Next Meeting Date:Tuesday, September 1st 7:00 PM Topic:The September meeting is Members' Night! Several members will be giving 5-10 minute presentations on various topics. As in the past, our September "Members' Night" will provide an opportunity for several members to share some of their botanical travel or research slides, or to present other short subjects (10 minutes or less) to which this format is especially suited. Members who plan to present slides should send an email to Pat Ford at p2zamora (at the domain) att.net. There will be a laptop available for powerpoint presentations or other digital media that you bring on a CD or USB drive. If you have actual slides, let it be known so there can be sure to be a carousel projector available also. Flyer for Posting: To be added later in summer

Meeting location: Cathy Kerby Room (Room CE-340), 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. All are welcome. 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. 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.

2009 Meetings:

• January 6 - Paul Yarowsky
• February 3 - Jun Wen - Evolution of Asian-North American Disjunct Plants
• March 3 - Elizabeth Kellogg - Grasses and Their Flowers
• April 7 - Jamie Whitacre - Botanical Art in the U.S. Capitol: Brumidi's Fruits and Flowers
• May 5 - Leslie Overstreet - Mark Catesby
• June 2 - Pedro Acevedo – Caribbean floristics. Website for Flora of the West Indies
• September 1 - Members' Night
• October 6 - Wayne Esaias - re: pollinator decline
• November 3 - Markku Miettinen - re: Scandinavian fens and bogs
• December 1 - (tentative date) - Annual Banquet - President's Talk - Pat Ford

  (Meetings are on the first Tuesday of the month.)

2009 Field Trip Calendar:

Field Trip Details

• April 4, Saturday - Bear Island - C and O Canal - Mile 10.5 (Maryland) - 9:00 AM.
• April 11, Saturday - Turkey Run Park (Virginia) - 9:30 A.M. at parking lot C-1
• April 25-26, Saturday-Sunday - St. Anthony's Wilderness, PA.
• May 9, Saturday - Joint trip with the MNPS and the VNPS to do field surveys and have a field botany workshop along Mattawoman Creek.
• May 30-31, Saturday-Sunday - State College-Lewisburg, PA area. Visit an old-growth forest. Joint trip with PNPS and MNPS.
• June 20 - Summer solstice walk - Chapman Forest

  See this page for fieldtrip details and suggestions for future trips.