Societies, etc.

Antiquarian Society

The next meeting will take place on Monday, 6 December, at 6 p.m. in the Law Faculty Building, West Road. Dr John Baker will speak on Place-names and the Anglo-Saxon landscape of the Cambridgeshire region. Members may bring guests, and students are warmly invited.

Philosophical Society

On Tuesday, 7 December, at 9 a.m., a one-day meeting on Making light work will be held in the Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW (please note the change of venue). This will be a one-day scientific meeting on harnessing the sun’s energy – ranging from chloroplasts to solar cells. The meeting is being organized by Professor Alison Smith and Professor Archie Howie. The speakers are Professor Jim Barber (Imperial), Professor John Gray, Professor Chris Howe, Professor Neil Greenham, Dr Adrian Fisher, Professor Gehan Amaratunga, and Dr Richard Douthwaite (York). A final panel discussion session will also be chaired by Professor Archie Howie.

Entry is free and no advance registration is required. Programmes and further details are available in advance from the Executive Secretary, Cambridge Philosophical Society, Bene’t Street, Cambridge, CB2 3PY (tel. 01223 334743, email philosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk, website http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org). All who are interested are invited.

Society for the History of the University

The next meeting will be held at 8.30 p.m. in the Old Library, Darwin College, on Thursday, 2 December. Professor Simon Schaffer will give a talk entitled The foundation of the Cavendish Laboratory: patronage and protest in Victorian Cambridge. Refreshments from 8 p.m.