Stories
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
- Article
Mistakes and perfect medicine
This week our anonymous GP reflects on how a mistake made in a busy, stressful environment could have had serious consequences.
- Article
Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’
An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.
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Why the world needs collectors
Those who collect play an important role as “facilitators of curiosity”, says Anna Faherty.
Catalogue
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Butterflies and moths (British) / by W. Furneaux.
Furneaux, William S.Date: 1894- Books
Butterflies / by E.B. Ford ; all known British butterflies shown life-size in colour photographs of living specimens by S. Beaufoy.
Ford, E. B. (Edmund Briscoe), 1901-1988.Date: 1945- Archives and manuscripts
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Early Version: Prologue-not used (Jitters and Butterflies)
Date: 1994-1997Reference: JDW/2/3/13/1Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Books
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One hundred and twenty copper-plates of English moths and butterflies, representing Their Changes into the Caterpillar, Chrysalis, and Fly States, and the plants, flowers, and fruits, whereon they feed. Coloured with great Exactness from the Subjects themselves. With a Natural History of the Moths and Butterflies, Describing the Method of Managing, Preserving, and Feeding them. By Benjamin Wilkes. To which is added, An Index of the Insects and Plants, adapted to Linnaeus's System.
Wilkes, Benjamin, -1749.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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One hundred and twenty copper-plates of English moths and butterflies, Representing Their Changes into the Caterpillar, Chrysalis, and Fly States, and the plants, flowers, and fruits, whereon they feed. Coloured with great Exactness from the Subjects themselves. With a Natural History of the Moths and Butterflies, Describing the Method of Managing, Preserving, and Feeding them. By Benjamin Wilkes. To which is added, An Index of the Insects and Plants, adapted to Linnaeus's System.
Wilkes, Benjamin, -1749.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]