Members of the Society enjoy regular opportunities to meet each other and share their passion for scientific instruments old and new. The Society makes an annual 'overseas' trip, recent destinations having included Copenhagen, Malmo, St. Petersburg, Dresden and Florence. In addition there are occasional one-day and week-end meetings divided purposely between London and attractive provincial locations.
Recent destinations have included Oxford, East Yorkshire and Birmingham. Speakers are usually experts in their field, but all members are welcome to give talks. Special 'behind-the-scenes' visits to museums are a particular feature of the annual programme. Above all, the Society's gatherings are enjoyable social occasions.
ALL DETAILS ARE SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION
Further information about registrations, etc.
will be issued with the Society's Bulletin.
Friday 29 February, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
University College, London / The Wellcome Trust, Euston Road
Visit to the Galton Collection at UCL, and the Wellcome Collection
Tuesday 6 May - Friday 9 May
Leiden, Haarlem, Utrecht, Delft, Rotterdam, Franeker and Groningen
Overseas Study Conference to the Netherlands
Friday 4 July - Saturday 5 July
Glazier's Hall and Kings College, London
Joint mini conference with the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers: 'Instruments and the Guilds', Annual General Meeting and day of members' talks
Friday 3 October - Saturday 4 October
Visit to Collections in East Anglia
To include The Bridewell Museum and the Spalding Gentlemen's Society Museum
Friday 21 November - 6:00pm
London
Sixteenth Annual Invitation Lecture
Sundials and the rise and decline of cosmography in the 'long' sixteenth century
Dr Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford
