[BSW] Next meeting + Spring Field Trips

[Kathy Bilton]

Next meeting: Tuesday, April 3rd at 7 P.M.

Speaker: Dr. Robert Gropp, Co-Executive Director, American Institute of 
Biological Sciences, Policy Director of the Natural Science Collections 
Alliance

Topic: Advocating for Biodiversity Collections: Engaging Decision-makers

Here is a flier for the meeting: http://botsoc.org/apr18.pdf

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 Erika Gardner at the address gardnere.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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We will be having two Saturday trips to Bear Island, on March 31 and on 
April 14.  There will be a trip to Turkey Run on Saturday, April 7.

Details are here:  http://botsoc.org/bswfieldtrips.html

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Rediscovery of Thismia neptunis (Thismiaceae) after 151 years
https://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.340.1.5
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-plant-not-seen-150-years-found-sarawak-180968413/

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See upcoming MNPS and VNPS events and trips here:

https://mdflora.org/events
http://vnps.org/events/

Also - some additional events sent out by VNPS.  It came in a nice chart 
but when I tried copying it the chart aspect was lost.

http://botsoc.org/pipermail/2018_botsoc.org/2018-March/000001.html