The natural history of the Terra Nova expedition: Updated Programme
Saturday 19 May 2012, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, UK
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Speakers announced for Mark Catesby’s third centennial in America – celebrating his impact on our world
Mark Catesby’s third centennial in America – celebrating his impact on our world Richmond, Virginia; Washington DC; and Charleston, South Carolina, USA 4-9 November, 2012 This celebration is being organized by the Catesby Commemorative Trust with SHNH as a co-sponsor. Others involved include the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, US Botanic Garden, Wilton House Museum in Richmond, […]
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Preliminary announcement SHNH Spring Meeting and AGM
The natural history of the Terra Nova expedition Saturday 19 May 2012, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, UK The Terra Nova Expedition (1910-12), officially the British Antarctic Expedition 1910, was led by Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) with the aim of being the first to reach the South Pole, a tragic journey that ended on 29th […]
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Presidential reflections on our jubilee year
I would like to take this opportunity to say a big ‘Thank you’ to all our Officers, Councillors and members who have jointly and individually made 2011 such a memorable jubilee year for the Society. Julia Bruce produced our first full-colour newsletter before taking a well-earned retirement from its editorship. Elaine Shaughnessy, public-spiritedly, has taken […]
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Sir David Attenborough OM CH FRS is awarded the SHNH – Society for the History of Natural History Founders’ Medal.
PRESS RELEASE Source: Society for the History of Natural History Published: 15th November 2011 Sir David Attenborough OM CH FRS has been awarded the SHNH – Society for the History of Natural History Founders’ Medal. The SHNH Founders’ Medal is awarded to persons who have made a substantial contribution to the study of the history or […]
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Wallich and Indian Natural History: Collection Dispersal and the Cultivation of Knowledge
Registration extended to 20th November 2011
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History & Mystery now published
History & Mystery is an anthology of notes and queries from Newsletters of the Society for the History of Natural History. Naturalists, books, collections, works of art, societies, even a mermaid, are contained here. Some of the notes are witty commentaries. Some of the topics are unexpected, even bizarre. Some of the reprinted queries are […]
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Archives of Natural History Vol. 38.2 now published online
The new issue of Archives of natural history (Volume 38 part 2) is now published online. Please see contents and abstracts available on the website. For convenience, the contents are also listed below. The print edition will be posted early October. The complete set of Archives Volumes 1 – 38 are available to all SHNH members online. […]
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Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond
Friday October 28th 2011, Flett Theatre, The Natural History Museum, London, UK Charles Davies Sherborn provided the bibliographic foundation for current zoological nomenclature with his magnum opus Index Animalium. In the 43 years he spent working on this extraordinary resource, he anchored our understanding of animal diversity through the published scientific record. No work has […]
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CALL FOR PAPERS Wallich and Indian Natural History: Collection Dispersal and the Cultivation of Knowledge.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 30th August, 2011 This international conference will be held from the 6th-7th December, 2011, on the general theme of South Asian natural history collections with a special emphasis on the collections of the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854), a major figure in the history and development of botany in the nineteenth century. […]
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