[BSW] Next Tuesday + Dues are due + Marabu in the news
Kathy Bilton
kathy at fred.net
Tue Jan 10 18:52:12 CST 2017
Dues are due if you have not already paid them. Bring them to the meeting
or send a check ($10 for 1 person or $15 for 2 people at
the same address) to :
Paul Peterson, Treasurer
Botany Dept., MRC 166
National Museum of Natural History
P.B. 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012
The meeting which would normally have been on January 3rd but which was
rescheduled for January 17th is coming up next Tuesday at 7pm.
Dr. Susan Pell of the United States Botanic Garden
will be speaking about U.S. Botanic Garden Exhibits
Location: VZ Conference Room (WG 33)
Ground Floor of the West Wing, National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution, 10th St. and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC.
Please email Rob Soreng at the address sorengr at si.edu to arrange for a
pass to get to the meeting room.
Pre-meeting dinner: 5:30 P.M. at the Elephant & Castle Pub and Restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington. Phone 202-347-7707. The
restaurant is diagonally across from the Old Post Office Pavilion at 12th
and Pennsylvania, a few blocks from the Museum, with Federal Triangle the
nearest Metro station, and Metro Center also nearby.
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Sorry, no (Cuban) cigar. Just charcoal. Marabu charcoal. (Made from an
extremely invasive plant)
http://www.pri.org/stories/2017-01-06/marabu-charcoal-first-cuban-export-us-50-years
The plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichrostachys_cinerea
BBC story from 2012 about potential for harvesting the plant:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-20641433
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