Blogs and Essays

Edmond Albius: the boy who revolutionised the vanilla industry

Leanne Melbourne tells the story of an unsung hero

250th Anniversary of the birth of Alexander von Humboldt

Librarian Will Beharrell celebrates the 250th birthday of Alexander von Humboldt, a giant of nineteenth century science

What Is An Endangered Ecosystem Painting?

Ernst Haeckel (100 years)

Were the ancestors of horseshoe crabs really blind?

Why there was no ‘Darwin’s bulldog’

Thomas Henry Huxley’s famous nickname