The British Herpetological Society

The British Journal of Herpetology

This journal is part of our legacy archive. For historical interest we have made these volumes available as open access downloads.

The British Journal of Herpetology was published between 1948 and 1984 before transforming into The Herpetological Journal, reflecting the much wider geographic and taxonomic breadth of research that was being conducted in the mid-1980s onwards. Initially the British Journal of Herpetology was solely focussed on the publication of research articles and notes on British herpetofauna, but as time progressed, it welcomed manuscripts on species from further afield, as well as those focussing on captive husbandry and laboratory protocols.

As a historic publication, the British Journal of Herpetology is no longer accepting submissions, but went through six volumes, all with twelve issues each during its print run. The editors for these were as follows: Dr Angus d'A. Bellairs (1949-1953), Dr R. Maxwell Savage (1953-1957), Dr Angus d'A. Bellairs (1957-1964), Dr Harold Fox (1965-1976), and Dr M. Peaker (1977-??).

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  • Editor's Note pp. 264
  • The origin of the vertebrate pronephric duct. By Bernard Towers pp. 264
  • Notes on Persian Turtles. By Peter C. H. Pritchard pp. 271
  • Observations on the Macronyssid Mite (order Acarina), Ophionyssus natricis (Gervais), on the two Iguanid Lizards, Uta stansburiana hesperis and Sceloporus occidentalis occidentalis. By Bryan R. Burrage pp. 275
  • The size of a series of Leicestershire Newts. By G. A. C. Bell pp. 279
  • Bicephalism in three Colubrids. By Max Allen Nickerson pp. 284
  • Resort to water outside the breeding season of the Crested Newt Triturus cristatus (Laurenti). By J. W. Steward pp. 285
  • A discography of Palearctic amphibian sound recordings. By Jeffery Boswall pp. 286
  • Coital behaviour of the African Tortoise Kinixys erosa. By Kenneth Blackwell pp. 289
  • Egg-laying in Lacerta agilis. By G. J. Walters pp. 290
  • Book Review pp. 291
  • From other journals pp. 291

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