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Doctors and the English seaside

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science

The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.

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How we bury our children

Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.

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  • Two Virginian flying squirrels sitting on a rock. Etching by Heath.
  • Two flying squirrels climbing up the trunk of a tree. Etching by P. Mazell.
  • Two red squirrels playing on a tree in a forest. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A group of boys are sitting on rocks, two of them have squirrels with them. Coloured lithograph.
  • Nine different specimen of squirrels (family Sciuridae), including the flying squirrel, shown in their arboreal habitat. Coloured etching by J. Bower after J. Stewart.
  • A tree populated by nine different specimen of the family of Scividae (squirrels). Coloured etching by W. Warwick after Captain T. Brown.
  • Above, two common squirrels sitting on a branch of a tree; middle, a house mouse; below, a rat. Coloured lithograph by B. Hummel after Jemima Blackburn.
  • A group of badgers with their young are sniffing the ground while some squirrels are gamboling on trees and rocks in the mountains. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • A great squirrel. Etching by Heath.
  • A barbary and a striped squirrel. Etching by Heath.
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