Announcements

Revised 02/27/08

Michigan Botanical Club Announcements

The Southwest Chapter welcomes YOU
To the Fall Meeting
At Kalamazoo Nature Center
Sunday, October 7, 2007

All members and friends of the Michigan Botanical Club from around our state are invited to attend our Fall Meeting to be held on Sunday October 7, 2007 at the Kalamazoo Nature Center, 7000 North Westnedge Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49009.
(269-381-1574). Events of the day will include a State Board meeting at 2:00 pm, and a program open to the general public at 3:15 pm. We encourage carpooling, so bring a group to the Fall Meeting. Everyone is welcome! For a map and directions, click here.

State Board Meeting - 2:00 to 3:00 pm.

Program - 3:15 to 4:15 PM

The speaker at our Fall MBC meeting on October 7 has changed. In place of the scheduled talk on fungi, the following will be given:

"History of and Myths that Surround the Life of Charles Darwin." By: Dennis W. Woodland, President, Southwestern Chapter, MBC

Charles Darwin was a little rich boy who grew up in the shadow of a physician father and famous grandfathers. The talk will trace Charles Darwin's life growing up, his education, travels on the Beagle with scenes from Australia, New Zealand, the Galapagos Islands and its unique biology, his home at Down House and the village of Downe, the Linnean Society of London where Darwin's and Wallace's papers were read, his funeral at Westminster Abby, and finely a discussion of some myths that have surrounded his death.

Special Sale on Michigan Botanist Flora Surveys. A package of 11 Michigan Botanist Vascular Surveys (back issues) can now be purchased for only $15.00, including postage and handling. Please make check payable to MBC and send request to Caryle Spence, 717 Grace, Northville, MI 48167. Caryle has been diligently organizing and cataloging Michigan Botanist back issues and will be bringing extra copies to the Spring Foray.

The surveys in this package cover:

The Flora of Rock Co., Wisconsin
Vegetation and Flora of Keweenaw County
Vascular Plants of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Recent Wisconsin Records for Some Interesting Vascualr Plants in the Western Great Lakes Region, Parts I and II
Plant Communities of the Sand Dunes Region of Berrien Co, MI
The Vegetation and Flora of Nordhouse Dunes, Mainstee National Forest, Parts I and II
Vegetation of Indian Bowl Wet Prairie
The Flora of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
A Floristic Survey of Six Counties in Western Minnesota.

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