Field notes
Field Notes
Notes from the collecting book and the cataloguing desk, published as accessions are recorded.
21 Jul 2026
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17 Jul 2026
Reading a Nineteenth-Century Plate Honestly
The old illustrations are gorgeous and occasionally wrong. Both facts matter to the archive.
17 Jul 2026
On Not Collecting
The most responsible thing a modern herbarium does is refuse most of what it could take.
17 Jul 2026
Why We Keep the Plate Beside the Sheet
A pressed plant loses its colour within a decade. The historical illustration is how we remember what the sheet used to say.
17 Jul 2026
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