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Monday, July 9th

Monday, July 9th, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm · Battelle South/Convention Center
Session P: Contributed Posters: Historical Section: Posters
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PHS001July 9th 5:30 pmBattelle South/Convention CenterCharles Frederick Millspaugh and the legacy of the West Virginia University Herbaria
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Poster: Historical SectionKass, Lee B.; Ford-Werntz, , Donna I. ; Studlar , Susan M. .C.F. Millspaugh
L.W. Nuttall
J. L. Sheldon
West Virginia flora
West Virginia Herbarium
vascular plants
Bryophytes
lichens
fungi
West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station
history of botany
history of mycology 
herbarium
History
PHS002July 9th 5:30 pmBattelle South/Convention CenterOrigins of American Experimental Plant Physiology
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Poster: Historical SectionBarkley, Grant M.; Fike, Jennifer A.physiology
plant
Arthur
Experiment Stations
laboratory
botany
experimental
history of botany
History
PHS003July 9th 5:30 pmBattelle South/Convention CenterThe Amateur Tradition and Women's Participation in Bryology in the USA
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Poster: Historical SectionHaskins, Kathryn; Norman, Chelsea; Fuselier, Linda.women in science
bryology 
American Bryological and Lichenological Society
historical

Tuesday, July 10th

Tuesday, July 10th, 10:15 am to 12:00 pm · Morrow/Hyatt
Session 29: Contributed Papers: Historical Session
Presiding: Rusty Russell, Smithsonian Institution
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29001July 10th 10:15 amMorrow/HyattBotanical Literature in 19th-century United States Gift Books and Annuals
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Oral PaperLecroy, Kathryn.Botany Education
women
women in science
gift book
annual
19th-century
Popular Botany
Botanical Literature
United States
29002July 10th 10:30 amMorrow/HyattBotanical Education in the United States. Part III. The role of the Botanical Society of America during its first half century.
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Oral PaperSundberg, Marshall.Botany Education
k-12
college curriculum
teaching effectiveness
summer institutes
teaching section
education committee
29003July 10th 10:45 amMorrow/HyattIn the footsteps of Rev. Richard Baron in Madagascar: post-facto georeferencing of Baron specimens
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Oral PaperWahlert , Gregory.Richard Baron
Madagascar
georeference
Taxonomy
Kew
29004July 10th 11:00 amMorrow/HyattBotanizing Western North America - 160 years at the California Academy of Sciences
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Oral PaperTrock, Debra K..herbarium
California
innovations
29005July 10th 11:15 amMorrow/HyattTurn-of-the-Century Plant Collecting in Southern Alaska
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Oral PaperRussell, Rusty.Alaska
Harriman
collections
herbarium
Walpole
Gorman
Fisher
language
artist
29006July 10th 11:30 amMorrow/HyattDarlington: A Case Study of a Historically Important Herbarium
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Oral PaperFlannery, Maura.herbarium
William Darlington
history of botany
Tuesday, July 10th, 4:00 pm to 4:30 pm · Morrow/Hyatt
Session M24: Meeting: Historical Section Annual Meeting
Presiding: Rusty Russell, Smithsonian Institution
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July 10th 4:00 pmMorrow/HyattHistorical Section Annual Meeting
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