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Petition to save St Andrews Botanic Garden

St Andrews Botanic Garden is under threat of closure due to insufficient funding (see also News Item 4th April).

You can sign a petition against the closure of the Garden by going to http://www.st-andrews-botanic.org and clicking on "Sign the Save the Garden Petition". The petition closes on 5 May and will be presented to the University in June together with a business plan for the Garden's future development.

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Death of Dr Richard Pankhurst

Location

Edinburgh

Date

Thu, 28/03/2013 (All day)

Dr Richard Pankhurst died on the 26th March 2013.

Richard Pankhurst, BSBI VC Recorder, a long time member of the Botanical Society of Scotland and RBGE Research Associate, died after a fight with esophageal cancer. His wife Ann, and daughter, Lucy were at his bedside in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary when he died peacefully. Our thoughts are with his family.

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St Andrews Botanic Garden under threat of closure

Location

St Andrews Botanic Garden

The lease of St Andrews Botanic Garden expires in September 2013 and the Garden is under threat of closure from this September.

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UK PlantSci 2013

Location

Dundee

Date

Tue, 16/04/2013 (All day) - Wed, 17/04/2013 (All day)

UK PlantSci 2013 is the annual conference of the UK Plant Sciences Federation which was established to showcase the wealth of plant sciences undertaken in the UK.

UK PlantSci 2013 will be held on 16-17th April 2013 in Dundee.

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Death of Prof Paul Jarvis FRSE, FRS

Date

Thu, 07/02/2013 (All day)

Prof Paul Jarvis FRSE, FRS died aged 77 on the 5th Feb 2013.

Prof Jarvis was an outstanding forest scientist, a 1970s pioneer, working in the on the physiology of trees and measuring CO2 and H2O profiles over spruce at a time when no-one else had thought of these things. His influence was truly world-wide, and he will be sorely missed.

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Student Dissertation Prize 2012

Philippa Stone, a BSc Ecological Science (Hons. Forestry) student from the University of Edinburgh, was judged the winner of the 2012 student dissertation prize with a project entitled “The effect of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) silviculture on stand structure and epiphytic lichen abundance in Glentress Forest”.

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8th Plant Life of South West Asia conference

Location

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), 20a Inverleith Row

Date

Mon, 01/07/2013 (All day) - Fri, 05/07/2013 (All day)

The 8th Plant Life of South West Asia conference, which will be hosted by the Centre for Middle Eastern Plants at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in July 2013.

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Taylor & Francis Online Scheduled Maintenance

Date

Mon, 29/10/2012 (All day)

Taylor & Francis Online will under going scheduled maintenance on Monday 29th October 2012, starting at 14:00 GMT and finishing by 19:00 GMT. This means that the Society's journal, Plant Ecology and Diversity, will be unavailable on-line during this time.

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Scottish Annual Meeting 2012

Location

Battleby Conference Centre, Redgorton, Perth

Date

Sat, 03/11/2012 (All day)

The Scottish Annual Meeting jointly between the Botanical Society of the British Isles and Botanical Society of Scotland, this is a meeting an interest in Scottish botany, BSBI and BSS members and friends are cordially invited to this popular day. There is a full programme of exhibits and talks for you to enjoy.

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BSS News 99

I hope you have all had a good summer botanising - despite the weather. The final batch of BSS News 99 was posted out today. Please let us know what you think of the new, improved, print quality!

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