*** THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK - MEETING PROGRAM - AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, NEW YORK CITY ***
This coming TUESDAY (11 Dec 2012) The Linnaean Society of New York (TLS) will present another two-part program at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City. 6:00 p.m. A TALK WITH BOB PAXTON Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences at Columbia University and a former chairman of Columbia's History Department. He is the leading authority on Vichy France, and his work has so changed the way the French view their history that they speak of “before Paxton” and “after Paxton.” A birder for more than seventy years, he has been president of the Linnaean Society and a member of the New York State Avian Records Committee. He is a bird bander and the editor for *North American Birds* of birding reports from the Hudson-Delaware region (New York, New Jersey, and Delaware). His reviews of birding books in publications such as Birding and the New York Review of Books often show his special interest in the history of birding. 7:30 p.m. GO TO THE ANT, THOU SLUGGARD: WHY ANTS ARE MORE LIKE HUMANS THAN YOU MIGHT EXPECT *- MARK MOFFETT* Mark Moffett is Research Associate in the Entomology Department at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is also a contract photographer for National Geographic, which has published twenty-four of his articles (text and pictures). He received his Ph.D. at Harvard under E. O. Wilson, serving as Wilson’s Associate Curator of Entomology at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, in charge of the world’s largest collection of ants. In his extensive research in the wilds of five continents, he has discovered new species of ants, other animals, and plants. For his work on rain forest canopies, in 2006 he received the Explorers Club’s Lowell Thomas Medal for Exploration. His talk is based on *Adventures among Ants* (2010), for which he received the National Outdoor Book Award. He writes, “Humans are closely related to chimpanzees and yet our modern civilizations are more similar to ant colonies than to the communities of any ape. Living in groups of at most a hundred, no chimpanzee has to deal with issues of public health, infrastructure, distribution of goods and services, market economies, mass transit problems, assembly lines, agricultural and animal domestication, warfare and slavery. Ants have behavior addressing all these issues.” WHERE & WHEN Both programs are open to the public FREE OF CHARGE and will be held in the Linder Theater. Enter the museum from the 77th Street entrance, where the route to the auditorium will be sign posted. The first program will last approximately one hour with time before the second program to talk to both speakers, and mingle with TLS officers and council members who can provide information on becoming a part of this thriving natural history society. Audience members may also join Dr. Moffett and TLS members for dinner starting at 6 pm at Cafe Frida, 368 Columbus Ave. between 77th and 78th Sts. Reservation is in the name of 'Deutsch'. MORE INFORMATION ON THE TLS PROGRAM Jeff Nulle (Vice-President and Chair of the Program Committee) has put together a spectacular program of invited speakers, workshops and video presentations for the 2012/2013 season. For more details, please check out (and bookmark) our website http://linnaeannewyork.org/programs.html or visit us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linnaean-Society-of-New-York/335385365977?ref=ts Hopefully many of you will be able to join us on Tuesday (no reservations necessary). Angus Wilson Council Member, The Linnaean Society of New York -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
