| Description | Notices, and Programmes of Events for Linnean Society Meetings, dated 2008 to 2019:
1. [No date]. Brochure of Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the Linnean Society of London.
2. 2008 August - December. Programme of events August - December 2008 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘Beyond Cladistics: A Festschrift for Chris Humphries’.
- ‘Darwin and Domestication’.
- ‘The Longer the Better: A Celebration of Long-term Data Sets in commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of the Birth of Robert Marsham, FRS’.
- ‘The Global Amphibian Extinction Crisis’.
- ‘The Role of Restoration Ecology in Migration of Climate Change and Loss of Biodiversity’.
3. 2009 September - December. Programme of events September - December 2009 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘The Mirabilis Experience: 150 Years After the Welwitschia’s Discovery’ by Sara Albuquerque.
- ‘The “Irritable Power” of Carnivorous Plants: Mary Treat, Charles Darwin and Floral Metaphors in the Evolutionary Narrative’ by Down Sanders (FLS), Tina Gianquitto (FLS) and Randal Keynes (FLS).
- ‘Evolution and Extinction of the Terrestrial Biota of the Western Indian Ocean Archipelagos’ organised by Robert Prys Jones and Julian Hume.
- ‘A General Naturalist in Modern Times’ by Martin Jacoby (FLS)
- ‘The Poetry of Science: Creative Writing and the Artistic Naturalist’ by Kelley Swain.
- ‘The Galapagos Archipelago: A Living Laboratory’ Organised by Sara Darwin and Sandra Knapp (FLS).
- ‘Linnean Society Debate’ organised by Sandra Knapp (FLS) and Andrew Sheppy (FLS)
- ‘Founders Day: Natural History Collections as Models of Diversity’ by Sandra Knapp (FLS).
- ‘The Darwin Lecture: Science and Medicine’ by Steve Jones.
- ‘Embryonic Stem Cells’ by Sir Martin Evans.
4. 2010 January - March. Programme of events January - March 2010 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘Restoring British Biodiversity: Native Mammal Reintroductions and the Scottish Beaver Trial’ by Tony King (FLS).
- ‘Is Biodiversity Really Under Pressure?’ by Sandy Knapp (FLS) and Peter Bridgewater (FLS).
- ‘Thomas Blackiston’s Line: A Victorian Naturalist’s Early Contribution to Biogeography’ by Andrew Davies.
- ‘The Commercial Exploitation of Thames Chinese Mitten Crabs. Damned If We Don’t – Damned If We Do’ by Paul Clark (FLS) Joint day & evening meeting with Natural History Museum and supported by London Port Health Authority, City of London Corporation.
- ‘Siphonophores: Tangled Tentacles or Ocean Predators’ by Gill Mapstone (FLS).
- ‘Student Lecture’
5. 2010 April – August. Programme of events April – August 2010 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘The Obvious Solution to Biodiversity Loss: A Bigger Planet’ by Martin Sharman. Joint Annual Biodiversity Policy Lecture with the Systematics Association.
- ‘Early Events in Monocot Evolution’ organised by Paul Wilkin. Joint three day meeting with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and supported by The Systematics Association and Annals of Botany.
- ‘Anders Sparrman – An Enignatic Figure Between Enlightenment and Romanticism’ by Per Wastberg.
- ‘Anniversary Meeting’ by Vanghan Southgate PLS.
- ‘Sequencing the Red and the Dead’ by David Rollinson, Tim Littlewood and Richard Sabin.
- ‘The Need for Evidenced Conversation’ by William Sutherland.
- ‘Conversazione’
- ‘A Field Trip to Fforest Fawr Geopark in the Brecon Beacons National Park’ by Tony Ramsay and John Wood.
6. 2011 September – December. Programme of events September – December 2011 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘The Role of Behaviour in Evolution – “Organisms Can Be Proud to Have Been Their Own Designers”’ organised by R. I. Vane-Wright (FLS), A Linnean Society of London Day Meeting Sponsored by The Royal Entomological Society, The British Ecological Society and the Natural History Museum.
- ‘The New Biology of Aging’ by Professor Dame Linda Partridge (FRS).
- ‘Open-City’.
- ‘Understanding and Exploiting Plant Immunity to Disease’ by Professor Jonathan Jones (FRS)
- ‘Insect Conversation and Biological Pest Control – Ecological Issues of Small Populations’ by Professor Helmut van Emden and Professor Jeremy Thomas, Joint-day meeting of the Linnean Society of London and the Entomological Club.
- ‘Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to the 21st Century and Beyond’, a joint meeting of The Society for the History of Natural History, the Linnean Society of London and the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature Supported by Henry Sotheran Limited.
- ‘Alfred Russeul Wallace and the Birds of Paradise’ by Sir David Attenborough CBE (FRS HonFLS). The Darwin Lecture, a joint meeting of the Linnean Society of London and the Royal Society of Medicine.
- ‘DNA – Some Modern Perspectives and Applications’, a joint meeting of the Linnean Society of London and the Society of Biology, to be held at Bradford University.
- ‘Linnean Society Annual Debate: “This House Believes That Genetic Modification Is More of A Threat Than A Promise”’, motion proposed by Lord Peter Mechett, motion opposed by Christopher Warup, and organised by Andrew Sheppy (FLS).
- ‘The Chagos Archipelago: The World’s Largest Marine Protected Area’ organised by Professor Charles Sheppard (FLS).
- ‘Smashing Species: Joseph Hooker and Victorian Sceince’ by Dr Jim Endersby.
- ‘Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: A CantenaBiory Celebration’. A joint conference organised by the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, the Linnean Society of London, the Kew Guild and the University of Sussex.
- ‘Woodlands and US – A Review of Use and Misuse Autumn Lecture Series’ by Birkbeck Institute of Environment in Conjunction with Ecology and Conservation Studies Society and the Linnean Society of London.
7. 2012 January – April. Programme of events January – April 2012 of Linnean Society. TS with MS notes. Events listed include:
- ‘Words of Paper – Writing Natural History from Gessner to Darwin’ organised by Staffan Muller-Wille.
- ‘Francis Buchanan-Hamilton and His Pioneering Natural History Collections from Nepal 1802-3’ by Mark Watson (FLS).
- ‘Biodiversity and Parks: Protecting the Best Places’ by Charles Bescancon.
- ‘Flora of Tropical East Africa: A Very Slow Cutting Edge’ by Henk Beentjie.
- ‘Marine Protected Areas in English Waters’ by James Marsden.
- ‘Meeting the Challenges of Neglected Tropical Diseases’. A joint meeting with the Royal Society of Medicine, organised by Vanghan Southgate PLS and John Betteridge.
8. 2012 May - August. Programme of events May - August 2012 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘Anniversary Meeting’ by Vaughan Southgate (PLS).
- ‘The History of Coffee’ by Fernando Vega.
- ‘Withering - the English Linnaeus and the Flowering of Pharmacology’ by Peter Sheldon.
- ‘North Norfolk Field Trip’ organised by Adrian Lister, Terry Preston and John Pearson.
- ‘Conversazione 2012’ hosted by Linean Society Staff. TS with MS notes.
9. 2012 Autumn/Winter. Programme of events Autumn/Winter 2012 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘Meeting on Online Taxonomy’ organised by Malcolm Scoble and Paul Wilkin.
- ‘Paleoclimatic Impacts on Biodiversity and Ecosystems - Insights from Ecoinformatics’ by Jens- Christian Svenning.
- ‘Open House’ by The Burlington House Team.
- ‘The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear’ by Robert McCracken Peck.
- ‘The Virus, the Cancer, and Our Responses’ by Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz.
- ‘Should We Save the Panda? Choosing Which Species to Save’ by Sue Nelson, Simon Watt, Mark Avery and Dr Yon Wong.
- ‘Why did Darwin Change his Mind abobut Sex Ratio?’ by Professor Elliot Sober.
- ‘F. W. Frohawk (1861-1946), Zoological Artist and Butterfly Specialist’ by June Chatfield.
- ‘Indian Ornithology, British Botany and Allan Octavian Hume’ by Robert Prys - Jones, Hornor Gay and Roy Vickery.
- ‘Palaeobotany Specialist Group’ by the Linnean Society Palaeobotany Specialist Group.
- ‘Understanding Pollen and Spore Diversity’ by Linnean Society Palynology Specialist Group.
- ‘Is Common Agricultural Policy Good for Biodiversity’ organised by Andrew Sheppy.
- ‘Thomas Bewick, Engraver and Naturalist’ by Jenney Uglow.
10. 2013 Spring - Summer. Programme of events Spring - Summer 2013 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘Amateur Naturalist and Professional Spy: Maxwell Knights FLS (1900-1968)’ by Mr Stephen Moger (FLS).
- ‘The History and Future of British Rivers and Waterways’ by Royal Astronomical Society.
- ‘Making Space for Nature: Rivers and Waterways’ by Professor Sir John Darwin.
- ‘Bookplates (Ex Libris) of Botanists’ by Royal Astronomical Society.
- ‘The Prepared Moth and Industrial Melanism: Evolution of an Icon’ by Dr Laurence M Cook.
- ‘The Banking Busy-Bee: Sir John Lubbock FRS FLS’ by Royal Society.
- ‘Protists and Next Generation Sequencing: A Forum for Ideas, News, Information and Exchange’
- ‘Agricultural Biodiversity - Will Homo Sapiens live up to its name’ by Mr Julian Hosking (FLS).
- ‘Anniversary Meeting’ by Professor Dianne Edwards CBE FRS PLS.
- ‘Wallace Collection Event’
- ‘Life Without Light: The Natural History of Movile Cave, Romania - from Microbes to Arthropods’ by Dr Rich Boden (FLS).
- ‘Annual Field Trip 2013 - North Wales’ by John Good and Tony Ramsay.
- ‘Conversazione: Hergest Croft Gardens’
11. 2013 Autumn - Winter. Programme of events Autumn - Winter 2013 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘The Role of Museums and Collections in Biological Recording’ - The Plenary Meeting of the Linnean Society’s Taxonomy and Systematics Committee.
- ‘Crowdsourcing Genomic Analyses of Ash Dieback - Power to People’ by Professor Sophien Kamoun.
- ‘Open House’ by The Burlington House Team.
- ‘Fungi, Keystones of Evolution and Earth Processes’. A joint meeting with the British Lichen Society, British Mycological Society and the Linnean Society of London.
- ‘Truffles, Trees and Animals: Life in the Black Box’ by Professor Jim Trappe.
- ‘Alfred Russel Wallace - the Compleat Naturalist’ by Dr Sandra Knapp (FLS).
- ‘Palaeobotany Specialist Group Meeting’.
- ‘Palynology Specialist Meeting’.
- ‘The British Conservation Model: Unambitious, Irritational and Afraid of Nature? A Debate Between Conservationists and Reviews’. A joint meeting with the Systematics Association and the Linnea Society of London.
- ‘Willi Hennig (1913-1976): His Life, Legacy and the Future of Phylogenetic Systematics’.
- ‘Sir John Hill and Linnean Society Taxonomy in Georgian England’ by George Rousseau.
- ‘You Should Ask Wallace’
- ‘The Darwin Lecture’ by Sir Martin Evans.
12. 2014 Spring - Summer. Programme of events Spring - Summer 2014 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘Snapshots in Dinosaur Evolution: Plants, Feathers, and Palaeobiology’ by Dr Paul Barret.
- ‘Tracking Plant Trade in the 21st Century’ by Noel McGough.
- ‘Antarctica - Beauty Unsurpassed’ by Dr Gill Mapstone (FLS).
- ‘Biodiversity and Climate Change: Connecting the Past to the Future’ by Professor Camille Parmesan.
- ‘The State of Nature in the National Trust’ by Dr David Bullock.
- ‘Collections-based Research in the Genomic Era’.
- ‘The Darwin Initiative: Simple Formula, Amazing Impact’ by Professor Stephen Blackmore (CBE FRES FLS).
- ‘Type Specimen of Asian Elephant, Lost and Found’ by Professor Adrian Lister and Professor Tom Gilbert.
- ‘Anniversary Meeting’ by Professor Dianne Edwards (CBE FRS PLS).
- ‘Annual Field Trip 2014 - Dorset’ organised by John Newbould.
- ‘Shifting Baselines: Why We So Readily Accept the Progressive Decline of the Natural World’ by Professor Callum Roberts.
- ‘Conversazione’ hosted by Linnean Society Team.
13. 2014 Autumn - Winter. Programme of events Autumn - Winter 2014 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘Who Needs Taxonomists?’
- ‘Wildlife Disease and Biodiversity: What is the Impact?’ by Dr Becki Lawson.
- ‘Darwin’s Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution’ by Dr John Robert Holms.
- ‘Darwin Diagnosed’ by Professor Anthony K Campell.
- ‘Jacquin’s American Plants’ by Dr Santiago Madrinan.
- ‘New Perspectives on Climate Plants’.
- ‘Forensic Entomology’ by Dr Martin Hall.
- ‘Radiation and Extinction: Investing Clade Dynamics in Deep Time’.
- ‘Palynology/Palaeobotany’.
- ‘Land Sparing vs. Land Sharing: Tackling the Greatest Environmental Challenge of the 21st Century’ organised by the London Evolutionary Research Network (LERN).
- ‘In the Footsteps of Manton: Spores and Early Land Plant Evolution’ by Professor Dianne Edwards.
- ‘Models and Metaphors, Orchids and Primroses’ by Dr Jim Endersby.
- ‘Blaschka: Glass Creatures of the Ocea’ by Miranda Lowe and Stephen Ramsey.
- ‘The Viral Graveyard’.
- ‘What on Earth?’.
14. 2015 Spring - Summer. Programme of events Spring - Summer 2015 of Linnean Society. With an insert entitled ‘From Cabinet to Internet: Digitising Natural History and Medical Manuscripts’. Events listed include:
- ‘A Very Fine Swan Indeed: Art, Science and The Unfeatured Bird’ by Katrina Van Grouw.
- ‘Systems and Botanical illustration’ by Rosemary Wise, Mike May and Robert Scotland.
- ‘Inside the Linnean Society’ by Dianne Edwards.
- ‘Coffee and Climate Change: Understanding the Problems and Finding the Solutions’ by Aaron Davis.
- ‘Birds and Music - A Violinist’s View’ by Paul Barritt.
- ‘Bees, Pesticides and Politics: The Impact of Neonicotinoids on UK Bumblebees’ by Professor Dave Goulson.
- ‘Arthropod Evolution’ by Dr Greg Edgecombe.
- ‘Linnaeus’s Fishes’.
- ‘A New Voyage of Discovery: Next-generation Biodiversity Discovery’ by Professor Ian Owens.
- ‘Sorcery, War Canoes and Sacred Shrines: Field Work in the Solomon Islands in 1908’ by Edvard Hviding and Tim Bayliss-Smith.
- ‘The Curious Mister Catesby’ by David Elliott and Charles Nelson.
- ‘Anniversary Meeting 2015’ by Professor Dianne Edwards.
- ‘The Genetic Diversity of Farmed Animals’ by Andrew Sheppy.
- ‘Plant Conservation - Now is the Time to Change Our Minds’.
- ‘Conversazione 2015’.
- ‘Linnean Society Treasures Tours’.
15. 2015 Autumn - Winter. Programme of events Autumn - Winter 2015 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘The Global Oil Supply: Implications for Biodiversity’ by Professor Chris Rodes.
- ‘Open House 2015’.
- ‘Invertebrate Link (JCCBI) Symposium’ organised by Oliver Cheesman.
- ‘The Joy of Discovering the Natural World’ organised by Robert Scotland.
- ‘The Naming of the Shrew’ by John Wright (FLS).
- ‘Linnaeus at Work’ by Isabelle Charmantier.
- ‘Evolution from Beyond Genetics’ by Dr Ovidiu Paun.
- ‘The 2015 Darwin Lecture: Science and Medicine’ by Professor Sir John Bell.
- ‘What’s Eating You’ by Eileen Harris.
- James Sowerby: the Enlightenment’s Natural Historian’ by Paul Handerson.
- ‘Explore Your Archive: Natural History on Record’.
- ‘Darwin’s Ark: Should Evolutionary History Inform Species Conservation?’ organised in association with London Evolutionary Research Network (LERN) chaired by Dr Paul Jepson.
- ‘Tripping the Light Fantastic: Uncovering the Secrets of Plant Cell Dynamics’ by Dr Imogen Sparkes.
- ‘The King of Puddings: The Story of the Botanical Ingredients of the Traditional Christmas Pudding’ by Angela Dixon.
- ‘The Lord of Treasurer of Botany’ by Tom Kennett.
- ‘Pearls and Unicorns - Myth and Magic in Jewellery’ by Geoffrey Munn (FLS).
- ‘Linnean Society Treasures Tours’.
- ‘Project Coral’.
- ‘Conservation Crossroads’.
16. 2016 Spring - Summer. Programme of events Spring - Summer 2016 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘New Radiocarbon Evidence and Megafaunal Extinctions’ by Professor Adrian Lister (FLS).
- ‘Evolution of Vertebrate Reproduction: Reproductive Structures and Embryos in Placoderms’ by Dr Zerina Johanson (FLS).
- ‘The 19th-Century Pioneers of Nepalese Biodiversity: Hooker, Hodgsen, Wallich and Buchanan-Hamilton’ by Dr Mark Watson (FLS).
- ‘Red Data Book Species and Conservation’.
- ‘Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape’ by Dr Alijos Frjon (FLS).
- ‘Marianne North: An Intrepid Painter’ by Michelle Payne.
- ‘Britain-Nepal 200: Celebrating Nepal’s Success Stories in Biodiversity Conservation’ by Professor Jonathna Baillie.
- ‘What’s Happening to Our Hedgehogs?’ by Dr Pat Morris (FLS).
- ‘International Women’s Day Tours Women in Focus: Inspirational Women of the Learned Societies’.
- ‘Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature’ by Professor Nick Davies.
- ‘Wildlife Through the Lens’ by John Aitchison.
- ‘Pests, Pathogens and Unpredictable Rainfall: Global Challenges for Sustainable Food Production’ by Professor Sue Hartley.
- ‘Doctor Darwin: Is evolutionary Medicine the Future of Health?’.
- Science Policy Lecture 2016’ by Professor Kevin J Gaston.
- ‘Linnean Society Meeting at the Arnold Arboretum’ by Dr Vicki Funk (FLS), Dr Mark Spencer (FLS), Professor Paul Brakefild (FLS), Professor Dianne Edwards (FLS), hosted by Professor Ned Friedman.
- ‘Anniversary Meeting 2016’ by Professor Paul Brakefield.
- ‘Dinosaurs in Crystal Park’ by Professor Joe Cain.
- ‘When Antarctica was Green: Fossil Plants Reveal Antarctica’s Climate History’ by Professor Jane Francis.
- ‘Conversazione 2016’.
- ‘Growing the Grass Classification: Celebration of Derek Clayton’s 90th Birthday and Discussion about the Future of GrassBase’ by Gren Lucas (FLS), Rob Soreng and Elizabeth Kellogg.
- General Events included:
Linnean Society Treasures Tours.
-Education Events included:
Biomedia Meltdown Award Ceremony.
Debating Matters, London Inner 2015/2016 Regional Final organised by the Institute of Ideas and supported by the Wellcome Trust.
BioBlitz.
17. 2016 Autumn - Winter. Programme of events Autumn - Winter 2016 of Linnean Society.
- ‘PGB Kew – QMUL MSc Student Project Presentations: Plant and Fungal Taxonomy, Diversity and Conversation’.
- ‘Sex, Drugs, and Ecosystem Services: The Sweet Poisons in Nectar’ by Professor Phillip Stevenson.
- ‘Open House 2016’.
- ‘Understanding and Implementing Current Environmental Legislation: Biology, Borders and Ownership’.
- ‘Wild New Territories: Portraits of the Urban and the Wild’.
- ‘What Should be in your Digital Toolbox?’ by Melissa Terras.
- ‘Sir Julian Huxley Lecture: Dosage Sensitive Genes in Evolution and Disease’ in association with The Systematics Association by Professor Aoife McLysaght.
- ‘The Feminism of Nature’ by Professor Charles R Tyler.
- ‘Book Sale’.
- ‘Wildflowers in the Western Mediterranean’ by Chris Thorogood (FLS).
- ‘Wildlife Live - A Springwatch Experience’ by James Smith.
- ‘Darwin Lecture - Global De-Worming: A Darwinian Perspective’ by Professor David Rollinson (FLS).
- ‘Form, Function and Fisheries: The Scientific Legacy of Edward Stuart Russel’ introduced by Gordon McGregor Reid, and spoken by Roger Downie and Carl O’Brien (FLS).
- ‘The Invention of Nature’ by Andrea Wulf FRGS.
- ‘The Botany of Christmas’ by Mark Nesbitt (FLS).
- ‘Irene Manton Lecture: On You, Inside You: The Amazing World of Parasites’.
- General Events included:
Linnean Society Treasures Hours.
-Education Events included:
BioMedia Meltdown Awards Ceremony.
Why We Die.
Exploring Ocean Winders.
18. 2017 Spring - Summer. Programme of events Spring - Summer 2017 of Linnean Society. Events listed included:
- ‘Joseph Frank: Patterns - Furniture - Painting’ by Celia Joicey.
- ‘From Genome Evolution to Animal Diversity: A Tale of Moths and Mammals’ by Professor Peter Holland (FLS).
- ‘Anglo - Nepalese Zoological Illustrations: Britain Houghton Hodgson and the Zoology of the Himalayas’ by Dr David Lowther (FLS).
- ‘So Many Celestial Animals So Vividly Drawn: Birds and Their Images in Pre-Linnean Italy’ by Henritta McBurney Ryan (FLS) and Carlo Violani (FLS).
- ‘Conservation on a Crowded Island: Resolving Conflicts between Wildlife and Development in Britain’ by Fiona Mathews (FLS).
- ‘The Vulture Series’ by Nigel Hughes (FLS).
- ‘Transmissible Cancers in Tasmanian Devils’ by Elizabeth Murchison.
- ‘Reginald Punnett: Father of British Genetics - Marking the 50th Anniversary’ by Anne Ferguson-Smith, Maarten de Groot, Libby Henson and Andrew Sheppy.
- ‘Museums in a Digital World’ by Jack Ashby (FLS).
- ‘Science Policy Lecture 2017 - Evidence, Expertise and Policy’ by Susan Owens’.
- ‘Fascination of Plants Day’ by Monique Simmonds (FLS).
- ‘Anniversary Meeting 2017’ by Professor Paul Brakefield (FRS PLS).
- ‘Starting the Revolution from my Easel’ by Jess Shepherd (FLS).
- ‘Reproduction in Sponges: Genes, Structures and Ecological Patterns’ by Dr Ana Riesgo Gil.
- ‘Conversazione 2017’.
- Regional Events included:
Exploring Equatorial Wales; The Life and Times of our Ancient Tropical Swamp.
Natural History of Nightshades: Diversity and Evolution in the Solanaceae.
- General Events included:
Linnean Society Treasures Tours.
- Education Events:
Highlighting Biology with Fluorescence Microscopy.
Science Weak 2017.
19. 2017 Autumn - Winter. Programme of events Autumn - Winter 2017 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘What is the Future of Biological Surveys? Are Specialists for Key Taxa at Risk of Becoming Extinct?’ by Professor David Culter.
- ‘Modelling and Projecting Global Land-use Impacts on Local Terrestrial Biodiversity: The PREDICTS Project’ by Professor Andy Purvis.
- ‘Open House 2017’.
- ‘The Multidisciplinarity of Parasitology: Post-Parasite evolution and Control in an Ever Changing World’ by Professor Russell Stothard (FLS) and Dr Bonnie Webster (FLS).
- ‘Offas Dyke’s Ancient Trees’ by Rob McBride.
- ‘The Most Perfect Thing: A Bird’s Egg’ by Tim Birkhead.
- ‘What the Bat “Saw”: Hunting Insects, Hiding from Bats and Dropping Seeds around the World’ by Dr Elizabeth Clare (FLS).
- ‘Field Work in the Life and Earth Sciences’ by Professor Thomas Richards.
- ‘Annual Debate 2017: Big Data’ by Professor Christophe Dessimoz, Kate Jones and Dr Vincent Smith, and moderated by Kathryn Ford.
- ‘A Curious Performance: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Art of Natural History’ by Kate Heard.
- ‘Why Nothing Matters in Squirrel Management’ by Dr Craig Shuttleworth.
- Regional Events included:
‘Can We Help Species Cope with Climate Change and Habitat Loss’ by Professor Jane Hill.
‘I’m a Butterfly, Get Me Out of Here…’ by Dr Anna Gilchrist.
- General Events:
Linnean Society Treasures Tours.
- Education Events:
‘The Human Epoch – A World Without End’ by Mustafa Zaidi.
‘Shared Horizons, Sex, Drugs, Crime and Super Powers.’
‘The Tree of Life’ by Yan Wong and James Rosindell.
20. 2018 Spring - Summer. Programme of events Spring - Summer 2018 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘What Hope for Corals in this International Year of the Reef’ by Professor James Crabbe (FLS).
- ‘Reproduction in Sponges: Genes, Structures and Ecological Patterns’ by Dr Ana Riesgo Gil.
- ‘The Island as the Origin of all Species’ by Elaine Charwat (FLS).
- ‘Ways of Thinking: From Crows to Children and Back Again’ by Professor Nicky Clayton (FRS).
- ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Conservation Breeding and Livestock Genetics’ by Dr Phil Sponenberg, Libby Henson, Dr Re Walters (FLS), Dr Tim Bray, Rupika Gulati, Tom Beeston, Professor Geoff Parker, Dr Aylwyn Scally and Dr Christine Ashton and organised by Dr Philippe B. Wilson (FLS), Dr Tim Bray and Dr Rex Walters (FLS).
- ‘Will Reefs of Calcifying Algae Protect Marine Biodiversity against Climate Change’ by Dr Federica Ragazzola.
- ‘A Bioenergetic Basis for the Three Domains of Life’ by Professor Nick Lane (FLS).
- ‘230th Anniversary of the Linnean Society: A Celebration of our First Female Fellows’ by Professor Athene Donald DBE, Dr Maria Vorontsova (FLS) and Dr Richard Boden (FLS).
- ‘Forensic Entomology: How to Solve a Crime’ by Dr Mark Benecke (FLS).
- ‘Annual Debate 2018: Synthetic Biology’.
- ‘Remembering James Petiver (1665-1718)’ by Dr Arnold Hunt, Dr Charles E Jarvis (FLS), Sebastian Kroupa, Dr Alice Marples, Katria Maydom, Professor Kathleen S Murphy, Dr Victoria Pickering, Professor Richard Vane-Wright (FLS).
- ‘Fashioned From Nature’ by Edwina Ehrman.
- ‘Six Continents: Five Years: One Big Plant Book’ by Professor Michael Fay (FLS), Professor Mark Chase (FLS) and Dr Maarten Christenhusz (FLS).
- ‘Anniversary Meeting 2018’ by Professor Paul Brakefield.
- ‘Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects’ by Jack Ashby (FLS).
- ‘The Future of Tropical Agricutlre’ by Dr Edgar Turner.
- ‘Conversazione 2018: Official Unveiling of “Herbie”’ by Glenn Benson (FLS).
- General Events:
Linnean Society Treasures Tours.
Library Displays.
Room Hire.
- Regional Lectures:
Forty-Five Years of Living with Guillemots on Skomer Island by Professor Tim Birkhead.
Annual Plymouth Linnean Lecture 2018.
21. 2019 Spring - Summer. Programme of events Spring - Summer 2019 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘Can Fossils Solve the Origin of Comb Jellies?’ by Dr Jakob Vinther.
- ‘Adaptions of Mammals to Urban Living’ by Professor Dawn Scott.
- ‘Linnean Society Student Conference’ by Professor Mike Benton (FLS).
- ‘Doceivers, Doppelgangers and Degenerates’ by Dr Ross Piper.
- ‘Annual Debate: The Future of Plant Science.’ In association with the London evolutionary Research Network.
- ‘The History of Seed Exchange’ by Dr Maria Zytaruk.
- ‘Nature’s Palette: Understanding how Flowers Patten their Petals.’
- ‘Linnean Society Conference: Diversity within Natural History’ by Professor Pratik Chakrabarti, Miranda Lowe (FLS), Claire Banks, Professor Richard Pancost and Karlene Mahoney.
- ‘BioMedia Meltdown Celebration Evening.’
- ‘Reforming the Whale’ by Mark Peter Simmonds.
- ‘How and Why Biological Shapes Change during Evolution’ by Dr Arkhat Abzhanov.
- ‘Putting Flesh on Ancient Bones’ by Dr David Button.
- ‘Evolution in the Genome: Studying Brightly-Coloured Tropical Butterflies to Understand Evolution and Speciation’ by Professor Chris Jiggins.
- ‘Anniversary Meeting’ by Dr Sandy Knapp.
- ‘Plants of the Qur’an and other Religions Texts’ by Dr Shahina A Ghazanfar (FLS).
- ‘American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic’ by Victoria Johnson.
- ‘Linnean Society Field Trip.’
- Regional Lectures:
‘Of Darwin and Dwarfs: Sea Levels, Ice Ages and Evolution’ by Professor Adrian Lister (FLS).
‘The Value of Nature in a Warming World (rescheduled from last year)’ by Professor Nathalie Seddon.
- Changes to the Event Bookings
- General Events:
Linnean Society Treasures Tours.
22. 2019 Autumn - Spring. Programme of events Autumn - Spring 2019 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘London National Park City – What If?’ by Steve Pocock.
- ‘David Vexed: A History of Emotions and Anger’ in association with Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) with Q&A with Professor Thomas Dixon and playwright Craig Baxter.
- ‘Sampling the Deep’ by Dr Kirsty Kemp.
- ‘Open House.’
- ‘Unravelling the Ecology of Invasive Non-natives Species’ by Professor Helen Roy.
- ‘Sixty Years in Asian Rainforests’ in association with the Systematic Association by Professor Peter Ashton (FLS).
- ‘Badgers, Bees and Biodiversity’ in association with the Systematics Association by Professor Charles Godfray (FLS).
- ‘Palaeobotany and Palynology Specialist Group Meeting.’
- ‘Not the Sincerest Form of Flattery: The Puzzle of Imperfect Batesian Mimicry.’
- ‘The Wonderful Biology of Bryophytes’ by Professor Jeff Duckett (FLS).
- ‘A “Central and Controlling Incident”: Celebrating The Malay Archipelago and the Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace’ by Dr Andew Berry (FLS), Dr David Collard, Professor James T. Coasta (FLS), Eleanor Drinkwater, Professor Martin Finchman, Professor Mathias Glaubrecht, Dr Richard Milner (FLS) and Professor Robert Smith.
- ‘The Genetics of Schizophrensia: Darwin, Linnaeus and Precision Psychiatry’ in association with the Royal Society of Medicine.
- ‘Francis Hamilton’s Gangetic Fishes’ by Dr Ralf Britz.
- ‘Linnean Society Treasures Tours.’
- ‘Linnaeus in Lapland: Parasites, Reindeer and People’ by Professor Staffan Muller-Wille (FLS).
- ‘Butterflies and Biodiversity: The Challenges and Opportunities’ by Dr Blanca Huertas (FLS).
- Save the Date:
Discovery Room Lunch (Day Meeting).
Murder Most Florid: Botany and the Crime Scene (Nature Reader).
Field Studies Council: The Vitality of Field Studies for Nature (Day Meeting).
- ‘The Inaugural Annual Burlington House Lecture’ by Professor Richard Evershed, Professor Andy Beedy and Dr Helen Fraser.
- ‘Music and Birds: A Violinist’s View’ spoke and played by Paul Barrit.
23. 2020 Spring - Summer. Programme of events Spring - Summer 2020 of Linnean Society. Events listed include:
- ‘Queer(y)ing Natural Histories’ by Ellie Armstrong.
- ‘Biodiversity Winners and Losers from Climate Warming’ by Professor Jane Hill.
- ‘From Logic to Nature: “Genus” and “Species” in Philosophy and Biology’ by Professor Stella Standford.
- ‘Linnean Society Student Conference’ by Alex McGoran.
- ‘The Botanical History of the Gin & Tonic’ by Kim Walker and Professor Mark Nesbitt (FLS).
- ‘The Ecological Effects of Ocean Acidification’ by Professor Jasson Hall-Spencer.
- ‘The World Beneath’ by Dr Richard Smith (FLS).
- ‘The Science behind Sparkling Wine’ by Dr Gregory Dunn.
- ‘The Past, the Present and a Disturbing Glimpse into the Future’ by Professor Michael Hutchings.
- ‘The Inside Our of Flies and Why It Matters’ by Dr Erica McAlister (FLS).
- ‘Linnean Society Treasures Tours.’
- ‘Some Adventurous Fellows’ by Glenn Benson (FLS).
- ‘Anniversary Meeting’ by Dr Sandy Knapp.
- ‘The Lost Art of Nature Printing’ by Pia Ostlund.
- ‘Life on Islands: Cycles of Arrival, Change and Loss’ by Professor Robert Whittaker.
- ‘Tea: Nature, Culture, Soceity, 1650-1850’ by Bettina Dietz, Markman Ellis, Jacueline van Gent, Jordan Goodmand, Andrew Liu, Emma Newport, Romita Ray, Josepha Richard, Wouter Ryckbosch.
- ‘Discovery Workshops.’
- ‘Conversazione 2020: Bank’s Botanical Bonanza.’ |