Department of History and Philosophy of Science

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.

Lent Term 2012

Seminars are held on Mondays at 1pm in Seminar Room 1. You are welcome to bring your lunch with you.

Organised by Sophie Waring.

23 JanuaryCaitlin Wylie (HPS, Cambridge)
Creativity and the construction of fossils: 'The artist's piece is already in the stone'
30 JanuaryDominic Berry (University of Leeds)
Agricultural science and the Development Commission: the Olby account revisited
6 FebruaryMiruna Achim (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City)
Skulls and idols: anthropometrics, antiquity collections, and the origin of American man
13 FebruaryKarin Ekholm (HPS, Cambridge)
Recalled into stalk and leaves: the many methods and meanings of early modern palingenesis
20 FebruaryDmitriy Myelnikov (HPS, Cambridge)
Virgin birth crosses the Atlantic: Jacques Loeb's experiments on artificial parthenogenesis in the British press, 1900–06
27 FebruaryCaroline Cornish (Royal Holloway)
Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany
5 MarchWilliam Burns (Imperial College London)
Apple cultures: pests, pumps and pipes in interwar British orchards
12 MarchJenny Uglow
Thomas Bewick, engraving the world