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Adult Class: A Botany Collection: Pressing and Preservation
Start Date: 5/28/2014Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Date: 5/28/2014End Time: 9:00 PM

Event Description

The Academy has one of the largest herbaria, or dried plant collections, in the country. Learn why we collect, where we collect, and the ways in which we preserve plants for hundreds of years.

Go behind the scenes, where you’ll see some of the oldest and most important plant collections in the Americas. You’ll even try your hand at making your own herbarium sheet! Collection Manager Alina Freire-Fierro will delight you with her expertise, passion, and tales of research and collecting in some of the world’s most exotic places.

$25 members, $30 nonmembers
Maximum 15 participants
Teachers can earn three Act 48 credits

Call 215-299-1060 to register
Herbarium Sheet
Location:
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103
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