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Insect Fossil Discovery at Museum of Somerset

Full News Story from BBC Somerset More than 2,000 insect fossils dating to the Jurassic period have been found at the Museum of Somerset after being forgotten for more than 90 years. Geologist Charles Moore excavated them in the 1800s, but they were put in storage in 1915 and forgotten about. They were rediscovered at […]

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The Curious Mr Catesby – DVD available

SHNH members may know that the owl (Otus asio, Eastern Screech Owl) on our SHNH website and cover of our SHNH Newsletter is  Mark Catesby’s (1682-1749) etching of the "Little Owl" from Volume I of Mark Catesby’s 1754 publication The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands.  Fewer may know that it morphs […]

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Age of the Dinosaur exhibition has opened at the Natural History Museum London

22 April – 11 September 2011 Dinosaurs make a dramatic return to their true home at London’s Natural History Museum’s summer family blockbuster exhibition, Age of the Dinosaur. Age of the Dinosaur transports visitors back more than 65 million years to swamp-like Jurassic lagoons and the Cretaceous deserts, home to some weird, wonderful and now […]

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May Programme update and last call for Registration – From Royal Gifts to Biodiversity Conservation: The History and Development of Menageries, Zoos and Aquariums

Thursday 19th and Friday 20th May 2011, Chester Zoo, UK This international symposium is being held in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Society for the History of Natural History.It is a joint collaboration between SHNH – The Society for the History of Natural History, Chester Zoo and the Linnean Society of London, supported […]

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SHNH Archives of natural history Volume 38.1 is now published

The new issue of Archives of natural history (Volume 38 part 1) is now published. Please see contents and abstracts available on the website.  For convenience, the contents are also listed below. The complete set of Archives Volumes 1 – 37 are available to all SHNH members online. SHNH Members please note that you will need to […]

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Message from SHNH President Geoff Moore April 2011

SHNH Council met recently (10 February 2011) so it is appropriate to give members an update on the Society’s affairs in this particularly significant year, SHNH’s 75th anniversary.  Akin to the beginnings of Lloyds Insurance, 75 years ago, the Society was founded at a meeting in a Lyons coffee house near the British Museum (Natural […]

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Call for papers “Early Modern Merchants as Collectors”

Dr Christina Anderson at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK, is organising the conference on "Early Modern Merchants as Collectors" in June next year. The Call for Papers is posted on the conference website: http://earlymodernmerchants.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/ Early Modern Merchants as Collectors Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK 15 and 16 June 2012 Context In 1615, […]

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William Turner in the 1540s: a weekend conference in Morpeth, Northumberland

The natural historian and physician William Turner (c. 1508 -1568) was born in Morpeth. His life’s work became the cornerstone for British botany as he provided over 300 first identifications of English native plants.  He also wrote extensively on fish, birds, wine and medical baths. His travels in Europe, occasioned by the religious and political […]

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