[BSW] Flier for next meeting - May 7 + MISC.

[KATHY BILTON]

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.

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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/