The Archive
An abbreviated index of selected volumes of the Quarterly Review. Full runs are held in the Brook House archive and consulted by members and invited correspondents under the usual arrangements. The digital record here is partial; the print is authoritative.
The Review is numbered by volume (a calendar year of four dispatches) and by number within the volume: Vernal (I), Midsummer (II), Michaelmas (III), and Candlemas (IV). The first four volumes, from Michaelmas 1971 through Candlemas 1975, were issued on a single folded sheet and bound subsequently; the present hand-stitched binding dates from Volume V. The impression has held steady at one hundred and twenty copies since the second trustees' resolution of 1979.
The recovering basin; the return of the understory to the Sugarloaf; the case for the staged removal of the three middle-reach check dams. Michaelmas number includes the long Alcott hydrological essay.
Nos. I–III issued · No. IV (Candlemas) in preparation
The second consecutive drought summer; a revised accounting of late-summer baseflow persistence; the decennial audit of the long inventory, delivered six months ahead of schedule.
A full volume devoted to the thickening of the riparian edge along the Middle Stem, with particular attention to the alder regeneration above the cataract and the documented return of three bryophyte taxa to the wet rock of the second plunge.
Occasioned by the twelve-day gap at the Lower Weir in the February thaw; an essay on the epistemology of the interrupted record, and the trustees' resolution on the recalibration of the winter gauging protocol.
A consolidated index of the first decade of the renewed program, compiled by the editorial committee; includes the long correspondence on the retirement of the Whitford lease and an unpublished essay by the founding warden.
The parcel was closed to visiting researchers for the whole of the vernal and midsummer seasons; the Review was nonetheless issued on its customary schedule, drawing principally on the warden's logs and on correspondence from members.
The first of the hand-stitched volumes and the first to devote all four numbers to a single feature of the parcel. Includes the Hollenbeck essay on the 1968 boating covenant and the trustees' decision to retire the last of the hemlock skiffs.
The founding number. Four pages folded once, impressed at the warden's table, and circulated to twenty-eight original subscribers. The standing instruction — to hold, to observe, and to write down — dates from this issue.
A note on access
The digital index above is necessarily partial. A full concordance of the fifty-four numbers issued to date, together with the contributors' index and the subject index, is held in the reading room of the Brook House archive and is consulted by members under the usual arrangements. The print Review is the record of first instance; the digital presentation is a courtesy to those already in our confidence.