Speakers announced for Mark Catesby’s third centennial in America – celebrating his impact on our world

Mark Catesby’s third centennial in America – celebrating his impact on our world

Richmond, Virginia; Washington DC; and Charleston, South Carolina, USA

4-9 November, 2012

This celebration is being organized by the Catesby Commemorative Trust with SHNH as a co-sponsor. Others involved include the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, US Botanic Garden, Wilton House Museum in Richmond, College of Charleston, Gibbes Museum, Charleston Library Society, Middleton Place Foundation and the Preservation Society of Charleston.

The program includes a broad array of speakers on diverse subjects with a connection to Mark Catesby as well as related art exhibits, colonial-era garden tours, and expeditions into areas of South Carolina little changed since Catesby was there.  The complete list of speakers is:

Cynthia P. Neal, Producer/Director of "The Curious Mister Catesby" documentary

Catesby – Influences and Sources

Dr Karen Reeds, Mark Catesby and his Botanical Forerunners

Diana & Michael Preston, William Dampier

Florence F. J. M. Pieters & Dr. Kay Etheridge, Maria Sibylla Merian

Catesby’s World

Dr Janet Browne, England

Dr Sarah Meacham, Virginia

Dr Suzanne Linder Hurley, Carolina

Dr Robert Robertson, The Bahamas  

Catesby’s Book

Henrietta McBurney Ryan, Catesby’s Drawings

Leslie K. Overstreet, “The Natural History"

Dr Amy Meyers, Catesby’s Etchings

Catesby’s Science

Dr Shepard Krech III, Ornithology (incl. bird migration)

Dr Steven A. Harris, Botany

Dr Aaron Bauer, Zoology (other than ornithology)

Dr W.  Hardy Eshbaugh, Catesby’s economic and ethnobotany

Dr James L. Reveal, Catesby The Explorer

Catesby’s Impact

Dr Charlie Jarvis, Linnaeus and the relevance of his use of Catesby’s botany

Dr Kraig Adler, Linnaeus and his use of Catesby’s zoology

Judith Magee, The Naturalists who came after Catesby

Joel T. Fry, The Bartram-Catesby Connection

Mark Laird, Catesby and 18th Century Gardening

The Catesby Commemorative Trust is rebuilding its website and around the end of April www.catesbytrust.org will contain complete information about the program, including a ticket ordering facility and the information on special rate accommodations.

David J. Elliott