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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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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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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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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SHNH Council held its most recent meeting on 7 July 2011 at the Natural History Museum, London, timed nicely to ensure that attendees received a right royal soaking during their walk from the South Kensington Underground Station. Two of our newest councillors, Professor Hugh Torrens and Mrs Elizabeth Platts, were warmly welcomed and apologies received […]
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The Society produces its Newsletter three times a year. This consists of contributions from members, news of forthcoming Society and other events, details of new publications and other items of interest. The Newsletter is a very informal publication and aims to provide members with an opportunity to communicate with others in the Society. The "Notes […]
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The President of SHNH – Society for the History of Naural History, Professor Geoff Moore, is delighted to announce a new award, The Patron’s Review. A Council initiative and in association with the Society’s patron Sir David Attenborough OM CH FRS, an outstanding young scholar, nominated by Council, is invited by the Society’s Patron to write […]
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The SHNH – Society for the History of Natural History AGM 2011 was held on Friday 20th May during the enjoyable meeting on ‘From Royal Gifts to Biodiversity Conservation: The History and Development of Menageries, Zoos and Aquariums’ held at Chester Zoo. The President, Professor Geoff Moore, opened the meeting, welcoming SHNH members and guests. […]
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This joint meeting “From Royal gifts to biodiversity conservation, the history and development of Menageries, Zoos and Aquariums”was a truly international event with 48 delegates from 9 countries representing or speaking about 30 organisations. It supposedly beat all records for the use of the maximum number of acronyms which include the letter “Z”, in one […]
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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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