The Ramblings of a Shropshire Naturalist

The Ramblings of a Shropshire NaturalistEdward A. Wilson was born in 1904 and educated in Cambridge at Fitz William College where he obtained his M. A. degree and Teaching Certificate. He was senior biology master at Ellesmere College for the last 20 years of his distinguished career in teaching. During that time he visited and studied the natural history of the meres, mosses, canals and hills of Shropshire, and formed a Field Club at the College which accompanied him on many occasions. E.

Edward A. Wilson was born in 1904 and educated in Cambridge at Fitz-William College where he obtained his M.A. degree and Teaching Certificate. He was senior biology master at Ellesmere College for the last 20 years of his distinguished career in teaching. During that time he visited and studied the natural history of the meres, mosses, canals and hills of Shropshire, and formed a Field Club at the College which accompanied him on many occasions. E.A.Wilson died aged 70 years in 1974.

Wilson recorded many of the natural history outings in his field notebooks and diaries which after his death, were given by his family to Pam Bowen. In the box of materials was a typed collection of excerpts from his extensive writings, which Wilson himself had prepared, possibly for publication, entitled ÔThe Ramblings of a Shropshire NaturalistÕ. John Harding retyped these into electronic form, produced again here and it is hoped that they will serve to entertain, educate and inspire, much as E.A.Wilson did in life.