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The Royal Entomological Society plays a major national and international rôle in disseminating information about insects and improving communication between entomologists.

The Society was founded in 1833 as the Entomological Society of London and is the successor to a number of short-lived societies dating back to 1745.

The first meetings were held in the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's Street. Various other places in their turn became the scene of the Society's activities before the freehold of the headquarters at 41 Queen's Gate was bought in 1920, where the Society stayed until 2007 when the Mansion House at St Albans was purchased.

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In 1855 a Royal Charter was granted to the Entomological Society by Queen Victoria and the privilege of adding the word "Royal" to the title was granted by King George V in 1933, the Centenary of the Society's foundation.

Many eminent scientists of the past, Darwin and Wallace to mention but two, have been Fellows of the Society. Through the years most internationally recognised entomologists have been and are, numbered among the Fellowship.

The Mansion House: the RES headquarters near St AlbansThe Mansion House: the RES headquarters near St Albans The Reception AreaThe Reception Area The Meeting RoomThe Meeting Room 

Charles Robert Darwin: Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin as a young man painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s. From Origins, Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin.Charles Robert Darwin: Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin as a young man painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s. From Origins, Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin.


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Marsh Award for Insect Conservation 2009

The 2009 winner is Dr David Lonsdale

David Lonsdale spent most of his career as a tree pathologist working for what was then the Forestry Commission at its Alice Holt Research Station near Farnham (now their separate research arm, Forest Research). Much of his professional work brought him in contact with insect specialists in the Entomology Department.

David has had a lifelong interest in insects and especially their conservation. He has been a long-standing and major figure within the Amateur Entomologists Society, serving on their council, and really being responsible for their initial engagement with the field of insect conservation. He initiated, and continues to be the editor of, their newsletter Insect Conservation News which has long been a source of information and inspiration for entomologists and practical conservationists in the field.  Read more

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