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a laboratory adjacent to it. The latter is constructed with north and east windows for microscope work. A third room of ample size is set aside for the herbarium and cabinet." In 1880 he accepted the task as botanical editor for the American Naturalist to which he had contributed a number of short papers in the preceding years. He prepared monthly notes for that journal for quite a number of years beyond his years of service at Iowa Agricultural College. Feeling the need in Iowa of such

- 2 - PARTICIPANTS Pauel Lizon Slovak National Museum Department of Botany Vajanskeho Nabr 2 88536 Bratislava Czechoslovakia FIELD OF INTEREST Mycology. East Germany: Horst Robert Schütte DDR 402 Halle/S Ki-Liebknechtstr 15 East Germany Plant biochemistry. Wolfgang Schütte 402 Halle/S DDR K-Liebknechtstr 15 East Germany Son of Horst Robert Schütte. France: Pierre Chouard Le Phytotron CNRS 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette France Plant physiology - botany. Israel: Batia and Jacob Wahrman Dept. of Genetics The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel HOME: 2 Kimche Street Jerusalem, Israel TEL.: 36419 Cell Biology and cytogenetics. …

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM WASHINGTON 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 …

Missouri Botanical Garden November 17, 1977 Dr. Velva E. Rudd P. O. Box 19 Reseda, California 91335 Dear Velva: It was nice to see your recent publication of the North American flora of the Faboideae-Sophoreae. If by chance you have extra reprints of this, I would really appreciate a copy. How is your monograph of Machaerium coming? I don't believe that we have loaned you anything for quite some time. Would you be interested in seeing any newly accessioned material of Machaerium that we have accumulated? Will you be working on still other groups? Wishing you all the best, I remain, Sincerely yours, Tom Thomas B. …

INSTITUTUL DE ŞTIINŢE BIOLOGICE Herbarul micologic (BUCM) Splaiul Independenţei 296, Bucureşti 17 ROMÂNIA Prof. Bernard Lowy Louisiana State University Department of Botany Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 U. S. A. Bucureşti, 17 September, 1974 Dear Professor Lowy, Many thanks for your letter of 15 August as well as for Flora Neotropica No.6 and reprints just received. I am very glad to receive, for our herbarium, the books of Smith. Unfortunately I have obtained already, from another source, both The Fungi vol.IVB and Fundamentals of the Fungi. I do not know how to proceed ? To send them back, and to receive, if pos …

… anda is a botanist of botany at the National University of Mexico, where he is also a member of the staff of the Instituto de Biología. As many of us know, Mrs. Langhorn's life work in Mexico has been as a Research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. At present she is devoting all her time to the preparation of a bibliography of the materials published since the discovery of Mexico on Mexican plants, which catalogue now totals about 20,000 items. Dr. Miranda is in the United States on a Guggenheim Fellowship granted to prepare a book on the trees of southeastern Mexico. Most of his time during spent at the …

May 31,1946 Prof. Gilbert M. Smith, Biology Dept., Stanford University, Calif. Dear Professor Smith: It is about ten years that I have been teaching morphology of angiosperms by the use of the notes that were prepared by you for apparently a similar course. (I received these notes from Dr. Borthwick.) Perhaps you remember that I asked you once whether you contemplated converting these notes into a book. Your answer was definitely negative. I wish to return to this question. My classes are enlarging and I do need a more modern text than that of Coulter and Chamberlain. (The latter is not ever to be had, as you pro …

December 22, 1966 Director of Libraries University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa Dear Sir: In June 1951 a copy of my Ph.D. thesis entitled "A taxonomic study of the genus Auricularia" was deposited with the SUI Library. I have a rather poor personal copy and would like to borrow the best one available for microfilming purposes. If, however, a microfilm may be obtained from the SUI library I would appreciate your kindness in sending me one together with the bill for this service. Sincerely yours, Bernard Lowy Professor of Botany

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN 12 THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY May 4, 1961 Dr. Velma Rudd Department of Botany U. S. National Museum Smithsonian Building Washington 25, D. C. Dear Dr. Rudd: In connection with pollen studies in the Papilionatae being conducted here at the University of Texas, I am working on a dissertation involving the pollen morphology of the tribe Phaseaeae. My work also includes developmental studies, and Dr. Larson is carrying on a parallel Electron Microscope study. I understand from Dr. Marshall Johnston that you are working on the taxonomy of this group. I wonder if you could advise me of the …

-3- of the second objective, namely, to place floristic-taxonomic research on a modern, computerized, information-system basis. In a sense, taxonomists, plant or animal, have always been the keepers of the biological information system. In the plant sciences the floras and systematic monographs are timed-honored, if non-automated, storage and re- trieval systems which through the years the plant taxonomist has produced and revised, as both the means and the ends of his own research, for the benefit of all who need to know about the kinds of plants in the world. The hierarchical classification of the organisms, wi …

```text Chronica Botanica Co. Catalogue of Publications MYCOTROPHY IN PLANTS by Arthur P. Kelley, Ph.D. (Landenberg Labs., Pa.) This book provides Botany for the first time with a comprehensive survey of mycotrophic processes. Instead of plants being provided with nutriment by a root-hair mechanism, many plants in nature—in all the major groups of plant taxonomy—live in intimate association with fungi and bring them some of the raw materials upon which they live. This association is naturally accompanied by structural peculiarities which are described; and occurs under ecological circumstances that are briefly tr …

… ecame loose again. If the text is placed directly in front of the specimen, the danger exists that it may get lost or be changed by mistake. Other objects of demonstration which should not be absent from a botanical museum's exhibition, are window-diapositives (these may be illuminated artificially), or photographic pictures of plants which have been taken on the spot in the natural surroundings. Thus pictures of Cacti and succulent Euphorbiaceae which exist half buried in sand, should be shown. One may present pictures of epiphytes which are taken in the primeval forests. The different museums of natural science …

… tion region, which is extremely rich in Bryophyta. Now that MacVaugh has come to Ann Arbor, and we have Drew at East Lansing and Cain at Bloomfield Hills, it seems appropriate for us to start a cooperative botanical survey of the state which may eventually lead to a "Flora of Michigan." I recall with interest various reports of progress you have given at different meetings of the Botanical Society, and seem to recall that you have published upon the techniques and methods which you have used in the preparation of floras of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Under any circumstances, we should certainly appreciate -- and …

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES PALYNOLOGICAL LABORATORIES 435 Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 (814)863-3419 Frau Dr. Johanna Kovar (Eder) Naturhistorisches Museum Burgring 7 A-1014 Wien, Österreich den 23. August 1989 Sehr geehrte Frau Dr. Kovar, ich sitze in der öffentlichen Bibliothek in St. Joseph, Michigan, und arbeite. Ich habe Ihr "350 Million Jahre Wald" eben gerade zu Ende gelesen. Es ist wunderbar--sehr klar, sehr interessant und sehr genau. Die Bilder sind ausgezeichnet! Ich habe es sehr gern, daß Sie Paläophytikum usw. betont haben! Falls Sie kleine Fehler für eine …

scientific advice to artists making a diorama of a tropical rain forest in Sumatra, 1937. As in the conservatory was flowering Anapho-Phalaenopsis and I lost to find out what host plant that was living in the surrounding of that plant and to show colored pictures of them in order to make models of them. I found about 30 plants for this purpose. For 2 months I am a member of the. In Se. to learn English and to understand American life. Here I am occupied to study the taxonomic flora and to make photo pictures of interesting plants. What can I do after the finish of the seminar? The possibility of an opening work a …

CURRICULUM VITAE ROLF SINGER, Research Associate, Department of Botany, Field Museum of Natural History. Personal: Born June 23, 1906, Bavaria, (now BRD) Germany; married. Education: University of Munich, B.A.; University of Vienna, Austria, Ph.D., 1931; Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R., Dr. Biol. Sc., 1936. Professional Experience: Prof. Ayudante, Universidad Nacional de Barcelona, Spain, 1933-34; Museum National des Sciences Naturelles, Paris (petit bourse), 1934-35; Senior Scientific Associate, Academy of Sciences U.S.S.R., Botanical Institute, Leningrad, 1935-40; Assistant Curator, then Acting Director, Farlow H …

… asts of Kauai, Molokai, partly Maui and the Kohala region of the Island of Hawaii. Such precipitous regions are cut by numerous isolated valleys still little known and uninhabited. There is no telling what botanical surprises await the collector, especially in our flora where extreme endemism is rampant. For years I have looked for happy botanical hunting grounds, and have been eminently successful in my search. Please just peruse at random lists of exsiccatae or of cited specimens in recently monographed revi- sions of families or genera occurring in the Hawaiian Islands. Any of Earl E. Sherff's, like his revisi …

Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 6 October 1962 BOTANICAL NOTES: Dr. Bruce Cool, Professor of Plant Physiology and Botany, University of Hawaii, will spend the first semester (1962-63) at the University of California at Berkeley. He will do research during his sabbatical. Mr. Alvin K. Chock (society secretary) was married to Miss Yona Bielefeldt on June 18 at Kawahao Church. Dr. Frederick G. Krauss, Professor Emeritus of Agriculture, University of Hawaii, and society charter member, died on June 5. Sympathy is extended by the society to his survivors. Dr. Albert J. Bernatowicz, Associate Professor of …

… ble so that I can have a better idea of the variations that occur within species and genera. I have completed the genus Cogswellia, probably the largest in the flora, and it is now in press in the Missouri Botanical Garden Annals. There were several new species, varieties and combinations as well as certain notes which I wished to publish before the publication of the North American Flora number. I am enjoying more and more the University atmosphere and the Berkeley climate. I now have the title of Research Associate at the University, no salary and no duties but it gives me library privileges and such. I take ti …

… and contribute to the Departmental course work offerings. The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications, including curriculum vitae, reprints, a statement of research plans and three letters of reference, should be sent to: Dr. S. K. Shapiro, Head, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois, Box 4348, Chicago, IL 60680. Postdoctoral Fellowship - Algal Cytology - University of British Columbia: Applicants should be experienced in light and electron microscopy and preferably also in EM cytochemistry on Rhodopryta or Phaeophyta. The fellowship initially …