Vice Counties (UK)

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Taxonomy

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Scope note(s)

  • a geographical division of the British Isles. It is also called biological vice-county as it is used for purposes of biological recording and other scientific data-gathering, or sometimes called a Watsonian vice-county as vice-counties were introduced by Hewett Cottrell Watson in the third volume of his Cybele Britannica, published in 1852.

Source note(s)

Display note(s)

  • vice county borders do NOT match modern administrative borders

Hierarchical terms

Vice Counties (UK)

Vice Counties (UK)

Equivalent terms

Vice Counties (UK)

  • UF VC

  • UF Vice-county

  • UF vice county

  • UF vice-counties

  • UF Watsonian vice-county

Associated terms

Vice Counties (UK)

    2 Archival description results for Vice Counties (UK)

    George Grahame's Plant Lists
    GB 235 GRG · Collection · 1829 - 2009

    4 items:
    GRG/1 - 'A list of the flowering plants, ferns, mosses and liverworts of Berwickshire (Watsonian vice-county 81)' by G. Grahame, unpublished, c.1945-1956
    GRG/2 - 56 page Manuscript Notebook –'A List of the Mosses and Liverworts of Berwickshire (Watsonian Vice-County 81)' by G. Grahame, c.1953 (added to collection in November 2023, was already in Archives, but catalogued separately)
    GRG/3 - 'A list of the flowering plants and ferns of N.E. England and S.E. Scotland, 1829-1970', unpublished, 1970
    GRG/4 - included in the folder are some notes on the VC81 list by Michael Braithwaite, 2009 who incorporated the records in the BSBI VC81 database; 'Notes on G Graham's 'List' for VC 81 Berwickshire held by RBGE' (also covers VC68, VC72, VC78, VC79, VC80, VC82, VC83

     Grahame, George