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29th Aug 2025 - Reading and writing
Sometimes when you are deep in reading, you get a jolt, a few lines or a paragraph which pulls you
Sometimes you make a small find which gives you pleasure. In this case a very small find in an early New Zealand water colour by Gerald Butler Beere, no title, until we opened it up to restore it and found one on the back, and then a little gem emerged of Lake Waikare in the Waikato. If you have an eye for colonial water colours, you will recognise the palette with the characteristic blues and straw colours – did they all work with the same set of paints? You can see it and read about it here.
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Nehemiah Grew, establishing plant anatomy as the foundation of plant form and function.
8th Oct 2023 - Science and Thinking
Is plant anatomy and morphology taught these days? First year botany in the late 1960s had plant anatomy as the