Stories from our Collections
“This Book is Chineese Manufacture”
This month Conservator Janet Ashdown explores the notebooks used by Alfred Russel Wallace during his Malay Archipelago expedition (1854-1862), focusing on their unusual construction, materials, and the conservation efforts to preserve them.
14th March 2025
Newly Catalogued: The Richard Fitter and IUCN Collections
An introduction to two new collections now available on the Linnean Society Archive catalogue
14th February 2025
Anything But Commonplace: The Lady Pleasance Smith commonplace books
This month, Assistant Archivist Christina McCulloch brings us into the world of the wife of Linnean Society founder James Edward Smith, Lady Pleasance Smith, through her impressive commonplace books.
7th February 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
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
