March Professor Christopher Dobson FRS, Master of St. John’s College Cambridge and Honorary Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, delivered the annual Heron-Allen Lecture: “New Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Neurodegenerative Diseases”, at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, at 5.15 p.m. on Friday 2 March 2012. May The Society’s Newsletter No.20 was published. Articles included: ‘Unseen Corsica by EH-A, 1921’,…

January Joan Navarre’s paper, ‘Oscar Wilde, Edward Heron-Allen, and the Palmistry Craze of the 1880s’ was published in English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol.54, no.2 (2011) 174-84. The Chairman gave a talk entitled, ‘The Singular Life of Edward Heron-Allen’ to the Chichester Science Group, at the New Fishbourne Centre, near Chichester on Tuesday, 11 January…

January On 4 January Professor Malcolm B. Hart delivered a lecture entitled, ‘Foraminifera of Plymouth Sound: The legacy of Edward Heron-Allen 70 years on’, to the Ussher Society 48th annual conference at Plymouth in Devon. The Society’s Newsletter no.15 was published and distributed. Articles include ‘The Ninth Annual Symposium’; ‘Joint Meeting with the Royal Irish Academy’ by…

March The Annual Heron-Allen Lecture was held in Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford on Friday 6 March 2009 at 5.15, preceded by a reception in The Old Library. The lecture was delivered by Professor E J Milner-Gulland, Professor in Conservation Science, Imperial College London. Professor Milner-Gulland will speak about “Conserving the Saiga Antelope: Science…

March The Annual Heron-Allen lecture was held on Friday March 10th at Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Dr Neil M Ferguson OBE, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Imperial College, London spoke on “Planning for the unpredictable: how modelling can aid preparations for the next flu pandemic”. A Catalogue of the Treasures of Marie Anna…

Official opening of the new Heron-Allen Library door8th Annual Symposium5th July, 2008Natural History MuseumLondon The Natural History Museum houses the scientific library of Edward Heron-Allen. It is probably the finest and most comprehensive holding of literature on the Foraminifera in the world. It was for his work of this group of beautiful single-celled, shelled organisms…

February The original door to Edward Heron-Allen’s library at Large Acres in Selsey has been presented to the Society by the Pledger family. The door has been taken to the Natural History Museum, London and it is hoped that it will be re-erected as the door to the Heron-Allen Library in the Palaeontology Department. Pam…

28 November 2007Natural History MuseumLondon Murder, suicide, bankruptcy and ruin have all been associated with Heron-Allen’s amethyst. Known as the Purple Sapphire, Heron-Allen’s amethyst was “cursed and stained with blood” according to Edward Heron-Allen who, himself worked at Natural History Museum as a researcher in the early 20th Century. The stone had been looted during…

In his “Notes upon the Literary, Scientific, and Artistic Activities of Edward Heron-Allen, FRS” (Heron-Allen Society, Opusculum I (2000), EH-A wrote that after he lost his younger daughter Armorel Daphne in a car accident, within a fortnight of her having taken her degree (with first class honours) in Science, at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford: he…

Chichester District Museum Chichester District Museum is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. In celebration the Museum put on a temporary exhibition about its collection entitled “A Better Mousetrap and the Selsey Feet”. The “better mousetrap” is another story but the “Selsey Feet” originally belonged to Heron-Allen before ending up here in the Museum. These…