Central Iowa Sierra Club Public Program

Speaker: Deborah Lewis, curator of the Ada Hayden Herbarium at ISU
Date, Time: Wednesday, January 17, 7:30 p.m.
Place; Community Room, Grace United Methodist Church, 3700 Cottage Grove, Des Moines

Title: The Ada Hayden Herbarium -- A Museum of Plants and Fungi

The Ada Hayden Herbarium at Iowa State University contains ~630,000 
specimens of plants (including flowering plants, conifers, ferns, 
mosses and algae) and fungi. These holdings make the Herbarium an 
important resource for research, plant identification, and other 
needs in the plant sciences, not just in Iowa, but worldwide. The 
presentation will discuss the Herbarium and its uses, and will also 
include some biographical information about Ada Hayden, who curated 
the Herbarium from 1934 to 1950.

Presenter: Deb Lewis. Deb has been the Curator of the Ada Hayden 
Herbarium since 1984. She came to Iowa State after receiving her 
Master's in Botany at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 
In addition to curation of the Herbarium, she also enjoys doing 
research on Iowa's native plants and surveys of the flora of Iowa's 
state parks and preserves.

For information about this program, please contact Jane at [log in to unmask]

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