Blandy looking for Plant Ecologist:
http://www.virginia.edu/blandy/ecologist.htm

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Upcoming VNPS events:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vnps-pot/message/2253

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Remarkable Trees Lectures coming up in April
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vnps-pot/message/2260

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Next BSW Meeting

Date:Tuesday, March 3rd 7:00 PM

Speaker: Elizabeth Kellogg

Topic: Grasses and Their Flowers

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. 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 - Pedro Acevedo ? Caribbean floristics
* June 2 - Leslie Overstreet re: Catesby
* 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