The New England Botanical Club will hold its May 13th meeting at 6:45 at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, Massachusetts, where Ted Elliman, Vegetation Management Coordinator of the New England Wild Flower Society will speak on the New England Guide to Wildflowers. The public is invited to attend. Visit www.rhodora.org for information on the New England Botanical Club.
The New England Botanical Club will hold its April 1st meeting at 6:45 in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge. The speaker will be Dr. Anna Aguilera, Assistant Professor of Biology, Simmons College in Boston, who will speak on Aquatic and Terrestrial Decomposition of the Invasive Norway Maple. The meeting is open to the public. For more information visit www.rhodora.org.
Dr. Michael S. Dosmann, Curator of Living Collections, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, will address the New England Botanical Club on Friday, December 4 beginning at 6:45 in Haller Hall on the Harvard University campus. His lecture, open to the public, will be on Red Needles in Green Haystacks: On the Trail of the Wild Paperbark Maple. Since its initial introduction from China to the West by Ernest Henry Wilson in 1901, the paperbark maple (Acer griseum) has become rather common in cultivation, particularly in gardens, arboreta, and other managed ornamental landscapes. And yet, this species’ status is anything but common in the wild in central and western China. As part of a collaborative conservation initiative, the Arnold Arboretum is surveying wild populations, and comparing these with lineages introduced from the wild to get a global perspective of genetic diversity in this species. Photo courtesy of Cornell University. For further info see: http://www.rhodora.org/meetings/upcomingmeetings.html.
Come celebrate New England Botanical Club’s 120th anniversary at this historic free research conference, to be held at Smith College in Northampton Friday – Sunday, June 5 – 7.
Botanical societies and practicing scientists enliven and advance plant science. Academic biologists and citizen-scientists generate important new discoveries about the flora. They also inspire a new generation of students who continue to expand scientific knowledge and work to conserve plants and ecosystems.
Meetings, field trips, and conferences are vital ways to infuse all botanists with new energy and visions for the future. Botanists of northeastern North America will showcase their activities and research. Botanical societies will brainstorm on opportunities for future research and collaboration.
The weekend kicks off Friday with a reception at the Smith College Greenhouses from 5 – 7. Registration begins Saturday at 8, followed by a morning session with talks by botanical researchers and exhibit tables on display by botanical societies. The keynote speaker will follow the buffet lunch. Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Botany Dr. Pamela Diggle (pictured) will address the conference. She is also Past President of the Botanical Society of America. An afternoon session follows the speech. Sunday at 9, at the MacLeish Field Station, there will be a brainstorm meeting: ensuring the future of botanical societies. Then at 11:30, take a botanical foray of the 240 acre field station (bag lunch provided.) The weekend is co-sponsored by Smith College Department of Biological Sciences. Register at www.rhodora.org.
The New England Botanical Club is pleased to announce that NEBC Distinguished Speaker Dr. Ned Friedman, Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, will speak on Friday, April 10, beginning at 6:45 pm in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge, on the topic Mutants in Our Midst: Darwin, Horticulture, and Evolution. This lecture was sold out when presented by Dr. Friedman as part of the Arnold Arboretum Director’s Lecture Series, and this presentation is free and open to the public. For more information visit www.rhodora.org.
The February meeting of the New England Botanical Club will be held Friday, February 6, beginning at 6:45 in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge. The speaker will be Dr. Patricia Swain, Natural Community Ecologist, Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program in Westborough, Massachusetts. Her topic is Revising the Classification of Natural Communities in Massachusetts. The meeting is open to the public. For more information visit www.rhodora.org.
The New England Botanical Club (NEBC), founded in 1895, is a non-profit organization that promotes the study of plants of North America, especially the flora of New England and adjacent areas. The Club publishes the journal Rhodora, holds monthly meetings during the academic year (usually at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts), maintains an herbarium of more than 253,000 sheets, has a small library, and annually grants a graduate student research award and Fernald publication award.
The New England Botanical Club will hold its October meeting beginning at 6:45 on Friday, October 3 in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, found inside the door to the Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance at 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge. The speaker will be Dr. David S. Barrington, Professor of Plant Biology, Director of the Pringle Herbarium at University of Vermont, speaking on A Biogreographic Perspective on the Fern Genus Polystichum. The meeting is open to the public. For more information you may email neystersmith@bentley.edu.
 
The New England Botanical Club will meet on Friday, May 2, at 6:45 at Garden in the Woods in Framingham to hear Bill Brumback, Conservation Director of the New England Wild Flower Society speak on Flora Conservanda 2012: Changes in New England’s Rare Flora. For complete information, visit www.rhodora.org. The meeting is open to the public.
The Middlesex Fells Reservation has an impressive diversity of 30 different habitat types that spring from its unique geology, topography, hydrology, soil, and climate. These habitats support a rich biodiversity that is unusual for a metropolitan setting. Learn about the flora and how these local plant communities can enlighten the design of our own gardens.
Dr. Bryan Hamlin is the lead author of a nine-year study of the Fells’ flora, and is President of the New England Botanical Club. Hear him speak on Wednesday, February 5 at 7 pm at the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge. The lecture is free and open to the public. Photo from www.amcboston.org.
The February lecture sponsored by the New England Botanical Club will take place Friday, February 7, beginning at 6:45 at Harvard University in the Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street (door to the right of the Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance,) and will feature Dr. Tristram Seidler, Herbarium Curator at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, speaking on The Role of Seed Banks in Plant Conservation. Dr. Seidler was a post doctoral fellow at Imperial College, England, and his work has been sponsored by the Food and Health Foundation, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and the William F. Milton Fund. For more information visit www.rhodora.org.
