Comments on: Organised Fern Hunt http://hootingyard.org/archives/1724 A Website by Frank Key Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:47:36 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Frank Key http://hootingyard.org/archives/1724/comment-page-1#comment-6436 Frank Key Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:47:01 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1724#comment-6436 RKass : Follow the link in the text to the Victorian Era blog and I think you will find the original source of the illustration. RKass : Follow the link in the text to the Victorian Era blog and I think you will find the original source of the illustration.

]]> By: RKass http://hootingyard.org/archives/1724/comment-page-1#comment-6434 RKass Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:51:30 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1724#comment-6434 Great scene! Can you tell me the source of the engraving? And, have you seen the engraving at Peterboyd.com? Thanks Great scene! Can you tell me the source of the engraving? And, have you seen the engraving at Peterboyd.com? Thanks

]]> By: wst http://hootingyard.org/archives/1724/comment-page-1#comment-5739 wst Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:12:03 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1724#comment-5739 Sorry, that link doesn't seem to work now - but you if copy it into google it does work...Somehow, I expect all those Victorian fern hunters to have peg-like teeth with which to strip off the succulent fern leaves. Sorry, that link doesn’t seem to work now – but you if copy it into google it does work…Somehow, I expect all those Victorian fern hunters to have peg-like teeth with which to strip off the succulent fern leaves.

]]> By: Frank Key http://hootingyard.org/archives/1724/comment-page-1#comment-5733 Frank Key Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:12:23 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1724#comment-5733 wst : I am extremely pleased to stand corrected on this point! Many thanks for the link. wst : I am extremely pleased to stand corrected on this point! Many thanks for the link.

]]> By: wst http://hootingyard.org/archives/1724/comment-page-1#comment-5732 wst Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:06:16 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1724#comment-5732 Dear Mr. Key I am reluctantly moved to correct a statement I have just read in one of your capitivating broadsides, in this case of the topic of fern hunts. Firstly, let me say how charming the illustration of Victorian lady pteridologists was; looking rather like a herd of hungry Diplodocus {not sure about the correct plural} crashing through a Jurassic forest naturally looking for ferns upon which to munch. Anyway, you suggest that organised fern hunts are a thing of the past. I very much doubted that this was the case, as I regularly attend organised fungus forays, dormouse round-ups, nocturnal stag beetle stalking and the like; and suspected that the fern people were still up to the same sort of thing. If you look at the website of the British Pteridological Society you will that such activities are going on all over the country in 2009 (see more fern fun here - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/bps/in). Dear Mr. Key

I am reluctantly moved to correct a statement I have just read in one of your capitivating broadsides, in this case of the topic of fern hunts. Firstly, let me say how charming the illustration of Victorian lady pteridologists was; looking rather like a herd of hungry Diplodocus {not sure about the correct plural} crashing through a Jurassic forest naturally looking for ferns upon which to munch.

Anyway, you suggest that organised fern hunts are a thing of the past. I very much doubted that this was the case, as I regularly attend organised fungus forays, dormouse round-ups, nocturnal stag beetle stalking and the like; and suspected that the fern people were still up to the same sort of thing. If you look at the website of the British Pteridological Society you will that such activities are going on all over the country in 2009 (see more fern fun here – http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/bps/in).

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