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.