Old periodical The Vasculum

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There used to be a British natural history journal called The Vasculum. Does anyone know what society produced it, please? And is it consultable online anywhere? It isn’t in Biodiversity Heritage Library. Volume 1 was in 1915. It wasn’t strictly botanical as the article I am looking for is on mites. Not to be confused with the modern journal for herbarium curators, which was on volume 16 in 2021.

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It was published by The Northern Naturalists Union. I don’t know if they still exist in any form.

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Internet Archive has one issue (volume?)

The Vasculum 1935 : Rev. J.E. Hull (editor) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Yumpu.com has 7.

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Many thanks. That gives me a lead to follow.

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The British Library still don’t have their web site fully back after last year’s cyber-attack, so I can’t be certain whether or not is has been digitised. Possibly not.

Yumpu.com refers a website the.vasculum.com, which suggests that the Northern Naturalists Union at one point had their journal (but not necessarily all back issues) online, but that website is currently for sale.

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Thanks. I think my next step is to contact people who work in northern English natural history museums and see if any of them have The Vasculum on their shelves.

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This may be of interest - it is a 1980 Vasculum edition vol 65, which has some info which might let you trace where some of the copies are.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Doody/publication/299537849_THE_CONSERVATION_OF_THE_SEMI-NATURAL_VEGETATION_OF_THE_MAGNESIAN_LIMESTONE_2_TYNE_AND_WEAR/links/56fe5cb808aee995dde72c20/THE-CONSERVATION-OF-THE-SEMI-NATURAL-VEGETATION-OF-THE-MAGNESIAN-LIMESTONE-2-TYNE-AND-WEAR.pdf
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Thanks. Yes, that says which museums and societies were in the Union.

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Not sure if the others found this

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8 free Magazines from THE.VASCULUM.COM March 1949 may have the stuff you are looking for… I could not access it properly but it appears to be stored online (quarterly) Good luck
1949 - The Vasculum

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Thanks for all your responses. I should have said earlier, the article I am looking for is
Hull, J.E. (1915) Snout mites: an introduction to the British Bdellidae. The Vasculum , 1, 117–123.