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New England Botanical Club
New England Botanical Club, Inc.
Abbreviation	NEBC (herbarium acronym)
Formation	5 February 1896; (128 years ago)
Founders	Joseph Richmond Brewer Churchill; 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; Emile Francis Williams;
Founded at	32 Percival Avenue; Dorchester, Massachusetts
Type	Nonprofit (NGO)
Tax ID no.	04-6042239
Focus	Dissemination of botanical information
Headquarters	22 Divinity Avenue
Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States;
Coordinates	42°22′44″N 71°06′54″W / 42.379°N 71.115°W
Field	Botany
Publication	Rhodora (scientific journal)
Website	rhodora.org

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The New England Botanical Club

New England Botanical Society^[1]

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.

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.

Frank Shipley Collins
(1848–1920)
Loren Low Dame
(1838–1903)
George Edward Davenport
(1833–1907)
Walter Deane
(1848–1930)
William Gilson Farlow
(1844–1919)
President
Charles Edward Faxon
(1846–1918)
Edwin Faxon
(1823–1898)
George Lincoln Goodale
(1839–1923)
George Golding Kennedy
(1841–1918)
Benjamin Lincoln Robinson
(1864–1935)
Curator of Vascular Plants
Charles Sprague Sargent
(1841–1927)
Roland Thaxter
(1858–1932)
Curator of Nonvascular Plants

Early role of women

Intentional exclusion of women as club members.

Josephine Adelaide Clark

Josephine Adelaide Clark
(1856–1929)

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"