Natural History in Cambridge, May 2004

Pictures from Cambridge

The meeting began on Friday afternoon with a visit to the Darwin Correspondence Project, which is housed at the University Library. A display of letters and photos from the Darwin archives proved popular with the Society's members (left).

To find out more about the Project, visit their website.

Following the Darwin visit, members set off on various museum visits. In the photo on the right, Dr William Foster (second from left) is showing members around the University Museum of Zoology, whose displays include a great range of recent and fossil animals and are still in regular use for teaching.

Members inspecting some of the mammal displays in Zoology Museum.

A large and appreciative audience enjoyed both Anne Secord’s lecture and Saturday’s panel of papers.

The vast collection of fossils and minerals at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences fascinated those who went on the tour.

Cambridge was Tony Harvey’s last AGM as Honorary Treasurer of the Society – a position he has held for more than forty years. His long and efficient service (ably assisted by his wife Margaret) was recognised at the meeting where members presented Tony and Margaret with gifts and paid tribute to his work. He will be succeeded as treasurer by Jim Endersby (who has no intention of doing the job for 40 years!)

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