Hugh Aldersey-Williams · The Public Domain Review · 2024
From Snowdrop to Nightjar: Robert Marsham’s “Indications of Spring” (1789)
Spring came late to much of the northern hemisphere in 1784.
Why we picked it
Marsham’s half-century calendar of leafing, flowering, and birdsong shows how one naturalist’s routine observations became a valuable climate record.
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