September 2008—May 2009
Meetings are at 7:30 PM. The October meeting will be in the library of The Academy of Natural Sciences (19th and Cherry Streets).
All other meetings are held in the Marvin Comisky Conference Center,
Blank Rome LLP at One Logan Square (one block east of The Academy of Natural Sciences; see Map.)
Enter on north side of Cherry Street between 18th and 19th streets.
If you have an idea for a future program, please contact
the Program Committee chair, Ruth Dorn.
A list of previous meetings is available.
25 September
Members' Reports on Summer Botanizing
23 October
Two Centuries of Philadelphia Botany in Newfoundland
Ann F. Rhoads, Morris Arboretum, and Alfred E. Schuyler, The Academy of Natural Sciences
20 November (Note the change of program.)
To Boldly Botanize: Thomas Nuttall's Explorations in the Early Nineteenth-Century North America
Steve Grund, Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program at the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
18 December
The Latest on the Systematics of North American Atriplex
Elizabeth H. Zacharias, Harvard University Herbaria
Annual Holiday Party following the meeting
22 January
Ecosystems and Plants of Cambodia and Thailand
Tatyana Livshultz, Academy of Natural Sciences
26 February
Notes on the Natural History and Evolution of the Cape Flora, Southern Africa
Chris Hardy, Keeper of the Herbarium and Assistant Professor, Millersville University
26 March
Pennsylvania's "Little Newfoundland": Glacial Till Barrens on the Pocono Plateau
Roger Latham, Continental Conservation
23 April
Unusual Ferns of North America
Robbin Moran, New York Botanical Garden
28 May
The Private Life of Trillium
John Gyer
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