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 There is free underground parking for Library patrons but please note that space is limited. For more information on this and other programs and services of the Library of Virginia please visit the Library's web site at http://www.lva.lib.va.us <http://www.lva.lib.va.us/> To subscribe, change options or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html <http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html> or http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html <http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html> ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html