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Collection of document relating to the Killarney Fern Project.

Summary of Killarney Fern Project

Natural History Museum has been involved in research pertaining to Trichomanes speciosum for years. In 1992, Mary Gibby was awarded a special grant from the Museum to develop molecular methos to study genetic variation within the species. Followed by a three-year award to study genetic variation within the species (1992-1995), followed by three-year award from the Natural Environment Research Council

(NERC)to Mary Gibby and John Barrett, Dept. Of Genetics, University of Cambridge to extend this work into a project on “genetic population structure and dynamics of the sporophyte and gametophye populations of the endangered fern Trichomanes speciosum Willd.”

The Naturally History Museum and English Nature are joint Lead Partners on the Biodiversity Action Plan Species Action Plan or Trichomanes speciosum, the Killarney Fern. It was their responsibility to develop a work programme, based on the Species Action Plan and to agree on it with the Countryside outlies for Wales a a contact point

(from the ‘Introduction’ in the document “workshop on Trichomanes speciosum”)

Document List

• x2 copies “Workshop on Trichomanes speciosum, The Killarney Fern” Confidential report of proceedings” compiled by Mary Gibby in July 1997.

  • One copy is missing page 8. Part of a workshop on Trichomanes speciosum that was held at the Natural History Museum in London on 15 May 1997.

• D.A. Ratcliffe, H.J.B. Birks, Hilary H. Birks,The ecology and conservation of the Killarney Fern Trichomanes speciosum willd. In Britain and Ireland, Biological Conservation, Volume 66, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 231-247, ISSN 0006-3207, https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3207(93)90008-O.

• Rumsey, F.J., Headley, A.D., Farrar, D.R., & Sheffield, E. (1991). The Killarney Fern (Trichomanes speciocum) in Yorkshire. The naturalist, 116, 41-43. ISSN 0028-0771

• Stewart, W. (1901) Notes on the occurrence of Trichomanes radicans Sw. in Scotland Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow 6:18-21

• various maps – hand drawn, printed, many annotated

The Guernsey Rare Fern Project Summary

Conservation of Guernsey’s rare ferns. The investigation of Guernsey’s rare ferns, a collaboration between La Société Guernesiaise and the Board of Administration by staff at Natural History Museum (NHM), London. Funded by the Sun Alliance. Five botanists from NHM: Mary Gibby, Clive Jermy, Alison Paul, Fred Rumsey, and Johannes Vogel, carried out field work in Guernsey in April 1996 in collaboration with local botanists: Nigel Jee, Patience Ryan, Rachel D. Rabey, and Marcia Marsden. Investigated the distribution of Guernsey’s rare ferns and their conservation status based on field and laboratory work.

Documents

• Jee, N. 1994. La Société Guernesiaise. Report and Transactions. Offprint. The Guernsey Fern. [From Nigel Jee, 16 November 1995]

• “Conservation of Guernsey’s Rare Ferns” by Dr. Mary Gibby, 9 November 1995

• Gibby, M., Rumsey, F. J., Vogel, Dr. J. C., & Paul, A. M. (1996). Conservation of Guernsey's Rare Ferns (p. 24). Department of Botany, The Natural History. [DRAFT]

• Gibby, M. et. Al. August 1996. Conservation of Guernsey’s Rare Ferns. A report to the Sun Alliance.

• Natural History Museum, London. 1996. The Leaflet, Newsletter of the Botany Department. No. 10/96

• Conservation of Guernsey’s Rare Ferns. (1996) The Newsletter of La Société Guernesiaise. Autumn 1996, page 4. Photocopy.

• “Discovery of a Rare Fern” by P.J. Girard (1967)

• Perry’s Guide Maps of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, & Herm. (1995). Guernsey: Perry’s Limited. [annotated]

• Photocopy of handwritten document with numerous fern species names with list of collection dates and other data listed below each (23 pages)

• Photograph: x1126x177mm (5x7”) colour photograph: ‘Copyright of Guernsey Press Co. LTD’ ‘Photograph no. 568-29-96’, 5 people in image, 4 of 5 identified by Dr. Alison Paul in Oct 2025.

  [BACK ROW] Johannes Vogel (Director of the NHM Berlin); [MIDDLE ROW] [unknown person], Dr. Alison Paul (NHM), Fred Ramsey (NHM) [FRONT ROW] Dr. Mary Gibby

Data & Notes (various)

• Collection of printed & annotated maps, including distribution maps
• Annotated photocopies of data of samples
• Copies of a recording form (x2)
• Receipts/invoices for travel expenses
• Annotated map of Guernsey

1 book containing signatures of visitors to the Logan House gardens between 1949 and 1967. Signatures include many significant figures in the horticultural world- Euan and Peter Cox, Vita Sackville-West using her married name of Nicolson, Cicely M. Crewdson, George Taylor, numerous landowners, members of RBGE staff and, in 1955, HRH, Elizabeth R.

Garden, The – It’s Formation and Furnishing
•Series of Lectures – presumably by Prof. I.B. Balfour – filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers – Box 4 of “Miscellaneous Papers – lecture notes, etc”

1 - 7"x10"Photograph taken at The Ecology and Conservation of Scotland's Rare Ferns conference, a meeting of the British Pteridological Society at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) Thursday 28 - Sunday 31 July 1994.

Photograph includes a key, identifying all figures in the photograph from the conference. Also lists, those absent from the photograph.

Mary Gibby #75 in key, 2nd/3rd row from top at the end on right side

•Notebook containing manuscript essay on ‘The Fiographical Distribution of Algae’
•Copy of 'A Manual of Botany' by Le Maout and Decaisne, translated by Mrs Hooker and with an Appendix by Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1876, awarded to James Adam Terras by Prof. Alexander Dickson in July 1886 as a Special Prize for High Proficiency in the Class of Advanced Practical Botany (ELWU2) (seems likely Terras eventually donated the book to the Botanical Society Library?) (book in state of disrepair now)

•Duplicate copy of his thesis: ‘Perennial Cultivation of Cotton with Special Reference to the cultivation of Ratoons in Egypt’ (1927).