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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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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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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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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