Daily Archives: January 7, 2019

Saturday, January 12, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, and Wednesdays, January 16 – January 30, 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Nonvascular Herbarium Work Sessions

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The New England Botanical Club welcomes volunteers to help with curatorial work in the nonvascular herbarium of the NEBC. Listed below are the scheduled work sessions. If you would like to join us or have questions, please email Elizabeth Kneiper (Ekneiper@aol.com) or call 781-801-2734. We look forward to hearing from you! Weather and various other circumstances can force the sessions to be canceled or rescheduled, but volunteers will be notified.

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 – 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 12, 2019 – 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 – 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 – 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 – 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Type of work: Curatorial – replacing old packets, data basing, and inserting collections. A great chance to work with historic collections of New England lichens, bryophytes, algae, and fungi.

Location: Farlow Herbarium, 22 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA.

Sunday, January 20, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Fruits and Seeds Revealed

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Plants need their seeds to move around so they can propagate the next generation. In this New England Wild Flower session on Sunday, January 20 from 10 – noon at Nasami Farm in Whately, participants learn how plants have adapted a variety of ways to disperse their seeds. After a lecture on seed and fruit structures, the class studies examples of some of the adaptations using hand lenses and microscopes. George LoCascio leads the session, which costs $26 for NEWFS members, $32 for nonmembers. Register at http://www.newenglandwild.org/learn/our-programs/fruits-and-seeds-revealed-1