Treasures of the Month
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
"A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest": The Linnean Society's Iron Chest
This month, Project Archivist Alex Milne is looking into the history of the Iron Chest that once held the Society's most important organisational documents and artefacts.
12th January 2024
Neither ashore, nor afloat: Jonathan Couch and "A History of the Fishes of the British Islands"
This month, Assistant Archivist Christina McCulloch has been sifting through research (including our newly catalogued Domestic Archive) to look into the fantastic manuscript of Couch’s A History of the Fishes of the British Islands
5th January 2024
Inside the Fish Skin Collection: Ollie Crimmen and the Lost Radiographs
This month's Treasure is our retiring curator of zoology, Ollie Crimmen, whose first job at the NHM was to X-ray the Linnaean fishes, as described by NHM's Chrissy Williams below.
28th November 2023
