Sad to say we lost our branch founder early in September. I was on holiday and only found out about this now.
He was a great writer and speaker, who travelled to many places in search of cacti. He had a place out in Chelsfield where he sold cacti and where I went for our first fish n chip supper. Most of all, he could write and his books were readily available for sale either at shows or at our meetings.
I'll link to the only book I ever had of his as a beginner back in 198x or so. But it wasn't just books for beginners, there were species specific guides for Stapeliads or some of the genera of the Cactaceae.
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