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This unique pteridological archive documents the birth and changing fortunes of the BPS – the World's oldest Fern Society – as recorded in 93 years of the BPS Committee Minute Book from 1891 to 1983. The original Minute Book itself – the Society's most valuable document – exists only as a single 3 kg bound volume with marbled covers and ruled lines. Entries are in handwriting in the early years and as stuck-in typescript later. The CD facsimile presents all the 633 pages of recorded Committee deliberations up to 1983. It shows the tea stains and yellowing pages indicative of age.