Subject: E.O. Wilson coming to Seattle

From: SAL <[email-masked]>
Date: 1 May 1996 03:13:58 GMT

Hello,

I'm passing the word on that the great naturalist, 
EDWARD O. WILSON, is coming to Seattle on Tuesday, May 14th. This 
promises to be one of the finest natural science lectures in the 
Northwest this year. I've included more details below. 

Seattle Arts & Lectures is presenting an evening with Harvard professor 
and insect expert Edward O. Wilson, on Tuesday, May 14th. Twice a 
Pulitzer Prize winning entomologist, E.O. Wilson is also one of the 
scientific community's most prominent and vocal naturalists in support 
of biodiversity. The evening with Dr. Wilson will be held at the 5th 
Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Avenue (between Union and University streets) 
at 7:30 PM. 

A mixture of loneliness, amusement, curiosity, and 
intellectual rigor makes the voice of this thoughtful 
                      man unforgettable.    
                                          -The New York Times Book 
Review

Edward O. Wilson's fascination with nature began on the shoreline of 
Paradise Beach, Florida and rural Alabama, where he spent his childhood, 
and led him towards a forty-year career as a professor of zoology at 
Harvard University. His unwavering 'antlike' penchant for scientific 
research has inspired many  books whose titles alone reflect his 
challenging intellect and roving curiosity: Sociobiology: The New 
Synthesis  (1975), Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of the 
Mind (1983), and The Diversity of Life (1992). He has twice won the 
Pulitzer Prize (for On Human Nature, 1978, and The Ants, 1990), and is a 
recipient of the prestigious National Medal of Science and the Orion 
Society's 1995 John Hay Award "for consistently bridging the humanities 
and the sciences to the considerable enhancement of both." Wilson is 
also known to public television viewers for his exploratory programs on 
Nova. For Seattle Arts & Lectures, Dr. Wilson's talk is entitled, "The 
World's biological Wealth."
 
Single tickets to Mr. Wilson's lecture are available by mail order, 
credit card phone order, and at local bookstores (see below). Open 
seating tickets are priced at $15 (balcony) and $18 (main floor). Please 
address mail orders to Seattle Arts & Lectures, 105 South Main Street, 
Suite #200, Seattle, WA 98104. 
Remaining tickets will be sold at the box office the evening of the 
event.

Balcony tickets only are available through the following independent 
bookstores: Bailey/Coy Books, Beks Bookstore, Blackbird Books, Eagle 
Harbor Book Co., Elliott Bay Book Co., Fremont Place Book Co., Island 
Books, Kay's 
Bookmark, Madison Park Books, Magnolia's Bookstore, Queen Anne Avenue 
Books, Second Story Books, and Wide World Books & Maps.           

The evening with Edward O. Wilson is made possible with the support of
University Bookstore

INFORMATION AND CREDIT CARD ORDERS: 621-2230

Adrienne Reed
(206) 621-2230          Seattle Arts & Lectures
Presents Naturalist, Educator and Author