TURNER — The Turner Natural History Club held its annual meeting on April 11 at the home of President Edith Ellis. Program Director Bill Whitman presented the proposed programs for 2011 (which may be seen on the club’s new website: turnernaturalhistoryclub.org) and Edith Ellis presented the proposed design for the new website which is now online. Plans were to add a lot of content and pictures to the site in the near future.
Whitman also reported on the presentation of the club’s Herbarium to the Maine State Museum so it can be cared for and properly displayed. The Herbarium is many notebooks filled with thousands of specimens of dried wildflowers and plants.
He also reported that Dr. Work of the State Museum will help get the Club’s moss and lichen collection transferred to a place that can care for and display it. The collection consists of about 15,000 specimens of moss and lichen, mostly collected by Lizzie Poole who founded the club in 1920.
Another piece of business discussed at the meeting was to open the club during June and July for two evenings a week (Tuesday and Thursday) to the public from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
The museum is at 442 Turner Road in Turner Center across the street from the Leavitt Institute campus.
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