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 2011 Garden Party
- Photos of the Cabinet trip to Sutton Hoo (2011)
- Photos of the 2010 Fungus Hunt
- Photos of the Cabinet trip to Stowe (2010)
- Photos of the 2009 Fungus Hunt
- Photos of the Cabinet trip to Orford Ness (2008)
- Photos of the Cabinet trip to Stowe (2008)
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 January | Caitlin Wylie (HPS, Cambridge) Creativity and the construction of fossils: 'The artist's piece is already in the stone' |
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| 30 January | Dominic Berry (University of Leeds) Agricultural science and the Development Commission: the Olby account revisited |
| 6 February | Miruna Achim (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City) Skulls and idols: anthropometrics, antiquity collections, and the origin of American man |
| 13 February | Karin Ekholm (HPS, Cambridge) Recalled into stalk and leaves: the many methods and meanings of early modern palingenesis |
| 20 February | Dmitriy Myelnikov (HPS, Cambridge) Virgin birth crosses the Atlantic: Jacques Loeb's experiments on artificial parthenogenesis in the British press, 1900–06 |
| 27 February | Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway) Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany |
| 5 March | William Burns (Imperial College London) Apple cultures: pests, pumps and pipes in interwar British orchards |
| 12 March | Jenny Uglow Thomas Bewick, engraving the world |