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Seating is limited. Registration includes the Friday-night and Saturday-afternoon receptions. Register online at www.hnoc.org. The cost is $75 for THNOC members, $50 for students and teachers, and $85 for the general public.
For additional information call (504) 523-4662 or visit www.hnoc.org.
Friday, February 22, 2013
The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal St.
6 p.m.
Reception and viewing of Seeking the Unknown: Natural
History Observations in Louisiana, 1698-1840
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Queen Anne Ballroom, Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St.
8	a.m.
Registration
8:45 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Priscilla Lawrence, THNOC executive director
Robert A. Thomas, symposium moderator; director, Loyola University Center for Environmental Communication
9	a.m.
American Itiduins and Natural History: Managed Landscapes in Prehistory
Robbie Ethridge, professor of anthropology, University of Mississippi
9:45 a.m.
Francois Lernaire and Bernard Alexandre Vielle: The First Observers of Natural History in Colonial Louisiana
Gilles-Antoine Langlois, National School ol Architecture at Versailles, University' of Paris-Est Creteil
10:05 a.m.
Enlightenment Science in French Colonial Louisiana: The Royal Physician Botanist Jean Prat and the Wax Myrtle
Boris Teske, assistant professor and College ot Liberal Arts liaison librarian, Louisiana Tech University
8 Volume XXX, Number 1 — Winter 2013