Botany – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

The man who knew everything! The letters of John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861)

Posted on 14 December 2020 by Special Collections

175 years ago John Stevens Henslow started lobbying for a Botanic Garden in Cambridge. After twenty years of effort, his work bore fruit and led […]

Archives, Collectors and collecting, Darwin Correspondence Project, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Rare Caribbean pamphlets

Posted on 29 April 2020 by John C.

During the University Library’s closure, the Royal Commonwealth Society department has been cataloguing its collection of rare eighteenth and nineteenth-century pamphlets relating to the Caribbean. […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Peter Treveris’ Grete herball of 1529

Posted on 23 January 2013 by Liam Sims

Herbals – collections of texts about the medicinal uses of plants and herbs – were compiled and used by many of the world’s great civilisations […]

Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions