Good to see that project is going well

Fantastic first day of talks at our SHNH Palette of Nature meeting in Cardiff: too busy to take photos as so many people to talk to , old friends and making new ones

We must all have finished the meeting much more aware of colour in nature and the problems of communicating its immense variety in our descriptions or though colour charts, numbers or instruments, Thank you everyone for opening our eyes!

I hope they did not ask any awkward questions about the early Australian collections we hold!

Stockwell Festival is on September 7. Come along! 🥳

Looking forward to this event to bring those in the neighbourhood together. If you enjoy or use the Park please join the “Friends of Larkhall Park” to help to protect it and share your views about its future.

Do read this before joining Will’s Linnean Lens talk on Elizabeth Blackwell. It will add essential information to what will be on show.

A remarkable woman. She was a regular user of the Linnean Society library and gave us her “general” reprint collection, often signed by eminent scientist authors.

A dry preserved specimen of a Vesicomyid clam (Vesicomya sp.) from the collection. This rather rare deep ocean specimen was collected in 2001 from 640m depth at a methane/sulphur cold seep ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico. The Linnean Society of London BNA science

My niece is the same, even though I gave her a copy of Erica’s book to help her learn more about flies. Does anyone do a course for those with fly phobia?

I had 10 minutes to wait between connections at Stirling this morning & remembered there was Caithness flagstones outside. Saw lots of nice Devonian fossil fish bits, including this wee patch of scales & bone

Thanks for that key piece of information on male wasps and hornets. As it is usually the males who home in on picnic food late in the summer I can reassure friends that they cannot be stung, even though they may find persistent food attacks annoying.

Lovely. to be able to share our “Rooms” (the terminology used when we moved into New Burlington House) with so many visitors who also got to see our current exhibition. If you missed it you can still pop in to see than from Tuesday to Friday.

Very dangerous and damaging. I know of someone killed while walking when hit by a falling stone dislodged higher up.

Some unexpected treasures in the Natural History Museum in Luxembourg: a “bat mobile”, a superb fossil fish and an interesting temporary exhibition on meteorites. Well worth a visit.

This is the nicest thing I saw today. “Priamus polycletes” [sic] in Carl Clerck’s Icones insectorum rariorum (1759). This copy at the The Linnean Society of London is from the private library of Carl Linnaeus, and annotated by him.

That link with Seba’s work is really relevant and important. I wonder if the A E Gunter albums have one of his “salvaged” Seba images featuring it.

Look forward to testing this when on my way to Ely in mid November.

This is a really important local resource supporting so many children and young people, so do whatever you can to help them raise sufficient funding to keep going.!

Mine is opened, waiting for a chance to read it, especially the obituary for Charles Nelson. This is the Iris he named in memory of his wife, Sue, flowering in my garden today!