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
Michaelmas Term 2009
Seminars are held on Mondays at 1pm in Seminar Room 1. You are welcome to bring your lunch with you.
Organised by Susannah Gibson.
| 12 October | Nick Jardine (HPS, Cambridge) Fungi in history |
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| 19 October | Ruth Horry (HPS, Cambridge) 'Botany of the air': experiments, airships and agriculture in 1930 |
| 26 October | Fungus Hunt |
| 2 November | Anne Secord (HPS, Cambridge) Coming to attention: observing nature at the edges during the Napoleonic Wars |
| 9 November | Jamie Lorimer (King's College London) After the king of beasts: the embodied histories of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth century Ceylon |
| 16 November | Toby Musgrave Head gardeners: the forgotten heroes of horticulture |
| 23 November | Adelene Buckland (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group) Lyell's plots |
| 30 November | Martin Rudwick (University of California, San Diego) Reflections on re-treading Darwin's 'gigantic blunder' in Glen Roy |