Featured on PDR in the essay From Snowdrop to Nightjar: Robert Marsham’s “Indications of Spring” (1789)
What can we learn from observing the progression of spring — a hawthorn’s first flowering, the return of birdsong on a particular day? Hugh Aldersey-Williams explores the lifelong calendrical project of Robert Marsham, the Norfolk naturalist considered Britain's first phenologist.
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The Snowdrop
Artist
Date
1807
From
New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus
Image Size
1118 x 1425