Please pardon cross-posting of this press release from Miami University.  The Lloyd Library is honored to be part of the Botany Department’s 100^th anniversary celebration—18 of our key botanical books will be on display in Miami’s Art Museum.  Over the years, botany faculty and students have found Lloyd resources invaluable to their studies, thereby forging a strong and mutually beneficial relationship between the institutions.  The exhibition is an extraordinary testament to this remarkable relationship.

 

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27 March 2006                                                                                      Contact: Elizabeth Runyon

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ART EXHIBITION PART OF BOTANY 100^th ANNIVERSARY AT MIAMI

 

OXFORD, Ohio – The exhibition “Treasures on Paper from the Lloyd: Plants and Fungi” opens Tuesday, April 11, at the Miami University Art Museum, part of a series of events celebrating the 100^th anniversary of Miami’s botany department.

The exhibition focuses on botanical studies from the Lloyd Library and Museum, located at 917 Plum St. in Cincinnati.  Founded by three brothers who established a pharmaceutical business in Cincinnati in the 19^th century, the Lloyd contains a remarkable collection of botanical, pharmaceutical and medicinal books and periodicals.

Miami botany professors have used the Lloyd collection for decades, introducing generations of students to the Lloyd botanical illustrations that span 300 years.

Botany professor Nicholas P. Money and professor emeritus W. Hardy Eshbaugh will discuss the exhibition at 4 p.m. Friday, April 21, at the museum.  The talk will be followed by a reception; both events are free and open to the public.  Money and Eshbaugh, along with Jack Keegan, are consultants for the exhibition.

Other anniversary events include a symposium on Saturday, April 22, in Pearson Hall, featuring botany alumni speakers with a reception following at 6 p.m. at the Miami Inn.

For more information, call the art museum at (513) 529-2232, the botany department at (513) 529- 4200, or visit: www.cas.muohio.edu/botany.  The exhibition continues through July 1.  Museum hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and noon-5 p.m. Saturday.  Admission is free.

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Photo caption (photo provided by Miami University Art Museum)

“Magnolia,” illustration by Mark Catesby (1683-1749), for The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, 1731-43, two volumes.  The print is part of an art exhibition of works from Cincinnati’s Lloyd Library at Miami University April 11 through July 1.

 

Maggie Heran, MLS, Director

Lloyd Library and Museum

917 Plum Street

Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

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