Cardiff Naturalists' Society

Welsh natural history society

Cardiff Naturalists' Society
Founded	1867
Founder	Robert Drane
Location	Cardiff
Area served	Cardiff
Website	http://www.cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/index.htm

The Cardiff Naturalists' Society is a natural history and historical society based in Cardiff, Wales. The Cardiff Naturalists' Society was founded in 1867 to promote the study of natural history, geology, and the natural sciences, taking in archaeology and zoology. Its members participate in programmes of field visits and lectures, and the society has strong links with Cardiff museums and academic institutions.

The society is still active and has close links to the Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum of Wales. The society built a library of over 10,000 volumes through exchange with other organizations worldwide. This library is still in existence and is housed in the National Museum Cardiff

From 1867 to 1986 it published annual Reports and Transactions. These publications contain studies of the botany, zoology, geology, archaeology, history and meteorology of southeast Wales, including historical weather records. More recently it has published a newsletter. Issues from 53 (March 2002) are on-line at the society's website.

Since 2011 the society has provided an annual biosciences prize to the best second-year student fieldwork project in the biosciences department of Cardiff University.

Prominent former members include

Mary Gillham
Harry Morrey Salmon
Eleanor Vachell (first female president of the society)

References

Sheen, A. W. (1927). "The History of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society". Reports and Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society. 60. Cardiff: Cardiff Naturalists' Society: 110–129.
"History". Cardiff Naturalists' Society. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
"Reports and transactions (Cardiff Naturalists' Society), 1900–1981". Welsh Journals Online. Retrieved 5 May 2015.

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