From Snowdrop to Nightjar: Robert Marsham’s “Indications of Spring” (1789)

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams

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. more