| Monday 10th February, 2020 5.30 for 6.00 to 7.00pm |
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| Barnard's Inn Hall |
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This venue is hidden. It is on the south side of Holborn between Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, opposite the large red-brick former Prudential building. There is a signpost on the pavement giving directions to the College down a short alleyway. Meet me in the courtyard after the talk we will make our way to Pendrel's Oak for coffee and maybe a beer. |
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Making New Plants: A History
This lecture examines the work of Hugo de Vries, a Dutch botanist who was one of the first to claim that science would allow plants and animals to be designed to order.
No reservations are required for this lecture. It will be run on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.
Doors will open at 5.30 and the lecture will start at 6.00.
It also looks at the early twentieth-century ‘Station for Experimental Evolution’ in New York, and at the utopian vision of Charlotte Gilman Perkins’ Herland (1915), a novel describing a lost world populated by women that took the form of a perfect garden, whose wonderful plants and lack of men were both explained by de Vries’ theory of mutation.
Jim is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Sussex. He specialises in Victorian natural history and the modern genetics and has presented programmes for BBC Radio 4.