Cabinet of Natural History
Programme for Easter Term 1999
Meetings take place at 1pm on Mondays in Seminar Room 1, Dept. of HPS,
Free School Lane, Cambridge. Feel free to bring lunch with you.
Organised by Aileen Fyfe, HPS Cambridge, [log in to unmask]
26th April
Pamela Jane Smith, Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
"Prehistory: Cambridge's brilliant idiosyncracy"
4th May (TUESDAY!)
GREAT CABINET EXPEDITION: DINOSAURS AND DARWIN
A day-trip to see the dinosaur models at Crystal Palace, followed by a
picnic and a visit to Down House. Contact Aileen Fyfe ([log in to unmask])
for more details.
10th May
John Issitt, Faculty of Arts, the Open University
"Jeremiah Joyce: Unitarian, radical and presenter of science to children"
17th May
Stephanie Dalley, Institute of Oriental Studies and Somerville College,
University of Oxford
"Babylonian concepts of evolution"
24th May
Linda Gamlin, freelance writer
"The evolution of _Evolution_: how popular illustrated science books have
changed over the last 30 years."
31st May
No meeting
7th June
CABINET AND DEPARTMENTAL GARDEN PARTY, from noon in King's Fellows'
Garden.
Jon Topham, Division of HPS, University of Leeds
"101 things to do with natural history books"
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Aileen Fyfe
Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
Free School Lane (+44 1223) 740 537
Cambridge CB2 3RH [log in to unmask]
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