Stories from our Collections
The Linnean Society’s precursor: The Society for Promoting Natural History
From its founding principle to methods of sharing scientific accounts and specimens with wider audiences, the Society for Promoting Natural History, in many ways, shaped the Linnean Society of London into what it is today
26th August 2020
Opuscula Unbound: Organising our 'Little Works'
Janet Ashdown and Leonie Berwick look into some of the Society's opuscula, discovering a quirk or two along the way.
29th July 2020
Metal and memories of World War 2
On occasion, we find mysterious artefacts in our collections. In this case, an old bullet. Curator of Artefacts Glenn Benson finds out more...
8th July 2020
Collinson’s Connections: The Commonplace Book of Peter Collinson
Assistant Archivist Luke Thorne writes about his work cataloguing the "commonplace books" of 18th-century botanist, Peter Collinson
14th June 2020
22nd October 2019
