Stories from our Collections
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
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
Our Digitised Collections
This month’s treasure is our digitised collections (and an excuse to plug their new home!).
16th 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
