Treasures of the Month

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

John Stackhouse’s Nereis Britannica (1795-1801)
A magnificent illustrated compendium of algae native to the British seashore
2nd October 2020