Cabinet of Natural History
This research seminar is concerned with all aspects of the history of natural history and the field and environmental sciences. The regular programme of papers and discussions takes place over lunch on Mondays. In addition, the Cabinet organises a beginning-of-year fungus hunt and occasional expeditions to sites of historical and natural historical interest, and holds an end-of-year garden party.
- Cabinet of Natural History publications
- Photos of the 2009 Fungus Hunt
- Photos of the Cabinet trip to Orford Ness
- Photos of the Cabinet trip to Stowe
Lent Term 2010
Seminars are held on Mondays at 1pm in Seminar Room 1. You are welcome to bring your lunch with you.
Organised by Susannah Gibson.
| 18 January | Peter C. Kjaergaard (Universities of Aarhus & Cambridge) The curious case of the London Skull: the making of a British human ancestor |
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| 25 January | Raf de Bont (Universities of Leuven & Cambridge) The lake as a microcosm: Otto Zacharias and the civic origins of limnology |
| 1 February | Kelley Swain (Poet in Residence, Whipple Museum) Beale, Bennett, Scoresby (and Melville!): a 'natural' history of cetology |
| 8 February | Joe Cain (University College London) Rethinking the synthesis period in evolutionary studies, 1930s and 1940s |
| 15 February | Allison Ksiazkiewicz (HPS, Cambridge) Geology, caves, and original architecture: ideas of origins and early nineteenth-century geology |
| 22 February | Jim Secord (HPS, Cambridge) & Peter C. Kjaergaard (Universities of Aarhus & Cambridge) Reflections on Darwin 2009: a discussion |
| 1 March | David Feller (HPS, Cambridge) William Buckland's oral history of deep time, or, things that made him go mmmmmmmmmm |
| 8 March | Jackie Mountain (The London Consortium – Birkbeck) English visitors to Vesuvius and Solfatara in the early seventeenth century |