SHNH summer meeting and AGM in association with the British Ornithologists’ Club World Museum Liverpool Thursday 14th and Friday 15th June 2018 (Lunch and tour of Knowsley Hall, Wednesday 13th June) Booking Form Programme Abstracts 2018 marks the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific. A pivotal moment in the history […]
Read moreHugh Torrens is chairing the panel discussion at this meeting on 9th November. Papers cover the Society’s awards for producing county maps, the campaign for a national water supply, the Society’s encouragement of the British marble industry, Humphry Davy and mineral collection, the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, the Royal School of Mines outreach programme and making […]
Read moreWomen in the History of Natural Sciences, 15-16 June 2017 The SHNH summer meeting and AGM will be held in Cumbria on the 15th & 16th June 2017 (AGM on 15th June) at the University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus and the Freshwater Biological Association, Far Sawrey on the west side of Lake Windermere, opposite Bowness on […]
Read moreMaria Sibylla Merian Conference Amsterdam 7 – 9 June 2017 Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) is one of the more intriguing figures of scientific, artistic and commercial culture of the early modern period. Born in Frankfurt, and later based in Nuremberg, Wieuwerd and Amsterdam, her scientific interest in entomology led her eventually to Surinam, where, as […]
Read moreSo Many Celestial Animals so Vividly Drawn: Birds and Their Images in Pre-Linnaean Italy Please note date change to Thursday 9th February 2017 The Paper Museum, formed by the collector and patron Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588–1657), contains more than 200 watercolours of birds, ranging from song-birds, caught locally in the environs of Rome, to exotic […]
Read moreSociety for the History of Natural History Summer Event & AGM Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, East Anglia, Friday 1st July 2016 The SHNH – Society for the History of Natural History Summer 2016 event and AGM on Norwich Naturalists will be held on Friday 1st July 2016 at the Castle Museum Norwich, […]
Read moreThe Annual General Meeting of the Society for the History of Natural History will be held in association with a one day conference of talks celebrating the life and work of Charles Waterton (1782-1865) and a second day with related excursions around Wakefield in West Yorkshire. The Wakefield Museum, at Wakefield One, is currently hosting […]
Read moreThe museum was opened in 1875 to house the Thackeray Collection of British Birds and other collections and has been located in its present site since 1895. It is Berkshire’s only dedicated natural history museum and houses over 15,000 specimens, donated from the nineteenth century onwards. Initially, the museum belonged to Eton College Natural History Society […]
Read moreFriday 10 October: The history of teaching Natural History: in the Field Includes the history of teaching in university field stations, school nature gardens, a school natural history society and the early days of geological instruction. Jim Costa, Director, Highlands Biological Station, NC, USA, Educational outposts: The field station tradition of biological sciences education in […]
Read moreThis one day meeting is in celebration of 350 years since the death of John Goodyer (1592–1664), the 17th-century botanist who added many plants to the British flora. The Society’s Special General Meeting and AGM will take place in the afternoon.
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