Jennifer and I met up at the Royal Academy of Art to hear a Linnean Society lecture on declining bee populations. Aside from being SQUASHED into the bench seat between a smelly lady and annoying man (rude enough to squash us), the lecture was very entertaining. Evidently the declining bee populations have occurred since the 19th century. The first causes were aphids and now a virus that has appeared all over the world in a variety of strains.

Even cooler was the technology update after the lecture showing how everyone can browse the web and see Linnaeus’s collections. Here is my favorite item in the collection