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Lecture on D'Arcy Thompson on Wednesday 18 April

A reminder that tickets are now on sale for the Royal Institution evening public lecture series on polymathy and science chaired by Oliver Morton, Chief News and Features Editor of Nature, programme organized by Sara Abdulla, publisher of Macmillan Science books and of Nature Network. Do come – and please spread the word to others who might.
On Wednesday of this week, 18 April, John Whitfield will talk on D’ Arcy Wentworth Thompson: ‘The last man who read everything’ Wednesday's lecture follows from last month's talk by Andrew Robinson on Thomas Young: ‘The last man who knew everything’
These lectures will be followed by a debate on 16 May 'What happened to the polymaths?', about whether interdisciplinarity is alive, dead, possible, desirable, vice or virtue.
Venue: The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 35–43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PE
Tickets: www.rigb.org ; (+44) 0 20 7409 2992
Details: 7-8.30pm. £8/£5 Ri Members, RCS Fellows/Members and concessions. (The Royal Institution is on tour while its building undergoes a refurbishment.)

Posted by Maxine Clarke on April 16, 2007
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