Blogs and Essays
Out of the Andes, Always Something New
How a new species of tropical butterfly eluded discovery by hiding in the snow
10th January 2025
"The Night-mare Life-In-Death was she": Nautical Drawings in the Sketchbook of Richard Owen
This month, Project Archivist Alex Milne dusts off her English Literature degree to examine Richard Owen's sketchbook anew and emerges with an abiding love of the albatross.
2nd January 2025
A Secret Treasure: Anna Atkins’s Cyanotype Impressions of British Algae
This month, independent photographic historian Dr Rose Teanby FRPS, discusses the binding and photographic significance of the Linnean Society's three precious Anna Atkins Cyanotype volumes.
5th December 2024
Why do we Care About Frog Sex?
Examining the sex metadata bias in herpetological museum collections.
14th November 2024
As Far as the Eye can See | Two Views of Nature
This month our Hon. Curator of Artefacts, Glenn Benson FLS, looks at the depiction of nature through two small landscapes in the Society’s collection.
7th November 2024
The Architect of Nature Conservation: Max Nicholson's Archive
The latest archival collection to be released on our catalogue are the papers of foundational environmentalist Max Nicholson. His archive is the first of several important nature conservation collections currently in progress.
29th October 2024
