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Adelard of Bath - Sponsor our forthcoming book

The only full-length book on his life and work, Adelard of Bath: the First English Scientist, by Louise Cochrane, has long been unobtainable.

Museums at Night - Friday 17th May

BRLSI will open its 20th Anniversary Exhibition late on Friday 17th May as part of Museums at Night, the annual festival of after-hours cultural opening.

Pioneers of modern BRLSI turn out for 20th anniversary celebration

May 9th: Key figures from the rebirth of BRLSI in 1993 turned out for a reception and lecture by former Trustee Michael King entitled 'The Fight For BRLSI', recalling the struggle to reclaim the Institution's building and collections from Avon County Council.

BRLSI Philosophy Group News – 7th May 2013 (CANCELLED)

Philosophy meeting 7th May cancelledSee article for more info.

The Origins and Development of Cultivation

At a joint Science /Geography meeting on Friday May 24th at 7.30 pm, Peter Thoday (former consultant to the Eden Project) looks at where, when and how our relationship with plants developed.

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Shakespeare ...

In our coins and medallions collection, the earliest medallion is from 1796.This shows a portrait bust of Shakespeare with inscription "JUBILEE AT STRATFORD IN HONOUR AND TO THE MEMORY OF SHAKESPEARE SEPT 1769 D.G. STEWARD"

Curatorial Curiosities

pallasite, a stony-iron meteorite

Stony-iron Meteorite: Consisting of planet core and mantle materials, peridot olivine crystals in an iron-nickel matrix, there are only 61 Pallasites known. This is a small section of the first ever found: in 1772 German naturalist Peter Pallas studied a 680kg specimen found near Krasnoyarsk in the mountains of Siberia. Our small section was given to us by the antiquarian and traveller Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS (1758 – 1838).