Torrey Botanical Society
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Torrey Botanical Society (formerly Torrey Botanical Club) was started in the 1860s by colleagues of John Torrey. It is the oldest botanical society in the Americas. The Society promotes the exploration and study of plant life, with particular focus on the flora of the New York City metro area.
The objectives of the society are "to promote interest in botany, and to collect and disseminate information on all phases of plant science." The Society fosters and supports floristic curiosity through indoor meetings (lectures), outdoor meetings (plant walks), fellowships that support graduate study, and publications.
The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society (until 1997 The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club), the oldest botanical journal in the Americas, has as its primary goal the dissemination of scientific knowledge about plants (in the broad sense of both plants and fungi). It publishes basic research in all areas of plant biology except horticulture, with emphasis on research done in, and about plants of, the Western Hemisphere.
Lectures run from October through May at the New York Botanical Garden and are free and open to the public.
Plant walks run from April through October throughout the New York City metro area and are free and open to the public.
