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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks to Peter Bernhardt for the below
message.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Peter Bernhardt
[mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Darwin as a Pollination
Biologist</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dear NAPPC Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Please consider a point I brought up in my last communication. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>1) The scientific community and science press are celebrating Charles
Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of
"On the Origin of Species..."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>2) Charles Darwin's publications on insect-pollination and plant
breeding systems are the foundation of several sub-disciplines in Biology.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>3) Can you recite the title of the first book Darwin published
after "On the Origin of Species" and how this book, published in
1862, proved and defended hypotheses Darwin made in "On the Origin
of Species?" <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>4) Why is this book (now reprinted several times) so important to
both plant and pollinator conservation?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Shouldn't NAPPC be contributing to and riding the coattails of the 2009
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Darwin</st1:place></st1:City> celebrations?
Have you considered discussing <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Darwin</st1:place></st1:City>'s
work on pollination when writing articles or giving public talks?
Institutions like the Morton Arboretum (<st1:State w:st="on">Illinois</st1:State>)
are planning a year of guest speakers who will lecture on the books <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Darwin</st1:place></st1:City> wrote after OOS.
The Morton Arboretum plans to record and tape a number of these lectures and
interviews. NAPPC members, Peter Bernhardt and Retha Meier will be
speaking on March 10 and we intend to include something about NAPPC in our
power point and/or in our interview. Of course, we have the option of
raping and pillaging the famous library at the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Missouri</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Botanical Garden</st1:PlaceType> (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">St. Louis</st1:place></st1:City>) but lots of "Darwiniana"
can be down loaded these days. It should be easy for NAPPC members to
incorporate aspects of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Darwin</st1:place></st1:City>'s
research (and his charming yet accurate pen and ink illustrations) into your
own presentations. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>For more information on the program at Morton please contact Leslie
Goddard <<a href="mailto:LGoddard@mortonarb.org">LGoddard@mortonarb.org</a>>
or Michael Stieber <<a href="mailto:mstleber@mortonarb.org">mstleber@mortonarb.org</a>>.
So many NAPPC members are affiliated with museums, gardens, arboreta,
zoos etc. it shouldn't be too difficult to write or speak on this subject
between now and December, right?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Peter Bernhardt<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Department of Biology<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>3507 Laclede Ave.</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Saint Louis</span></font></st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Saint Louis</span></font></st1:City>,<st1:State
w:st="on">Missouri</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">63103</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
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