Winter Programme
All meetings are held in the Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow; unless otherwise stated.
2010September
Tuesday 14th Exhibition meeting: wine and nibbles Zoology Museum, 7.30pm
Let Maggie Reilly know your table or board requirements (330 4772)
October
Wednesday 6th Blodwen Lloyd Binns Lecture (and Presidential Address):
Adventures with amphibians; Roger Downie. 5.00pm
Note time and day
Saturday 30th - Sunday 31st
Conference: Urban Biodiversity: Successes and Challenges
see conference page for details.
November
Tuesday 9th Tutorial: Victorian women naturalists:
Elizabeth Gray’s fossils and Hannah Robertson’s marine biology:
Maggie Reilly and Anne Orchardson. 6.30 pm
Lecture: Wildlife disease research in Africa: protecting the health of parks and people.
Sarah Cleaveland. 7.30 pm
Thursday 11th Lecture: Wildlife conservation issues in the Scottish Parliament.
Bill Wilson MSP (BSc, PhD). 7.30pm Jointly with GU Zoological Society. Note time and day
Thursday 18th Lecture: Tigers and Leopards and Bears, Oh My!!
Identification of Endangered species in Traditional East Asian Medicines.
Shanan Tobe. 6.00pm Jointly with GU Zoological Society. Note time and day
December
Tuesday 14th Christmas Dinner
Café Connect, 348 Cathedral Street: see Newsletter for details and booking form
Speaker: An island biosphere: Menorca’s plants. David Hawker
2011
January
Tuesday 11th Tutorial and Lecture: Inspired by the natural world.
Colin Wolf, Wildlife artist. 6.30 and 7.30 pm
February
Thursday 3rd Lecture: Wildlife of Arran
National Trust Ranger Service. 7.30pm
venue: Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley
Note time, day and venue. Joint meeting with Paisley NHS
Tuesday 8th Tutorial: Crayfish; Zara Gladman 6.30 pm
Lecture: Flora of Renfrewshire; Keith Watson. 7.30pm
Tuesday 22nd AGM: 6.30 pm
followed by Lecture: Moments of crisis: past climatic changes and their impacts in Scotland
Richard Tipping. 7.30pm
Note start times
March
Tuesday 8th Lecture: Biodiversity and Management of Aspen
Tom Prescott. 6.30 pm
Members photographic night: your slides or digital slide shows.
7.30pm Contact David Palmar
April
Tuesday 12th Tutorial: (to be arranged)
Lecture: Autotomy and other animal detachment mechanisms in the home, garden and beyond.
Iain Wilkie. 7.30pm
May
Tuesday 10th Tutorial: Intertidal Scottish crabs
Jon Barnes. 6.30 pm
Lecture: Evolution of plant reproductive systems in changing environments
Barbara Mable. 7.30 pm
June
Tuesday 14th Summer Social: details in Newsletter
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