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 The unpublished essay, based on original research, should relate to aspects of the history of science covered by the journal.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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12th May 2011 at the Linnean Society of London, UK A joint meeting between the Linnean Society of London, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science and the Society of the History of Natural History. Supported by the Annals of Botany and Yale University Press. Georg Everard Rumphius (1627‐1702) was probably the world’s most […]
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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 the Society for the History of Natural History, Chester Zoo, and the Linnean Society of London, supported by the […]
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The Hudson River Almanac is a natural history journal that covers the Hudson from the High Peaks of the Adirondacks to New York Harbor. It seeks to capture the spirit, magic, and science of the river by presenting the observations of many individuals who delight in the diversity of nature in the Hudson Valley. 1/11/04 […]
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Prof. David Mabberley, Past President of SHNH – The Society for Natural History, will be speaking at the Linnean Society of London on the life of the Scottish botanist Robert Brown (1773-1858), ‘Jupiter Botanicus’, ‘Facile Botanicorum Princeps’. Brown’s life spanned the period from the Georgian approach to science under Sir Joseph Banks to the Victorian professionalization […]
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