Winter Programme
Meetings will be held in the Graham Kerr Building unless other arrangements are made during the course of the year – please check the latest newsletter
2011September
Tuesday 20th
7.30pm Exhibition meeting: wine and nibbles, Zoology Museum
Let Maggie Reilly know your table or board requirements (0141 330 4772)
October
Tuesday 11th
3:30-4:30pm Fungal Foray: Glasgow Botanic Gardens
6.30 pm Tutorial: In the footsteps of Frederick Klotzch: fungi and mycologists past and present: Roy Watling
7.30 pm Lecture: Introduced tree species in Scottish forests: recruits, renegades or refugees? Scott Wilson
November
Tuesday 8th
6.30 pm Tutorial: Working towards a revival of the Clyde Valley orchards. Crispin Hayes
7.30pm Lecture: The bats of Scotland and Trinidad: Keith Cohen
Wednesday 16th
5.00 pm Blodwen Lloyd Binns Lecture: Plant speciation in action in the UK: tales of the unexpected. Richard Abbott
Note time and day
December
Tuesday 13th
Christmas Dinner at Café Connect: See Newsletter for details and booking form
Speakers: A contrast in expedition locations: Iceland and Peru. David Bradley and Emily Waddell
2012
January
Tuesday 10th
6.30pm Photographic Night: members’ slides or digital slide shows, plus photographic competition results
February
Tuesday 14th
6.30 pm Tutorial: Lampreys: love and life (history strategies). John Hume
7.30pm Lecture: Blood, sweat and deer(s): using animal DNA evidence to aid wildlife crime investigation. Lucy Webster
Tuesday 28th
6.30 pm AGM: followed by Lecture: Plants: the (real) silent witnesses. Jennifer Miller
March
Tuesday 13th
6.30pm.Tutorial: Rodent and parasite dynamics on the islands of Loch Lomond. Victoria Paterson
7.30 pm Lecture: Why snakes lost their legs: thoughts on the origins of snakes. John Murphy
April
Tuesday 10th
6.30 pm Tutorial: Bats. Keith Cohen (a follow-up to his November lecture)
7:30pm FILM: 'Taking Root: the vision of Wangari Maathai'. This is about the inspiring tree-planting work in Kenya, carried out by the Nobel Peace Prize winner who sadly died last year.
Friday 13th
7.30pm Lecture: Wild flowers and gardens. Roy Sexton. Jointly with Hamilton and Paisley NHS
Venue: Old Parish Church Halls, Leechlee Road, Hamilton. See Newsletter for transport details
May
Tuesday 8th
6.30pm Tutorial: Local adaptation: Scottish frogs in a changing climate. Anna Muir
7.30pm Lecture: 'Going bald on top: the past, present and future of the Arctic ecosystem'.Anuschka Miller, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory
June
Tuesday 12th
Summer Social: details in Newsletter
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