Down House Visit

CPS members visit Down House, home to Charles Darwin where he wrote On the Origin of Species.

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Image:CPS supports The Cambridge University Herbarium videos for the Cambridge Festival 2024

14 March
2024

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CPS supports The Cambridge University Herbarium videos for the Cambridge Festival 2024

CPS supports the production of Cambridge University Herbarium videos for the Cambridge Festival 2024

Image:CPS Journals donated to Darwin College

14 December
2023

CPS Journals donated to Darwin College

CPS Journals by Darwin's sons donated to Darwin College archive.

Image:The stones that built Cambridge

30 May
2023

The stones that built Cambridge

Members explore the impressive John Watson Building Stones Collection housed in the former Museum of Economic Geology at the Department of Earth Sciences.

Image:Humanity’s quest to discover the origins of life in the universe

06 March
2023

Humanity’s quest to discover the origins of life in the universe

Dr Emily Mitchell, Assistant Professor and Curator of Invertebrates in the Department of Zoology, Cambridge and previous Henslow Fellow recently gave a talk at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting in Washington DC on the Origins of Life: Humanity’s Quest to Discover the Nature of Life in the Universe.

Image:Scientific treasures shown at the Wren Library

24 November
2022

Scientific treasures shown at the Wren Library

Following on from our summer visit to the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) on Bletchley Park, CPS visited the Wren Library at Trinity College Cambridge. The tour was kindly hosted by Dr Nicolas Bell, Librarian at The Wren.

Image:History beneath our feet

02 August
2022

History beneath our feet

Society Fellow in Earth Sciences, Professor Marian Holness explores the geological and social history of cobbles at Trinity College Cambridge.

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