Blogs and Essays

Explore insights and essays from our curators, archivists and librarians

Treasures of the Month

Every month, we focus on one object (text/book/illustration/specimen) to bring you its hidden story

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Discover and share your curiosity in nature!

Stories from our Collections

From colourful personalities to mysterious specimens, read the tales our curators and staff find within old books, journals, collected specimens...

Society and Staff News

Find out more about the Society's staff and various ongoings

Discover More: Symbiosis

Let's look at some of the fabulous ways that different organisms have evolved to cooperate, sometimes to the extent that one or both (or all) partners would not survive without the other. Discover more with Linnean Learning.

17th January 2022

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LGBT+ at the Linnean Society

As we look forward to LGBT+ History Month, a number of our staff, curators, and Fellows share their experiences of being LGBT+ in science

10th January 2022

Society and Staff News

"The Librarian's Nightmare": James Bateman's Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala

Our librarian Will Beharrell examines one of our most prized—and most challenging—books

10th January 2022

Treasures of the Month

The Darwin-Wallace Collection: Notes from the Private Lives of Naturalists

Archivist Alex Milne examines the lesser known interests of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace though correspondence held in the Linnean Society Library

23rd November 2021

Discover More: Fungi

This group of organisms are actually more closely related to animals than they are plants, but they are so radically different to either that scientists group them in a kingdom of their own. Discover more with Linnean Learning.

23rd November 2021