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LECTURE TO COMMEMORATE THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF SCOTT'S POLAR EXPEDITION OF 1912 "When Antartica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history"
Wednesday 28 March 2012 in the Bristol Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre at 6.00pm.
Professor Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology, of the University of Leeds will give this special lecture to commemorate the centenary of the 1912 Scientific Expedition led by Captain Scott to Antarctica. The title of the lecture will be "When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history."
Special access will be available to the Scott Polar Research Institute's Exhibition "These rough notes: Captain Scott's last expedition" from 5.00pm to 6.00pm prior to the start of the lecture. A complimentary drinks reception to follow on after the lecture, will take place in the foyer to the lecture theatre for all attendees.
The museum visit, lecture and drinks reception are open to all who are interested.
NEW HENSLOW FELLOWSHIPS - Press release
A programme of research fellowships has been initiated for promising young research workers to carry out independent research for periods of up to three years. The fellowships are named Henslow Fellowships in honour of John Stevens Henslow (1796 - 1861) Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge and co-founder of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in 1819 (read more....)
Venue and Start time for Lent 2012 Lectures
Lectures will be held in the Bristol Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, (entrance next to the Scott Polar Research Building on Lensfield Road), Department of Chemistry, Cambridge at 5.30pm
31 March 2012- deadline for receipt of Research Studentship applications
1 May 2012 - deadline for receipt of Travel Grant applications
The Cambridge Philosophical Society was founded in 1819 'for the purpose of promoting scientific inquiry'. It became a Body Corporate by virtue of a Charter granted by King William IV in 1832.
Society charter & seal
Lent Term Lectures
Monday 12 March
Professor Simon Conway-Morris, Department of Earth Sciences, University
of Cambridge, will deliver a lecture entitled "Nine evolutionary myths:
The closing of the Darwinian mind?" at 5.30pm in the Bristol
Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre.
Entry is Free and open to all who are interested