Over a spring lunch complete with fine wine, the author tells her illustrious hostess plucked from the garden. It was when we operated a back country farm on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia that I’d ...

Case study : an example of the kind of study now needed for insectivorous birds - population level implications of variations in prey availability and quality in shorebirds : what we see is not ...

In November 1939, shortly after the outbreak of World War II, I was solving trematode life cycles in the Marine Biological Station at Plymouth. Before the fighting began I had received an ...

In the study of Miriam Rothschild's house, two framed photographs took pride of place. One was of some people, circa 1960, the other an abstraction of black blobs on a grainy background. "That's my ...

Britain has bird watchers for every hedgerow, but most of them do not scratch the surface of the bird world. The closest bird watchers in Britain are the learned Misses Miriam Rothschild and Teresa ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Naturalists are born and not made. I loved insects, ...

in the British Museum (Natural History), with Keys and Short Descriptions for the Identification of Families, Genera, Species and Subspecies. By G. H. E. Hopkins and Miriam Rothschild. Vol. 1: ...