Editing Flea (section)

===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 [[pandemic|plague]] [[Vector (epidemiology)|vector]] flea, ''[[Xenopsylla cheopis]]'', also known as the oriental rat flea, in 1903.<ref name="TWT">{{cite web |title=Charles Rothschild |url=http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/who-we-are/history/centenary/charles-rothschild |publisher=[[The Wildlife Trusts]] |access-date=1 November 2016}}</ref> 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.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Walter |title=Miriam Rothschild Talks of Fleas |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/10/science/miriam-rothschild-talks-of-fleas.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=1 November 2016 |date=10 April 1984}}</ref><ref name="NHM">{{cite web |title=Siphonaptera collections |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/collections/entomology-collections/siphonaptera-collections.html |publisher=[[Natural History Museum, London]] |access-date=1 November 2016}}</ref>