37th T.B. Macaulay Lecture "Policy, practice, science and my distant relatives"

The Trustees of the Macaulay Development Trust and Iain Gordon invite you to the 37th T.B. Macaulay Lecture - "Policy, practice, science and my distant relatives" given by Professor William J. Sutherland, Miriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Cambridge.

The annual Macaulay lecture is given to stimulate thinking and dialogue about contemporary environmental issues in order to honour the vision of Dr Thomas Bassett Macaulay. Dr Macaulay was one time President and Chairman of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada who provided an endowment to found the Macaulay Institute for Soil Research in Aberdeen in 1930; a predecessor of the James Hutton Institute, a world leader in research in the land, crop, water, environmental and socio-economic sciences. 

Full details can be found in Events on the James Hutton Institute website.