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Philadelphia Botanical Club
Address: Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 Benjamin Franklin Pky
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Region: Mid-Atlantic
Phone: (215) 299-1192
Web: www.acnatsci.org/hosted/botany_club
Organization Scope: State/Regional
Organization Type: Botanical Society
Services this organization provides
Description: The Philadelphia Botanical Club held its first meeting December 1, 1891, at the Academy of Natural Sciences with eight founders present. The objectives of the new club were "to further the interests of Botany and to make a checklist and herbarium of the plants found within the radius of fifty miles from Philadelphia."
Last Update: 2004-01-27
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