19 December, 2 PM
Dedication of the Benjamin Smith Barton Historical Marker
712 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
The Botanical Club, along with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and the Philadelphia Chapter of the
Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, will host a short ceremony at 2 PM to install a historic
marker honoring the prominent botanist Dr. Benjamin
Smith Barton, who wrote the first textbook on American botany. He died on December 19, 1855.
Barton was a faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania and a staff member of the
Pennsylvania Hospital in 1803 when Meriwether Lewis came to our city at the behest of President
Thomas Jefferson to prepare for an expedition across the American West.
Barton tutored Lewis in the collection, labeling, and preservation of plant specimens,
resulting in the archival collection held today at the Academy of Natural Sciences.
The ceremony will be held at the location of Barton's 1803 home: 712 Arch Street on the
south side of Arch Street, about 195 feet from the 7th Street intersection.
2005
27 January
Highlights of the Madagascar Flora
Lucinda McDade, The Academy of Natural Sciences
24 February
Ectomycorrhiza Underground Networking, or Fungi and the Wood
Wide Web
Lena Jonsson
24 March
Cedar Glades: History, Ecology, and Conservation
Jeffrey L. Walck, Middle Tennessee State University
28 April
Flora of the Warren Grove Gunnery Range, Burlington County, New
Jersey
Walter Bien, Drexel University
26 May
The Historical Ecology of Eastern Oak Forests: Past, Present, and Future
Marc Abrams, Pennsylvania State University
22 September
Members' Reports on Summer Botanizing
27 October (at the Academy of Natural Sciences)
Getting Wet with Plants in Eastern Pennsylvania Lakes
Ann F. Rhoads and Timothy A. Block, The Morris Arboretum
17 November
Morphology and Distribution of Juncus longii -- Clarifying its Status as a Species
Wesley M. Knapp, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
15 December (at the Academy of Natural Sciences)
Fire, Rain, and Flowering along Florida's Lake Wales Ridge and Adventures in the Everglades
Amy E. Faivre, Cedar Crest College
2006
26 January
Floristic Resources of Evansburg State Park, Montgomery County, PA
Nancy Khan, Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers
23 February
Plant Diversity in New Jersey Pinelands Fens (a.k.a. Savannas)
Matt Palmer, Columbia University
23 March
The Native Grasslands and Meadows of Pennsylvania -- Past, Present, and Future
Roger Latham, Continental Conservation
27 April
A Southern California Spring Odyssey -- Desert Wildflowers in a Record
Rainfall Year
Douglas Ripley, Headquarters U.S. Air Force Environmental Division, Washington, DC (retired)
25 May
Adventures with Seep-Weeds and Sea-Blites: Systematics of the Genus Suaeda
Wayne R. Ferren, Jr., Maser Consulting
28 September
Members' Reports on Summer Botanizing
26 October
Floristic Diversity in the Western Cape Region of South Africa
Ann F. Rhoads, Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania
16 November (at the Academy of Natural Sciences)
Botanical Art Before Linnaeus in the Library of The Academy of Natural Sciences
Alfred E. Schuyler, The Academy of Natural Sciences
21 December
Update on the New Jersey Flora Project
Joseph R. Arsenault, Environmental Consulting
Annual Holiday Party following the meeting
2007
25 January
The Rubus Problem: a Review of the Taxonomy of the Raspberries and Blackberries of the Northeastern United States
Gerry Moore, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
22 February
Plants of Belize, Cultural and Botanical Melting Pot
Robert F. C. Naczi, Delaware State University
22 March
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Plant Habitats Scrutinized
Richard Mellon, Mellon Biological Services
26 April
Plants and Geology of Burnt Cape, Newfoundland
Elizabeth Smith and Jackie Bessey, Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve, Raleigh, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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24 May
Recovery of a Lichen Community near the Palmerton Zinc Smelters
Natalie M. Howe, University of Pennsylvania and The Academy of Natural Sciences
27 September
Members' Reports on Summer Botanizing
25 October (at the Academy of Natural Sciences)
Benjamin Smith Barton: Naturalist and Physician in Jeffersonian America
Alfred E. Schuyler, The Academy of Natural Sciences
Meeting in the Academy's library followed by a wine and cheese reception
15 November
Lichens of the Limestone Barrens of the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland
James C. Lendemer, New York Botanical Garden
20 December
Botanical Collections in the Tepui Highlands of Guyana
Erin A. Tripp, Duke University
Annual Holiday Party following the meeting
2008
24 January
Revealing Camera Studies of Plants in the Florida Everglades and Keys
Stevens Heckscher, Natural Lands Trust
28 February
The Diversity and Evolution of Rainforest Tree Communities in the New World Tropics
Benjamin Torke, The Academy of Natural Sciences
27 March
The Ascomycete Genus Neolecta in New England
David Hewitt, Harvard University
24 April
Highlights of the Andean Flora
Alina Freire-Fierro, The Academy of Natural Sciences
22 May
Rare Plant Conservation in the New Jersey Pinelands
G. Russell Juelg, Pinelands Preservation Alliance
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
2009
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
