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Plants of Pompeii: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants
May 15, 2017
Ancient Pompeii was famous for its gardens and flower culture. This exhibit features plant portraits created by Victoria I and Lilian Nicholson Meyer for the book A Pompeian Herbal. The illustrations portray medicinal plants identified in the excavations of Pompeii and those that still grow in the area today. A living exhibit of some of these plants will be on display in the Physiology House in the Lyman Conservatory.
Botanical Garden, Church Exhibition Gallery
8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

UMASS Press Reads: Science, Scientists, and Resistance
May 16, 2017
Sam Redman, UMass Press Committee member and author of Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Harvard University Press), will facilitate a conversation examining how scientists have used their discoveries to counteract political intimidation and raise public awareness about the important consequences of their discoveries— especially concerning the environment, nuclear arms, and climate change. Panelists include: Paul Rubinson: Redefining Science: Scientists, the National Security State, and Nuclear Weapons in Cold War America (UMass Press); Banu Subramanian: UMass Press Committee member and author of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity (University of Illinois Press); Sigrid Schmalzer, forthcoming: Science for the People: Documents from America's Movement of Radical Scientists (Forthcoming, UMass Press). Refreshments served. sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press and the Jones Library. All welcome.
Jones Library, Amherst, MA
7:00 pm

Events at Smith

Plants of Pompeii: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants
May 22, 2017
Ancient Pompeii was famous for its gardens and flower culture. This exhibit features plant portraits created by Victoria I and Lilian Nicholson Meyer for the book A Pompeian Herbal. The illustrations portray medicinal plants identified in the excavations of Pompeii and those that still grow in the area today. A living exhibit of some of these plants will be on display in the Physiology House in the Lyman Conservatory.
Botanical Garden, Church Exhibition Gallery
8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Events at Smith

Plants of Pompeii: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants
May 29, 2017
Ancient Pompeii was famous for its gardens and flower culture. This exhibit features plant portraits created by Victoria I and Lilian Nicholson Meyer for the book A Pompeian Herbal. The illustrations portray medicinal plants identified in the excavations of Pompeii and those that still grow in the area today. A living exhibit of some of these plants will be on display in the Physiology House in the Lyman Conservatory.
Botanical Garden, Church Exhibition Gallery
8:30 am to 4:00 pm