Items of Interest Worth Remembering
I opened the just-arrived volume 38, number 24 of the London Review of Books to find Mary Wellesley’s “No looking at my elephant;” which takes Caroline Grigson’s “Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England 1100-1837” as its subject.
Although they created their YouTube channel back in November of 2011, the Linnean Society of London hasn’t been particularly active on the site since then. However just over three weeks ago they began uploading some very interesting presentations as video podcasts, making them available for the edification of all.
Back in 2009 when The Well-read Naturalist had just published its first review, Grant McCreary was already approaching the third anniversary of his own book reviewing website, The Birder’s Library. Now, seven years later, his superb site is celebrating its tenth anniversary.
Back in October of 2016 at the American Museum of Natural History, Jonathan Balcombe, author of “What a Fish Knows,” presented an overview of some of the material he included in his highly praised recent book about fish behavior and cognition.