Proceedings of the Royal Society: 200+ years ago in the real Proceedings

Proceedings of the Royal Society: 200+ years ago in the real Proceedings

Imagine the pleasure I found this morning when, sitting in the library of my newly restored castle in Isle of Skye, Winterfell Anodyne (that's a whole other diary entry in and of itself), I picked up the post and found a letter and package from Lady Kate with some very old issues of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Great Britain. I am sure that my weekend will now be spent here among my books despite the long list of things to be accomplished otherwise.

She mentions with particular interest several articles on metallurgy. I find my curiosity is piqued a bit here since my intelligence sources from around the Independent State have been abuzz with snippets of information about a secret cadre of Caledonians who have been traveling the oceans to an inhabited island.

It is said that this group have been studying minerals and metals as well as the different ecosystems found in the new land. Knowing Lady Kate, she is in the thick of things. I shall have to call upon her at some length to discuss what, if anything, she knows about the intentions of this company of explorers.

I have a suspicion that there is a connection with the mysterious floating platforms high above Oxbridge, and the increase in production of Clanks in that region - as well as the noted general increase in flora and fauna.

*makes a note to create a case number and assign a senior and junior operative*

On Mushrooms, Toadstools, and Truffles

Mushroom

By Emily Dickenson

The mushroom is the elf of plants,

At evening it is not;

At morning in a truffled hut

It stops upon a spot

As if it tarried always;

And yet its whole career

Is shorter than a snake's delay,

And fleeter than a tare.

'Tis vegetation's juggler,

The germ of alibi;

Doth like a bubble antedate,

And like a bubble hie.

I feel as if the grass were pleased

To have it intermit;

The surreptitious scion

Of summer's circumspect.

Had nature any outcast face,

Could she a son condemn,

Had nature an Iscariot,

That mushroom,--it is him.

Mushroom Mania is alive and well in the Realm of the Roses. For more information, please see the following sites:
The Caledon Wiki
The Proceedings of the Royal Society

Happy Hunting!

Blessed Saint Kitt

The Royal Society for the Advancement of Knowledge in the Natural Sciences has published a very informative journal artical in our Proceedings.

The article written by Professors Adso Krogstad and Kate Nicholas discusses the geology and biology of our first Crown Colony. I encourage my readers to take time to delve into the findings of these fine scientists.

Report on the Loch Avie Cryogenic Seasonal Support Engine

Those de-classified portions of scientific information may be found in the Proceedings of the Royal Society's latest edition.