Category Archives: Life Science

Goodbyeee!

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Cambridge Library Collection

Alas, and thrice woe (from my point of view anyway), this is my last ever blog for the Cambridge Library Collection. I now slip away into the sunset, leaving others to ramble on (or, even better, write snappily and coherently) … Continue reading →

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Tulipomania

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Cambridge Library Collection

It’s really too early in the year for a blog on this topic: galanthophilia is in full swing around the country. But we have just received the first copy of Sweet’s Hortus Britannicus, Or, a Catalogue of Plants, Indigenous, or … Continue reading →

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Mr Bewick’s Birdwatch

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Cambridge Library Collection

It was the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend, and at 8.15 a.m. on Saturday I was there to do my duty at the French windows, with coffee and pain au chocolat (for the birds) and newly topped up seeds, … Continue reading →

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London Parks

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Cambridge Library Collection

Anyone who, like me, is better at finding their way around London under the ground rather than above it may suffer from unfortunate ignorance of the great green spaces that, originally preserved for the various pleasures of the very rich, … Continue reading →

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Alas, Poor Dodo!

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Cambridge Library Collection

Imagine the poor creature, minding its own business on the island of Mauritius for countless millennia, and then wiped out in the course of the seventeenth century, apparently because of human intervention in a previously uninhabited island. Not only were … Continue reading →

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