[BSW] 2 weeks from tonight - Meeting reminder: November 6 - 7 pm + Misc.

[Kathy Bilton]

Next meeting: Tuesday, November 6 at 7 P.M.
Topic: Plant Conservation Trends in North America North of Mexico
Speaker: Dr. Anne Frances, Lead Botanist, NatureServe

A flyer for the meeting is here: http://botsoc.org/nov18.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 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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A number of upcoming MNPS fieldtrips and programs can be found here: 
https://mdflora.org

And VNPS activities can be found here - including a propagation party at 
Green Spring Gardens tomorrow morning from 10 to 12:30pm.

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Extreme Botany: The Precarious Science of Endangered Rare Plants 
https://e360.yale.edu/features/extreme-botany-the-precarious-science-of-saving-rare-endangered-plants

‘Hyperalarming’ study shows massive insect loss
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/15/hyperalarming-study-shows-massive-insect-loss/?utm_term=.a05e427eda17