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The New England Botanical Club

New England Botanical Society

http://www.rhodora.org/about/history.html

https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/detailsPage?ein=046042239&name=New%20England%20Botanical%20Club%20Inc.&city=West%20Boylston&state=MA&countryAbbr=US&dba=&type=CHARITIES,%20COPYOFRETURNS&orgTags=CHARITIES&orgTags=COPYOFRETURNS

Dec 10 1895 first gathering to discuss it. There was a second gathering also in Dec 1895.

Logo images at http://www.rhodora.org/whatsnew.html.
 * First meeting at the home of Joseph R. Churchill which was at 32 Percival Street, Dorchester, and is known as the Benjamin Cushing House. Benjamin Cushing was the father of Churchill's wife Mary Cushing. (http://boston.neighborhoodx.com/neighborhoods/5347 - "reliable" source? Find other things) https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A6414 http://www.dorchesteratheneum.org/pdf/Sammarco%20Civil%20War%20Heros.pdf (PDF)
 * Rhodora (journal) – expand (2004 cover image https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32864516) (first issue cover image https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/563969)

History
Possibly the Farlow letter and then maybe the first report.


 * https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/564008/
 * https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45961757/
 * https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56963894/
 * https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/603484/
 * https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/659498/

Founding members
On 5 February 1896, at the home of Joseph Richmond Brewer Churchill in Dorchester, Massachusetts, seventeen men gathered and had the first meeting of the New England Botanical Club. In addition to Churchill, these were Frank Shipley Collins, Lorin Low Dame, George Edward Davenport, Walter Deane, William Gilson Farlow, Charles Edward Faxon, Edwin Faxon, George Lincoln Goodale, George Golding Kennedy, Nathaniel Thayer Kidder, Edward Lothorp Rand, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Charles Sprague Sargent, Roland Thaxter, Benjamin Marston Watson, and Emile Francis Williams. Photographs of twelve of these men are shown here. Not pictured are Churchill, Kidder, Rand, Williams, and Watson.

Early role of women
Intentional exclusion of women as club members.

Josephine Adelaide Clark
Josephine Adelaide Clark

She began the index card system.. from her article "Clark was the main organizer of the index until 1903 when she turned it over to Mary Anna Day at the Gray Herbarium with 27,999 cards"

Mary Anna Day
Mary Anna Day
 * https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/659509

Awards and scholarships
Awards, scholarships, field trips.

Herbarium

 * https://huh.harvard.edu/pages/new-england-botanical-club-herbarium-nebc

Any available photos of the herbarium? The building? Maybe a specimen or something?

Publications
The society has published the scientific journal Rhodora since 1899.

maybe an out of copyright cover of an old Rhodora here.