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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.
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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.
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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.
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Butterfly wing scales
Lauren Holden- Books
"Butterfly itch" (Schmetterlings-Juckreiz) : ein gesundheitliches Problem auch in der Seefahrt / P. Vuksanovic, H.-U. Burchard.
Vuksanović, P.Date: 1986- Pictures
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Butterfly tree or camel's foot (Bauhinia diphylla): flowering stem with floral segments. Line engraving by Mackenzie, c.1795.
Date: [1800]Reference: 20144i- Pictures
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Butterfly iris (Moraea sp.): entire flowering plant with separate fruiting stem and sections of leaf and bulb. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 17992i- Books
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Butterfly-hunting in many lands : notes of a field naturalist / by George B. Lonstaff ; to which are added translations of papers by Fritz Müller on the scent-organs of butterflies and moths ; with a note by E.B. Poulton.
Lonstaff, George B.Date: 1912