Co-presented with The SEATTLE ROOM OF THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. One of the many pleasures of our reading series at the Seattle Public Library has been the number of popular weekend afternoon book talks on various Northwest topics. Today we'll hear about the discoveries of David Douglas, a native of Scotland who studied and wrote about the botany of the Pacific Northwest and for whom the Douglas Fir was named. Historian Jack Nisbet is over from the east side of the Cascades to read from The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest (Sasquatch). Jack Nisbet's books include the Murray Morgan Prize-winning Sources of the River. Free admission. Special $5 coupons for parking in the Central Library garage are available on a limited basis for those attending the program. The Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636, or see www.spl.org.