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…
The Grave at Church Norton in Selsey, West Sussex, where Edward Heron-Allen, his wife Edith and their daughter Armorel are buried was restored by Messrs F.A. Holland of Selsey in March 2007 at the direction of the Society. The stonework was cleaned and the lettering repaired.
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…
February In the evening of 9 February, Timothy McCann, the Chairman of the Society will give an illustrated talk entitled, ‘Edward Heron-Allen and the Heron-Allen Society’ to the Local History Group of the Selsey Society. Opusculum VIII entitled ‘Edward Heron-Allen and Friends’ distributed to members. March At 7.30pm on 8 March, Timothy McCann, the Chairman of…
February In the evening of 9 February, Timothy McCann, the Chairman of the Society will give an illustrated talk entitled, ‘Edward Heron-Allen and the Heron-Allen Society’ to the Local History Group of the Selsey Society. Opusculum VIII entitled ‘Edward Heron-Allen and Friends’ distributed to members. March The Linnean, the Newsletter of the Linnean Society of London…
Members will recall the Heron-Allen Plaque unveiling at Selsey on 15 July 2002 (described in Newsletter no.3). Your committee failed to check out the blue plaque unveiled outside Large Acres to the extent, and their eternal shame, that the letters ‘FRS’ were omitted from it. It was thought essential that this should be corrected: accordingly, the…