Blogs and Essays
Painting En Plein Air – Margaret Woods
This month Archivist, Liz McGow, focusses on a volume of watercolour drawings of British flowers by Margaret Woods (MS/504).
13th August 2025
Why Do Birds Have Whiskers?
The answer lies in phylogenetics.
1st August 2025
Seeing Double – Henry and Edward Doubleday – Entomologists
Glenn Benson our Hon. Curator of Artefacts looks at the men behind the images of the Doubledays in the collection of the Society and discovers an unexpected connection to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London where he works.
16th July 2025
Chromatic Confessions of Salt Stressed Plants: AI to Read Between the Leaves
Uncover how machine learning can be used to spot salt stress in plants, revolutionising how we farm amidst sea level rise.
3rd July 2025
Our Digitised Collections
This month’s treasure is our digitised collections (and an excuse to plug their new home!).
16th June 2025
Anoles on the Edge: Adapting to the Andes
How Andean lizards reveal the hidden power of temperature in driving evolution
3rd June 2025
