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… TON 25, D. C. May 9, 1949 Dr. J. M. Fogg University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dear Dr. Fogg: While talking about plant collecting at the Victoria University College in Wellington, New Zealand, recently, I referred to your excellent paper on the collecting of specimens of various plant families and the special techniques involved. An energetic student who heads the students botany club, Mr. P. C. Gardner, is anxious to obtain a copy. If you have one to send to him, in care of the Botany Department, it will be much appreciated. Sincerely yours, E. H. Walker Associate Curator Division of Phanerogams

to prepare for you any number of specimens that you can desire in order to supply your botanical friends: basis will be an act of prudence for you to let me know the species & the number of specimens so that you may derive all possible utility from my correspondence. this mutual intercourse will promote the interest of Botany & will afford me a favourable opportunity of receiving from you as many specimens of Eastern plants as do not grow in the neighbourhood of St. Louis. As for myself, I abstain from specifying any particular genus or species because the advantages which you possess of being acquainted with mos …

Nous commissaires nommés par l'Académie avons lu et examiné un Mémoire de M.... de Jussieu intitulé "Examen de la famille du Renouée". Dans ce mémoire m.... de Jussieu ayant comparé les rapports des plantes avec les affinités chimiques, malgré la très différence qu'il y a entre ces 2 choses, prend la Botanique d'origine. D'abord il examine comment les Botanistes s'y sont mis pour classer les plantes; il remarque que les uns préfèrent le fruit, les autres la fleur, Saint-Lacoste, c'est-à-dire, les Étamens peuvent tirer leurs caractères, les autres font pour classiques, en on fait des systèmes où des espèces de not …

6. Facilities: My home on the Island of Oahu is available as my laboratory and study. There I have my collection of books and pamphlets about Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian plants, my microscope and other study and writing equipment. In addition, Mrs. Degener and I, through the kindness of its Director, have the use of an office at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Here we have the use of the library and herbarium, the latter containing many of my plant's finds, which have been deposited there from time to time as gifts. I retain no herbarium of my own but distribute my finds usually as gifts to leading botanical institu …

the years. Many of the books and botanical specimens acquired in this way were closely related to those which had been collected by the Arnold Arboretum but, unfortunately, they were not housed in any central place. The Arboretum collections were in buildings at Jamaica Plain, whereas the other collections were scattered through a number of different buildings located six miles away in Cambridge. Some years ago a comprehensive plan known as the Bailey Plan was proposed for bringing together under a single direction all of the botanical and horticultural activities at Harvard. One of the features of this plan was …

- 7 - Anyone who has had the opportunity to compare several of the more important botanical gardens cannot fail to be struck by their uniformity in tradition and function. In the Americas and Europe, if not everywhere, they are largely nineteenth-century institutions in genesis, created and shaped to meet the demand for popular education at a period when world travel was restricted to the few but knowledge was available to the masses. Thus they are the parallels of the Victorian museum; in many respects the museum and garden evolved together. Botanical gardens became citadels of certain kinds of important researc …

… dam-Sanssouci Germany Dear Dr. Mädel: We are sending you on exchange six samples of Aeschynomene wood for sectioning in conjunction with your studies of Fossil Leguminous woods. Enclosed is a list of these specimens including their scientific names, places of origin, and location of herbarium voucher specimens, if any. We will expect you to return prepared microscope slides in exchange for any of these woods you section. In the same package, I am enclosing a reprint of a paper on the taxonomy of American Aeschynomenes by our Dr. Velva Rudd. Perhaps you will find it useful in your research studies. When you have r …

TULANE UNIVERSITY The College of Arts and Sciences NEW ORLEANS 18 Copy Department of Botany 13 January 1959 Dr. George B. VanSchaack Librarian, Missouri Botanical Garden St. Louis 10 Dear George: This confirms the book order reserved for Howard-Tilton Memorial Library of this University. Incidentally, we have Meyer's Geschichte der Botanik, a most desirable item. Perhaps Lloyd Shinners may not have it? I shall not take time to alphabetize the following items but here are the University purchases: 1) Jacquin, Joseph Nicolaus Observationum botanicorum iconibus. (Vienne, 1764) parts I and II (of 4 parts). Fine. $75. …

American Botanical Exchange. Geo. L. Fisher, Collector and Exchanger. 611 West Pierce Ave., Houston 6, Texas, U.S.A. May 18/46. Dear Prof. Friesner, The plants requested have been sent by Express. 384 specimens and 10 that are on the List. Plants on the were sent by mistakes. A new list of late arrivals will be sent when I have 100 or more. You may collect more material as by sept several species not on the lists sent will be in. The last plants you sent are in demand especially those vars. by Fernald. I shall be in Mexico for 30 days this summer and hope to collect 150-250 species not before collected. You sent …

… TUTE October 8, 1957 Dr. Alfred Traverse Shell Development Company 3737 Bellaire Blvd. Houston 25, Texas Dear Dr. Traverse: I received a letter from Dr. Turner a few weeks ago concerning the possibility of exchanging some pollen slides. He said you expressed an interest provided my slides were up to par. I have included five slides which are representative of what I have and would be able to send about 300 more ranging from spores of ferns and other cryptogams, through Gymnosperms to families of the Angiosperms. At the present time I have gone through family 128, Leguminosae, in our herbarium, having 152 families …

Institutions for Placing Materials Los Angeles State & County Arboretum, Arcadia, California. Anything except cacti, especially orchids Huntington Botanical garden, San Marino, California. Cacti, Bromeliads (hardy) Desert Botanical Garden, Tempe, Arizona Cacti and any other desert plants Longwood, Kennett Square, Penn. Ferns, Begonias, ornamentals for growth under glass University of Washington Arboretum, Seattle 5, Wash. Hardy trees & shrubs Jardin Botanique "Les Cedres", Cap St. Ferrat, France Cacti, ornamental subtropicals, particularly aroids, ferns. Victor Reiter, Stanyon St., San Francisco, Calif. Fuchsias …

environment is quite striking as I begin to compare the plants of each locality. In Costa Rica, through the efforts of Dr. Jorge Leon, most of the clones occurring in that country had already been assembled in museum plots at Turrialba. By cooperation with various inter-American agricultural missions, and through departments of agriculture of several South American and Far Eastern countries, we were able to establish Turrialba as a center for bringing together clones from all over the world. By June of this year, the two plantings of local clones in Jamaica were ready for sampling. The methods of sampling are ess …

MEMBERS OF THE "ORGANIZATION FOR FLORA NEOTROPICA" MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA AND WEST INDIES Dr. Arturo Gomez Pompa Jardin Botanico, U.N.A.M. Ciudad Universitaria MEXICO 20, D.F. - MEXICO Ing. Efraim Hernandez-Xolocotzi Laboratorio de Botanica Sistematica Escuela Nacional de Agricultura CHAPINGO - MEXICO Dr. J. Rzedowski Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas Instituto Politecnico Nacional Laboratorio de Botanica Fanerogamica Apartado Postal, 42-186 MEXICO 17, D.F. - MEXICO SOUTH AMERICA, REGION I (Guianas, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) Dr. Armando Dugand Calle 54, 14-105, Oficina 201 BARRANQUILLA - COLOM …

5. Selected germplasm also enters the National Plant Germplasm System from domestic research programs. These include induced and natural mutations; cytological stocks such as monosomes, trisomes, translocations, etc; marker genes; species hybrids, breeding material with valuable combinations of characters; pest resistant stocks; and obsolete commercial varieties that may have genes useful in the future. Research personnel who develop such material have an obligation to call it to the attention of the appropriate Regional Coordinator or crop curator for inclusion in the maintenance System. Maintenance is the respo …

effects on the species assemblage. The proposed study is important to plant systematics as it will utilize the results of previous botanists' efforts which are available in herbarium specimens, making this more easily accessible, and will summarize this information as well as completing it with needed further selective collections. Knowledge of this flora with its low species to family ratio and its many endemics, can help to elucidate rates of evolution and provide biologists with additional baseline data on xeric, tropical biota. The study will synthesize data from many sources and will utilize

… American libraries could supply books and perhaps manufacturers of scientific material would either make In my own case I could send you $50.00 to permit you to make a col- lecting trip which would provide specimens to replace those which may have been destroyed by the understanding that you send me seeds, bulbs or cuttings of species of combined scientific and ornamental interest. Probably other botanical institutions would make donations of money for similar purposes. Sometime ago I sent you a list of numbers of your negatives of which we have prints following your agreement to return the list with in- formatio …

… a basis and along ecological principles, though on an agreed priority basis. (ii) Maintenance The collected material would be processed and all or part forwarded along with collection records and herbarium specimens to the Izmir Centre for long-term storage, final identification and documentation. The participating countries would each establish a small germplasm unit, preferably in the agency responsible for plant introduction. (iii) Distribution The combined seed collections would be available to all member countries and the international community on request. Subsamples of seed collections would be prepared at …

… no relation to or dependence on the library and herbarium. Nothing could be further from the truth. If the research collections are moved to Cambridge, the technical botanists will also move to Cambridge. Botanical activities will then be centered in Cambridge, and only horticulture will remain in Jamaica Plain. The horticulturists will no longer have botanical information readily accessible, and will have to turn to Cambridge for all but the simple identifications. With only a few standard reference books in the library the horticulturists stationed in Jamaica Plain will be little better off than those in charg …

UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, U. S. A. UNIVERSITY HERBARIUM August 10, 1945 Professor Ray C. Friesner Department of Botany Butler University Indianapolis, Indiana Dear Professor Friesner: We are sending you by express 137 specimens of plants collected by Dr. Elzada U. Clover in Arizona, to apply to our exchange account with you. Dr. Clover has spent a number of years in the study of the flora of the southwest, and I believe you will find this collection a worthwhile addition to your herbarium. Yours truly, E. B. Mains Director EBM/Se

… You will be interested to know that in a letter just received from Dr. Rock, he reports the arrival of the products of our expedition in good condition at Yunnanfu. He is now engaged in arranging the dried plants and seeds, and preparing them for shipment. According to his esti- mate the collection should be received here within six weeks. Of par- ticular interest is his statement that we will obtain between 25,000 and 30,000 dried specimens, and seeds of at least 1,000 different spe- cies. You may remember that his promise to us called for 20,000 her- barium sheets and 500 packets of seed. In our experience Dr. …