>The Rothschild Collection The banker Charles Rothschild

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>The Rothschild Collection

The banker Charles Rothschild devoted much of his time to entomology, creating a large collection of fleas now in the Rothschild Collection at the Natural History Museum, London. He discovered and named the plague vector flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, also known as the oriental rat flea, in 1903.[44] Using what was probably the world's most complete collection of fleas of about 260,000 specimens (representing some 73% of the 2,587 species and subspecies so far described), he described around 500 species and subspecies of Siphonaptera. He was followed in this interest by his daughter Miriam Rothschild, who helped to catalogue his enormous collection of the insects in seven volumes.[45][46]

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/10/science/miriam-rothschild-talks-of-fleas.html

>post yfw you realize the Rothschilds have been trying to re-engineer the black plague since the early 1900s