Public lectures at Burlington House

Please check the respective links for details of tickets and attendance.
People who wish to attend the Society of Antiquaries lectures are kindly requested to call the Society first.

Date Title Organiser
8 October 2010
1 pm
Collections, Classification and Conservation: continuing the Linnean legacy

Dr Ruth Temple, Executive Secretary of the Linnean Society of London
Lynda Brooks, Librarian of the Linnean Society of London

Linnean Society
7 October 2010
6.30 pm
Elements of Scientific Success
Richard Pike CSci FRSC, Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry
7 October 2010
1 pm
Rock of Ages
Dr Ted Nield is Editor of Geoscientist and former Chairman of the Association of British Science Writers
Geological Society
6 October 2010
1 pm
The Origins of the Royal Academy
Dr Charles Saumarez Smith CBE is Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy
Royal Academy
5 October 2010
1 pm
The Society of Antiquaries: Recording London's History
Professor Maurice Howard is the President of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Society of Antiquaries of London
4 October 2010
1 pm
Capital Cosmos: London's eye on the heavens
Steve Miller FRAS is the Professor in Science Communication and Planetary Science at University College London
Royal Astronomical Society
1 October 2010
6 pm
London’s Learned Societies: Past, Present and Future
Lord May is former Government Chief Scientific Advisor and Past-President of the Royal Society
Burlington House Societies
3 June 2010
6 pm
Science Meets Art: Investigating Pigments in Art and Archaeology
Professor Robin Clark CNZM FRS
Sir William Ramsay Professor Emeritus
Burlington House Societies
17 March 2010
6pm
The Eerie Silence - Amplified
Professor Paul Davies
Burlington House Societies
10 December 2009
6pm
Embryonic stem cells
Sir Martin Evans
Linnean Society
9 December 2009
6pm
The sameness of rocks, the uniqueness of earth history, and what all that means for hydrocarbon exploration
Bruce Levell
Geological Society
2 December 2009
6pm
The 250th Anniversary of the Birth of James Edward Smith
Sandra Knapp
Linnean Society
11 November 2009
6pm
Mountains in the sea
Tony Watts
Geological Society
5 November 2009
6pm
The Poetry of Science: creative writing and the artistic naturalist
Kelley Swain
Linnean Society
26 October 2009
6pm
The New World of Galileo
William Shea
Burlington House Societies
7 October 2009
6pm
Perturbing plankton in the sea: past and future
Rosalind Rickaby
Geological Society
17 September 2009
6pm
The "irritable power" of carnivorous plants: Mary Treat, Charles Darwin, and the Language of Flowers
Dawn Sanders and Tina Gianquitto
Linnean Society
9 September 2009
6pm
The fossil record since Darwin
Richard Fortey
Geological Society
3 September 2009
6pm
The mirabilis experience - 150 years after Welwitschia's discovery
Sara Albuquerque
Linnean Society
18 June 2009
6pm
Forensic ecology - its contribution to criminal investigation
Patricia Wiltshire
Linnean Society
18 June 2009
5pm
The Stonehenge Riverside Project
Michael Parker Pearson
Society of Antiquaries
11 June 2009
6pm
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee Reports on Systematics and Taxonomy
The Earl of Selborne
Linnean Society
11 June 2009
5pm
The Sir Percival David Collection in the Sir Joseph Hotung Centre for Chinese Ceramics
Jessica Harrison-Hall
Society of Antiquaries
10 June 2009
6pm
The life and death of coral reefs
Rachel Wood
Geological Society
9 June 2009
1pm
The science and beauty of nebulae
Carolin Crawford
Royal Astronomical Society
21 May 2009
5pm
Remembering Charlemagne's Pope: Alcuin's epitaph for Hadrian I in Old St Peter's
Joanna Story
Society of Antiquaries
14 May 2009
5pm
Bringing the Past Alive: treasures of the Fellows' Library, Dulwich College
Robert Weaver
Society of Antiquaries
13 May 2009
6pm
How do we know how old the Earth and planets are?
Randy Parrish
Geological Society
12 May 2009
1pm
Afar, Ethiopia: a new ocean in the making?
Kathy Whaler
Royal Astronomical Society
6 May 2009
6pm
Two Hundred Years of Evolution: Celebrating Charles Darwin in 2009
Janet Browne
Burlington House Societies
30 April 2009
6pm
The Great Ape Debate
David Chivers and John A. Burton, chaired by the Earl of Cranbrook
Linnean Society
30 April 2009
5pm
John Gower and London
John Hines
Society of Antiquaries
16 April 2009
6pm
Biodiversity in a Changing World
John Beddington
Linnean Society
14 April 2009
1pm
Imaging the Universe
Robert Massey
Royal Astronomical Society
1 April 2009
6pm
Fuelling the Future: Energy Questions Driving a New Geoscience
Dirk Smit
Geological Society
19 March 2009
5pm
Medievalism and the Grand Tour
Rosemary Sweet
Society of Antiquaries
19 March 2009
6pm
Darwin's 'Sacred Cause'
James Moore
Linnean Society