Next Meeting Date: Tuesday, June 3rd 7:00 PM Speaker: Linda Davis Topic:Mosses for Beginners

Meeting location: Waldo Schmitt Room (Room B-218), Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History 10th St. and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC. Use the Constitution Avenue entrance; wait to be escorted up. As usual, light refreshments will be served prior to and after the presentation.

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

Upcoming Meetings:

• September 2 - Members' Night
• October 7 - Carole Bergmann, Forest Ecologist with Montgomery County, MD
• November 4 - Ray Mims, Conservation Horticulturist at the U.S. Botanic Garden
• December ? - Holiday Banquet

Fieldtrips:

2008 Field Trips – Preliminary Schedule

• April 12 - Bear Island
• April 19 - Gold Mine Tract - Great Falls
• April 26 - Susquahanna Gorge
• August 2-3 - Delaware

  See preliminary schedule for others.