# Clara Cummings Walk - May 20, 2023 May 01, 2023 - [ News ](/news-categories/news) The Friends of the Farlow will host the annual Clara Cummungs Walk on Saturday May 20th at the Farandnear Reservation () in Shirley, MA from 10:00 am to 3:00pm. Farandnear Reservation is part of the Trustees of the Reservations. *About the Clara Cummings Walk* Each spring, the Friends of the Farlow sponsors an annual spring foray named for Clara Eaton Cummings, a professor of cryptogamic botany at Wellesley College. In 1876 Clara Eaton Cummings (13 July 1855 – 28 December 1906) began her undergraduate work at Wellesley College where she ultimately became the Professor of Cryptogamic Botany. Professor Cummings worked on bryophytes but she is especially known for her work on lichens from Alaska and Labrador. The Farlow Herbarium houses many of her collections. (Source: Friends of the Farlow Newsletter, No.55, Spring 2010) *Image courtesy of the Trustees of the Reservations* Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)