SC - FW: EXHIBITION AT THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

[Decker, Terry D.]

Here's a little something of interest for those of us near the Smithsonian.
Bear


An Exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian 
Institution, Washington DC. - March 30 - May 1 2001

"Leafing Through History. The Roots of Plant Classication"

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"Leafing Through History. The Roots of Plant Classication", a joint book 
exhibition by Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, the Smithsonian 
Institution's Dibner Library, and the Hunt Institute for Botanical 
Documentation (Carnegie Mellon University).
Curators: Dan Nicolson, Charlotte Tancin, Alain Touwaide.

The exhibition will display plant illustrations from ancient manuscripts and

early printed books, as well as a large set of Linnaeus' original editions.

The exhibition is organized on the occasion of the symposium "Linnaean 
Taxonomy in the 21st Century". This is the first of a new symposium series -

the Smithsonian Botanical Symposium - which will be organized each Spring by

the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Botany, at the Smithsonian's 
National Museum of Natural History (10th and Constitution, NW). The goal of 
the symposium is to bring together the national and international plant 
systematics community to address a botanical topic of current significance. 
This inaugural symposium will be held on Friday 30 and Saturday 31 March, 
2001.

For further information, please visit the website: 
http://persoon.si.edu/sbs/

Contact:
email: sbs at nmnh.si.edu