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Tag: Farlow Herbarium

  • 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

    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.

  • Monday, April 4, 5:30 pm – William G. Farlow and His Influences on Botany, Academics, and Amateurs

    The Harvard Botanical Club is pleased to welcome its 2011 Distinguished Speaker, Dr. Donald H. Pfister, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany, Curator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium, and Dean of Harvard Summer School. on Monday, April 4, in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge. Dr. Pfister will speak on William G. Farlow and His Influences on Botany, Academics, and Amateurs. For complete information, maps and parking directions, log on to www.rhodora.org.