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
- See the news archive for photos and reports from Cabinet events
Seminars are held on Mondays at 1pm in Seminar Room 2 unless otherwise stated.
For further details about upcoming events, or to be added to the mailing list for the Cabinet of Natural History, please contact Thomas Banbury (tjb98).
Easter Term 2024
29 April
Michael Freidman (Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas)
Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century
6 May
Sheena McKeever (Department of History of Art, Cambridge)
The cannibalized print: deconstructing Charles Estienne's anatomical woodcut illustrations in De dissectione (1545)
13 May
Aisha Alowais Alshamsi (Warburg Institute)
Comets in medieval Arabic astronomical and historical treatise
10 June
Cabinet Garden Party – speakers to be announced