The Birds, bees and blooms web exhibition, featuring images from some of the wonderful natural history books housed in the University of Glasgow Library’s Special Collections, was created in 2007. It has proven so popular over the years that we… Read More ›
Over the summer, a number of items from Special Collections have been on display in the National Galleries of Scotland, as part of the Impressionist Gardens exhibition. A selection of 19th century journals, flower books and gardener’s handbooks were selected by… Read More ›
Images from the virtual exhibition Birds, Bees and Blooms are now also available to view as a set on the Library’s Flickr page. The exhibition was originally put together to accompany a display organized for delegates from the British Ecological… Read More ›
The Temple of Flora, the third and final part of Thornton’s New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus is probably the most sumptious and renowned of all great flower books. It contains thirty-one plates, produced by a… Read More ›
