Treasures of the Month
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
Edward M Holmes: A prescriber of salves for both bodies and hearts
“…all-round naturalist and a born collector”: The correspondence collection of Edward Morell Holmes
6th January 2021
Edward Topsell's Reindeer
Conservator Janet Ashdown looks at Edward Topsell's 17th-century text 'The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents'
27th November 2020
John Timothy Swainson’s Summer of 1799
Swainson, one of the Society's seven founding Fellows, wrote an evocative account of his travel from London to the Lake District in 1799. Our archivist Liz McGow recounts some of his observations
27th October 2020
