Blogs and Essays
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. Written by guest blogger Rosie Ryland.
3rd June 2025
Dorothy Chapman's (note)books
Two printed books morphed into heavily used notebooks, when lovingly filled out and coloured in by an early 20th-century amateur botanist.
25th March 2025
“This Book is Chineese Manufacture”
This month Conservator Janet Ashdown explores the notebooks used by Alfred Russel Wallace during his Malay Archipelago expedition (1854-1862), focusing on their unusual construction, materials, and the conservation efforts to preserve them.
14th March 2025
Newly Catalogued: The Richard Fitter and IUCN Collections
An introduction to two new collections now available on the Linnean Society Archive catalogue
14th February 2025
