This will be our 900th meeting! Next Meeting Date:Tuesday, February 3th 7:00 PM Speaker: Jun Wen Topic: Evolution of Asian-North American Disjunct Plants

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
• April 7 - Jamie Whitacre - Botanical Art in the U.S. Capitol: Brumidi's Fruits and Flowers
• May 5
• June 2 - Leslie Overstreet re: Catesby
• September 1 Members' Night
• October 6
• November 3 Markku Miettinen - re: Scandinavian fens and bogs
• December 1 (tentative date) - Annual Banquet - Larry Dorr

  (Meetings are on the first Tuesday of the month.)