Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, Butterflies and History - Hardcover

Dear Lord Rothschild; Birds, Butterflies and History

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. XX, [4], 398, [2] pages. Illustrated (genealogy) endpapers. 12 color plates 147 black and white photographs. Family Trees (fold-out), Author's Preface. Chronology. Footnotes. Maps. Bibliographical Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Inscribed by the author on the fep verso facing the half-title page. The inscription reads Stephen Graubard with every good wish from the author Nov 1983. [This is believed to be THE Stephen Richards Graubard (December 5, 1924 May 27, 2021) who was an American historian and author. He was an editor at Daedalus from 1961 until 1999. He was a professor at Harvard University and then emeritus professor at Brown University. He is particularly noted for his Command of Office: How War, Secrecy, and Deception Transformed the Presidency From Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush. )No dust jacket present. Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild DBE FRS (5 August 1908 20 January 2005) was a British natural scientist and author with contributions to zoology, entomology, and botany. During the 1930s she made a name for herself at the Marine Biological Station in Plymouth, studying the mollusc Nucula and its trematode parasites (Rothschild 1936, 1938a, 1938b). Because of her inherited wealth, she never had to apply for any grants or funding. As a result of this and her lack of formal education-all her doctorates were honorary-she would always be an "amateur". Prior to WWII, she pressed the UK Government to admit more German Jews as refugees from Nazi Germany. During WWII, she worked at Bletchley Park on codebreaking. Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, FRS (1868 1937), was a British banker, politician, zoologist and scion of the Rothschild family. He was presented with the famous Balfour Declaration which pledged to a Jewish national home in Palestine. Rothschild was the President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1925 to 1926. While Rothschild himself traveled and collected in Europe and North Africa for many years, his work and health concerns limited his range and he employed others to collect for him in remote and little-known parts of the world. He also hired taxidermists, a librarian, and, most importantly, professional scientists to work with him to curate and write up the resulting collections. At its largest, Rothschild's collection included 300,000 bird skins, 200,000 birds' eggs, 2,250,000 butterflies and 30,000 beetles, as well as thousands of specimens of mammals, reptiles and fishes. They formed the largest zoological collection ever amassed by a private individual. Presumed U.S. First Edition, First printing. Artikel-Nr. 89633

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