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, […]
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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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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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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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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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Tuesday 15th March, 1-8pm After eight months of packing, design, construction, unpacking, screwing skeletons together and reorganising 68000 dead animals, the Grant Museum of Zoology opens the doors to its new life in an Edwardian former library. Join us on launch day, with late-night opening when the museum staff will be on-hand to chat about the […]
Read moreThis is open to researchers in the history of science who have completed a postgraduate degree within the last five years. The unpublished essay, based on original research, should relate to aspects of the history of science covered by the journal. The 2010 winner was Daniel Mitchell for his essay entitled Reflecting Nature: Chemistry and […]
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Please find attached [click here]and pasted in below a call for papers for a one day meeting (19 April) on the history of science, technology and medicine in Ireland organised by the Royal Irish Academy’s Committee for Historical Sciences’s history of science subcommittee. All are welcome, please pass this along. We are particularly seeking postgraduates […]
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By Maev Kennedy guardian.co.uk, Monday 21 February 2011 18.14 Half a dodo has turned up in an Edwardian wooden box in a drawer at one of Britain’s oldest natural history collections. Not much surprises the staff at the Grant Museum, where the contents include an old sweet jar full to the brim with pickled baby […]
Read moreGeobiologists uncover Davy Jones Locker of fossils near small village in south China. February 16, 2011 [link to main NSF article] Almost 600 million years ago, before the rapid evolution of life forms known as the Cambrian explosion, a community of seaweeds and worm-like animals lived in a quiet deep-water niche near what is now […]
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