August 6, 2008
10 am at AF Hq.
AF Plant Collections Day & Barbeque
Plant Collections Day & Barbeque
Saturday, July 19, 2008, 10 am to 4 pm
Meet at the AF Visitors' Quarters, 70 South Sandisfield Road, Norfolk
This is a day to hone your herbarium skills and help us work on the AF plant collection: mounting, labeling, cataloging. We have some dried and pressed plants to mount (or bring your own), including some recently discovered sedges collected by the late Dr. Frank Egler.
This summer AF has hired a botany intern, Tom Edson of Meriden, who you will have an opportunity to meet. Tom has been mounting, labeling and filing existing specimens and working on increasing the AF collection through field collection, pressing and mounting additional plant species from the property.
A present, there are 265 species of vascular plants represented in the AF collection. In addition there are several unidentified specimens and 100 specimens of mosses and lichens which you can help us identify.
A barbeque will be ongoing throughout the day; grilled meat and veggie burgers will be provided. Please bring a cold dish to share and your beverage of choice.
Please RSVP or contact John Anderson for more information.
Phone: 860-542-5125 office, 860-542-6924 visitors’ quarters, 860-248-1053 cell
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