Conisbrough Naturalist Becoming Globetrotter – Iceland in June

April 1964

South Yorkshire Times April 4, 1964

Conisbrough Naturalist Becoming Globetrotter

Member of a Party Going Out to Iceland in June.

Clever dentist, Mr James Griffith, a keen naturalist who has travelled to many parts of the world in connection with his lifetime hobby, is in June to join a party bound for Iceland in search of information on birdlife and native flora.

The trip has been instigated by the Icelandic Government: “They are letting people go in to explore the little-known corners of the country. I suppose afterwards all the knowledge gathered will be pooled,” Mr Griffith told us.

Netting and Ringing.

The party will concern itself mainly with the geese and ducks. It finds there, and will probably spend some time netting and ringing as well have been engaged on identification. But there are also plans to devote time to botany. The country is particularly interesting in that flowers and plants grow there which would normally only be found on Mountain Heights.

A member of Rotherham Naturalist Society, Doncaster ornithological Society and if Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society, Mr Griffith thinks he may be the only South Yorkshire representative on the trip, but he plans to take plenty of photographs of the work he and his colleagues carry out so that other people will have the benefit of his privilege.

May Go to Greenland

After spending a fortnight in Iceland. Mr Griffith may decide to go on to Greenman for a further period. His travels have already taken him to Spain, Germany and Sardinia in recent years.

Miss Griffith began taking an interest in botany and ornithology during his teens and he shares his bit with his wife, Mrs Yvonne Griffiths, their two daughters, Sheila, aged 16, and Kathleen, aged 20, and his brother and fellow dentist, Mr F.C. Griffith, of Mexborough.

 

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