The WFS Field Botanist's Record Book (WFS Diary)

The WFS diary is now available online to members of WFS.

Individual pages can be used to replace damaged ones or to replace pages where necessary alterations would make entries illegible. You could also use all 50 pages as a "Rough Dairy" and complete the bound version in your own copperplate script - ideal for perfectionists.

You can simply print the pages in order to write entries by hand or, if you have Excel (a Spreadsheet) installed on your computer, save the page onto your own computer. Then you can enter your "Where Found" and "Date" information by typing from your computer keyboard. It is possible to save a copy for future entries and print the page at any time just like a normal spreadsheet.

Members of the WFS will need to copy* and paste this link into the address bar of the internet browser:


http://www.thewildflowersociety.com/??????????/1c_electronic_diary.htm


Your Windows Internet Explorer (IE7) looks like this at first:


Password 1

After copying and pasting it looks like this:


Password 2

Don't press ENTER or GO at this stage or you'll get an error message. You first have to replace the ?????????? section.

The missing word ?????????? is found on page 33 of the Autumn 2006 (Number 467) of the Wild Flower Magazine.

The heading is BRANCH Z4. Below this there is a two column list of members and their total finds. After this there is text describing their plant finds.

The first Latin name (Genus) of the first plant on the first line of the text on page 33 is the missing word. It is in italics in the text.

Remove all the ? characters in the address bar and replace them with this word using normal, lower case letters. The number of ? characters does not equal the number of letters.

 

The address bar would now read something like this which is in Internet Explorer 7:


Arrows

The address bar reads: http://www.thewildflowersociety.com/anthriscus/1c_electronic_diary.htm but obviously anthriscus will not work.

Press Go button on the browser or the Enter button on your keyboard and you should end up at the first dairy page menu.

Send Dr Peter Llewellyn an email if it doesn't work for you:

email

 

* To copy something in windows, select the required text using your mouse and press Ctrl and C simultaneously. This text is now copied into the clipboard although nothing appears to happen. To paste the copied text, select the entire address bar and press Ctrl plus V simultaneously. The contents of the address bar are now replaced with the text you copied.

Now you select the ? characters in the address bar and type the name which you found on page 33.