A special 40th anniversary edition of The Arran Naturalist, the journal of the Arran Natural History Society, has been produced.
It was first published in 1978 and the commemorative edition will be of interest to all with a love of Arran’s fauna and flora.
According to the foreword by Robert McLellan in the first edition of the publication, the Arran Natural History Society had been established at a meeting instigated by Maggie Dunn and Susan King in 1977 with the first journal being published in 1978. The journal was then published annually up until 2000 under a number of able editors including Jonathan G H Williams of Glen Sannox from 1978 to 1991.