New Arboretum Director Presents Darwin Lecture

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 6:00 PM

Dr. William (Ned) Friedman, newly appointed director of the Arnold Arboretum, will present a lecture on the evolutionary nature of flowering plants. Charles Darwin was baffled by many big questions in this field and called it an "abominable" mystery. Recent advances in the fossil record have shed new light on what they might have looked like, where they "lived", and how they reproduced. The lecture, part of the Asa Gray Bicentennial Series, is free and open to the public. Dr. Friedman will assume the Arboretum directorship in January.