From kathy at fred.net Tue Apr 2 07:19:13 2019 From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 08:19:13 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [BSW] Meeting reminder + Spring Wildflower video Message-ID: A wonderful video about spring wildflowers produced by Marion Lobstein and two of her former students is now available on Youtube: https://vnps.org/spring-wildflowers-of-the-mid-atlantic-video/ ---------------------------------- It's the first Tuesday of the month - so the BSW will be having its monthly meeting this evening. (Remember - the parking lot at the museum is no longer available to us.) Next meeting: April 2 at 7 P.M. Speaker: Dr. Marcos Caraballo Topic: Taxonomy, phylogenomics, and current studies on neotropical mistletoes 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 at-the-domain si (dot)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. From kathy at fred.net Thu Apr 4 11:37:59 2019 From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 12:37:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [BSW] Wildflower video + May Meeting Information + Field trips Message-ID: A wonderful video about spring wildflowers produced by Marion Lobstein and two of her former students is now available on Youtube: https://vnps.org/spring-wildflowers-of-the-mid-atlantic-video/ ------------------------------------ Three field trips coming up on the next three Saturdays. See: http://botsoc.org/bswfieldtrips.html ------------------------------------ Next meeting: Tuesday, May 7 at 7 P.M. Speaker: Sylvia Orli Topic: Digitizing the US Herbarium: 5 Million Botanical Specimens in 5 years 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 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. From kathy at fred.net Mon Apr 29 16:41:15 2019 From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:41:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [BSW] Flier for next meeting - May 7 + MISC. Message-ID: The next BSW meeting will be on May 7. A flier for the meeting is now available here: http://botsoc.org/may19.pdf Next meeting: Tuesday, May 7 at 7 P.M. Speaker: Sylvia Orli Topic: Digitizing the US Herbarium: "5 Million Botanical Specimens in 5 years" 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 at-the-domain si (dot)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. ---------------------------------------------- Botanists rediscover a rare Hawaiian flower thought to be extinct?thanks to a drone https://qz.com/1600255/botanists-are-using-drones-to-rediscover-extinct-flowers/amp/ The Pawpaw: Missouri's New Official State Fruit Tree? https://www.krcu.org/post/pawpaw-missouris-new-official-state-fruit-tree Tiptoe through the trilliums at Thompson WMA https://www.bayjournal.com/article/tiptoe_through_the_trilliums_at_thompson_wma Video: Spring Wildflowers of the Mid-Atlantic Region is now online https://vnps.org/spring-wildflowers-of-the-mid-atlantic-video/