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Events, News, Talks

OCTOBER TALKS

Cambridge Natural History Society have organised four talks, in addition to the joint event with the Cambridge Beekeepers’ Association, in October. These take place on Thursdays at 6:45 p.m. Please arrive punctually. Tea/coffee available beforehand.

Admission free. All welcome.

Talks take place in the David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ. On foot this is less then 10 minutes from Drummer St bus station, and there are plenty of cycle racks. There is no parking on the New Museums Site – the nearest car park is the Grand Arcade.

As you enter the New Museums Site the David Attenborough Building is in front of you. The entrance is on the podium level, reached by the steps or there’s a lift if you walk along with the building on your right.

Most CNHS talks are also available via Zoom. Details will be sent to those on the CNHS mailing list. To join the list email cnhs_mailings-join@cnhs.org.uk – you will then get emails back from the system telling you what to do next.

Thursday 9th October The Past and Future of Natural History
 Brian Eversham

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Thursday 16th October Searching for (and finding) Snow Leopards
Peter Pilbeam


Thursday 23rd October Conserving Butterflies: Past, Present and Future
Matt Hayes


Thursday 30th October Plastics in the Environment
Claire Barlow

Events, News, Talks

A Buzzing of Bees: Tales of Honeybees through History

The Cambridge Natural History Society autumn talks series starts with a special event, jointly with the Cambridge Beekeepers’ Association, on Wednesday 1st October, when Dr Dino Martins will talk about the relationship between honeybees and people. Honeybees are one of the most familiar and widespread insects that are kept, managed, exploited and familiar to humanity. It is often said that ‘There is a crisis around bees’, but the reality is that overall honeybee numbers are actually increasing worldwide, the result of more intensive management, mass production and commercial trade of queens and colonies. With examples drawn from around the world, this talk will highlight the complex, multi-faceted relationship we have with honeybees and explore how we can all play a role in better stewardship of the planet.

Talks take place in the David Attenborough Building, New Museums
Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ. On foot this is less then 10
minutes from Drummer St bus station, and there are plenty of cycle
racks. There is no parking on the New Museums Site – the nearest car
park is the Grand Arcade.

As you enter the New Museums Site the David Attenborough Building is in front of you. The entrance is on the podium level, reached by the
steps or there’s a lift if you walk along with the building on your
right.

The subsequent talks will be on Thursdays at 6:45 p.m. in the same venue.

Thursday 9th October The Past and Future of Natural History
 Brian Eversham
Thursday 16th October Searching for (and finding) Snow Leopards
Peter Pilbeam
Thursday 23rd October Conserving Butterflies: Past, Present and Future
Matt Hayes
Thursday 30th October Plastics in the Environment
Claire Barlow

Thursday 6th November Looking for the Goshawk – the Lost Raptor
Conor Jameson
Thursday 13th November Unsung Songbirds: Vocal Communication and Cognition in Corvids Claudia Wascher
Thursday 20th November A Visit to the Vercors Monica Frisch
Thursday 27th November The Little Wilbraham River: a chalk stream living dangerously David Lomas

Events, News, Talks

Finding W H Hudson: the writer who came to Britain to save birds

The next CNHS talk, on Thursday 17th October, will be given by Conor Jameson. It will take place at 6:45 p.m. in the the seminar room of the James Dyson Building, in the Department of Engineering.

To find this room, go in via the main entrance to the department from Trumpington St (opposite Hot Numbers coffee shop, entrance marked by a metal sculpture). After a short distance, turn into the space on your left and go straight ahead. You will pass the main Baker Building of the department on your right and the Architecture Department on your left. The James Dyson Building is ahead of you, with some bicycle racks in front of it. The entrance is via a revolving door, but if this turns out to be locked then someone will let you in via a door just to the right of it. The seminar room is directly on your left. Because the talks are out of normal hours, there is some car parking available on the site. Please contact the President for details..

Conor Jameson will talk on “Finding W H Hudson — the writer who came to Britain to save birds”. Conor describes his mission to restore William Henry Hudson (1841–1922), from previously unseen letters held in America. Conor traces the unassuming field naturalist’s path through a dramatic and turbulent era: from Hudson’s journey to Britain from Argentina in 1874 to the unveiling by the prime minister of a monument and bird sanctuary in his honour 50 years later, in the heart of Hyde Park. It is a place where the young immigrant had, for a time, slept rough. The story reveals Hudson’s deep influence on the creation of his beloved Bird Society (RSPB) by its founding women, and the rise of the conservation movement. Cambridge Professor Alfred Newton has a key supporting role. This story reveals the strange magnetism of this mysterious man from the Pampas – unschooled, battle-scarred and once penniless – that made his achievements possible, and left such a profound impression on those who knew him.

All welcome – admission free – please arrive punctually

News, Talks

12th October: Swallowtails talk

The CNHS Autumn Programme opens on Thursday 12th October with a talk Swallowtails: Keeping them safe at home and abroad.

A British Swallowtail photo © Mel Collins

The speaker, Dr Mark Collins, is the author of Threatened
Swallowtail Butterflies of the World and Chair of the Swallowtail and Birdwing Butterfly Trust. He will give an illustrated talk about the Trust’s conservation activities in Borneo, Bhutan, Fiji, Australia, Jamaica and elsewhere, news about an upcoming conference on the Apollo butterflies and their relatives worldwide, concluding with a detailed appraisal of the existential risks facing the British Swallowtail in the Norfolk Broads, and what options we have to keep the species safe.

This talk will be in person, in the David Attenborough Building, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ

It will start at 6:45 p.m. Please arrive in good time or you may not be able to get into the building.

Members free; non-members £2
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