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Putting Plants on Display by Gary A Department of Botany & the U.S. National Herbarium The Plant Press New Series - Vol. 20 - No. 2 April-June 2017 Botany Profile Putting Plants on Display By Gary A. Krupnick s the Smithsonian Institution the butterflies as they flutter around the to educate the public about the conserva- strives to meet its mission of “the pavilion. tion of irreplaceable ecosystems, and the increase and diffusion of knowl- biodiversity, pollination mechanisms, A ast exhibitions that have featured edge,” how does botany stack up against botanical research and other current this objective? The three cornerstones of botany have primarily been del- scientific efforts in the Amazon. any natural history museum are research, Pegated to temporary showings. Most In 2003, “A Passion for Plants: Con- collections, and exhibits. In terms of prominent has been the annual orchid temporary Art from the Shirley Sher- research, the Department of Botany show. Alternating years between the U.S. wood Collection,” displayed 100 works has an excellent track record. In 2016, Botanic Garden and the Smithsonian by 67 artists from the collection of Shir- department staff published approximately Institution, the orchid display has been ley Sherwood, an independent scholar 110 peer-reviewed scientific papers and hosted at the Natural History Museum and and collector of botanical watercolors described 99 new species of plants, fungi, co-hosted by Smithsonian Gardens for and paintings. The exhibition addressed and lichen. Regarding the collections, over a decade. In 2017, the show moved the history of botanical art. Also on view the U.S. National Herbarium has grown to the Hirshhorn Museum. Previously, the were botanical specimens from the U.S. to over 5 million plant specimens and Natural History Museum hosted “Orchids: National Herbarium to highlight aspects new specimens are added daily. Recent Interlocking Science and Beauty” in 2015, of scientific observation. digitization efforts have yielded over a “Orchids of Latin America” in 2013, In 2010, the traveling exhibition, million imaged specimens that have been “Orchids – A View from the East” in 2011, “Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants databased and shared online. “Orchids through Darwin’s Eyes” in 2009, Here and Around the World,” showcased Botany’s role in exhibitions, how- “Orchids: Take a Walk on the Wild Side” 44 botanical illustrations from renowned ever, has a varied history at the National in 2007, and “The Orchid Express” in artists, along with live plants and speci- Museum of Natural History. The largest 2005. mens from the Museum’s collection. exhibit halls are currently devoted to In the past 20 years, botanical art- Focusing on global conservation, stories dinosaur fossils (currently under reno- work was featured in three exhibitions, of endangered, threatened and extinct vation), mammal skins, animals of the each emphasizing the unique intersection plants were featured. A companion web- deep blue ocean, human evolution, and between art and science. In 1999, the trav- site to the exhibition included a study the Hope Diamond and other gemstones. eling exhibition, “Margaret Mee: Return of the illustrations paired with digitized While the Museum does not currently to the Amazon,” documented the life herbarium specimens and a discussion of have a hall devoted entirely to botany, and work of Margaret Mee (1909-1988), how conservation assessments are made. plants are displayed alongside pollina- a British botanical artist. The exhibit Other past exhibitions featuring tors in the “Butterflies + Plants: Partners bridged the worlds of art and natural sci- botanical specimens were those that in Evolution” exhibition. The exhibition, ence while confronting the global issues combined objects and specimens from which opened in 2008, gives visitors of rainforest destruction and preservation. several research departments. For the opportunity to not only observe the Mee’s botanically accurate watercolors example, in the 2010 exhibition, “Since ways in which butterflies, plants, and were featured alongside her field sketches, Darwin: The Evolution of Evolution,” other animals have evolved, adapted, and diaries, and a large model of a bromeliad specimens including fossils, insects, diversified over tens of millions of years, with many of the organisms dependent on plants, dog skulls, goat horns, mice but to also walk through an enclosed, it for their existence. The exhibit sought and birds, along with documentation climate-controlled, tropical garden and not only to present to the visitor the beauty of ongoing research at the museum, and scientific accuracy of her art, but also interact with both the foraging plants and Continued on page 11 Travel Vicki Funk traveled to Athens, Ohio Tropical Studies. Warren Wagner traveled to St. (3/16 – 3/18) to give a lecture at Ohio Marcelo Pace traveled to São Paulo, Louis, Missouri (3/14 – 3/22) to finalize a University; and to Oahu and Kauai, Brazil (1/9 – 1/17) to collect specimens manuscript on Onagraceae for the Flora of Hawaii (2/9 – 3/9) to conduct research and of plants and lichens in São Sebastião, North America. collaborate with staff at the University of Bertioga, Assis, and Botucatu, during a Hawaii and the National Tropical Botani- trip sponsored by the Global Genome cal Garden. Initiative (GGI). Joe Kirkbride traveled to Bronx, New Eric Schuettpelz traveled to Gaines- York (3/3) to attend a symposium at the ville, Florida (3/20 – 3/22) to present an New York Botanical Garden celebrating invited talk at the University of Florida. the 125th anniversary of the Garden. Laurence Skog traveled to Sarasota W. John Kress traveled to San Jose, and Gainesville, Florida (2/11 – 2/19) to Costa Rica (3/9 – 3/13) to participate as a study the Gesneriaceae collections at the member of the Assembly of Delegates and Marie Selby Botanical Garden and at the Board of Directors of the Organization for University of Florida. Visitors Monica Carlsen, Missouri Botanical Gar- Lyra Morina, University of Maryland, Zachary Rogers, Missouri Botanical den; Araceae and Zingiberales (2/17/15- College Park; Valuing botanical collec- Garden, Missouri, United States; Thyme- 2/16/17). tions (9/14/16-3/10/17). laeaceae (1/30-2/4). Morgan Gostel, George Mason Uni- Yash Kalburgi, Northern Virginia Jacob Suissa, Harvard University; Isoëtes versity; Compositae and GGI-Gardens Community College; Vitaceae (9/19/16- and Asteraceae internship (2/2-8/1). Program (9/1/15-8/31/17). 3/15/17). Lionel Gagnevin, Centre de Coopération Vikram Shivakumar, Alexandria, Sarah Brown, Tarleton State Univer- Internationale de Recherche en Agronomie Virginia; Clauseneae (Rutaceae) (9/12/16- sity; Collection management internship pour le Développement, France; Patho- 3/10/17). (12/5/16-1/27/17). gens on Rutaceae, Poaceae, and Euphorbi- aceae (2/6-2/13). Afzal Shah, Quaid-i-Azam University, The Plant Press Pakistan; Tylophorinae (Apocynaceae) Ivone Vásquez Briones, Universidad New Series - Vol. 20 - No. 2 (12/29/16-6/1/17). Peruana Unión Tarapoto, Peru; Malpighi- aceae (2/8-2/17). Chair of Botany Yousheng Chen, Chinese Academy of Laurence J. Dorr Sciences, China; Pan-Himalayan Cardueae Wesley Knapp, North Carolina Natural ([email protected]) and Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae) (12/31/16- Heritage Program; Research (2/13-2/15). 12/30/17). EDITORIAL STAFF Slawomir Nowak, Univeristy of Gdansk, Xu Su, Qinghai University, China; Trit- Poland; Orchidaceae (2/13-2/22). Editor iceae (Poaceae) (12/31/16-3/1/18). Gary Krupnick Boris Szurek, Institut de Recherche pour ([email protected]) Elena Meyer, Northern Virginia Com- le Développement, France; Pathogens on Copy Editors munity College; Collections management Rutaceae, Poaceae, and Euphorbiaceae Robin Everly, Bernadette Gibbons, and internship (1/9-2/3). (2/13). Rose Gulledge Ricardo de Oliveira Perdiz, Instituto Marion Leménager, University of The Plant Press is a quarterly publication pro- Nacional de Pesquisas Amazonia, Brazil; Montpellier, France; Fog-collecting plants vided free of charge. 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Amanda Williams, Eastern Mennonite Botanist; Flora of Arkansas (2/17-2/23). Web site: http://botany.si.edu/ University; Collections management internship (1/17-4/28). Continued on page 4 Page 2 April is the Cruelest Month f the poet T.S. Eliot wrote The Waste Land today he It was not only English gentlemen who recorded Chair would have to modify the first verse. What are we their observations of flowering times. Botanists Ito make of this unusual winter? Spring arrived in became engaged early, too. I cannot claim to have Washington three weeks earlier than expected, in Feb- done a thorough search but I do know that the With ruary rather than March or April. We saw the warning French botanist Jean Emmanuel Gilibert, who holds signs of climate change long before this and certainly the unfortunate distinction of having many of his an article published over 15 years ago by our staff and botanical works officially suppressed by theInter - collaborators (Abu-Asab et al., Biodiversity and Con- national Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, A servation 10: 597-612.
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