Stories from our Collections
"On the bat's back I do fly after summer merrily" - Linnaeus's Manuscripta Medica Tom. 1
This month Education Manager Alice Cheetham takes a look at a little drawing that caught her eye in the Linnean Manuscripts and what it can tell us about one of her favourite mammals.
28th June 2024
A Tale of Two Cabinets
Our Honorary Curator of Artefacts, Glenn Benson FLS, continues his series of articles on the artefacts displayed in the Society’s rooms at New Burlington House; objects which, due to their familiarity, may otherwise go unnoticed.
The Mora tree of Guiana
This month's Treasure is an intriguing watercolour of a Mora tree, submitted with a paper read at a meeting of the Society in 1838, yet never published.
The New Naturalist Library
Not all the treasures in the Linnean Society’s collections are venerable antiques. This month’s featured item—in fact, a whole series of items—is a masterpiece of the mid-20th century
8th April 2024
The Many Colours of Stella Ross-Craig
This month, Dr Henry Noltie FLS writes about botanist Stella Ross-Craig's wonderful paintbox, which he has just donated to the Society.
13th March 2024
“No one knows what is in it”: Cataloguing the Linnean Society Domestic Archive
At the end of an immense project to catalogue the papers of the Linnean Society itself, Project Archivist Alex Milne recounts the process of working with this important collection.
14th February 2024
