Collins Wild Flower Guide is an indispensable guide for all those with an interest in the countryside, whether amateur or expert. In 1938 he married Alice Mary (Maisie) Stewart (died 1996) [3] and they had two sons and a daughter. [1] The Wild Flowers of Britain and Ireland: The Complete Guide to the British and Irish Flora (with Alastair Fitter, Marjorie Blamey) 2003 Thus some plant (Latin) names have also changed, and the new edition reflects these changes. Where the names differ from those in the first edition they are added in parentheses following the new name for reference. The book has also been completely reset and redesigned throughout.

Full of beautiful pictures and illustrations, making it easy to identify coastal wildflowers. . . . A well thought out user-friendly guide."—Alison Alderton, Towpath Talk Fitter collected 'bird inn signs.' He wrote about his hobby in the Birmingham Daily Post, published Tuesday 22 March 1955. Fitter wrote that "I just note them down in my diary whenever I see them. I started during the second winter of the war, as a kind of light relief from the somewhat grim preoccupations of those days." By 1955 Fitter had several hundred signs in his collection of some 38 different bird species. The Ark in Our Midst: The Story of the Introduced Animals af Britain; Birds, Beasts, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fishes 1959 Birds of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East (with illustrations by Hermann Heinzel and maps by John Parslow) 1972 Clare, John (1982). Eric Robinson and Richard Fitter (ed.). John Clare's Birds. Illustrated by Robert Gillmor. Oxford. ISBN 0192129775.The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (with William Plomer, illustrations by Alan Aldridge) 1973

Rapid Changes in Flowering Time in British Plants" (with A. H. Fitter) Science Vol. 296, Issue 5573, 1689–1691, 2002 The perfect introduction to an array of Britain’s most fascinating, and in some cases, unusual flora."—Josh Jones, Birdwatch Fitter wrote many books and was active in various areas relating to nature and conservation. His wife Maisie was a colleague and collaborator on many of his researches. [4] They were joint authors of The Penguin Dictionary of British Natural History (1967). [1] During the Second World War he worked at the Operations research section of the RAF Coastal Command. [1] During this time he worked for two hours each evening on a comprehensive urban natural history of London, which was published in May 1945 as London's Natural History, his first book. [2] Fitter, Richard Sidney Richmond 1913–2005,' Contemporary Authors Encyclopedia.com. 25 Aug. 2022 < https://www.encyclopedia.com>He was recruited to the Institute for Political and Economic Planning in 1936, and in 1940 moved to the social research organisation Mass-Observation to investigate civilian morale for the Ministry of Information. [1] The standard author abbreviation Fitter is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [8] Hobbies [ edit ] A Field Guide to Freshwater Life in Britain and North-west Europe (Collins Field Guide) (with Richard Manuel) 1986 Contributions to the Bibliography of the Natural History of the London Area: No.2: a Subject Index of the Society's Journals, 1941–51 1952 His son, Alastair Fitter, is a professor of biology at the University of York. [1] They collaborated on three books: Guide to the Countryside (1984); Field Guide to the Freshwater Life of Britain and NW Europe (1986); and Wild Flowers of Britain and Ireland (2003). [1] In 2002 father and son jointly authored a paper in Science analysing the changing phenology of plant flowering times due to global warming. [4]