I am introducing a new section to The Well-read Naturalist with the title “More Things” in honor of the famous quote from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet;” a play and a sentiment both of which I very much admire.
More Things
John E. Riutta
About John E. Riutta
Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife
In Dr. Raye’s recently published book “The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife; Britain and Ireland between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution” we are presented with a most remarkable catalouge of the species that were documented as having been living in these islands before modern population studies of them began.
Convening Science Series
When The Marine Biological Laboratory set out to publish, through The University of Chicago Press, a series of books that would make available to the wider reading public examples of the types of research undertaken at the institution, as well as portraits of how such research is undertaken there, giving the series the title Convening Science was clearly the most logical choice.
The Last of Its Kind
I’m often moved to ranting whenever I’m presented with a reminder of one of the many extinctions our species has committed. A recent rant was inspired by a new book from Princeton University Press: Prof. Gísli Pálsson’s “The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction,” a gripping narrative history of the the extinction of the Great Auk.