Welcome

 

A Forum for Natural History

 

At the Linnean Society of London we are driven by a single purpose as outlined in our first charter, 200 years ago:

 

The cultivation of the Science of Natural History in all its branches

 

 

Today more than ever the Society is an important contemporary organisation encouraging debate, research, publicationsmeetings, as well as maintaining internationally important historical collections in the biological sciences.

 

If you are not already a member we do hope that you will still attend our events (which are open to members and non-members alike), or use our email update service - linnean-news - to stay in touch.

 

Anyone interested in our work is welcome to join the Society. Those with ideas, comments, suggestions or questions are also encouraged to make contact.

 

 

Message from the President - February 2008

 

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Latest News


New Publication: “Evolution of the animals: a Linnean tercentenary celebration”

6th May 2008

 

Following a highly successful joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Linnean Society of London in June 2007, the Royal Society has produced “The evolution of the animals: a Linnean tercentenary celebration”, organised and edited by Maximilian J Telford and D Timothy J Littlewood.

 


The Linnean: Volume 24 Number 2

29th April 2008

 

April 2008 is now available in print and online this issue contains details of the closing events to the Tercentenary year as well as Gina Douglas' retirement celebrations in January.


Conserving Nature in London

23rd April 2008

 

The Linnean Society was pleased to welcome David Bevan FLS at an evening meeting on 17th April when he spoke on "Conserving nature in London".

 

New publication

 

Order out of Chaos

Linnaean Plant Names and their Types

 

By Dr Charlie Jarvis

 

A major new work from the Linnean Plant Name Typification Project.

 

 

 

This landmark work, a co-publication from the Linnean Society of London and London's Natural History Museum, is a guide to the typifications of plant names described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1708-1778). 

 

Published 23 May 2007

£80 + postage & packing

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0rder publication

 

Darwin 200

 

The 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin

 

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Darwin-Wallace Collection

A set of articles on Darwin and Wallace from previous issues of The Linnean.

 

Major building works began in earnest in the Library Reading Room on Wednesday 13th February and will continue until the beginning of May.

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Meetings Programme

The Linnean

The Linnean: Volume 24 Number 2 April 2008

is available in print and online.

 

This issue contains details of the closing events to the Tercentenary year as well as Gina Douglas' retirement celebrations in January.

 

Articles include "Identifying 'Erica hirsuta anglica'" and "Botanical and zoological illustrations of the 19th century: a survey of the changes in printing techniques with examples taken from our archives".

 

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Linnaean Tercentenary 2007

 

 

Visit the Tercentenary section of the website for more details