The  Botanical  Society of  Washington

Next Meeting Date: Tuesday, June 4th 7:00 PM Speaker:  Paul Peterson Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution Topic: Botany in Tanzania: marafiki watatu Flyer for Posting: jun13.pdf

Meeting location: The Vertebrate Zoology Seminar Room WG33 (ground floor), Smithsonian Institution, West Wing of the National Museum of Natural History, 10th St. and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC. Use the Constitution Avenue entrance; wait to be escorted up. All are welcome. As usual, light refreshments will be served prior to and after the presentation. Contact Rob Soreng (sorengr at si.edu) by Monday before the meeting to arrange for a badge for the upcoming meeting.

Pre-meeting dinner: 5:30 P.M. at the Elephant & Castle Pub and Restaurant, 1201 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington. Phone 202-347-7707. The restaurant is diagonally across from the Old Post Office Pavilion at 12th and Pennsylvania, a few blocks from the Museum, with Federal Triangle the nearest Metro station, and Metro Center also nearby.

Meetings for 2013

• January 8 - Mones Abu-Asab, National Eye Institute, NIH - Cladograms in Disease Modeling
• February 5 - Tanja M. Schuster, Ph.D., Curator of the Norton-Brown Herbarium (MARY), University of Maryland. Title: Pesky Persicaria and Polygonum Bootcamp :the phylogeny of the buckwheat family Polygonaceae with a focus on the species that occur in Maryland.
• March 5 - Dr. Andrea Weeks, George Mason University, Travels in search of myrrh incense trees
• April 2 - Tom Mirenda, Smithsonian Gardens, Tentative Title: Botanizing in Manitoba, Canada
• May 7 - Mauricio Diazgranados
• June 4 - Paul Peterson - Topic will be a recent grass collecting trip to Africa
• September 3 - Members' Night
• October 1
• November 5 - John Amith - Nahuatl ethnobotany
• December 3 - Annual Banquet

2013 Field Trip Calendar:

• February 3 - Hemlock Overlook Regional Park
• April 6 - Bear Island/Billy Goat Trail, Great Falls
• April 13 - Turkey Run
• April 20 - Bear Island/Billy Goat Trail, Great Falls