Spring has officially sprung. But #equinox aside, how do we tell the season is here? Hugh Aldersey-Williams looks at Robert Marsham’s Indications of Spring (1789), a lifelong calendrical project by Britain’s first phenologist — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/from-snowdrop-to-nightjar/
The Public Domain ReviewFrom 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.