Scottish collectors Archives - Ann Lingard https://annlingard.co.uk/tag/scottish-collectors/ writer, author, essayist, UK Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:15:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Seaside Pleasures: The anemonizers of Scotland https://annlingard.co.uk/2017/11/25/seaside-pleasuresthe-anemonizers-of-scotland/ Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:43:26 +0000 https://eliotandentropy.wordpress.com/?p=1034 “An anemone of medium size may be safely sent by post in a small tin-cannister, without water, but with a small tuft of damp sea-weed, rag, or blotting-paper, to maintain a moist atmosphere around the animal …” The Victorian naturalist Philip Henry Gosse advertised thus for specimens of sea-anemones and corals to be sent to [...]

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