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No.

Place

Date

Lecturer

Title

Published?

1

Oxford

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)

2

Cambridge

14 April 1978

Dr Oliver Rackham

The archives of woodland and their ecological interpretation.

 

3

London

19 November 1980

Professor Gordon L. Herries-Davies

The mapping of natural phenomena in nineteenth century Ireland.

 

4

Norwich

2 April 1982

Professor Eric L. Mills

A view of Edward Forbes, naturalist.

Archives of natural history 11 (3)

5

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

14 March 1984

Professor David M. Knight

William Swainson: naturalist, author and illustrator.   

Archives of natural history 13 (3)

6

Cambridge

22 March 1985

Professor Martin J. S. Rudwick

A year in the life of Adam Sedgwick, geologist.

Archives of natural history 15 (3)

7

Washington DC

14 November 1985

Professor Joseph Ewan

A study of personality of American naturalists of the Andes and Amazon.

Archives of natural history 16 (1)

8

Brighton

27 September 1990

Professor Dennis R. Dean

Remembering Gideon Mantell.

 

9

London

29 April 1992

Professor Jacob Gruber

Imagining Richard Owen.

 

10

Glasgow

30 April 1993

Dr John A. Gibson

The origins of Scottish natural history: Scottish societies of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

 

11

Oxford

12 April 1996

Professor John MacKenzie

Empire and the natural historical apocalypse.

 

12

Charlottesville

28 April 1997

Mr Peter J. Hatch

"If plants have sensibility": Thomas Jefferson, Hortobotany', and the Great Exchange.

 

13

London

14 April 1999

Professor Martin Kemp

"On growth and form": Persistent perceptions of natural geometry from the Renaissance to now.

 

14

Leiden

10 May 2001

Dr Pat Morris

Lost, found and still looking - tracing some examples of early taxidermy.

 

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