Croxton with help from Derek...
The Deceiver
The latest issue of the Sorby Fungus Group’s newsletter can now be downloaded from…
Dragonflies of the Sheffield Area
After something like a quarter of a century in gestation, Dragonflies of the Sheffield Area has finally been published as Sorby Record Special Series No.17 (2020). The wait has been worthwhile. Much new information and many records have been assimilated in...
A History of the Sorby Newsletter (1964 to 2020)
Tony Loy, editor the Sorby Newsletter, has written a paper about the history of the newsletter…
Parasitic Hymenoptera of South Yorkshire
Bill Ely has kindly provided us with an updated draft of the Parasitic Hymenoptera of South Yorkshire…
Sheffield’s Weather
Originally published in 2011 as Sorby Record Special Series No .16, “Sheffield’s Weather” is now available to download in PDF format…
How Green is Sheffield?
Originally published in 2006 as a supplement to Sorby Record No. 42, “How Green is Sheffield?” is now available to download in PDF format…