Saturday, June 25, 2022

An eye for homegrown natural wonders ¬

… Nature Just Beyond the Doorstep - WSJ. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

This lively parson and citizen-scientist can come off as one of Austen’s daft comic characters. In one of his more memorable passages, White recounts shouting at bees through a speaking trumpet, a period version of a megaphone, to see how well they could hear.

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