Website: www.cafescientifique.org
Cafe Scientifique is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. Meetings take place in cafes, bars, restaurants and even theatres, but always outside a traditional academic context. Cafe Scientifique is a forum for debating science issues, committed to promoting public engagement with science and to making science accountable.
Listing ID: 271
PO Box 112, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 2WT - Google Maps
Tel: 01923 829 079
Fax: 01923 825 207
Email: info@ephemera-society.org.uk
Website: www.ephemera-society.org.uk
A non-profit organisation concerned with the preservation, study and educational use of printed and handwritten ephemera - the 'minor transient documents of everyday life'. Internationally recognised as an authority in the field
Listing ID: 272
Burlington House, Picadilly, London W1V 0LQ - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7434 4479
Fax: 020 7287 9364
Website: www.linnean.org
The Society uniquely embraces the entire sweep of biology, and particularly biological diversity, classification and evolution. Most of its membership, whether professional or amateur, is concerned with biological systematics or taxonomy, which involves the examination and collation of a wide range of scientific evidence from such fields as genetics, ecology, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and palaeontology and impinges on related disciplines in agriculture, fisheries, forestry, geology, medicine, parasitology and veterinary science where accurate identification is essential to any research.
Listing ID: 273
31A Maylands Drive, Sidcup, Kent DA 14 4SB - Google Maps
Tel: 020 8302 0684
Website: www.plastiquarian.com
An independent society affiliated to the Institute of Materials, the society promotes the study, preservation and sharing of information on all historical aspects of plastics and to encourage the recording of any current developments in plastics adjudged to be of value to future generations.
Listing ID: 274
University College, Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H OPY - Google Maps
Website: www.britarch.ac.uk/prehist
Seeks to advance education and promote interest in prehistory in all its branches, and to promote the conservation of the archaeological heritage.
Listing ID: 275
1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7591 3000
Fax: 020 7591 3001
Website: www.rgs.org/category.php?page=mainarchives
One of the world's largest geographical collections containing over two million maps, photographs, books, artwork, artefacts and documents. The collection tells the story of 500 years of geographical discovery and research.
Listing ID: 276