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GA Events – lectures 2008

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January 4th 2008
Fossil insight in embryology at the dawn of animal evolution
Dr Phil Donoghue (Bristol University)

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E.N.I. geological challenge presentation with wine & canape reception.

February 1st
What happens when we re-run the tape of life?

Prof. Simon Conway Morris (University of Cambridge)

March 7th

Mary Anning of Lyme Regis, "the greatest fossilist the world ever knew", but was she 'amateur or professional'
Prof. Hugh Torrens (University of Keele)

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Mary Anning junior was a) female and b) orphaned at the young age of 10. She was additionally of working class, uneducated, Devon origin. She was moreover a dissenter, who published nothing and travelled little. Her life is thus c) difficult for historians to study but d) proves to be fascinating.

This illustrated lecture will attempt to explore all of these problems, and outline her extraordinary achievements. Her work, as a "merely commercial" collector of fossils, illuminates the importance of Museums, and of the proper preservation, and study, of their collections today. It also opens up the complex debate about who is amateur and who professional.

 

Mary Anning
April 4th
150 years of GA (Great Achievement)

Dr Eric Robinson
 
May 2nd            
AGM & Presidential Address: Exceptional preservation of skin and feathers in birds and dinosaurs from Liaoning, China

Prof. Mike Benton
 
June 6th
Natural concentration: Mineralogy at the Natural History Museum – more than an Earth’s treasury

Dr Andy Fleet
 

July 4th
What's under our feet? The sustainable use of Britain's subsurface

Dr John Luddon

 
October 3rd
From the depths: How stalagmites reveal Quaternary climatic history

Prof. Ian Fairchild
 
November 1st & 2nd
FESTIVAL OF GEOLOGY
 
December 5th
Australia-Asia Collision: Impact on SE Asia and Consequences for Ocean Gateways, Climate and Life
Prof. Robert Hall
 

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All GA lecture meetings are held in The Geological Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1

Tea served at 5.30pm and the lectures start at 6pm.
Non-members are charged £5.

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150th GA Anniversary Events

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