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Category Archives: Naturalists
Jan22
Beatrix, the genius
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Until the summer of this year, I knew Beatrix Potter only as a children’s book author: when I was young, my mother read me nearly all the “tale” books, from “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” to “The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse” – I loved every last one. That’s why last August, at the age of […]
Oct8
Mary Anning
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This month’s Naturalist is Mary Anning, a self-made palaeontologist born to a poor family in 1799 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. Her father sold fossils as an aside to his main activity, cabinet-making, and raised his children (two survived out of ten that were born), Joseph and Mary, on the shores of Lyme Regis, looking for […]
Earth, Wind and Daisies 