Fall Meeting Of The Southern Lepidopterists’ Society And The Association For Tropical Lepidoptera, October 5-7, 2007 And Call For Papers
The Annual Meeting is scheduled for October 5-7, 2007, in the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity Conference Room, at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida. The McGuire Center is located adjacent to the Powell Hall on the University campus and can be accessed directly off 34th St. and Hull Road.
Tentative Schedule
Friday, October 5, 2007
Day field trip to Osceola Forest. Contact Dr. John Heppner 
Registration, 2-5 p.m. Lobby Powell Hall or McGuire Center
Moth collecting trip to Goethe Forest with Jeff Slotten. Please contact him directly at 
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Saturday, October 6, 2007
Registration and reception 8-9 a.m., McGuire Center Conference Room
Bring along specimens for display and discussion
9 a.m. – noon: Morning Session
Noon: group photo
Lunch: McGuire Center 12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
1:15-5 p.m.: Afternoon session
6:30 p.m. Banquet buffet, Hilton Convention Center, semi-private room,
Special speaker: Dr. Torben Larsen. Dr. Larsen, originally an economist and evaluation specialists, was awarded a doctorate from Copenhagen University for his monographs on the butterflies of Jordan, Oman, Yemen and Arabia and subsequently has written additional volumes on Egypt, Kenya and more recently two volumes on the Butterflies of West Africa.
Slidefest
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Registration and reception 8-9 a.m., McGuire Center Conference Room
Bring along specimens for display and discussion
9 a.m. – noon: Morning Session
11:15 a.m., Business meeting, Chairman, Marc Minno, presiding
12 p.m. Conclusion
Afternoon field trips can be scheduled depending on interest.
Dr. John Heppner is arranging a foreign collecting trip (perhaps to Guatemala) to begin following the meeting.
Final program will be available on the websites for Southern Lepidopterists Society, Association for Tropical Lepidoptera, and McGuire Center by 1 October. Hard copies will be available at the meeting. Please continue to check these websites for updates prior to the meetings.
Presentations: Any person interested in presenting a paper should contact Dr. Andrew Warren, Program Co-Chairman, directly. Please provide him with a title, time requested and an abstract of your talk on or before September 15th. Please contact:
Dr. Andrew Warren, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, P. O. Box 112710, Gainesville, FL 32611-2710. (email:
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Registration and Contact Information: $20/individual; $35/ couple; $10/ students. Registration forms will be available on the websites.
Please send information to:
Dr. Jacqueline Y. Miller, Program Co-Chairman, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, P. O. Box 112710, Gainesville, FL 32611-2710. Phone (352) 846 2000 Ex. 480 (email: 
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Accommodations: Gainesville has a wide variety of hotel and motel rooms available. A block of 10 rooms has been reserved at the Hilton Convention Center (352 371 3600) and will be available at the rate $129 (single or double) until Sepetember 5, 2007. Others with lower rates, such as the Rush Lake Motel (373 5000), Comfort Inn West (264 1771), and Holiday Inn Express (376 0004) are located not far from the McGuire Center.
Research Collections: Those members, who wish to work in the McGuire Center research collections prior or following the meetings, should contact the collections managers, George Austin (email: 
) and Andrei Sourakov (email: 
) several weeks in advance of the meetings.