BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND Scotland's national botanical society Incorporating the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland Scottish Charity No. SC016283

Home Aberdeen Dundee Glasgow Inverness St. Andrews Campanula rotundifolia. Harebell, Scottish bluebell, on Arthur's seat. ©C.E. Jeffree 2006 Secretary of the Botanical Society of Scotland: Dr Barbra Harvie, CECS, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Building, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JU Tel: 0131 650 7211  e-mail: barbra.harvie@ed.ac.uk Local Secretary at RBGE: Dr Heather McHaffie Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR Tel: 0131 552 7171 / 0131 248 2886  e-mail: h.mchaffie@rbge.ac.uk

EDINBURGH 2008-2009 PROGRAMME All Meetings, except that on 19^th February, will be held in the main Lecture theatre, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Inverleith Row and will begin at 5:15 p.m. Tea will be available from 4:45 p.m. **The meeting on 19^th February will be held in the RBGE Board room annexe Thursday 16^th October 2008 Dr Philip Mason, CEH. Fungal diversity: the cornerstone of woodland ecosystems Thursday 20^th November 2008 The Sir William Wright Smith Memorial Lecture Professor Stephen Blackmore, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Investigating vegetation history in Yunnan. Thursday 18^th December 2008 A social occasion featuring a miscellany of talks on Christmas plants Thursday 15^th January 2009 Dr Richard Buckland, Butterfly Conservation Society. Managing wild places and gardens for butterflies **Thursday 19^th February 2009 Mr Roger West. Why are there so few dioecious angiosperms? Thursday 19^th March 2009 Professor Robert Crawford, St Andrews University. Plants at the margin: a botanical view of climate change Thursday 16^th April 2009 Professor Roger Leakey, Edinburgh Centre for Tropical Forests. Domesticaton of the Trees of Life: bringing hope to the poor and hungry Thursday 21^st May 2009 Dr Deborah Long, Plantlife Scotland. Conserving Scotland’s plants: big issues, slow progress? Thursday 18^th June 2009 AGM followed by lecture by Ms Susie Kelpie, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Promoting plant awareness: education programmes at the RBGE. All lectures are free to non-members. However, student membership is only £2.00 per annum. To join the Society, download an application form. Download Edinburgh Programme as a Word document