Treasures of the Month
Citizen Cane: Robert Brown’s Malacca Cane
In July's 'Treasure of the Month', Glenn Benson, our Honorary Curator of Artefacts, tells the story of botanist Robert Brown's Malacca cane and how it came to our collections
25th June 2021
John Ellis’ Microscopic Animals
Assistant Archivist Luke Thorne takes a closer look at some microscopic marvels
26th May 2021
To Make Strange Things Appear: Lantern Slides at the Linnean Society
Join Conservator Janet Ashdown as she looks at one of the more obscure collections at the Society
29th April 2021
The Ten Bamboo Studio Treatise on Painting
Librarian Will Beharrell introduces a pioneering, genre-straddling masterpiece of 18th century Chinese printing
12th April 2021
Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin's letters to Linnaeus
Nikolaus Joseph Baron von Jacquin: A botanist, an 18th century collector and a pen pal to Linnaeus
5th March 2021
Thomas Spencer Cobbold’s drawings of the hidden lives of parasites
Assistant Archivist Luke Thorne reveals a lifetime of "patient and accurate labour"
25th January 2021
