Mrs Delany and her Circle

Mrs. Delany and Her Circle by Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts is published by the Yale Centre for British Art in Hardcover. 416 pages, 2009. ISBN-10: 030014279X; ISBN-13: 978-0300142792.

William Turner

William Turner the Father of English Botany (2008) by Marie Addyman

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Past Meetings

There are details of several past meetings on this site:

2011

* From Royal Gifts to Biodiversity Conservation: The History and Development of Menageries, Zoos and Aquariums

* Visions from the Blind Seer of Ambon - A celebration of Georg Everard Rumphius (1627-1702) and his Amboinese Herbal.

2010

* Celebrating the 350th anniversary of John Ray’s Catalogue of Cambridge Plants, 1660: the first English “County Flora”, 3 November 2010

* Commemorating the bicentenary of the birth of Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), Torquay Museum, Torquay, UK

* Mrs Delany and her circle, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK

2009

* Darwin's Legacy: exploring diversity and evolution in the history of fieldbiology, Spring Meeting & AGM 2009, National Museum Wales, Cardiff, UK

2008

* London’s Natural History, Past, Present and Future. 11 October 2008. Joint meeting with the London Natural History Society and Linnean Society of London, UK.

* The History of Natural History: An annotated bibliography by Gavin Bridson FLS. 30th October 2008. SHNH members attended the launch of a major new work from the Linnean Society of London, UK

* Turner 500 & Hancock 200: Naturalists in North East England, joint meeting with the Natural History Society of Northumbria 2008, University of Newcastle, Northumbria, UK

* Log books, ledgers and field notebooks: what historical records can reveal. Spring Meeting, AGM & EGM 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

* Foyle Special Collections Library, King's College London, UK

2007

* Duchess of Curiosities, 2007, Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Worksop, UK

* Nature Behind Glass, Spring Meeting & AGM, 2007, Manchester Museum, Manchester, UK

* Drugs, herbs and artefacts: from W & J Hooker to modern ethnobotany, Spring Meeting & AGM, 2007, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK

* Discovering the Forsters: locating and mapping the evidence from John Adam Street to the Pacific, joint meeting with the Linnean Society of London and the William Shipley Group of the RSA, 2007, Linnean Society of London, UK

2006

* Natural Science in the New World: the descriptive enterprise, International Meeting, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, 2006

* National Collection of Historic Taxidermy visit. Saturday 2 September, UK.

* Naturalists, their Books and their Libraries, Dublin, Ireland, 2006

2005

* Crystal Palace Park, Penge, and Horniman Museum and Library, UK. 19 November 2005. SHNH visit to see the Dinosaurs, have lunch and view historic book auction catalogues, continue to the Horniman Museum and Library, Forest Hill, UK

* Hunterian Museum, Sir John Soane Museum & the Grant Museum of Zoology, Spring Meeting & AGM, 2005, London, UK

* Come and be Enlightened. 10 March 2005, UK. SHNH Evening visit, with a Gallery talk by Brendan Moore and Kim Sloan on “The Age of Enlightenment display ” in the Kings’ Library, followed by drinks in the adjacent Panizzi room.

* Blythe House Museum Store tour. 11 February 2005, UK. Blythe House in West Kensington, London, formerly the headquarters of the Post Office National Savings Bank, is now a Museum store for both the Science Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museums.

2004

    * Curious in our way: The culture of nature in Philadelphia, 1740 to 1840, Philadelphia, November 2004

    * Natural History in Cambridge, Spring Meeting & AGM, 2004, Cambridge, UK

    * Maggs Brothers and John Murray Publishers tours. 11 March 2004, UK.

2003

    * Illuminating nature: spotlights on natural history illustration from cave paintings to photographs, 14th International Meeting & AGM, 2003, Florence, Italy

2002

    * Inbreeding and outbreeding: new insights into the importance of partner similarity in natural populations. 10 December 2002. Joint SHNH meeting with the dining club of the Zoological Society of London, UK

    * Wisbech and Fenland Museum, UK. 19th October 2002. A SHNH day meeting with talks on the natural history collections in the Museum and a guided tour of the Museum.

2001

    * Lost, stolen or strayed: the fate of missing natural history collections, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2001

2000

    * Movers and shakers: disseminating natural history, Spring Meeting & AGM 2000, Geological Society of London, UK