<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History</span></font></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Century Schoolbook'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><i><br></i></b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Thomas R. Dunlap</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></b></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 30.6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 18px; "><b><span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Texas A&M University</span></font></span></b><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 30.6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF6600" face="'Century Schoolbook'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><b><br></b></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0.55in; text-align: center; "><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">“Art, Science, and Money: Field Guides to the Birds, 1889-2009”</span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0.55in; text-align: center; "><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: maroon; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; ">Field guides to the birds, which for more than a century have led people to nature and encouraged them to help save it, live at the intersection of outdoor recreation, conservation, science, commercial art, and publishing – physical objects that trace our changing knowledge and the values we attach to nature. Their history began in the late nineteenth century with a generation of experiments with text, illustrations, and their arrangement. It entered a new phase in 1934 when Roger Tory Peterson put birders’ accumulating knowledge of field identification into a new kind of guide that made birding a mass recreation. Now birders can choose from a variety of general guides or find ones for every level from novice to expert, local birds to birds of the world. The history of the guides traces the evolution of a hobby and complex and changing relations between amateurs and professional in bird study.</span></span></font></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0.55in; text-align: center; "><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: maroon; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-weight: bold; ">Friday, December 4, 2009</span></span></span></font></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">2:30 to 4:30 pm</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Building E51 Room 095</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></o:p></span></b></p></body></html>