We all enjoy looking at exotic and spectacular minerals, and the National Museum of Scotland (NMS) has one of the best collections around. Why does knowing about these minerals matter? In this tercentenary of the birth of James Hutton, Rachel Walcott, Head of Earth Systems at the NMS, will bring us up to date with why geology matters.

Perthshire Society of Natural Science is one of the oldest Scientific Societies in Scotland and encourages interest in the natural World by means of lectures, meetings and field outings.

The annual Curious Minds Lecture series, presented by Culture Perth & Kinross and the Perthshire Society of Natural Science is themed around “Contemporary Science in Scotland” and, over past seasons, speakers have covered a stimulating array of scientific topics from dinosaur fossils in Skye, through the human genome to black holes, gravitational waves and the science of consciousness.