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Spring events 2010
Spring/summer events programme 2010
The Lens of Life: medicine, microscopy and the Royal Society
The Hunterian Museum presents a series of events that reveal the connections between microscopy and medicine. The Lens of Life programme has been organised as part of the Royal Society's 350th anniversary celebrations in 2010.
Lunchtime talks/tours
Thursday 25 March, 1pm
Keeping it in the family: the Dollonds and microscopy
As their name disappears forever from the British high street, Neil Handley, curator at the British Optical Association Museum uncovers the remarkable history of the Dollond family of opticians and their contributions to the science of microscopy.
Plus free tour of the historic British Optical Association Museum. Tour dates: 26 March, 1–2pm; 29 March, 11am–12 or 30 March, 2–3pm.
Tuesday 20 April, 1pm
Blood under the microscope: William Hewson, an 18th-century anatomist
Join Tania Kausmally, historian and archaeologist as she lays bare the history of 18th-century anatomist and microscopist William Hewson, the father of modern haematology.
Plus free tour of Benjamin Franklin House, where Hewson lived and worked. Tour dates: 26 April at 12, 1, 2, 3.15 and 4.15pm.
Wednesday 12 May, 1pm
‘Would you ever have thought such a thing possible?’ Alexander Fleming and the FRS
Today, Alexander Fleming is famous for the discovery of penicillin. But Kevin Brown, curator of the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum exposes the professional rivalries that threatened the career of one of the greatest medical microbiologists of all time.
Plus free tour of the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum. Tour dates: 13, 18 or 19 May, 2pm.
Lunchtime lectures and museum tours are free but booking is essential on 020 7869 6560.
Evening lectures
Wednesday 28 April, 7pm
Joseph Lister, surgeon and microscopist
Professor Harold Ellis CBE FRCS
Harold Ellis charts the story of Joseph Lister FRS, who followed in the footsteps of his father, a wine merchant and distinguished amateur microscopist, to develop the skills that led to a new understanding of wound infection and to the introduction of antiseptic surgery.
Tuesday 11 May, 7pm
Microscopes: a key role in transplant surgery
Professor Sir Peter Morris AC FRS FRCS
In the last 40 years microscopy has been crucial to advances in surgery that have transformed our ability to treat disease. Sir Peter Morris draws on his own experience to explore the role of the microscope in transplant surgery.
Evening lecture tickets cost £5. Free entry plus one guest to fellows and members; free to affiliates and medical students. Booking is essential on 020 7869 6560.
The Hunterian Museum and College Library will be open on the night to lecture ticket holders from 6–7pm.
