The Botanical Society Of Scotland SCIO

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The Society ran a pgm. of public lectures (13), field meetings (13), a joint mtng. with the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland and initiated a monthly ‘plant pub’ event to enable anyone interested in plants to meet socially. Our weekly plant blog grows in popularity. The Soc. produced 2 editions of a redesigned BSS News, and its scientific journal, Plant Ecology and Diversity (now online) published a special edition on the urban flora of Scotland. Membership increased, esp. among students and a new membership database was introduced. Funding assistance towards field work was made available for undergraduate students studying plant sciences (3 awards - £1328 total) and a competition run to identify the best undergraduate plant science dissertation (£200). Project reports were published in BSS News and promoted there and via social media. BSS continued to support the Alliance for Scotland's Rainforest and contributed to the new (Scottish) Mountain Plants Alliance.

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