Highland coffee growers
The Curator is following a cherry through its full year, from blossom to cup. The altitude makes everything slower, including him.
Expeditions
We go where the record is still held by people rather than shelves. The Curator sits with them, listens, and attempts to keep the rain out of his notebooks.
The ama divers
The journals arrived salt-stained. The Dark Room requested fewer seawater photographs. The request was denied.
The bog sliotar
Peat samples returned with apologies. The apologies were later amended to read “extensive.”
Sfyria whistling
The Curator returned able to whistle two phrases. One of them was rude. Whistling is now banned in the Communications Room.
The footnote expedition
Rural Ireland, hurling, and the overlooked reference that became the Institute's first dispatch and the Vault's first properly labelled box.
The grounds · Plate I
Where the expeditions return to.
Seven working branches, one valley, and a map the Curator has agreed not to take into the field.
Site survey · Plate ILocation index07 entries
Site note · 01
Main Building · Field Records
The Curator's desk is here when the Curator is not. This is most of the time.
Fig. 01 — A survey of the Institute grounds. For internal orientation; not a means of finding the valley.