Philadelphia Botanical Club Charles Darwin, cartoon by Frederick Waddy
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Schedule for Darwin and Botany in a Changing World

1:15 PMRegistration
1:45 PMOpening Remarks:
Janet Novak, president of the Philadelphia Botanical Club
William Brown, president of the Academy of Natural Sciences
Alfred E. Schuyler, Moderator
2:00 PMJames G. Lennox, "Chance, Design, and Contrivance: Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, and the Metaphysics of Orchids"
3:00 PMBreak
3:15 PMKarl Niklas, "Darwin's Second 'Abominable Mystery': Why Are There So Many Angiosperms?"
4:15 PMBreak
4:30 PMTatyana Livshultz, "Evolution of Pollination Mechanisms in the Milkweed Family (Apocynaceae)"
5:30 PMClosing Remarks: Ann F. Rhoads
5:45-7 PMReception

Updated October 8, 2009. Darwin drawing adapted from "Natural Selection" by Frederick Waddy, 1872.