British Museum (Natural History) 
Lectures, films and 
gallery tours 
May 
June 
July 
Wednesday 3 
Saturday 6 
Wednesday 10 
Saturday 13 
Wednesday 17 
Saturday 20 
Wednesday 24 
Saturday 27 
Monday 29 
Wednesday 31 
Introducing Birds Lecture/ Joyce Pope 
From Zermatt to the Glaciers 
Special Lectur e/ Desmond & Marjorie Parrish 
Polymorphism Tour/Joyce Pope 
The Natural History of the Burren 
Special Lecture/ Maryangela Keane 
Giants of the Past Tour/Jofin Stldworthy 
The Colonial Naturalist Film Show 
Introducing Inserts Tour /Joyce Pope 
Dinosaurs Lecture at 11 am/ Joyce Pope 
Migration Lectur el Joyce Pope 
Conservation in Britain Lectur e! Joyce Pope 
Sea Monsters of the Past Lectur e/ Joyce Pope 
Saturday 3 
Monday 5 
Wednesday 7 
Saturday 10 
Wednesday 14 
Saturday 17 
Wednesday 21 
Saturday 24 
Wednesday 28 
Life in Mountains Lectur e/Anne McCord 
Rhinos and their Relatives Lecture/John Stldworthy 
Animals and Man Lecture/ John Stldworthy 
The Cat Family Lecture/John Stldworthy 
Cuckoos Tour/ Joyce Pope 
Dinosaurs Lecture at 11 am/ Joyce Pope 
Jellyfishes and their Relatives Lectur e/ Joyce Pope 
The Ice Age Tour /Anne McCord 
Birds and Man Lecture/Anne McCord 
Mammals of the Past Tour/ John Stldworthy 
Saturday 1 
Wednesday 5 
Saturday 8 
Wednesday 12 
Saturday 15 
Wednesday 19 
Saturday 22 
Tuesday 25 
Wednesday 26 
Saturday 29 
Linnaeus Lecture/Frank Brlghtman 
Famous Fossils Tour/Anne McCord 
The Evolution of Man Lecture/Anne McCord 
Inserts and Flowers Tour/ Joyce Pope 
Dinosaurs Lecture at 1 1 am/ Joyce Pope 
Ladybirds Lecture/ Joyce Pope 
Animals Colours Tour/ John Stldworthy 
Life Between the Tides Tour /John Stldworthy 
Life in Hedgerows Lectur e/Anne McCord 
Pollution Lecture/Anne McCord 
The Garden Naturalist Lecture/Anne McCord 
The Burren, in the north of County 
Clare, is a hundred square miles of 
natural rock garden. The clefts of the 
bare limestone are the home of many 
rare plants, such as the maidenhair 
fern, and over 800 other species of 
plant are found there. 
Mrs Maryangela Keane, a noted 
naturalist from Co. Clare, will be 
describing the extraordinary geological 
formation, and the flora and fauna of 
the Burren, along with the occupation 
of the area by ancient man. 
Jellyfishes are primitive creatures, 
surviving from the distant geological 
past, yet they are among the most 
successful of water-living creatures, 
found throughout the oceans of the 
world. They are totally soft bodied, yet 
they are flesh eaters, capable of 
subduing quite large prey with their 
paralysing stings and sometimes even 
human being are killed by them. This 
lecture will show some of the variety 
and beauty to be found among 
jellyfishes and their relatives. It will be 
illustrated by film ‘Moon Jelly’, a new 
film from Japan, which is about our 
commonest and least harmful jellyfish. 
The brightly coloured ladybirds are 
lucky symbols to many people. Why 
they should have their curious name, 
for none is a bird and only about half 
are female, why they should be among 
the very few beetles to be more than 
tolerated by most people, why they are 
red and black and why we have in the 
last few years suddenly found huge 
numbers of ladybirds in our countryside, 
towns and houses, are all questions to 
be discussed in this lecture, which will 
be illustrated by slides and the French 
film 'Aphid-eating Ladybirds'. 
