Report on the meeting “From Royal gifts to biodiversity conservation, the history and development of Menageries, Zoos and Aquariums” held at Chester Zoo

May 23, 2011

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 […]

Insect Fossil Discovery at Museum of Somerset

May 11, 2011

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 […]

SHNH – Society for the History of Natural History (SHNHSocNatHist) is now on Twitter

May 9, 2011

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The Curious Mr Catesby – DVD available

May 5, 2011

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 […]

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

May 5, 2011

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 […]

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

May 4, 2011

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 […]

Programme Update – From Royal Gifts to Biodiversity Conservation: The History and Development of Menageries, Zoos and Aquariums

April 12, 2011

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, […]

SHNH Archives of natural history Volume 38.1 is now published

April 1, 2011

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 […]

Message from SHNH President Geoff Moore April 2011

April 1, 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 […]

Call for papers “Early Modern Merchants as Collectors”

March 31, 2011

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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