2009
Date	Time	Meeting	Speakers	Details	Full Programme
22 Jan	6:00 PM	Tea: The drink that changed the world	John Griffiths FLS	Evening Meeting and Book Sale
2008
Date	Time	Meeting	Speakers	Details	Full Programme
4 Dec	6:00 PM	Darwin and Huxley's disagreement over taxonomy's connection to evolution	Polly Winsor FLS	Evening Meeting
27 Nov	10:00 AM	Carbon mitigation, habitat restoration and conservation of diversity	*Renton Righelato FLS	Day Meeting
20 Nov		Systematics Debate	TBA	Afternoon and evening meeting
14 Nov		British Society of Parasitology Autumn Symposium: The interactions and effects of vertical and horizontal transmission cycles in protozoan parasites	*Geoff Hide FLS and Sandy Trees	Day Meeting
13 Nov	6:00 PM	Fly on the Wall: The role of insects in criminal investigation	Martin Hall	Evening Meeting
6 Nov	9:30 AM	The Global Amphibian Extinction Crisis	*Gordon McGregor Reid PPLS and Lesley Dickie	Day Meeting
30 Oct	6:00 PM	TBC		Evening Meeting
29 Oct		Palaeobotany Specialist Group	*Peta Hayes FLS	Day Meeting
28 Oct		Palynology Specialist Group	*Carol Furness FLS	Day Meeting
22 Oct	9:30 AM	The Longer the Better: A celebration of long-term data sets in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Robert Marsham, FRS	*Humphrey Crick, Andrew Watkinson and Tim Sparks	Day Meeting
16 Oct		Darwin and Domestication	*Andrew Sheppy FLS	Day Meeting
11 Oct		Sesquicentenary Conference of London Natural History Society	*LNHS	Day Meeting
9 Oct	6:00 PM	Phenology and climate change	Nigel Hepper FLS	Evening Meeting & Election of New Fellows
1-3 Oct	9:00 AM	Beyond Cladistics: A Festschrift for Prof C J Humphries FLS	*Sandra Knapp FLS and David Williams FLS	Three-day Meeting
25 Sep	6:30 PM	Inspire	Alastair Land FLS	Sixth Form Lecture
20 Sep		London Open House		The Society will be open to the public
18 Sep	6:00 PM	Linnaeus and the role of women in 18th century botany	Mariette Manktelow FLS	Evening Meeting
1-3 Sep		Climate Change and Systematics		3 day meeting
26-29 Aug		Systema Naturae 250	Systema Naturae 250	Meeting in Paris
10 Jul	6:00 PM	Keeping cancers at bay the evolutionary way	Gerard Evan	Evening Meeting
3-4 Jul	9:00 AM	The Driving Forces of Evolution: From Darwin to the modern age	*Frank Ryan FLS and David Cutler PLS	Two-day meeting
1 Jul		150th Anniversary of the Reading of the Darwin/Wallace papers and Conversazione	Gareth Nelson FMLS and Allen Orr	Evening Meeting and Conversazione
26 Jun	5:30 PM	A Natural History of Conifers	Aljos Farjon FLS	Evening Meeting and Book Launch
29-30 May	9:00 AM	Wood Matters: A celebration of the work of John Barnett	*David Cutler PLS and Pieter Baas FLS	Two-day Meeting
29-30 May	8:00 AM	Updating the Linnaean Heritage: Names as tools for talking about animals and plants	*Sandro Minelli FLS	Two-day Meeting at Padua University, Italy
23 May	3:30 PM	Anniversary Meeting	David Cutler PLS	Afternoon Meeting & Election of New Fellows
15 May	9:30 AM	The Role of Botanic Gardens in the 21st Century	*Dawn Sanders FLS	Day Meeting
11 May	12:00 PM	Voyages of Exploration: discovering and collecting the natural world	Sandra Knapp FLS	Lecture in association with the LAPADA London Fair
8 May	5:30 PM	Hooker and Islands	Sam Berry PPLS	Evening Meeting - The Hooker Lecture
2 May	6:00 PM	The Linnaean Tercentenary Year - A Pictorial Review	Jenny Edmonds FLS	Evening Meeting
24 Apr	6:30 PM	Order	Alastair Land FLS	Sixth Form Lecture
17 Apr	5:30 PM	Conserving Nature in London	David Bevan FLS	Evening Meeting
10 Apr	5:30 PM	Biodiversity in a Changing World - Building a science base to support policy	Georgina Mace	Evening Meeting
3 Apr	5:30 PM	The life of John Stackhouse FLS, (1742-1819), scientist and naturalist with a particular interest in marine algae	Ian Caldwell FLS	Evening Meeting
13 Mar	5:30 PM	Great Apes and Climate Change	Ian Redmond OBE	Evening Meeting
6 Mar	5:30 PM	Barnacles	Phil Rainbow FLS	Evening Meeting and Book Launch
21 Feb	5:30 PM	Plant life on granite outcrops and inselbergs: a review	Stephen Hopper FLS	Evening Meeting
13 Feb	4:00 PM	Darwin's Birthday Party Lectures	*Centre for Ecology and Evolution	Evening Meeting at the Natural History Museum
31 Jan	6:30 PM	Explore	Alastair Land FLS	Sixth Form Lecture
24 Jan	5:30 PM	Linnaeus' material of mammals and birds: the last two groups of specimens to be studied	Anthea Gentry FLS	Evening Meeting
2007
Date	Time	Meeting	Speakers	Details	Full Programme
13 Dec	3:30 PM	Presentation of Tercentenary Medals	HRH The Princess Royal	Presentation followed by afternoon tea
12 Dec	2:30 PM	The Great Linnaean Enterprise: Then and Now	Professor Edward O. Wilson FMLS	Afternoon lecture
29 Nov	2:00 PM	Debate on issues in systematic biology	Prof David Hawksworth, Dr Werner Greuter, Dr Pedro Crous, Dr Brian Tindall, Dr John David, Dr Andrew Polaszek, Dr Richard Fortey, Prof John McNeill and Dr Alain Dubois.	Afternoon and evening meeting
22 Nov		Colour design and engineering: Colour in plants and animals - inspiration for design	Organised by David Cutler FLS, Michael Collins FLS and Chris Brown	Two-day meeting jointly with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
15 Nov	5:30 PM	Musa Cliffortiana	Tod Stuessy FLS, Stephen Freer FLS and Staffan Mueller-Wille	Evening meeting and book launch
9 Nov		British Society for Parasitology Autumn Symposium	Dr Mark Booth, Prof Jerzy Behnke, Dr Sandra Telfer, Dr Sian Clarke, Dr Simon Brooker, Dr Jamie Lloyd-Smith, Prof Jan Bradley, Dr Joanne Lello, Dr Andrew Fenton, Dr Pierre Druihle and Dr Mathieu Nacher.	Day meeting
31 Oct		Orchid evolutionary biology and conservation - from Linnaeus to the 21st century	Organised by Mark Chase FRS FLS and Michael Fay FLS	Three-day conference with two days at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
29 Oct	5:30 PM	Where was Homer's Ithaca?	Robert Bittlestone FGS, Prof. James Diggle, and Prof. John Underhill FGS	A Burlington House Lecture
25 Oct		Palynology Specialist Group	Organised by Carol Furness FLS	Day meeting
24 Oct		Palaeobotany Specialist Group	Organised by Peta Hayes FLS	Day meeting
18 Oct		Parasites, People and Poverty	Lord May PPRS FLS	Evening meeting
11 Oct		Linnaeus and Life Under the Microscope	Brian Ford FLS	Evening Meeting
1 Oct	9:00 AM	Linnaeus 300 - The future of his science	See programme for details	An international symposium marking the 300th birthday of Carl Linnaeus
29 Sep		Conversazione	Organised by Jenny Edmonds FLS	Held at Oxford Botanic Garden and Oxford Natural History Museum
27 Sep		The Natural History of Host-Parasite Interactions	David Rollinson FLS and Joanne Webster	Two-day meeting at Linnean Society with the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
20 Sep	5:30 PM	Profiling endangered species: how molecular genetics can help manage our vanishing species	Mike Bruford	Evening meeting
15 Sep		Open House		The Society was open to the public
14 Sep		Botanical Art in the Age of Linnaeus	Brent Elliott FLS	Joint afternoon meeting with the Royal Horticultural Society at Vincent Square
12 Jul	5:30 PM	Evolution and extinction of birds on the smaller western Indian Ocean islands	Robert Prys-Jones	Evening meeting presenting results of Percy Sladen Trust Centenary Expedition
4 Jul	10:45 AM	It's a small world	George McGavin FLS	Lectures for key stage 2 pupils in association with the Royal Institution
3 Jul	6:30 PM	Chelsea Physic Garden tour and reception	Organised by Jenny Edmonds FLS	Tour and reception at Chelsea Physic Garden
28 Jun	5:30 PM	King of the New World: the adaptive repertory of the Monarch butterfly	Lincoln Pierson Brower FLS	Evening meeting
25 Jun	10:45 AM	Is there a sorting hat for the natural world?	Dr Sandy Knapp FLS	Lectures for key stage 2 pupils in association with the Royal Institution. To be repeated at 1pm
21 Jun		Stonehenge: It's only rock and roll...	Professor Timothy Darvill and Professor Clive Ruggles	Joint Evening Meeting
18 Jun		The Evolution of Animals: A Tercentenary Celebration	Tim Littlewood FLS and Max Telford FLS	Two day meeting at the Royal Society at 6-9 Carlton House Terrace
11-12 Jun		Unlocking the Past - Linnaean Collections past, present and future	Organised by Jenny Edmonds FLS and Sandy Knapp FLS	Joint symposium with University of Uppsala (11th-12th in London, 14th-15th in Uppsala) followed by the Society's Gotland Tour 18th-22nd June (fully booked)
7 Jun	6:00 PM	Celebratory evening	Organised by Jenny Edmonds FLS	Reception at the Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
1 Jun	9:30 AM	In Linnaeus' Wake: 300 years of marine discovery	See Full Programme for more information	REGISTRATION FOR THIS MEETING IS NOW CLOSED
25 May		Anglo-Swedish Gardens seminar: A tribute to Linnaeus and his Legacy	Organised by Jenny Edmonds FLS	Joint seminar - by invitation only
24 May	4:00 PM	Anniversary Meeting and presentation of the book Order out of Chaos	David Cutler PLS	Evening event
23 May		Book launch - Order out of Chaos	Charlie Jarvis FLS	Press launch
22 May		Chelsea Flower Show	Organised by Elaine Shaughnessy FLS	The Society will have a stand in the Life-Long Learning Section
11 May	6:00 PM	Old wine, new bottles: The continuing importance of historic collections to contemporary geology, botany and zoology.	Prof Patrick Boylan	Formal dinner followed by lecture at Liverpool Athenaeum
8 May		A celebration of the Tercentenary of the Birth of Carl Linnaeus	Organised by Vaughan Southgate FLS	Joint evening meeting at the Zoological Society of London, followed by a dinner
23 Apr	5:30 PM	Dark energy and the history of chemosynthetic life in the deep sea	Organised by Brian Rosen FLS	Joint afternoon meeting at Geological Society followed by evening reception at Linnean Society
19 Apr	5:30 PM	Far from moderate - the human impact on the natural environment of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia	Stephen Palmer FLS	Evening meeting
16 Apr	5:30 PM	Plant Genome Horizons - Vistas and Visions	Organised by Michael Fay FLS and Ilia Leitch FLS	Two-day meeting at Jodrell Laboratory, Kew, to mark retirement of Prof Mike Bennett FLS
22 Mar	6:00 PM	Discovering the Forsters: Locating and mapping the evidence from John Street to the Pacific	Graham Jefcoate FRSA	Evening meeting
8 Mar	5:30 PM	Butterflies, art and Linnaean systematics in 18th century England: the achievements of Henry Seymer, Thomas Robins Junior and William Jones	Dick Vane-Wright FLS	Evening meeting
1 Mar	6:00 PM	Rocks, Plants and Antiquity: Sir Joseph Banks in Wales, 1763-73	Dai Morgan Evans FSA	FULLY BOOKED
19 Feb	6:30 PM	The Science of Climate Change - The need for a global response	Sir David King FRS	Evening meeting
25 Jan	5:30 PM	Linnaeus's Global Reach	Sandy Knapp FLS	Evening meeting
2006
Date	Time	Meeting	Speakers	Details	Full Programme
7 Dec	6:00 PM	Linnean Tercentenary Launch	David Cutler PLS and Elaine Shaughnessy FLS	Evening meeting
30 Nov	6:00 PM	Debate on issues in systematic biology	TBA	Evening meeting
25 Nov		Brogdale Lecture	Edward Wilson	Saturday Morning Lecture
2 Nov	6:00 PM	Evolutionary novelty in the deep sea: worms from whale carcasses	Adrian Glover FLS	Evening meeting
25 Oct		Palaeobotany Specialist Group	Organised by Jason Hilton	Day meeting
19 Oct		Evolution of Parasites	Organised by Tim Littlewood FLS	Day meeting
12 Oct	6:00 PM	Malmaison	Walter Lack FLS	Evening meeting; Election of new Fellows; Book sale
6 Oct		A Century of Evolution: Ernst Mayr 1904 - 2005	Mike Claridge FLS/Vaughan Southgate FLS (organiser)	Day Meeting
30 Sep		Conversazione	David F Cutler PLS and Elaine Shaughnessy FLS	Afternoon meeting and reception
21 Sep	6:00 PM	Lichens in Churchyards	Frank Dobson FLS	Evening meeting
16 Sep		London Open House
15 Sep		Biomaterials Meeting	Organised by Paul Hatton	Day meeting
4 Aug		Advances in Economic Botany	Organised by the Plant Anatomy Group	Organised by the Plant Anatomy Group
13 Jul	6:00 PM	Tilapia in Aquaculture	Roger Pullin	Evening meeting: to mark the publication of Ro Lowe-McConnell's autobiography
22 Jun	6:00 PM	Entomological Enlightenment	Quentin Wheeler FLS	Quentin Wheeler FLS
8 Jun	6:00 PM	Currasows and their Conservation	Nigel Hughes FLS	Evening Meeting
24 May		Anniversary Meeting	TBA	Wednesday: Election of new Fellows
11 May		A Passion for Trees... John Evelyn's legacy	Maggie Campbell Culver FLS	Evening Meeting; to coincide with publication the Tercentenary biography of John Evelyn
8 May		Current Advances in Genomics	Organised by Mike Bruford	Organised by Mike Bruford
26 Apr	6:00 PM	Pollen - particles of prolific virtue	Madeleine Harley FLS and Rob Kesseler	Evening meeting
23 Mar		Plagues and People: Planning for Pandemics	Professor Roy Anderson FRS	Joint Meeting with The Royal Institution at 7pm at Kings College (Waterloo Campus)
2 Mar		The Flora of the Central Sahara	Aljos Farjon FLS	Evening Meeting
16 Feb	6:00 PM	Joint presentation on Echinoderms	Eve Southward FLS and Andrew Campbell FLS	Evening meeting, to coincide with publication of new edition of the Synopsis; Election of new fellows
19 Jan	6:00 PM	"The Knife Man": John Hunter, father of modern surgery	Wendy Moore	Wendy Moore
2005
Date	Time	Meeting	Speakers	Details	Full Programme
8 Dec	5:30 PM	Robert Wight and the illustration of Indian Botany	Henry Noltie	Hooker Lecture (note earlier time)
5 Dec		Debate on issues in systematic biology: Phylocode vs. Linnean code	Quentin Wheeler	Quentin Wheeler
26 Nov		Brogdale Lecture - Germplasm collections: linking past present and future	Quentin Wheeler & Rick Walden	TBA
17 Nov		The origins of modern humans	Chris Stringer FLS FRS	Evening Meeting
14 Nov		Cell death in the protozoan parasite	Organised by Sue Welburn	British Society for Parasitology one day symposium
26 Oct		Linnean Society Palaeobotany Group: New discoveries in old collections	Organised by Jason Hilton FLS	TBA
15 Oct		Conversazione	President	TBA
29 Sep	6:00 PM	The analysis of flower scents	Robin Clery & Trevor Wiltshire	Evening meeting
22-24 Sep		The paradox of asexuality: an evaluation	Organised by Hugh Loxdale FLS	Three day conference with ESF-PARTNER
20 Sep		Gilbert White and Biodiversity	Organised by Gilly Drummond	One day meeting
17 Sep		London Open House
15 Sep		The Asian vulture crisis: cause and solutions	Debbie Pain	Evening Meeting
9 Sep		A Celebration of Grasses	Organised by Dave Simpson FLS	Part of two-day meeting jointly organised with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
13 Jul		Evening reception for participants at conference on Ways of Making and Knowing	TBA	With Wellcome Trust Centre
23 Jun		Harvestmen are an unusual bunch compared with other arachnids	Paul Hillyard	Evening Meeting, to coincide with publication of 3rd edition of the Synopsis
9 Jun	6:00 PM	The Intelligent Microbe: ingenuity in animals, plants and micro-organisms, and a new look at the brain	Brian Ford FLS	Evening meeting
24 May		Anniversary Meeting	TBA	Anniversary Meeting
5 May		Current priorities in tropical forest management and conservation	Jane Thornback	Evening Meeting
28 Apr		Are snail-borne diseases still a threat to global health	Organised by Russell Stothard	Afternoon scientific meeting with the Malacological Society of London
27 Apr		Linnean Society Palynology Group Meeting	Carol Furness
26 Apr		Linnean Society Palaeobotany Group: The study of fossil plants	Jason Hilton FLS	One-day open meeting
14 Apr	6:30 PM	Potential impacts of climate change on British flora and fauna	John Good	Evening meeting
6-8 Apr		International symposium on the biology of the palm family	Organised by William Baker FLS	With the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
17 Mar		Huxley and "The Rattlesnake"	Jordan Goodman	Book launch
17 Feb		Wildlife Crime	Guy Clarke	Evening Meeting
25 Jan		Taxidermy: science, art and bad taste	Pat Morris FLS	Evening meeting; Election of new Fellows
20-21 Jan		The role of the extra-cellular matrix in the control of plant development	Organised by Holly Slater	13th New Phytologist Symposium