Events Programme

 

The Linnean Society's diverse programme of events covers everything from plant and animal diversity to remote sensing and in vitro fertilisation, with follow-on articles often appearing in our members' newsletter - The Linnean. Most Linnean Society meetings are open to the public as well as members of the organisation.

 

Anyone interested in our activities is also encouraged to subscribe to our free email-based newsletter - Linnean-News. As well as regular updates on conference programmes, Linnean-News provides us with a means of up-dating schedules and programmes, as well as alerting you to guest speakers who - from time-to-time - may be available to give talks at short-notice.

 

Travel instructions for events held at the Society can be found here.

 

Members, researchers and scientists and members of the public are also encouraged to contact us with suggestions for future events.

 

We also keep an archive of events in the past.

 

 

Linnean Society - Forthcoming meetings

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on our programmes schedule -

***NB Evening Meetings are at 5.30pm (tea) meeting start time 6pm***

 

2010
DateTimeMeetingSpeakersDetailsFull Programme
16 Sep6:00 PMGenetic changes that make new speciesMohamed NoorEvening Meeting 
18 Sep10:00 AMOpen-City Open House London 
7 Oct6:00 PM'Getting away from the urban laboratory' Professor Francis Oliver and 100 Years of Ecology at Blakeney Point, NorfolkJohn PearsonEvening Meeting 
8 Oct1:00 PMStory of London Festival - Linnean Society Collections, Classification and Conservation: continuing the Linnean legacyDr Ruth Temple FLS & Lynda Brooks FLSLunchtime Lecture 
21 Oct6:00 PMThe NERC Taxonomy and Systematic ReviewGeoff BoxshallEvening Meeting & Election of New Fellows 
23 Nov6:00 PMPlagues and people in the modern worldSir Roy AndersonEvening Meeting 
2 Dec6:00 PMUnravelling the links between Natural History collections: the J.C. Mutis caseM.P. de San Pio AladrenFounders Day Evening Meeting 
13 Dec6:00 PMGeorge's Christmas Carol - Yule be glad you cameDr George McGavinEvening Meeting 

  

  

 * Organiser

  

  

Suggestions for future programmes are welcome and should be addressed to:

 

The Executive Secretary, Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BF

 

 

Next Meeting

Conversazione

 

*Professor Dianne Edwards FLS and Dr Mike Wilson FLS

 

17th July 2010, 2:00 PM

 

Afternoon Meeting

 

All Fellows are invited to attend the Society's annual Conversazione.  This will be held at the National Musue Cardiff and will include a guided tour of selected collection areas by museum staff (organised by Dr Mike Wilson FLS) and Professor Dianne Edwards FLS.  This will be followed by a reception and exhibition of rock art at the University of Cardiff.  

 

Tickets are available for Fellows and one guest at a cost of £25 each.  A registration form can be dowloaded from here.   

  

 

 

Coming Up

Early Events in Monocot Evolution

 

Joint 3-day meeting with Royal Botanic Gardens, Key and organised by Paul Wikin

 

20th - 22nd July 2010

 

Three- day Meeting

 

This three-day meeting, held in honour of RBG Kew's Araceae specialist Simon Mayo on his official retirement, will focus on early branches of the monocot phylogeny.  It will include fossils, monocot origins and relationships among alismatid and lilioid monocots.  The meeting is timed to occur in mid-cycle for the regular larger-scale and more inclusive Monocot Meetings (between Monocots IV, Copenhagen, 2008 and Moncots V, New York, 2013).  Oral presentations will be published in a planned Systematics Association volume. 

 

The registration fee for this three-day meeting is £75 which includes workshops and a tour of collections at Kew on the third day.  Details of the programme and a booking form can be downloaded from here.