AGM & Members' Day
Schedule
Sat Jun 06 2026 at 11:00 am to 05:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Natural History Museum, London | London, EN
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We’d love to see you at our AGM and Members' Day at the Natural History Museum, London on Saturday, 6th June from 11:00 to 17:00. Wish to join online? Email: [email protected]Programme
11:15 – Networking (tea, coffee, and light refreshments available)
12:00 – AES AGM
12:30 – Lunch (bring your own, or use Museum cafes)
13:15 – Announcement of the Brian Gardiner Award and Cribb-Lonsdale Awards
13:20 - Nick Cooke: Pearl-bordered Fritillary in the Trossachs – rediscovery and conservation
13:40 – Charles Barker (Hammond Award winner): Ground Beetle sampling for Red-backed Shrike reintroduction sites in Sussex
13:55 – Inez Januszczak (Natural History Museum, London): Insects and genomics; the Darwin Tree of Life project
14:15 – Tea break and view synoptic collections
15:00 – Joss Carr (Biological Recording Company): The entoLive Project
15:15 – Jacqui James (University of Cambridge): Conserving the Shrill Carder Bee: Investigating the Effects of Habitat Restoration in South Somerset
15:45 - Leonard Tesch lecture: Dr Tim King (University of Oxford): The Underground Influence of Yellow Meadow Ants on All The Other Animals in Old Grasslands
17:00 - Meeting ends
17:50 - Museum closes
Joining information
The Museum is expected to be busy, so we strongly recommend booking a free ticket to enter the Museum in advance via their website.
The closest Museum entrance is West Gate on Queens Gate, and the nearest Underground Stations are Gloucester Road or South Kensington. Visit the Museum website for details on how to get there.
Lectures will be in the Neil Chalmers Seminar Room, on the ground floor of the Darwin Centre, which is in the West Wing. The entrance is under the steps up to the Attenborough Studio (see red star on map).
Other information
The Quekett Microscopical Club and The Biological Recording Company will be present. If you wish to present a poster or exhibit, email our Secretary, Dayfdd Lewis at [email protected] as soon as possible.
The Great Exhibition Road Festival is happening the same weekend, including a BioBlitz in the Museum's Nature Discovery Garden from 12:00 to 16:00, so why not bring friends and family and make a day of it?
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