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… ignificant facts of a historical nature (such as the importance of Oenothera and Datura in genetics), as well as observations drawn from field experience in this and other countries. I make frequent use of specimens, both fresh and dried, illustrations, slides, and visits to the greenhouse; and, of course, from April to the end of the term the class is taken on field trips once a week, taught how to collect, how to use and construct keys, etc. I find it impossible in this course to have the laboratory material follow the lectures in all cases, simply because flowering material from the greenhouse or gardens is no …

Botanical Garden of the University, Helsinki, Finland. Faucaria jamesii Stomatium jamesii Titanopsis setifera Rabiea lesliei Aloinopsis lodewyckii Stomatium mustellinum Lithops bella - optica - lactea Fenestraria aurantiaca Conophytum parvulus Argyrocerma octopylla Cheiridopsis bella Calandrinia discolor Anacampseros tomentosa Crassula corallina Echeveria cristata - bella - gibbiflora v. - metallica - secunda v. byrnesii Sedum anacampseros - chapalense - winkleri - pachucense Monanthes laxiflora Andromischus cristatus - festivus Senecio fulgens - crassissimus - cuneatum Euphorbia caput-medusae - hypogaea Sansevie …

… U. S. A. Date: 16th October The material described below has been forwarded to you today by parcel post as a loan for identification Please return the coloured form upon receipt of the material Dr. S. R. Gradstein Curator Description of specimens: Tremellales from TPN- and SUM-transects, Colombia, 20 specimens in total Leg. M.M. Pulido, TPN-transect 809✓ 871✓ 923✓ 1020✓ 1192✓ 1210✓ 862✓ 847✓ 976✓ 1187✓ 1207✓ Leg. M.M. Pulido, SUM-transect 1294✓ 1298✓ 1513✓ 1295✓ 131✓ 1645✓ Leg. C. Schulte, SUM-transect 139✓ 162✓ 220✓ Received the above in good order BL (signature) 12-XII-1984 (date) collections returned: 2-I-1985

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Department of Botany Urbana, Illinois December 4, 1957 Gentlemen: We are preparing to distribute lots of approximately one hundred to five hundred sheets of vascular plants to herbaria with which we have been carrying on inter-institutional exchanges. Each set consists of about half duplicates of V. H. Chase's Illinois collections and about half duplicates of other collectors. Unless otherwise requested, the number of sheets sent would be intended to cancel our deficit of sheets with each institution. Are you interested in receiving some of these plants? In either event, kindly fill out and …

Director of the Botanical Museum, and two-thirds (or $8,000) of the salary of Professor Merrill as Administrator of Botanical Collections (par. 57, R. 80). Professor Bailey's study resulted in a report entitled "Botany and its Applications at Harvard", submitted to the Provost in June 1945, commonly referred to as the Bailey Report (par. 59, R. 81). The Bailey Report pointed out what it described as the uncorrelated development of the several institutions concerned with botany during a period from 1870 to 1930, their isolation from each other,

Plants to their proper places in the botanical classification Having no Burbank nearer at hand than Berryton, have been fortunate in securing the best products of European skill in hybridization, though the medium of my agents R.O. Taighe & Co. of Boston, Mass., and of all my acquisitions, the plants from which I produce the seeds now transmitted to you are by no means the least satisfactory. If properly planted, and nurtured with the jealous care which is characteristic of true gardeners, as the Gentians happily put it, they'll grow and bloom for you, and the Californians can then see what other folks have in th …

… a visit with Paul Hutchison. As a result of this visit I shall be in Berkeley Friday, October 13th. Would it be possible for me to see you some time during the day to discuss possible ways in which our two institutions can cooperate, particularly in the matter of plant introduction? The Los Angeles State and County Arboretum, as you undoubtedly know, is a young but very much alive institution. One of our major projects at the present time is the collecting of seed and growing of plants from all parts of the world with a climate similar to our own. Areas which we are particularly interested in at the present time …

… e. $15.00 Complements the holdings of MARI in neotropical botany; relates to the important travels and colls. of Humboldt. Absence of vol. 1 is not here a serious matter. These foregoing items are all of a botanical nature and I warmly recommend their purchase, and order cards for each are attached herewith. The following item is of a zoological nature and its purchase is contingent on the approval of the appropriate book chairman: 16) Dalla Torre, C. G. Catalogus hymenopterorum vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 10 (of 10, lacking therefore vols. 8 and 9 of complete set). (Leipzig, 1892-1901) bound in 5 vols. backst …

… glad to have in my per- manent collection. Your lilacs and spireas interest me very much and I most assuredly would be glad to have them. I will send you a list of the phloxes, irises and peonies and other plants in the near future and you can mark what you can use in your collection. The peony and iris seed, however, is yours to do with what you like, and the plants are yours for I have my test plot entirely filled and would not plant this1922 crop of seed for that reason. I will send you seed in the future whenever I can spare any, and you are willing to plant it. My main concern is to get the seed planted. I h …

-15- or (2) the periphery of the areas of cultivation, in regions nearer to the United States. I chose the second alternative for the following reasons: having little knowledge of the plants themselves, it seemed undesirable to spend time in the area of greatest diversity until techniques for studying the plants had been firmly established; another reason was, of course, financial. Brazil is more than twice as distant from the United States than the West Indies and Central America. In addition, it was necessary to have the cooperation of institutions interested in these studies to help maintain growing collection …

you understand clearly the situation involved. You may be sure that we shall make wide distribution to representative botanical institutions all over the world of the seed and herbarium specimens. I am also planning to send to the U.S.D.A. for distribution seed of all species which have any economic or non-ornamental value. I believe that you can understand thoroughly why the distribution initially must come only from us. I can give you one striking illustration of the situation. Mr. Lionel de Rothschild has made a generous contribution to the expedition fund in return for which he is to receive a share of all th …

3-12-59. ISAAC R. HUNTER Purdue Livestock and Poultry DOWAGIAC, MICH. Dr. T. Harper Goodspeed, U. of Cal. Dear Dr. Goodspeed: I am doing some experimenting on andean plants - economic plants. Am having some trouble getting seeds of some of these. am wondering if you can tell me where I can obtain seeds of Oxalis tuberosum, Ayap lisa (Basellaceae) Glacon (yapon). I do hope you can help me with this. If you cant perhaps you can tell me of a reliable party in Peru, who could do some seed collecting for me. Thanks much, Sincerely, Isaac R. Hunter Woytrowchi Casilla 5174 Minaflora Lima

GIER, L.J., Dept. of Biology, William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo. 64068. HALE, MASON E. Jr., U.S. National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution, Washington 25, D.C. HENSSEN, AINO, Biegenstr. 52, 355 Marburg/Lahn, Germany. HOWARD, GRACE, Dept. of Botany, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 98105. IMSHAUG, HENRY A., Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. KRAJINA, VLADIMIR, Dept. of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. KUROKAWA, SYO, National Science Museum, Ueno Park, Daito-ku, Tokyo, Japan. LAMBERT, JOHN H., Dept. of Biology and Botany, U …

Turun Yliopiston Kasvitieteellinen laitos Turku University of Turku Department of Botany Turku, Finland November 19, 1963 Dr. George B. Van Schaack Missouri Botanical Garden 2315 Tower Grove Ave. St. Louis 10 Missouri U. S. A. Dear George, So many years have passed since we have heard from each other that I really do not know how to start the letter. As you probably know and have known already earlier, I am back in Finland again. Back in my old university as a curator of the herbarium and the botanical garden. These two jobs have kept me quite busy, but nevertheless I am trying to do some research at the same tim …

is an organ-genus, based on seeds. In that respect it is entirely different from a living genus of gymnosperm plants which of course have seeds, but a lot more besides! You have heard it all before, I know. Of course Meyen in his textbook (Fundamentals of Palaeobotany, incorporated by Act of

We believe that an impartial consideration of the facts will show that whatever the advantage to Harvard and its botanical or biological departments from moving important parts of the Arboretum's library and herbarium to Cam- bridge, this would be disadvantageous to the Arboretum. It would, we believe, be disadvantageous to its usefulness to the public, to its achievement in its general scientific field, to its contribution to horticulture and botany in its special fields, to its future financial support, and to the reputation and prestige which are essential for its greatest usefulness. The Arboretum can best be …

… th chambers when space is made available for them in the Hale Science Building or elsewhere. (3) Space for the cultivation of experimental plant material. Six to ten acres of suitable land are needed where plants can be cultivated in the field over a period of years. It is also recommended that a similar facility for working with alpine and arctic plants be constructed near Science Lodge, with some greenhouses and growth chambers for working on alpine and arctic floras. Transplant gardens at various altitudes are also necessary. When such facilities have been acquired, the University of Colorado will no doubt bec …

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PLANT SCIENCES (FOURTH INTERNATIONAL BOTANICAL CONGRESS) OFFICERS L. H. Bailey, President and Presiding Chairman M. W. Beijerinck, J. I. Briquet, A. K. Cafaro, E. C. Chamberlain, F. C. Farwell, Goebel, W. L. Johannesen, Pacheco Leao, D. McAlpine, Kingo Miyabe, E. B. Pratt, G. H. Robinson, S. Sakai, David Prain, Arrigi Serpieri, Richard Wells, and J. de Wilde; Honorary Chairmen J. M. Coulter, Vice-Chairman The General Secretary The Treasurer EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE B. M. Dugger, Chairman, General Secretary of the Congress (National Research Council, Washington, D. C.) H. C. Cowles, Secretary …

be first applied to the support of the living collections, the Arnold Professor, and the library and herbarium, and only then to other activities; and (3) that the Arboretum should bear no part of the maintenance of the central botanical building to which the bulk of its library and herbarium were to be moved."

10 mens (pars. 33, 165, R. 71, 124). Of these about 75,000 were specimens of cultivated plants and 625,000 were specimens of non-cultivated plants (par. 180, R. 128), many of the latter being specimens of genera or species growing or capable of growing in the Arboretum (par. 180, R. 128-129). The presence of wild specimens related to the living collection and to cultivated specimens is important from the standpoint of botanical research and bears heavily on the quality of a herbarium (par. 151, R. 129). Like the living collections, which were largely confined to trees and woody shrubs and vines (par. 28, R. 68), …