Spend a crafternoon amongst our collections at our #londoncraftweek workshops. With the help of conservation biologist & designer Susanna Paisley, create flowing, seamlessly repeating, tree of life motifs - inspired by our 'Lovely as a Tree' exhibition. eventbrite.com/e/open-evening…

🌿📝 In October the Botanics will host the Plants on Paper workshop in Edinburgh, funded by The Getty Paper Project initiative, bringing together botanical artists and curators from specific originating diaspora communities. Find out more & apply 👉 rbge.org.uk/science-and-co…

Explorer Robert Schomburgk called the ‘majestic Mora (tree), the king of the forest’. In this blog, Isabelle Charmantier writes about Schomburgk's impressions of this magnificent specimen about which he wrote in Transactions of the Linnean Society. Read below: bit.ly/3ymQHnP

If you missed Jack Ashby's wonderful and revelatory talk on thylacines and their extinction history, you can now watch it below. Jack Ashby youtu.be/O8qtzQkPfUE

My talk exploring the #thylacine, the mystery surrounding one of the earliest European artworks of the species, and how art and museum specimens supported the propaganda that led to their deliberate #extinction, is now on the The Linnean Society of London's YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=O8qtzQ…

Celia Rosser, botanical illustrator, dedicated her life to painting the entire genus of Banksia. We received 3 expansive volumes of 'The Banksias' through kind donation by Anne E Ashford FLS & William G Allaway. Below, the magnificent Banksia serrata plate.

If you are in Oxford in late June... Here's the registration info: ticketsource.co.uk/maison-francai… SHNH Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 Oxford University Museum of Natural History Laurence Talairach

Loved collaborating w Mason Heberling to think about past, present, & future of #herbaria in Arnold Arboretum Arnoldia: The Nature of Trees. Includes some of my most recent research The Linnean Society of London & Harvard University Herbaria - many thx to those libraries! molly-hardy.com/information-ec… (link at bottom of page)

Last chance to see: our 'Lovely as a Tree' exhibition closes at the end of this week. Visitors so far have called it "A beautiful and important exhibition" and "TREEMENDOUS!” Drop in 10-5 Tuesday-Friday until 28 June linnean.org/research-colle…

And it’s been a pleasure to work with you! Excited about both the conference and the exhibition!

Opening July 10 (tomorrow!). Our new exhibition ‘Revolution: Nature in the time of change 1776–1848’ that unearths the changing practices of the study of nature during the revolutionary age. It’s free to enter but time limited. 10 am to 5 pm (Tues-Fri) 10 July to 30 August.

Just published in English, a history of the #vasculum. It includes the vasculum used by Charles Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle, which is now in the collection of the The Linnean Society of London Buy the book through margraf-publishers.eu/index.php?id=1…

"The duck-billed beaver" - one of my favourite #platypus illustrations - is now on display in The Linnean Society of London's new Revolution exhibition. Drawn ~1800 by Thomas Davies, it's one of the first European platypus depictions. The folded-up face-shield tells us it's a dried specimen.

#BTS at the Linnean Society. Our Curator of Artefacts Glenn Benson doing some medals cataloguing - specifically working on Hooker family medals. Glenn Benson FLS 🦤🪴🍄🦠🧫 Isabelle Charmantier

Hi Eurostar I’m travelling from Aumont Aubrac to London today. SNCF bus Aumont-Clermont was late (accident traffic jam) and I missed Clermont-Paris train & will miss my 19:11 Eurostar. I have combined tickets &cannot change the Eurostar ticket on its own. Can you help?

John Braxton Hicks FLS died #OnThisDay in 1897. Hicks donated this striking brass token to the Society. It shows Death with his scythe, with tulips and other flowers to show that life goes on. Read about this, and other treasures, in our book L: 50. shop.linnean.org/products/l-50-…

Happy #InternationalPrimateDay! Orangutans are fantastic tool users, but have evolved hooklike hands as they mainly use them to swing through trees. (Image from Transactions of the Zoological Society) Read more in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society ow.ly/4erU50T9L0c

📣 Registration is now open for the CILIP Library and Information History Group Conference 2024: Libraries, Archives and Natural History taking place at the The Linnean Society of London on October 4. The conference is being held in association with our journal, #ArchivesofNaturalHistory BOOK 🔗 : eventbrite.com/e/cilip-lihg-c…

Don't forget about #OpenHouse on the 21st of September! The Linnean Society and the other courtyard societies will be opening their doors and would love to see you there. Come take part in fun activities like our cross-society treasure hunt and see what curiosities you can find.

Very soon now! Opening on Friday the 13th is our new exhibition: Still Life. Art and biology have long gone hand in hand; come and see our collection of visual art through the ages depicting some weird and wonderful parts of our natural world.