October 2008
2010 Anniversary Programme
Local Heroes awardees
Guernsey heroes of the Royal Society
Grosvenor Museum
Miscellaneous Fellows
Chester
Friends of the Priaulx Library
Guernsey
Eddington. The universe and beyond
Arthur Eddington FRS
Constructing the Heavens: the Bath astronomers
Kendal Museum
Caroline Herschel & William Herschel FRS
Cumbria
Herschel Museum of Astronomy
Bath
Close encounters with jelly fish, bi-planes and
Dartmoor
Star gazing: Admiral Smyth's celestial
Frederick Stratten Russell FRS
observations
Marine Biological Association
William Henry Smyth FRS
Plymouth
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum
Bedford
Mary Anning - the geological lioness of Lyme
Regis
Cornelius Vermuyden's fantastic feat and the
Mary Anning
continuous battle to maintain Fenland drainage
Lyme Regis Museum
Cornelius Vermuyden FRS
Dorset
Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum
Ely, Cambridgeshire
The Bailey bridge- A tribute to Sir Donald Bailey
Donald Bailey
The science of sound
Redhouse Museum & Gardens
JW Strutt PRS
Christchurch
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Dorset
Cambridge
Barnes Wallis- The Yorkshire connection and
Trilobites, toadstone and time
beyond
John Whitehurst FRS
Barnes Wallis FRS
Congleton Museum
East Riding of Yorkshire Museum Service
Cheshire
Beverley
Museum display and events to celebrate John
No flies on him: the multi talented Professor
Ray in the 21st Century
Newstead
John Ray FRS
Robert Newstead FRS
Braintree District Museum
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Essex
Fantastic Mr Ferranti
Star gazing
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti FRS
James Pound FRS & James Bradley FRS
Gallery Oldham
Redbridge Museum Service
Oldham
Ilford
Essex
John Mercer: Lancashire's curious chemist
John Mercer FRS
Dr Jenner's garden party
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum
Edward Jenner FRS
Burnley
Edward Jenner Museum
Lancashire
Berkeley
Gloucestershire
Sir Jonas Moore, Knight of Pendle Forest visits
Townley
Sir John Laws- a lifetime pioneering science,
Sir Jonas Moore FRS
agriculture and the local community
Towneley Hall and Art Gallery
Sir John Laws FRS
Burnley
Rothamsted Research
Lancashire
Harpenden
Hertfordshire
Newton and the Royal Society - Woolsthorpe
Manor summer exhibtion 2010
Science in the search for better medicines
Isaac Newton FRS
William Allen FRS & David Jack FRS
Woolsthorpe Manor
Ware Museum
Grantham
Hertfordshire
Lincolnshire
Earthquake detective: introducing the life and
The man who named the clouds: Luke Howard
work of John Milne, pioneer seismologist
FRS, a Tottenham hero
John Milne FRS
Luke Howard FRS
Carisbrooke Castle
Bruce Castle Museum
Isle of Wight
Haringay
London
Performance engineering and floodlit tube tours
How doth the busy banking bee- explore Lord
at the Brunel Museum
Avebury's insect world
Marc Brunel FRS &
John Lubbock- 1st Baron Avebury FRS
Isambard Kingdom Brunel FRS
Bromley Museum
The Brunel Museum
Orpington
Rotherhithe
Kent
London
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Scarborough
Celebrating Fellows of the Royal Society buried
North Yorkshire
at Kensal Green Cemetery, London
130 Fellows buried in the cemetary
Celebrating the scientific acheivements of Rev
Kensal Green Cemetary
William Scoresby FRS (1789-1857)
London
William Scoresby FRS
Whitby Museum
Hidden histories: She is an astronomer
North Yorkshire
Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS & Caroline Herschel
Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Stars observed: Goodricke, Piggott and the
Greenwich
development of Astronomy. An exhibition
London
John Goodricke FRS & Edward Pigott FRS
York City Archives
Sir Hans Sloane: discovery, travels and chocolate
Hans Sloane FRS
Discover Ada Lovelace: a poet's daughther and
Chelsea Physic Garden
enchantress of numbers
London
Ada Lovelace FRS
Newstead Abbey Historic House and Park
Sir Hans Sloane: discovery, travels and chocolate
Nottingham
Hans Sloane FRS
The Old Operating Theatre Museum
Acland's amazing scientific edifice- an illustrated
London
museum trail in rhyming verse
Henry Acland FRS
Sir Hans Sloane: discovery, travels and chocolate
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Hans Sloane FRS
Royal College of Physicians
John Wrottesley- South Staffordshire's
London
astronomer
John Wrottesley FRS
Perton Library
Staffordshire
The railroaders- The Nicholas Wood young
Sir John Tomes- leading Victorian dentist
engineering club
John Tomes FRS
Nicholas Wood FRS
British Dental Association
North of England Institute of Mining and
Caterham
Mechanical Engineers
Surrey
Newcastle
Earth, air and seawater: a celebration of local
The son of the first keeper
pioneers
William Crawford Williamson FRS
Gideon Mantell FRS, Richard Russell FRS &
Scarborough Museums Trust
John Evelyn FRS
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Sussex Archaeological Society
Copying James Watt: a master of science and
Lewes
votary of art
Sussex
James Watt FRS
Inverclyde Libraries and Museum
Secret altars: revealing the hidden past
Greenock
Martin Lister FRS
Inverclyde
Arbeia Roman Fort
South Shields
Hugh Falconer, local hero - a celebration of art
Tyne and Wear
and science
Hugh Falconer FRS
Mr Boulton entertains: A Lunar Society meeting
The Moray Council Museums Service
Matthew Boulton FRS
Forres
Soho House Museum
Moray
Birmingham
West Midlands
A celebration of science: Renfrewshire and the
Royal Society
The unknown hero of Leeds: William Astbury,
Miscellaneous Fellows
molecular biologist
Paisley Museum
William Astbury FRS
Renfrewshire
Thackray Medical Museum
Leeds
D'Arcy Thompson anniversary celebrations
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson FRS
Jocelyn Bell Burnell: The full spectrum
Universities of Dundee and St Andrews
Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS & Caroline Herschel
Dundee & St Andrews
Armagh Planetarium/ University of Ulster
Armagh
Super science sleuths at Swansea Museum
Miscellaneous Fellows
Swansea Museum
Mary Somerville- Reach for the stars
Mary Somerville
Burntisland Heritage Trust
Fife
An introduction to the work of Robert Dick
Robert Dick
Caithness Horizons
Thurso
Caithness
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