All News and Stories

All news and stories

• ‘May the approaching new year be…’
• ‘The arrangement of submersed algae’
• ‘Can you read this French puzzle?’
• ‘The view from our door’
• Desiderata
• ‘I hope you will not disapprove’
• ‘By a singular coincidence’
• ‘A very strange quality’
• A note on liverworts from William Jackson Hooker
• ’It is a most beautiful plant’
• ‘Esteem & regard’
• ‘That most extraordinary vegetable’
• ‘The drawing is excellent’
• ‘A vast many specimens’
• Lichens – ‘very beautiful and very interesting’
• Happy St Patrick’s Day and Happy Birthday Ellen and Grace!
• ‘I will pay particular attention’
• Anniversaries and Epsilon announcement
• ‘Pray send more’
• Ellen Hutchins and the Linnean Society
• On This Day, 10th January 1810
• 5th January 1810: On This Day 215 years ago
• ‘Send me a moss’
• ‘Out of danger’? & More Portraits
• A highly valued friendship
• ‘I have made some discoveries in sea plants’
• ‘With gratitude and affection’
• Individuals with treasures, far from town
• April 1814: A historic connection
• A passion for moss
• Telling the world
• February: two events and significant dates
• ‘I have not left my bed for 14 days’
• On This Day: 3rd January 1814
• Correspondence from 1813
• On This Day 13th November
• Podcast available: Seaweed & Sealing Wax 2
• As soon as I am able…
• Saturday 11th February 2023
• Correspondence between Ellen Hutchins and Dawson Turner in 1812
• Pray is J. Calyptrifolia engraved yet?
• How sweet … a kind friend’s letter
• Women in Science & moss on the bus stop
• Correspondence from 1811
• On This Day & Where Did the Summer Go?
• Zoom performance: Tuesday 14th December
• She Gathered Seaweeds on the Seashore
• Join our Moss Hunt
• Festival 2021: Saturday 14 to Sunday 22 August
• A beautiful book on lichens
• Cruinniú na nÓg – Creative Adventures with Paint and Leaves
• Large-flowered Butterwort
• She finds anything
• Ellen’s letter: 9th April 1811
• On This Day 210 Years Ago
• An exceptional achievement
• Ellen and the Bryophytes
• The Honey Season
• Competition Winners 2020
• Doorstep Winners
• Heritage on Your Doorstep Competition
• Costumes and Customs in the Early 1800s
• Virtual Festival underway: Heritage Trail Day
• Online and DIY Ellen Hutchins Festival 2020
• Novel based on Ellen’s story: A Quiet Tide
• Botanical Art on National Drawing Day
• Ellen Exhibition at Kew Gardens
• Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815) Botanist of Bantry Bay – the book
• Exhibition at University College Cork
• Exhibition Open in Boole Library, UCC, Cork
• 15th October 1808: another significant date
• 27th July 1808: a significant date
• Ellen Hutchins Festival 2018
• Heritage Trail leaflet and audio guide launched
• Launch of Bantry Historical Society’s Journal with Ellen essay
• Extended Deadline
• VOTE ELLEN
• Ellen: schools website launch
• Pioneering young woman scientist
• New Irish Supercomputer Could Be Named After Ellen
• Latest Ellen Tribute: electrical box / street art in Cork
• New Ellen Hutchins Heritage Trail
• The Ellen Hutchins Story – the basics
• Festival: displays continue in Bantry and Kealkil
• 25th June 1807: a beautiful present of sea plants
• Sea Plants: a large and difficult branch of botany
• 1st June 1807: Ellen to Sam
• Ellen to her youngest brother Sam: 16 May 1807
• 24th April 1807: Name or no name?
• 16th April 1807 Ellen to Emanuel: botany and use of her name
• 3rd April 1807
• 26 March 1807
• 210 years ago today
• 1 February 1807
• Ellen in Dublin: exhibition in the Botany Department, Trinity College
• Festival now annual
• Breakfast at Ballylickey
• Ellen’s Treasures
• Festival underway in Bantry
• Winners of Hidden Heritage Award
• 2016 Festival programme released
• Celebrating 201 Years!
• Publication of a memoir: Ellen Hutchins, a botanist
• About This Site
• Hidden Heritage Award and More Events in August 2016
• Talk at Glasnevin, Dublin, Saturday 5 December 2015
• Looking for Ellen’s specimens in Trinity College Dublin and a Homecoming for her seaweed drawings.
• Drawings of Seaweeds from Bantry Bay 1808 – 1812
• Ellen and James Mackay, botanist, Trinity College Dublin
• Ellen’s letters
• Botanists at Ballylickey 1809
• An amazingly strong friendship through plants and letters
• Ellen Hutchins: Significant Scientist
• Delightful Book
• Right Person, Right Place, Right Time