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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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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 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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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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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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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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Membership Subscriptions

Date

Mon, 01/10/2012 (All day)

The membership subscription rate for the Botanical Society of Scotland have not changed for more that ten years, however this year we have had to raise the rate of membership subscriptions from the 1st October 2012 to:

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Invitation To Keen Photographers

Date

Mon, 30/04/2012 (All day)

The BSS is updating its membership recruiting leaflet and would like a
striking picture for the front page. We are looking for a photograph, in
portrait orientation, of a single plant or a small group of plants that are
characteristic of the Scottish flora. We cannot use the Scots primrose
(Primula scotica) because that has already been used as an emblem by

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Journal access scheduled downtime 22nd February 2012

Date

Wed, 22/02/2012 - 18:00 - 22:00

Taylor & Francis Online will be undergoing maintenance on Wednesday 22nd February 2012 between 18:00 and 22:00 GMT, during this time the Society's journal, Plant Ecology & Diversity will not be available on-line. Taylor & Francis hope to complete the work within the first hour but,it may be unavailable for a further three hours during the scheduled maintenance window.

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A window on the world

Location

Room 2.12, Appleton Tower, Crichton St, Edinburgh

Leaders

Mark Hughes

Date

Thu, 27/10/2011 - 19:00

For over 300 years botanists from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh have been bringing back unusual, rare and exotic plants to Scotland from all corners of the globe. Join Mark Hughes as he follows in their footsteps during a series of expeditions to the rich tropical montane forests of Sumatra.

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