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- Birkbeck Lectures 2019: Nature in Green Belts
- Painting Butterflies and Moths
- Painting Summer Fruits and Flowers
- Easter Special: Eggs, feathers and bowls
- Flowers in Vintage Vases
- Painting Spring Flowers
- A Contribution to the Origin and Early Evolution of Snakes
- Linnean Society Field Trip 2019: Slapton Ley
- Human Population and Biodiversity: Red Herring or Elephant in the Room?
- 7th International Orchid Conservation Congress
- Darwin Comes to Town: How Animals and Plants adapt to the Urban Jungle
- Treasures Tour – June 2019
- Treasures Tour – May 2019
- Treasures Tour – April 2019
- Treasures Tour – March 2019
- Treasures Tour – February 2019
- Treasures Tour – January 2019
- American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
- Plants of the Qur’ān and other Religious Texts: Preserving Cultural History in a Changing World
- Anniversary Meeting 2019
- Evolution in the Genome: Studying Brightly-Coloured Tropical Butterflies to Understand Evolution and Speciation
- Putting Flesh on Ancient Bones
- How and Why Biological Shapes change during Evolution: History of Ideas from D’Arcy Thompson to Developmental Genetics
- Reforming the Whale
- BioMedia Meltdown 2018/19 Celebration Evening
- Linnean Society Conference: Diversity within Natural History
- Nature's Palette: Understanding how Flowers Pattern their Petals
- The History of Seed Exchange
- Annual Debate: The Future of Plant Science
- Deceivers, Doppelgangers and Degenerates
- The Linnean Society Student Conference 2019
- Adaptations of Mammals to Urban Living
- Can Fossils Solve the Origin of Comb Jellies?
- The Systematics Association 2018 President’s Lecture | Morphology, Molecules, Methods and the Discovery of Caecilian Biodiversity
- A special FREE art class at the Linnean Society for 18-30 year olds
- Fieldwork in Fancy Dress? – a natural history of women in the field
- Birkbeck Lectures 2018: Transport and Nature
- Linnaeus, Sex and Classification
- Curious Travellers: Thomas Pennant, Travel and the Making of Enlightenment Knowledge
- Art Course: Drawing and Painting Nature Specimens
- The Big Draw Festival - Linnaeus' New Portrait
- Writing a PhD Thesis
- The Rules of Engagement: How to Tailor Your Science Effectively
- Open House 2018
- Treasures Tour – December 2018
- Treasures Tour – October 2018 (2)
- Treasures Tour – October 2018 (1)
- Treasures Tour – September 2018
- Landmarks in the History of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners
- The Future of Coralline Algae
- A Brush With Flowers
- Great Ape Minds and Human Evolution: Understanding Our Closest Living Relatives, the Chimpanzees and Bonobos
- The Impostor Syndrome: Why successful people often feel like frauds
- Darwin Lecture 2018: Targeting vulnerability; Improving childhood survival, growth and development in low-income settings
- Sir Julian Huxley Lecture 2018 – Marine Benthic Biodiversity of the Southern Ocean
- Frightful Tales from the World of Venom
- Science Policy Lecture 2018 – Lost Prophets, Deluded Wizards, Addicted Alchemists, and Us
- CANCELLED: The Weird and Wonderful World of Mosses.
- Life after Death: The Ecology and Evolution of Burying Beetles
- Biosphere 2: Lessons and Relevance to Global Ecological Challenges
- Unnatural Selection: Evolution at the Hand of Man
- How Are We Communicating the Importance of Taxonomy and Systematics?
- Art class at the Linnean
- Courtyard Lates: Resources
- A Plastic Ocean: screening and debate by the IES & IMarEST
- Linnean Society Field Trip
- One day painting course at the Linnean
- The Value of Nature in a Warming World
- Gaia Walk with Peter Horton
- Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution
- Birkbeck Lectures 2018: The World and Nature of Fungi
- Anniversary Meeting 2018
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Conservation Breeding and Livestock Genetics: In Memory of Andrew Sheppy FLS
- 230th Anniversary of the Linnean Society: A Celebration of our First Female Fellows
- Conversazione 2018: Official Unveiling of “Herbie”
- Treasures Tour – June 2018
- Treasures Tour – April 2018
- Treasures Tour – March 2018
- Treasures Tour – February 2018
- Treasures Tour – January 2018
- The Future of Tropical Agriculture
- Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects
- Six Continents: Five Years: One Big Plant Book
- Fashioned From Nature: Learning from the Linnean Society of London
- Annual Debate 2018: Synthetic Biology
- Forensic Entomology: How to Solve a Crime
- BioMedia Meltdown Careers Workshop and Awards Celebration
- A Bioenergetic Basis for the Three Domains of Life
- Will Reefs of Calcifying Algae protect Marine Biodiversity against Climate Change?
- Ways of Thinking: From Crows To Children And Back Again
- The Island as the Origin of all Species
- Reproduction in Sponges: Genes, Structures and Ecological Patterns
- Treasures Tour – May 2018
- Forty-five years of living with guillemots on Skomer Island
- The Systematics Association 2017 President's Lecture | On the Malleability of Genomes
- Remembering James Petiver (1665–1718)
- What Hope for Corals in this International Year of the Reef?
- Explore the Linnean Society Archives
- Birkbeck Lectures 2017: Birds and Us
- Irene Manton Lecture Manchester: I’m a Butterfly, Get Me Out of Here…
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- August 2012: Medal winners
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- August 2012: Wallace 2013
- September 2012: A recent Appleyard Fund grantee
- October 2012: Edward Smith-Stanley
- November 2012: Toynbee House is taking shape
- November 2012: Linnaeus Link Union Catalogue
- December 2012: Animalia Paradoxa
- December 2012: Why is holly prickly?
- January 2013: Alfred Russel Wallace Virtual Issue
- January 2013: Linnean Learning at the 2013 ASE Conference
- January 2013: The Nepalese Botanical Drawings of Francis Buchanan
- February 2013: Sir John Lubbock PLS
- March 2013: Linnaeus’ Floral Clock
- March 2013: The Etymology of Entomology
- March 2013: The History and Future of British Rivers and Waterways
- April 2013: The Ghost Horned Crab
- May 2013: Botany and the Linnean imagination
- June 2013: Wallace Centenary Event in Bournemouth
- June 2013: Medal Winners
- July 2013: Field Trip
- August 2013: Conversazione
- September 2013: Linnean Society President awarded honorary Doctorate
- September 2013: Vulture Awareness Day
- October 2013: Conserving George Don’s letters
- November 2013: Asian elephant lost and found
- December 2013: Maps of Nepal
- January 2014: Edwin Ephraim Riseley
- February 2014: Linnaeus in love
- March 2014: Entomology for education
- 10th April 2014: Celebrating and protecting plants
- 25th April 2014: Images of Nepal
- 6th May 2014: Plymouth Linnean Lecture
- 9th May 2014: Early modern elephants - Science, Sex and Monsters
- 16th May 2014: Linnaean manuscripts and writing technologies
- 23rd May 2014: Charles Darwin Trust
- 30th May 2014: Medal Winners
- 6th June 2014: Late night Linnaeus
- 13th June 2014: Hassan Rankou IUCN Red List
- 13th June 2014: Lunchtime Lectures
- 20th June 2014: Midsummer
- 27th June 2014: Strawberries
- 30th July 2014: Beyond the Gardens, The Future of Taxonomy
- 1st September 2014: Natural History Near You
- 19th September 2014: Open House 2014
- 17th November 2014: Systematics Research Fund
- 26th November 2014: The multiple uses of a manuscript
- 27th November 2014: New members of Council
- 11th December 2014: Linnean Society Collections Accorded Designation Status by Arts Council England
- 18th December 2014: Carl Linnaeus the Younger in London
- 5th March 2015: Mystery Writing
- 18th March 2015: The Linnean Sea-horses
- 2nd April 2015: The Life and Death Cone Snail
- 8th April 2015: The Linnaean Annotated Library
- 15th June 2015: Medal Winners
- 30th June 2015: Conversazione 2015
- 19th August 2015: 50 years of the Biological Records Centre
- 20th November 2015: 17th Young Systematists' Forum
- 22nd February 2016: Europe has gained another snake
- 16th May 2016: APG - Classification by Consensus
- 31st May 2016: Virtual Issues - Linnean Society Meeting at the Arnold Arboretum
- 3rd June 2016: Medal Winners 2016
- 6th June 2016: Systematics Research Fund (SRF) Results of 2015/16 round
- 8th June 2016: Oxford University Press to partner with The Linnean Society of London on journals publishing
- 25th August: Poetic Botany – Art and Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
- 14th September 2016: Every New Term Deserves a Fresh Pencil Case
- 2nd February 2017: The Linnean Society of London awarded £2,500 gift from the Patron's Fund
- 8th March 2017: International Women's Day
- 3rd March 2017: The Linnean Society receives the visit of the Embassy of Sweden
- 27th March 2017: Treasures from the Collections: Conrad Gessner
- 6th April 2017: Not so Fierce Beasts
- 7th April 2017: Summary Briefing Document on the Nagoya Protocol (Access and Benefit-Sharing)
- 12th April 2017: Artist, Scientist, Explorer: Mark Catesby in the Carolinas
- 27th April 2017: Trees of Life – A Visual History
- 23rd May 2017: Virtual Issues: 100 years of the Swedish Linnaeus Society
- 25th May 2017: Medal Winners 2017
- 7th June 2017: Hiroshige's Fishes
- 8th June 2017: World Oceans Day
- 19th July 2017: Giant sunfish species eludes discovery for centuries
- 1st August 2017: Remembering E E Riseley
- 16th August 2017: University of Stirling team discovers new plant in Shetland
- 16th August 2017: Colours of Burlington House – A Chronicle
- 17th August: Adopt an 'Ortus Sanitatis'
- 24th August 2017: Science & Art Collide in North West London
- 22nd September 2017: Linnaeus – on the run next week!
- 26th September 2017: Smiley Faced Spiders
- 27th October 2017: Birds' Eggs: A Display on the History of Egg Collecting
- 31st October 2017: Housekeeping Week
- 18th-26th November 2017: Explore Your Archive
- 12 January 2018. Linnean Learning videos
- 26 January 2018: Linnean Learning take on the ASE conference
- 2 February 2018: #Ephemera and #ColorOurCollections
- 12th February 2018: Darwin Day
- 20th March 2018: Celebrating the first women Fellows of the Linnean Society of London
- 20th April 2018: Linnean Learning Podcast Channel Launch
- 2nd May 2018: Conserving the Carpological Collection
- 18th May 2018: Lady Pleasance Smith: a typical Victorian lady?
- 30th May 2018: Medal winners 2018
- 15th June 2018: The Linnean Society Loose Letters Collection: The Weird and the Wonderful
- 1st July 2018: 160th anniversary of the presentation of "On the tendency of Species to form Varieties"
- 6th July 2018: My week at the Linnean Society
- 14th August 2018: Linnean Society Field trip to the Isle of Cumbrae
- 24th August 2018: The Museum of Lost Species debuts at Green Man
- 19th September 2018: Reverend William Kirby, the Father of Modern Entomology
- 2nd October 2018: The Man who taught Charles Darwin Taxidermy
- 9th October 2018: Celebrating our Fellows: Maha Kordofani FLS
- 15th October 2018: The Father of the Peanut Industry
- 24th October 2018: Looking to the Future
- 31st October 2018: Hidden Treasures: In Search of John Tyley
- 23rd November 2018: Thomas Pennant – naturalist, traveller and letter-writer
- 3rd December 2018: Explore your Archives Week
- 19th December 2018: “As Obsolete as some Better Things”: Mistletoe in our Collections
- 1st January 2019: Seven Temptations! Linnaeus and Love in the New Year
- 15th January 2019: Meet the Team – Events and Communications
- 29th January 2019: Meet the Team – Archivist
- 12th February 2019: Meet the Team – Education Outreach Assistant
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- The Linnean Medal
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- The Irene Manton Prize
- The John C Marsden Medal
- The Linnean Gold Medal
- The Linnean Tercentenary Medal
- The John Spedan Lewis Medal
- The Trail-Crisp Award
- The H H Bloomer Award
- The Jill Smythies Award
- The Anne Sleep Award
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- Systematics Research Fund
- The Appleyard Fund
- The Dennis Stanfield Memorial Fund
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