Society for the History of Natural History AGM 4 July 2024 (online)

Society for the History of Natural History

Annual General Meeting 2024, Thursday 4 July 4.30pm London time (16:30 BST)

We look forward to meeting you at our virtual Annual General Meeting on 4 July (4:30pm London time / 16.30 BST), and extend a special welcome to our new members and international members.

The official business of the AGM will be followed by presentation of the Society’s awards and short talks by our award winners. Details of award winners to follow.

Joining the Digital AGM: A day or two before the meeting an invitation will be emailed to you to enable you to join the AGM on Zoom. This will contain a link and other login details for the meeting. Clicking on the link will take you to Zoom – you will have to download this software if you don’t already have it on your computer. If you already have Zoom, you can simply open it and ask to ‘Join a Meeting’ and add in the meeting code and password sent to you.

We all look forward to meeting you on 4 July 2024.

Dear Member,

We very much hope you will be able to attend our online Annual General Meeting on 4 July 2024 and I look forward to meeting you. The AGM is free to attend and open to all SHNH members in good standing, but advance registration is required. Please register via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/883385659287?aff=oddtdtcreator

We have much to celebrate in as will be seen in my President’s Report for 2023 and this is a timely moment for me to thank all who have served the Society, as Trustees, editors and reviewers or helping to judge awards. Strategic planning for the future will continue to ensure the long term sustainability of the Society.

We are delighted to announce our Awards for this year:

Founders’ Medal to Professor Kristin Johnson, Professor and Director of Science, Technology, Health and Society at the University of Puget Sound, Washington, USA. Kristin Johnson has contributed enormously to the history of natural history and the naturalist tradition in North America, particularly by exploring the actual practice of naturalists in the field and museum.
SHNH Natural History Book Prize (John Thackray Medal) to Nicholas K. Menzies for Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China (University of Washington Press, ISBN: 9780295749457). Nicholas K. Menzies is Research Fellow in Chinese Botanical Science at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.Ordering the Myriad Things relates how traditional knowledge of plants in China gave way to scientific botany between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, when plants came to be understood in a hierarchy of taxonomic relationships to other plants and within a broader ecological context.
2023 W. T Stearn Student Essay Prize to Mia Uys, who is studying for a PhD at the University of Cape Town for her essay ‘A soft-hearted fool? Eco-cultural networks and Alwin Haagner’s role in private animal trading through South Africa’s National Zoological Garden, 1922-1926. Readers described this as ‘a well-presented and carefully-researched essay which offers new insights into animal trading in colonial South Africa’.

The Agenda for the AGM, and all the supporting documents including the list of nominees to Council portfolios are available below. Please read these, or download them if you need to print them out. We have sent out invitations to the AGM by mail to those members lacking internet access and an email address.

I do hope you will be able to join us at our AGM on 4 July 2024 at 4.30 pm (16.30 BST).

Warm wishes

Gina Douglas

President, Society for the History of Natural History
www.shnh.org.uk @SHNHSocNatHist

SHNH AGM 2024 AGENDA

1) Welcome from the President

2) Apologies for absence

3) Minutes of the AGM held on 13 June 2023

4) Report of the Trustees for 2023

i. Legal Status

ii. Address

iii. Objectives and Activities

iv. Trustees

v. President’s Report for 2023

vi. Membership

vii. Publications and Communications

viii. Meetings

ix. Awards and Grants

x. International Representatives

xi. Treasurer’s Report and Statement of Financial Activities for 2023

5) Elections to the portfolios of Council and election of Trustees

6) Ratification of the Society’s Bye-Laws and Schedule for Awards, Grants and Prizes

7) Any other business

8) Presentation of Awards for 2024

i. Introduction to the Society’s awards by the Awards and Grants Secretary

ii. The Founder’s Medal

iii. The SHNH Natural History Book Prize (John Thackray Medal)

iv. The W. T. Stearn Student Essay Prize

v. Election of a New Honorary Member

9) Closing remarks from the President

10) Vote of thanks and close of AGM

Society for the History of Natural History AGM 4 July 2024 (online)

Society for the History of Natural History AGM 4 July 2024 (online)

SHNH AGM 2024 AGENDA

SHNH AGM 2024 DOCUMENTS