The College has unveiled a plaque to commemorate the Centenary of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. Heritage Manager Christopher Henry reveals the little-known connection between the RCSEd and the Society

There are few people these days who have not heard of Robert Falcon Scott, the intrepid explorer of the South Pole, whose tragic death in 1912 inspired so many. The period in which brave men ventured to the North and South poles at the beginning of the twentieth century was rightly called the Heroic Age of Exploration.