Stories
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
- Article
Beyond a green carpet
Plant ecologist Sara Middleton explores the amazing symbiotic relationships between the species that make up grasslands, and considers their future as rain becomes more scarce.
- Article
姜、蒜、葱 Ginger, garlic and spring onions
Nina Mingya Powles felt adrift in the UK, living thousands of miles from home. But nurturing familiar tastes and smells in her tiny balcony garden helped her roots begin to grow.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Flowers of Hothouse Orchids. Vol. I
Date: 1907Reference: MS.1908Part of: Crawshay, Lionel Henry de Barri (1882-1917)- Books
Etymologists loose amongst the orchids / Richard Evans Schultes.
Schultes, Richard Evans.Date: [1960]- Books
- Online
The various contrivances by which orchids are fertilised by insects / [Charles Darwin].
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.Date: 1877- Pictures
Christmas orchids.
Scowen, CharlesDate: [1900]Reference: 3307354iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
- Online
Lady's slipper orchids (Cypripedium villosum): two flowering stems. Watercolour.
Reference: 21213i