In his War Diary, Heron-Allen wrote on 9 February 1919: “I sent my ‘squib’ on the ‘sitting face’ to Arthur Humphreys, the literary bookseller of ‘Hatchards’, who accepted it at once for his delightful magazine ‘Books of Today’ and asked me to add a paragraph to fill a page. I signed it ‘Flavian’ which is…
Request for help: A colleague has recently bought a letter to EH-A from Gilbert James, the well-known book illustrator. In it, James offers to sell the originals of his pictures for the 1907 Foulis edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Does anyone recall hearing anything about those pictures or, better still, remember seeing them…
Edward Heron-Allen and Jessie Alice Palmer Charitable Trust Bequests One of the long-standing queries on the website of the Heron-Allen Society is a request for information about Jessie Alice Palmer and the Jessie Alice Palmer Charitable Trust bequests. The query arose from the discovery of a report in The Times of 5 January 1905, which stated that:…
The painter of the portrait of Edward Heron-Allen that Ivor Jones has kindly allowed us to reproduce is unknown. All that is known about the portrait is that it was exhibited at the Paris Exhibition in 1927. The Society is anxious to identify the artist and any suggestions will be gratefully received by the Committee.…
Can anyone pronounce or identify TRTHWWSTHPLLGG in Cornwall mentioned in Princess Daphne? (Eric Trevanion’s house) and does it mean anything? Please send any information to the webmaster
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…