John Ray. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Auguste Macke, Zoologischer Garten (I). Source: Wikimedia Commons
Celebrating the 350th anniversary of John Ray’s Catalogue of Cambridge Plants, 1660: the first English “County Flora”, 3 November 2010
The Society for the History of Natural History will be hosting an event at Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK on Wednesday 3rd November 2010 to celebrate the publication by the Ray Society of the English translation of John Ray’s Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium, originally published by John Field in Cambridge in 1660. This is the first English “County flora” as well as being the first of Ray’s many published works.
Unlike the 1975 translation by A. H. Ewen and C. T. Prime, this publication will include the entire 1660 Catalogue and the short 1663 and 1685 Appendices, giving a complete text and with the addition of the modern equivalents to Ray’s plant names.
Philip Oswald and Chris Preston have been translating and editing the Catalogus and it is hoped that their book will be published in time for the meeting.
This will be a one day event including lunch, with an associated exhibit. Speakers will include Sam Berry, Tim Birkhead, Paul Foster, Mark Hill, Chris Preston, Karen Reeds and Alexander Wragge-Morley.
For further information please contact the Society for the History of Natural History Meetings Secretary, Gina Douglas, via e-mail: meetings(at)shnh.org.uk or by post to G. Douglas (SHNH), 23 Jeffreys Road, SW4 6QU.
From Royal Gifts to Biodiversity Conservation: the history and development of menageries, zoos and aquariums, 19 -20 May 2011
The Spring meeting in 2011 will be “From Royal Gifts to Biodiversity Conservation: the history and development of menageries, zoos and aquariums”.
It is a joint meeting, the co-sponsors being SHNH, the North of England Zoological Society (NEZS), the Linnean Society of London, the Bartlett Society and The World Society of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA), to be held at Chester Zoo on Thursday and Friday 19-20 May 2011.
All those interested in contributing are asked to contact the Meetings Secretary, Gina Douglas.
Please download announcement and circulate.
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