| Description | Programmes of Linnean Society meetings including schedule, dated 2009:
1. 2009 January - March. Programme of events January - March 2009. Events listed include:
- ‘Tea: The Drink that Changed the World’ by John Griffiths (FLS).
- ‘Presentation of the Darwin-Wallace Medals.’
- ‘Declining Bee Populations What are the Causes?’ by Norman Carreck.
- ‘Launch of Letters to Linnaeus, A New Publication from the Linnean Society of London, Edited by Sandra Knapp and Quentin Wheeler’ by Sandra Knapp (FLS).
- ‘Darwin’s “Sacred Cause”’ by James Moore (FLS).
2. 2009 April - July. Programme of events April - July 2009. Events listed include:
- ‘Second Annual Biodiversity Policy Lecture: Biodiversity in a Changing World’ by John Beddington.
- ‘The Great Ape Debate’ by David Chivers (FLS), John A. Burton (FLS), chaired by The Earl of Cranbrook (FLS).
- ‘The Future of Plant Genetic Resources: A Meeting in Hornor of Jack Hawkes PPLS’ organised by Sandra Knapp (FLS) and Glenn Bryan.
- ‘The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee Reports on Systematics and Taxonomy’ by The Earl of Selborne (FLS).
- ‘Forensic Ecology – Its Contribution to Criminal Investigation’ by Patricia Wiltshire (FLS).
- ‘Biodiversity, Infection and Global Health: Future trends and Policy Relevance’ organised by Vaughn Southgate (FLS) and David Molyneux, and speakers include Dr Eric Chivian, Professor Neil Ferguson, Professor Sir Andy Haines, Professor Janet Heminway, Professor Jean Manson, Professor Paul Racey, Dr David Rollinson, Professor Andew Thomson, Professor Jozef Vercruysse, Dr Ann Williams, and Dr Laurent Yameogo.
- Special Events for Fellows of the Linnean Society:
Anniversary Meeting
Celebrating the Life of John Marsden MBE HonFLS.
Conversazione.
3. 2009 September - December. Programme of events September - December 2009. Events listed include:
- ‘The Marabilis Experiencec: 150 Years after the Welwitschia’s Discovery’ by Sara Albuquerque.
- ‘The “Irritable Power” of Carnivorous Plants: Mary Treat, Charlies Darwin and Floaral Metaphors in the Evolutionary Narrative’ by Darwin 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 Meeting in Modern Times’ by Martin Jacoby (FLS).
- ‘The Poetry of Science: Creative Writing and the Artistic Naturalist’ by Kelly Swain.
- ‘The Galapagos Archipelago: A Living Laboratory’.
4. 2009. Planner of Meetings 2009.
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