[BSW] This will probably not be a surprise - 4/7 meeting is cancelled + Misc.

[KATHY BILTON]

The Smithsonian museums are closed until further notice and our meeting 
scheduled for April 7 will not be able to take place.

Nothing has yet been decided about the field trips which were to take 
place, tentatively on March 28, April 4 and April 11.

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In the meantime, here is something that doesn't require one to leave one's 
home:

A New York Botanical Garden project called Transcribing Torrey is asking 
volunteers to decipher the notes and correspondence of one of the most 
prominent botanists of the 1800s, John Torrey.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-dawn-of-american-plant-science-was-lost-in-a-botanists-prolific-notes

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ABC Presents James A. Duke Botanical Literature Award to Authoritative 
Text on Voynich Codex — ‘World’s Most Mysterious’ Plant Book

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/03/09/1997575/0/en/ABC-Presents-James-A-Duke-Botanical-Literature-Award-to-Authoritative-Text-on-Voynich-Codex-World-s-Most-Mysterious-Plant-Book.html

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An exploration of women in botany and more

https://www.chicoer.com/2020/03/05/an-exploration-of-women-in-botany-and-more-biblio-file/

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Reviving interest in botany is this govt school’s mission

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/reviving-interest-in-botany-is-this-govt-schools-mission-52376