The Ramsbottom Lecture
Dr John Ramsbottom OBE (1885-1974) was Keeper of Botany at the British Museum (Natural History), founder member of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History in 1936 and President from 1942 to 1972. He was made an Honorary Member in 1972.
Dr Ramsbottom made a bequest to the SHNH in his will and it was decided to utilise this to establish The Ramsbottom Lecture, to be given at the Society’s International Meetings, the first being delivered in April 1976.
No. | Place | Date | Lecturer | Title | Published |
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| London, UK | 28 October 2011
| Dr Neal Evenhuis
| Charles Davies Sherborn and The Indexer's Club |
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16. | Dublin, Ireland | March 2006 | Ms. Leslie Overstreet | The Library of James Smithson, Gentleman-Scientist: A Preliminary Study
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15. | Florence, Italy | 8-10 May 2003 | H. Walter Lack | Ex oriente Lux – the story of the Codex Vindobonensis
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14. | Leiden, The Netherlands | 10 May 2001 | Dr Pat Morris | Lost, found and still looking - tracing some examples of early taxidermy
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13. | London, UK | 14 April 1999 | Professor Martin Kemp
| "On growth and form": Persistent perceptions of natural geometry from the Renaissance to now |
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12. | Charlottesville, USA | 28 April 1997 | Mr Peter J. Hatch | "If plants have sensibility": Thomas Jefferson, Hortobotany', and the Great Exchange |
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11. | Oxford, UK | 12 April 1996 | Professor John MacKenzie
| Empire and the natural historical apocalypse |
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10. | Glasgow, Scotland, UK | 30 April 1993 | Dr John A. Gibson | The origins of Scottish natural history: Scottish societies of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
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9. | London, UK | 29 April 1992 | Professor Jacob Gruber
| Imagining Richard Owen |
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8. | Brighton, UK | 27 September 1990 | Professor Dennis R. Dean
| Remembering Gideon Mantell |
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7. | Washington, DC, USA | 14 November 1985 | Professor Joseph Ewan | A study of personality of American naturalists of the Andes and Amazon | Archives of natural history 16 (1) |
6. | Cambridge, UK | 22 March 1985 | Professor Martin J. S. Rudwick
| A year in the life of Adam Sedgwick, geologist | Archives of natural history 15 (3) |
5. | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK | 14 March 1984 | Professor David M. Knight
| William Swainson: naturalist, author and illustrator |
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4. | Norwich, UK | 2 April 1982 | Professor Eric L. Mills | A view of Edward Forbes, naturalist | Archives of natural history 11 (3) |
3. | London, UK | 19 November 1980 | Professor Gordon L. Herries-Davies | The mapping of natural phenomena in nineteenth century Ireland
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2. | Cambridge, UK | 14 April 1978 | Dr Oliver Rackham | The archives of woodland and their ecological interpretation
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1. | Oxford, UK | 2 April 1976 | Dr David E. Allen | Naturalists in Britain: some tasks for the historian
| Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 8(2)
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