Titled in reference to, and honor of, Phillip Henry Gosse’s classic 1861 book The Romance of Natural History , Dr. Lynn Merrill’s The Romance of Victorian Natural History presents an examination of not only Mr. Gosse’s own writings but those of his Nineteenth Century fellow amateur natural history practitioners as well. Yet even if this […]
While the Xerces Society’s “Bug Banter” podcast is consistently interesting and informative, I found the 7 January 2025 episode “The Power of Policy: Insect Protection Through State Authority” particularly so.
Begun in 2020 with Dr. Kostas Kampourakis’ “Understanding Evolution” (now in its second edition), the Understanding Life series numbers twenty-six volumes – or at least it will with the publication of Dr. Han Yu’s “Understanding Visuals in the Life Sciences” later this month.
Whenever I wish to learn about how wild fires behave in different parts of the United States, I take one of the volumes of Prof. Stephen J. Pyne’s unrivaled To The Last Smoke Series from University of Arizona Press. Not surprisingly, this past week had me reaching for the volume “California; A Fire Survey.”