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Update re Catesby Tercentennial Symposium, Richmond/Washington
DC/Charleston, Nov 4-9: National Geographic illustrator/birding
expert Jonathan Alderfer will lead the field trip in the Charleston
ACE Basin estuary, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012.
Three hundred years ago, Mark Catesby was the first European to
describe this landscape and to illustrate its natural history in the
landmark book, The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the
Bahama Islands:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/amacker/etext/home.htm (first
edition text, 1731-1743)
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/mobot31753000502945 (1754 edition).
Karen Reeds
(Full disclosure: I'm on the program for Mon. Nov. 5, in Richmond VA.)
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Catesby Tercentennial Symposium - Nov. 4-9, 2012
Location: United States
Conference Date: 2012-11-04
Date Submitted: 2012-06-16
Announcement ID: 195241
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=195241 and
http://www.catesbytrust.org/tercentennial/
The Catesby Commemorative Trust, along with the Society for the
History of Natural History and the Garden Club of America, will
gather top international scholars to celebrate the 300th anniversary
of Englishman Mark Catesby's arrival in North America. The six-day,
three-city conference will include lectures from more than 20
presenters from various disciplines that include art, wildlife,
natural history, conservation and economics.
From November 4-9th, 2012 senior academics, historians and curators
will gather in Richmond, VA, Washington, DC and Charleston & Kiawah,
SC to lecture, present, lead tours and facilitate discussion about
the artist, explorer, scientist, horticulturalist, and
conservationist, Mark Catesby. Institutions represented in the
Tercentennial include: the Smithsonian, Oxford University, University
of Amsterdam, Harvard University, Yale University, Brown University,
Cornell University, Royal (Kew) Botanic Gardens, US Botanic Garden,
and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Conference
attendees will also have the opportunity to view Catesby artworks,
plant species he encountered and his landmark publication Natural
History of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands.
The Tercentennial conference will begin in Richmond, Virginia on
November 4th with a screening of the public television documentary,
"The Curious Mr. Catesby," an exhibition of Catesby etchings, and
lectures by scholars, authors and historians on Catesby's Forerunners
and Catesby's World, the landscape of the areas in which he lived and
worked.
The program moves to Washington, DC on November 6th where The
Smithsonian Institution will host a series of lectures on both
Catesby's Art and Catesby's Science. The US Botanic Garden will
welcome conference attendees with a reception and exhibit of
Catesby-related plants.
The final location for the six-day conference is Kiawah Island, South
Carolina with events in nearby Charleston. After customized Kiawah
Island nature tours on November 7th, a banquet dinner will feature
keynote speaker Sir Ghillean Prance, FRS, Director (retired) of the
Royal (Kew) Botanic Gardens, former Research Director and
Vice-President of the New York Botanical Garden, former President of
the UK Linnean Society and current Scientific Director of the Eden
Project.
The South Carolina portion of the program includes a look at
Catesby's impact on natural history, his connections to other
celebrated naturalists and 18th century gardening. Area tours include
a Catesby-country immersion tour, boat tour of the ACE Basin
conservation area, and a tour of Charleston gardens not typically
open to the public. Conference attendees will have multiple
opportunities to view Catesby works as well as Colonial art works.
For more information: Kirstie Tucker
Catesby Commemorative Trust
1-888-925-9922
Email: [log in to unmask]
Visit the website at http://www.catesbytrust.org/
--
Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS
Guest Curator, Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, 2007
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ , 2008
Exhibition guide available from
http://www.dianepublishing.net/category_s/490.htm (p.4)
Guest Curator, Botanica Magnifica: Photographs by Jonathan Singer
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ 2012
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