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… ycopathological Problems (11) Genetics and Breeding (12) Microbiology (13) Soil Conservation (14) Palaeobotany (15) Pharmacognosy (16) Ethnobotany (17) Nature Preservation (18) A Directory of Plant Science Institutions and Societies (19) Address List of Research Workers (with Projects) (20) A List of Collectors of Latin American Plants (21) The location of the chief Latin American Botanical Collections (22) Some prominent Latin American Plant Scientists of the past (23) Education and Experimentation in pure and applied plant science (24) Fellowships available for plant science research in Latin America and for st …

… to say that we welcome your suggestion of a more extended exchange agreement between your herbarium and ours. At present, our exchange stock is low, but we can make up a fairly respectable set of Minnesota plants as a starter. By next fall, we should have some very desirable material since we are planning to make rather extensive collections of the Cyperaceae, Gramineae, and aquatics in Itasca State Park and the region of the headwaters of the Mississippi River. We shall be glad to get any plants from your area, and Dr. True's collections from Maine will be very acceptable because that part of New England is not …

The general idea of uniting the several independent botanical agencies is not new and may have started with Ames and Merrill, the latter being brought here to reorganize the botanical empire and save expenses by consolidation. Ames insisted that no money be transferred to Cambridge and he wanted court action to clarify the situation. The Bailey plan may have started with Mangelsdorf who helped write it and has the ears of both presidents. The original idea was to have everything under one roof, Arnold Arboretum, Gray, Economic Botany, Glass flowers and Farlow Herbarium. Inflation decreased the size of the buildin …

-2- specimens which came to it from other sources. There was the famous Gray Herbarium and there were many other similar gifts, bequests and purchases made over 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 Pla …

… BOTANY May 29, 1927. Dr. Elmer D. Merrill, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. Dear Dr. Merrill: I received your letter of May 20 and was rather amazed by the enclosure referring to a new California Botanical Garden. I know it will be a success, and I will be delighted to send you seeds of Hawaiian plants for it. I still have a few seeds of the rare Kokia left, a beautiful small tree that I consider a pretty good ameasant genus between Hibiscus and Gossypium. I also have seeds of Hillebrandia, the peculiar primitive and showy Hawaiian Begonia genus. May I suggest an idea that I have long held in regard to …

… ni ---- and Jac--- with in-born exceptionally high social intelligence and wisdom. To help the Science of Botany for eons ahead, we suggest that the Administrators of the now lucky Thirteenth International Botanical Congress not yet disband; but under their aegis stimulate University students of Systematic Botany as laboratory exercises to collect, study, identify and fully annotate the endemic flora about them. Such plants should then be distributed under the Congress label as gifts, or if need be on permanent loan, to upward a hundred biological institutions. This would further the study and appreciation of suc …

Now a word about my collecting. I started out to collect originally for the Academy, with duplicates fo the Department of Agriculture, so that I could ask the staff there to identify the problem specimens for me. After I was in Mexico a short time, I added 2 other agencies to my list of recipients: one the Mexican Dept' of Agriculture, because it requires that, before any plants maybe sent out of the country, duplicates of all plants collected be deposited with them; the other, the University of Mexico, whose staff helped me identify many plants while I was in the country. So almost all my specimens, you see, wer …

… l'Etat 236 Rue Royale Bruxelles III CANADA - Plant Research Branch Central Experimental Farm Ottawa - Ontario CZECHOSLOVAKIA - Ceskoslovenska Akademie Ved Botanicky ústav Pruhonice u Prahy CZECHOSLOVAKIA - Botanical Dept. of the National Museum Václavské nám. 1700 Praha II FRANCE - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 12 Rue de Buffon Paris V GREAT BRITAIN - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew - Richmond - Surrey JAPAN - Division of Forest Protection Government Forest Experiment Station Simomeguro 4 - Meguro-ku Tokyo MEXICO - Instituto Politécnico Nacional Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas Departamento de Botánica Sa …

… TIONS TO HORTICULTURE AND TO SCIENCE Education Guidance of graduate students — college courses in horticulture and botany — field trips — visiting scholars — public classes — lectures to clubs. Exploration Botanical expeditions to China, Japan, Korea, New Guinea, tropical America — the Alaska highway — forest surveys of the United States. Floristic Studies Eastern Asia, Fiji and other islands of the Pacific — the Philippines — Panama — Mackenzie River Basin. Fundamental Research The cambium and secondary xylem — vascular structure of the flower — the "Ranalian" complex — growth substances and chemical weed contro …

… onstration in the scientific symposium during the tercentenary celebration of Botanic Garden, Berlin, 10-13 Sept. 1979 CHENOPODIUM IN SEED EXCHANGE - AN EXAMPLE OF RELIABILITY OF THE MATERIAL Pertti Uotila Botanical Museum, University of Helsinki SF-00170 Helsinki 17, Finland A test was made to check the standard of plant identification and the species composition in the seed exchange between the botanical gardens. Most of the seed samples of Chenopodium offered in seed lists received in the winter 1977/78 by the Botanical Garden, University of Helsinki, were obtained and sown in the experimental field of the Bot …

local plants drawn by students under his personal direction. More than half of these plates yet remain to be published in succeeding books of the Flora. He has collaborated by the loan of specimens to the B. P. Bishop Museum and the Field Museum in monographic studies of the Mosses, Astelias, Peperomiae, Labiatae and Compositae. He has distributed by gift, sale or exchange duplicate specimens to leading botanical institutions in America and Europe. These XXXXXXXXXXXXX shipments comprise chiefly endemic plants, though pan-tropic ones are not lacking. As opportunities for students have greatly improved in the Islan …

and anatomical preparations; Other botanical collections, including collections of living plants, collections of microscopic organisms, and palaeobotanical specimens; In some institutions, zoological collections. The various points that need to be borne in mind in connection with each of these will be discussed. A. GOMEZ-POMPA and J.A. TOLEDO (National University of Mexico): Data Processing of Herbarium Specimens for the Flora of Veracruz, Mexico The Flora of Veracruz programme is a comprehensive study of the plant resources of this Mexican state. It involves a series of studies that go beyond the common

… 4, 1908. Mr. Fred. Wilson Eugene. Altadena, Cala. My dear Sir, Noting your adv. in the London Garden's Chronicle, The Revue Horticole of Paris, Park's Floral Magazine, etc. asking for exchange in desirable seeds and plants, and encouraged by the advice of mutual friends at Ottawa Farms, near this city, I am addressing you with a few small center- butins to your floral collection, which I trust will prove as sat- isfactory to you after you have witnessed the possibilities of these minute gems, as they did me in producing them. The packets are duly labeled with both the botanical and the vernacular names, and I am …

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY SOILS, AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING DIVISION OF PLANT EXPLORATION AND INTRODUCTION Plant Industry Station Beltsville, Maryland. November 15, 1946 Dr. T. Harper Goodspeed Botany Department University of California Berkeley, California Dear Dr. Goodspeed: The enclosed list of species of Nicotians have been requested through channels and the Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations for experimental planting in Bucharest, Rumania. If you have small quantities of this material that you would care to contribute, we sha …

- 5 - Dr. A. Schreiber Botanische Straatssammlung Menzinger str. 67 D8 München 19 Germany Miss D. Scott Biological Records Centre Monks Wood Experimental Station Abbots Ripton Huntingdon Dr. S.G. Shelter Smithsonian Institute Washington DC 20560 USA Dr. G.E. Shmaraev N.I. Vavilov All-Union of Plant Industry (VIR) 190000, Leningrad Hertzen Str. 44 USSR Mr R. Smith ODA Elan House Stag House London SW1 Dr. S. Snogerup Institute of Systematic Botany 0 Vallgatan 20 223 61 Lund Sweden Dr. J. Soper National Museum of Natural Sciences Ottawa Canada K1A 0M8 Prof. A.L. Stoffers Institut Voor Systematische Plantkunde Rijksu …

When material is being prepared, due consideration of seed viability and available amount is made. Often, the recipient is asked to increase certain accessions and send the harvest back to the institute. This cooperation is well established with several institutes. Recipients are always asked to supply the results of their studies on the material they received from the institute. Results have started to arrive. SEED CONSERVATION Seed collections, coming to the cold store are: 1. Original collections, from Turkey and other countries, 2. Improved varieties, from Turkey and other countries. Seed collections, enterin …

… international network of genetic resources centres. This network will be based on centres in areas of great crop genetic diversity, and on international crop research institutes. In addition some national institutions in developing countries which have already extensive international activities would be expected to participate in the network. Within the network these centres and institutions would collaborate with organizations in the developed countries such as CSIRO, Canberra, Australia; National Agricultural Research Institute, Versailles, France; the Institute of Crop Science and Seed Research, Braunschweig- …

BOTANICAL INSTITUTE FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY SAPPORO JAPAN Drs. Degener, O. & I. P. O. Box 154, Volcano, Hawaii 96785 U. S. A. 30th June 1976 Dear Drs. Degener; I am very glad to receive one parcel of dried plant specimens in good order and five copies of your reprints. These materials will be deposited in our Herbarium soon. I believe they are one of the most valuable collections in our Herbarium. Instead, if you want any kind of specimens of boreal plants in Hokkaido, please ask me any time. With my best regards, Yours sincerely, Koji Ito Curator of the Herbarium, Associate Professor of Botany …

… ialua, Oahu, T.H. Dear Mr. Degener: Mrs. Nolan, the librarian for the A.B.S., has forwarded your letter to me to read. We have for sometime been interested in the Begonia Hillebrandia and have tried to get seeds of it. Mrs. Virginia Gillespie of Hawaii made several trips after seed but did not find any. Our new editor of the Begonian has a relative born and raised on Kauai and she is writing to see if he might be able to gather seeds. I have charge of the Seed Fund, a department of our Society, and endeavor to locate seeds of begonias and any unusual plants for our members and I offer them at very low prices- lit …

-3- taxonomists when attaching a problem in systematics. Since the plants are quite large, it is difficult to make a very complete herbarium specimen by ordinary techniques. Usually, a collector makes no specimen unless it bear flower or fruit. These plants when in flower or fruit have different leaf (and other such characters) from those of the vegetative conditions. Since flowering and fruiting are of sporadic occurrence in this group, it is necessary to rely mainly on vegetative characteristics. Due to this fact, plus others, I have little valid material with which to start this work. In order to quickly bring …