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meet, is a specialist on publications from the state of Michoacán. He has promised to hunt up material I don't have and will have photostats or microfilms made of items I may want to see, Banco de Crédito Agrícola - small library, no catalogue, poor service; but I did get to see the collection that the bank has been publishing recently on the history of various plants in Mexico. Cámara Nacional de Comercio - publishes a weekly and monthly paper and I went through their complete file for occasional articles on plants by Julio Riquelme Inda. Secretaría de Recursos Hidráulicos - finally located the office that had p …

… h his results. Furthermore, he told me when I met him in New York, that so much of his time is now taken up with the administrative duties of the Institut Botanique that he has practically no time left for research. For this reason he was thinking of recording his results by means of photomicrographs instead of camera lucida drawings. I should not think that would be very satisfactory, because no photograph can show the fine details on which a positive determination frequently depends. As to your problem of finding a review which will accept scientific manuscript in French, I wish to suggest La Revue Algologique, …

Department of Botany LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE BATON ROUGE · LOUISIANA · 70803-1705 504/388-8485 16-VII-1986 Dr. S:P. Wasser Institute of Botany Academy of Science 252601 Kiev - GSP-1 Ukrainian SSR Dear Dr. Wasser: I have just returned from Brazil where I made a survey of some of the fungi of a tropical rain forest in the state of Roraima. Among the items in my accumulated mail was a copy of your Agaricaceae of the USSR. It is very kind of you to have sent this to me, and I shall do my best to inform my colleagues of its publication. Since a summary of its contents has alr …

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND Division of Agricultural and Life Sciences College Park 20742 Department of Botany (301) 454-3812 SEP 15 1975 September 12, 1975 Dr. David J. Rogers Department of Biology University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80302 Dear Dave: I wonder if you would be in a position to help me and Oswald Tippo. We are in the final stages of preparing a general botany textbook for the non-science major. Our outlook is humanistic and cultural and, therefore, we place considerable emphasis on the relationships between plants and man. We would like very much to illustrate manihot as one of man's important food …

UNIVERSITY OF DELHI DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY UNIVERSITY OF DELHI DELHI 8, INDIA PROFESSOR P. MAHESHWARI HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT PHONE: 28121/18, 28996 January 15, 1964 Dr B. Lowy Department of Botany Louisiana State University BATON ROUGE, Louis. U.S.A. Dear Dr Lowy: I have taken the liberty of sending you a box of 25 selected microscopic slides of fungi which you may perhaps be able to use in your courses. In return I shall greatly appreciate having coloured transparencies (35 mm) of some mycological and plant pathological specimens of your region. If such an exchange proves useful, we can perhaps extend it further i …

… Sirs: A few years ago members of the Botany Department of Butler University made a study of the trees of the Berkey woods a few miles northwest of Warsaw and published our findings in the Butler University Botanical Studies. This paper has come to the attention of Dr. Henry K. Svenson of the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn 25, New York and he has written asking whether we have any photographs either of the woods or of the big bur oak tree in it. He is collecting pictures that will give comparative stories of forests in different parts of the United States. We do not have any pictures of …

Botanical Bibliography Comes Into Its Own THE BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS of the late Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt comprise a special library formally opened at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, in 1961—and known as the Hunt Botanical Library. This is not a library in the conventional sense, but is an international center for bibliographical studies of plant science literature in general, and of systematic botany and horticulture and the history of the biological sciences in particular. The Library's administration, guided by an Advisory Committee composed of Trustees of the supporting Hunt Foundation and s …

… sus about 1880, published 1884 and 1885. Note: - Howard does not mention Anderson's explorations in Europe. C. FLORISTIC STUDIES Mostly by Merrill, Kobuski, Perry, Johnston, Raup, Howard. Largely herbarium research and not related to horticulture plants. 15. Eastern Asia 16. Fiji 17. Other Islands of the Pacific 18. Philippines 19. Panama 20. Mackenzie River Basin D. FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH 21. The Cambium and Secondary Xylem 22. Vascular structure of the Flower 23. The "Ranalian" Complex The above three by Bailey (a "quid pro quo" staff member stationed in Cambridge from sometime in the 1930's until 1956) No bearin …

… al young Yugoslavian botanists will have been thoroughly trained in cytotaxonomical methods so that they will continue the investigations until all the flora has been studied from this approach. Our work will, at least during the first year, concentrate on the Julian Alps and adjacent regions of Slovenia, which is the part of the country with the longest history of floriotic research and which has the most modern flora manual. We expect to be able to collect and study several hundred of the 2,843 species of the Slovenian flora the first summer. The success of the work will have to decide if the investigations are

… zations listed below and our subscribers in general. Progress reports of current field, garden, and herbarium work, with readable and relatively non-technical articles in the fields related to systematics, botanical history, biography, and bibliography, will be preferred. There will be special emphasis upon preparatory work for a new "Flora of Michigan". Free use will be made of letters to the Editors (if released for publication by their writers) and of current news notes regarding botanists. Items for publication should be addressed to either of the Editors at the Department of Botany, University of Michigan, A …

of costly books or photostats. It may be of interest to note that herbarium specimens in recent years have gone to the institutions cryptically mentioned below: N.Y.B.G. Cincinnati Smithsonian Rutgers Bishop Munich (Dr. Merxmüller) Arnold Graz (Dr. Widder) Kew Cornell Univ. Mass. Bailey Hort. Berlin Leiden Vienna (Dr. Wimmer) U.C.L.A. Chicago (Dr. Sherff) Denver Mich. Stanford Minn. Lund British Mus. Butler Geneve Brown Mo. Notre Dame Degner (Dr. Yuncker) Brisbane Goteborg (Dr. Skottsberg) Sydney Leiden Kagoshima Ottowa Nagoya Tokyo Kyoto Gifts to Japanese institutions, for instance, were prompted by our desire f …

- 13 - Professor Dr M Riedl While Professor Hawkes's suggestion is desirable, an Institution with small staff numbers and limited finances has to be realistic about what it can do. Dr D L Rogers We should examine how long a time it takes for the physical handling of the specimens for making the microfiche. Dr D Brummitt The Wallich Herbarium containing tens of thousands of specimens was done in approximately 6 weeks. Dr D L Rogers It is vital to make an accurate and detailed comparison of the times of different operations together with a comparison of costs. One must remember that even after the microfiche is mad …

… rtment of Botany University of California Berkeley, California Dear Harper: It seems that I write only when I want to ask a favor. I am applying to the American Philosophical Society for a grant from their research funds to aid in furthering my studies of Costa Rican woods. I have some 120 wood samples with herbarium vouchers in the present collection. Half of these have been worked up for the microscope in cross, radial and tangential aspect. Some of them have been photomicrographed. There are some voids that need filling and then some genera need added material. I hope to bring this study to a head in the sabba …

… le. But she has made the evaluation even further: the enumeration, alphabetically by authors, supplements in 156 quarto pages in fine print, a subject index modestly designated an index, which contains the botanical and native plant names, place and personal names and subject cue words from the various fields of botany. I believe that no user of the work will have any basis for using a sentence from the preliminary remarks: "The specialist tends rather to criticize than to praise", but rather will be generally received with appreciation. Langmann, Ida Kaplan: A selected guide to the literature on the flowering pl …

Rolf Grönblad Karis Centralgatan 86 Dec.15th 1953. Dear Friend Scott, I was very sorry to hear about your illness and I hope earnestly that you will recover thoroughly and very soon. Good health is of fundamental importance. I shall write to "Botaniska Notiser" and ask them if our Scotia-de- scription could be published there very soon. Last Sunday I was on a short trip to Abo (=Turku in Finnish) to see my friend dr Paavo Kallio. He is a rather skilled microphotographer and I had brought with me the apparatus you sent me. Ha had himself a Swiss camera of nearly the same construction. So we tried my apparatus taki …

in Benson's grey-covered Plant Taxonomy book. Back- ground is in Danser's 1950 article in Bibl. Biothecet. D, 4(3). Eventually University Microfilms at Ann Arbor (no connection with the University of Michigan) will publish, as they say, my dissertation on microfilm. Xerox copies will be available. I'll let you know when I find out if it is ready in that medium. Actually, it may be out now-- I don't know. How do you like Fort Collins. Bit of a change from NY, isn't it. Perhaps you have met Roger Peterson of the Foxt

-3- After the adoption of the Bailey Report in 1946 and the integration of the work of the Arboretum with that of the Division of Biology, two Chairmen of the botanical activities of Harvard were appointed,--Professor Bailey in charge of the "morphological area", and Professor Mangelsdorf in charge of the "experimental area". In Professor Mangelsdorf's report of 1951-52 it is stated that: "The work of the Arboretum in phytopathology, cytology, wood anatomy and genetics is integrated with that of the Biological Laboratories in Cambridge." Organized field classes were started at the Arboretum in the early 1880's an …

Page 3 1877 Godlewski, R., Flora, 35:215. 1883 Bohm, J., Bot. Z., III:33. 1885 Mayer, A., Bot. Z., 43:117. Schimper, A., Bot. Z., 43:737. Meyr, A., Bot. Z., II:81. 1889 Sapozhnikov, V., Ber. deut. botan. Ges., 7:25. 1893 , Ibid., II:391. Brown, H. and J. Morris, J. Chem. Soc., 63:604. 1896 Ewart, A., J. Linnean Soc., 31:429. 1898 Winkler, F., Jahrb. wiss. Botan., 32:525. Pigments 1864 Stokes, G., Proc. Roy. Soc. London, 13:114; J. Chem Soc., 2:304. 1879 Hoppe-Seyler, F., Z. physiol. Chem., 3:339. 1880 , Ibid., 4:193. 1881 , Ibid., 5:75. 1882 Pringsheim, N., Jahrb. wiss. Bot., 12:288. 1893 Montverde, N., Scripta h …

for the University's lectures. Scientific guidance through the Botanical Garden and through the Botanical Museum in Munich-Nymphenburg for the "Volksbeehochschule" (popular University) In U.S.A.: In New York: Doing independent research work in the Library of the N.Y. Botan. Gard. giving scientific advice to artists of the "WPA", working in the Botanical Museum there, Identifying of plants (from models) in the American Museum of Natural History, Africa-Hall, Roosevelt Memorial Building. In Philadelphia: Doing taxonomic work as a voluntary helper in the Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Publications: In …

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY EAST LANSING DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY AND PLANT PATHOLOGY Dear Mr. Scott, It is wonderful that you have been able to work with the desmids privately and that you have done so well. Dr. Prescott left December 20 for Argentina so I didn't know of your interest. Before my first letter to you I happened to see your fine work on the Algae from Arnhem Land but at the time I didn't associate you with the microscope. The microscope looks and sounds like a fine instrument and since I am beginning to work with the blue-greens it seems logical to get the instrument now. I have been struggling with them …