Thursday 27 September 2018
Cambridge University Botanic Garden
The last day of the three-day Sorted! Festival at the Botanic Garden celebrating the opening of the Rising Path.
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How have the words and deeds of scientists, writers, collectors, researchers and conservationists shaped our understanding of the natural world and our place in it? Sorted! By Word and Deed will explore.
Sorted! takes place in the beautiful and very comfortable Auditorium of the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, which is located behind-the-scenes at the Botanic Garden. Your ticket price includes admission to the Garden (opens at 10am), all the talks, morning refreshments and sandwich lunch from the Garden Café, and optional tours at the end of the day.
Morning I
No pollination in Darwin’s Garden
Shelley Innes, Darwin Correspondence project
Mobilising Economic Botany: Kew Gardens and the circulation of useful plants
Dr Caroline Cornish, Royal Holloway, University of London
Morning II
Putting it out there: the sexual chemistry of flowering plants
Dr Alison Foster, University of Kent, School of Anthropology and Conservation
Bright and beautiful, but not for our benefit: the blooming relationship between flowering plants and their insect pollinators
Dr Ed Turner, Department of Zoology, Cambridge University
Afternoon
You say potato, I say tomato: let’s call the whole thing Solanaceae TBC
Dr Sandy Knapp, Natural History Museum
The Hort Sort: sorting out the Garden’s Systematic Beds
Sally Petitt, Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Optional late afternoon tours
Trees of the Botanic Garden
The Systematics Beds
For full details of the day's programme and speaker biographies, visit the Garden's website at www.botanic.cam.ac.uk
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Running time:
10:15 - 15:15