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The Society for the History of Natural History is for everyone who enjoys #NaturalHistory. "Archives of Natural History" is published by @EdinburghUP.
United Kingdom
Joined May 2011
📢 Just a reminder that we can be found across other social media channels!. If you enjoy what we post and want to see more, then please do follow our other accounts - we'd love to see you over there! 👇
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✨Booking is OPEN✨. Join us for our Summer Meeting on the theme A Sense of Nature! Two days of talking about history and nature, including museum tours 🥰. 📅19-20 June.🏦Kelvin Hall, University of Glasgow. Follow the link for speakers and how to book 👇.
shnh.org.uk
A Sense of Nature The ‘sensory turn’ in a range of humanities and social sciences disciplines has led to innovative research exploring how sensory experiences shape cultural and historical narrativ...
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In 1694 #OTD the naturalist George Ewards was born. Known by some as the father of British ornithology, Edwards travelled through Europe producing colourful drawings of birds as he went. He published A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, which was referenced by Linnaeus. (📸BHL)
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RT @ZSLLibrary: #OTD in 1827 ZSL's Council agreed to admit women as #Fellows on the same basis as men. This decision was recorded in our Co….
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Pioneering naturalist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian was born #OTD in 1647. In 1699 Merian went on the first-ever purely scientific expedition to the Dutch colony of Suriname where she documented intricate plant-insect interactions with beautiful artwork. (📸BHL)
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RT @ZSLLibrary: Zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck was born #OTD in 1778. He provided the text for the first volume of "Les pigeons par Mada….
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📢One week to go!. If you want to join us in Glasgow this year for our Summer Meeting on the theme of A Sense of Nature, then we can help!. 📚Current doctoral or post-doc within 2 yrs.💵Receive between £300-400.📅Deadline Friday 5 April 2025. More information in the link below 👇.
✨Conference bursary✨. Are you a current doctoral researcher or post-doctoral researcher within 2 years of completion wanting to attend our Summer Meeting? We can help!. We offer bursaries for those who need it, check out the criteria & how to apply 👇.
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Frederik Ruysch was born #OTD in 1638. Ruysch was primarily an anatomist, experimenting new ways to preserve and embalm specimens which could then be further used for study and teaching. But he also studied animals and was the first to describe the vomeronasal organ in snakes.
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Swiss physician & naturalist Conrad Gessner was born #OTD in 1516. Considered one of the fathers of modern zoology and botany, he is perhaps best known for his work Historia animalium. In it, he attempted to document every known animal at that time, including a few curve balls.
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English naturalist Mark Catesby was born #OTD 1683. Catesby spent years in N America studying and collecting the wildlife, eventually producing the first major account of nature in the region. This included the first European description of the ivory-billed woodpecker. (📸BHL)
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✨Conference bursary✨. Are you a current doctoral researcher or post-doctoral researcher within 2 years of completion wanting to attend our Summer Meeting? We can help!. We offer bursaries for those who need it, check out the criteria & how to apply 👇.
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This could include the roles of sight, smell and taste in plant or animal identification, or the place of smell and touch in modern museum galleries. Interested? The deadline for papers is Friday 14 March. Find out how to submit 👇.
shnh.org.uk
A Sense of Nature This two-day international meeting will explore the intersections of the senses – including sight (vision), sound (hearing), smell (olfaction), taste (gustation) and touch (tactile...
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📢Calling all natural historians!. This year our Summer Meeting is exploring the ✨senses✨. So we want to hear from you! We're looking for papers that explore the intersections of the senses - including sight, sound, smell, taste and touch - with the history of natural history.
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RT @ZSLLibrary: Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay2025 with our recent guest #blog by Ann Datta, #Volunteer Art Cataloguer, about the recent….
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And! There's more!. Nominations are still open for our Predident's Medal! 🥳. You can also find out more about how to recognise those folk who are improving diversity, accessibility and inclusivity within the field below. Please do get nominating! 🥰.
✨President's Award nominations open!✨. Awarded for an individual or team’s contribution and impact in promoting and improving accessibility, inclusivity and diversity to the study of the history of natural history 🤩. Find out how to nominate 👇.
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📢We want to hear from you!📢 . Only a few days left to get your nominations infor the SHNH's Founders' Medal 💫 . Find out all the info you need on who and how you can nominate below! Good luck!.
🥇Founders' Medal nominations 🥇. Do you know someone who has made a substantial contribution to the study of the history or bibliography of natural history?. Then how about nominating them for the SHNH's Founders’ Medal! 😍. Find out how to nominate 👇.
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RT @NHM_Science: Charles Darwin was born on this day in 1809. Find out how a rabbit once kept by Darwin helps scientists to understand how….
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📢One week to go!📢 . Only seven days until our Early Career Researcher Symposium, showcasing a great range of speakers talking on everything from biblical nature to hidden histories 📖🌱🐇 . Grab your FREE ticket, put the kettle on, and settle down 👇.
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A showcase of research into the history of natural history being done by doctoral and early career researchers across the globe.
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RT @Geology_History: February 11, 1905, birthday of Czech painter, book illustrator and palaeoartist Zdeněk Michael František Burian, whose….
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