The next program in the Virginia Heritage Resource Center's Mining the
Treasure House lecture series will be held at noon on Tuesday, 16 June
2008 in the conference rooms adjacent to the lobby of the Library of
Virginia at 800 East Broad Street in downtown Richmond. The speaker will
be Matt Johnson, a senior book conservator at Etherington Conservation
Services. His talk is entitled Immortal Birds: The Conservation of
Catesby's Natural History of Carolina and Audubon's Birds of America and
will address the challenges of conserving works such as those by Mark
Catesby and John James Audubon as well as the historical and
biographical backgrounds of the two naturalist artists. Some of the
Library of Virginia's own Catesby volumes will also be on display 

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that space is limited. For more information on this and other programs
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