Oral presentations are held in the Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall off the lobby of The International Plant Science Center of The New York Botanical Garden. The International Plant Science Center (home of the Herbarium and future location of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library) and The Watson Building are interconnected with the Museum Building.

Pick up participant folders and programs, lobby of Lecture Hall

8:45 AM
9:15 AM	Opening of Symposium Scott Mori, Greeting Thomas Zanoni, Session Convener
9:30 AM	Historical phytogeography of the Greater Antilles. Alan Graham, Kent State University
10:30 AM	Vegetation classification and vegetation mapping of the Greater Antilles: A review. Alberto Areces-Mallea, New York Botanical Garden
11:30 AM	Reception luncheon with the Herbarium Staff, commemorating the completion of the move of the specimens from the Museum Building to the International Plant Science Center; lunch will be served on fourth floor of the Museum Building
1:00 PM	Poster Session I exhibitors to set up posters in exhibition area, fourth floor, Museum Building
1:15 PM	Opening of afternoon session William R. Buck, greeting Thomas Zanoni, Session Convener
1:20 PM	Historical zoogeography of the Greater Antilles. S. Blair Hedges, Pennsylvania State University
2:20 PM	Poster Session I Fourth floor, Museum Building Refreshments served during session
3:15 PM	Setting priorities for research and conservation of Caribbean biodiversity. Michael L. Smith, Conservation International
4:15 PM	Ecological biogeography of the Caribbean: Where are the orchids? James D. Ackerman, speaker, with J. C. Trejo Torres & Y. Crespo Chuy, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
5:15 PM	Closing of afternoon session
6:30 PM	Symposium Banquet Fordham University's McGinley Hall History of floristics, including collecting, in the Greater Antilles. Richard A. Howard, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Saturday 24 June 2000
9:00 AM	Poster Session II exhibitors to set up posters in exhibition area, fourth floor, Museum Building
9:15 AM	Opening Third Session Thomas Zanoni, Session Convener
9:20 AM	The life and work of the Swedish botanist Erik Leonard Ekman Roger Lundin, Swedish Museum of Natural History
10:20 AM	Poster Session II Fourth Floor of Museum Building, refreshments served
11: 20 AM	Biogeography of basidiomycetes in the Greater Antilles D. Jean Lodge, Center for Forest Mycology, U.S. Dept. Agriculture, speaker, with T. J. Baroni & O. K. Miller, Jr.
12:20 PM	Flora of the Greater Antilles project meeting
1: 30 PM	Close of the Symposium