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- 3 - vii. Drug plants viii. Food crops important in the lesser developed countries - diet (e.g. cassava) - economy (e.g. coffee) Ethnobotanically and ethnozoologically important crops. Rogers 3. Specialized collections. i. The general principles of the importance of maintaining specialized collections. Mention two-organism systems where each might need different methods for maintenance (plant and nodules). Cite models. Judd ii. Genetically defined stocks. Briggs, Judd, Roderick iii. Medical and associated uses. Briggs, Russell iv. Pollutant monitors. Grassle v. Cell lines. Mazur, Nanney, Coriell (Russell will as …

… mediate users of FNA will be the authors, editors, and advisers of the project who produce the flora and information system and any other plant taxonomists who are concerned in some way with North American plants. Eventually, this means all plant taxonomists, and this primary community of users is represented on the international level by the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, on the national level in the United States and Canada by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and the systematic sections of the Botanical Society of America and the Canadian Botanical Association, and on the regional and st …

(4) The move has been of advantage to carrying on taxonomic research in Cambridge because of "the vast number of the books, pamphlets, periodicals and specimens of the Gray and Arnold . . . combined together in one building with other botanical facilities and scholarly contacts at hand or nearby." There is, however, a "marked disadvantage" to the carrying on of such research "arising from the separation of books and herbarium specimens from the living collections in Jamaica Plain, from the separation of the wild and cultivated specimen collections and from the division of the Arboretum staff resulting from the mo …

Work for the Botanical Club of the R.A.S. This organization, with its large yearly attendance, may well undertake some work which has been long neglected in this country. We do not forget that the principal object of its founders was to bring about together for social purposes, and are rejoiced to know that in this respect it has accomplished much. Many of the lonely botanists living in remote parts of the country have been gladdened by meeting their fellows, and consulting upon means and methods. This result is in itself a justification of the existence of the Club. But this should not be all. At every annual me …

… ra Portugal Dr. R.J. Pankhurst Dept. of Botany University of Cambridge Cambridge CB2 3EA Dr. F.H. Perring Biological Records Centre Monks Wood Experimental Station Abbots Ropon Huntingdon Dr. B.H. Peterson Botanical Museum Carl Skottsbergs Gata 22 S-41319 Göteborg Sweden Dr. H.A. Pinnock Room 5/60 Dept. of Education and Science Elizabeth House York Road London S81 Mr K. Rahn Botanical Museum Gothersgade 130 Dk 1123 Copenhagen K Denmark Dr. A. Rannestad Scientific Affairs Division NATO International Staff B - 1110 Brussels Belgium Mr J. Raynal Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle 16 Rue Buffon 75005 Paris France D …

plants are my own property and I am distributing them with aim to obtain for them the best possible exchange in Gramineae. Any exchange will then be deposited here at the Garden. I am particularly anxious to get grasses from Mexico, and wonder if you can offer such for this exchange. Gramineae from other parts of the world not the United States, Canada or Europe would also be acceptable. With greetings to Ruth and a happy New Year to all of you, Sincerely yours, George B. Van Schaack Honorary Curator of Grasses

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON 25, D.C., U.S.A. C. & R. File No. 156809 SHIPPING INVOICE Date May 10, 1956 To Botanical Garden University of California Berkeley, California ATT.: Dr. T. H. Goodspeed Initiated by C. V. Morton The material listed below contained in a small package is transmitted as— (1) a gift. (3) in exchange. (5) return of material borrowed. (7) (2) a loan at your request. (4) for examination at our request. (6) return of material sent for identification. LIST OF SPECIMENS NAME OF OBJECT LOCALITY COLLECTOR CATALOG NO. NUMBER OF SPECIMENS 4 specimens of South American phanerogams. RECEIVED THE …

… rs. Otto & Isa Degener P.O. Box 154 Volcho, Hawaii 96785 U.S.A. Nov. 17. 1982 Dear Drs. Degener: Recently I received a package of books from you. Thank you so much for your kind donation as well as for the specimens, books and informations you sent us before. By examining information and specimens you kindly offered us, I can tell you have made an outstanding contributions to the studing on phytotaxonomy and of course your splendid work is viewed with high respect on the world. Your collections have been distributed to various major herbaria of the world. That would be an excellent permanent memento. I deeply est …

contributed by Rogers BOTANICAL GARDENS, ARBORETA AND GENETIC RESOURCES CONSERVATION The role of botanical gardens and arboreta as institutions of fundamental importance in genetic resources conservation is frequently overlooked by those in agriculture, but these institutions have long played a central role in these functions. The distinction between botanical gardens and arboreta is that (theoretically) the arboreta grow only woody shrubs and trees and botanical gardens are not confined to one type of plant or other. In practice, however, the differences are very small. Commonly, these institutions are thought t …

Every case should be arranged according to a certain fundamental principle. Thus for instance, I had arranged the case of Parasite-Plants according to the basic principle of depth of penetration into the host. I have started with exmatrically root semi-parasites, e.g., Euphrasia officinalis or Alectoerolophus minor and concluded with imatrically shoot-parasites, with Pilostyles. In the case "Mangrove" I have shown that in the first place the root-system and the arrangements for propagation must be suited to the saturated soil, poor in oxygen. Objects which, due to their height, cannot be placed in cases are best …

… rsity but now carrying on work at this University, of your interest in the flora of North Carolina, I am taking the liberty of writing to ask whether you would be interested in arranging for an exchange of specimens. We are vey desirous of having the vascular flora of your state more strongly represented in our herbarium, and are prepared to offer in exchange specimens from southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, including the famous Pine Barrens of the latter state. If this idea appeals to you I should be glad to forward a small package of plants in order that you may see the type of material we have …

Dear Prof. Friesner- A few years ago you made an exchange of Herbarium specimens with the American Botanical Exchange The material sent has been distributed to Exchangers and if you can send more material the Exchange Members will be pleased to have them. Your specimens were in good demand, especially those from Maine. The complete List of 5000 species will be sent if requested. Species not on the List accepted 10 Her. sheets or less of each species. Yours very truly Geo.L.Fisher, 611 West Pierce Ave., Houston 6, Texas. June 22/45. Dear Prof. Fiesner- If you can send more Herbarium Specimens to the Exchange the m …

… ppreciated and I hope will serve as the basis of a collection of all your works that I am planning to put together. This is part of a project in which I hope to bring together all major natural history and botanical studies on the Hawaiian Islands. Although I have been in Hawaii for a little over two years, I have found myself busy revitalizing an almost dead herbarium and introducing new university courses in botany. I have introduced a new course "Plants in the Hawaiian Environment" so that students will again become aware of what is around them and I have taken over "Ethnobotany" from Miss Krauss. These are in …

evidenced a willingness to participate in a plant exchange program with Honolulu Botanic Gardens. This will bring us plants from such areas as Tonga, Ponape, Palau, Guam, Samoa, Truk, Western Samoa, Tahiti, Okinawa, New Guinea, New Caledonia, and Japan. One of the members of the group, Ichiro Sakanashi, horticulturist with Higashiyama Botanical Garden, Nagoya, Japan, has been assisting Yoshio Miyashiro with identification of Foster Garden's plant material by the common names used in Japan. We expect this to be a great help in conducting our Japanese/English tours. Most of the group are interested in seeing privat …

donations so that we were able to grow from your seed at least a few of the species which seemed to be most promising. Actually, other institutions in this country and abroad, to which we distributed the greater share of the numbers you collected, probably have a better representation of your plants than we have because of their better financial situation. Your herbarium specimens, from the time of their arrival, have attracted attention in this country and abroad, and only a few days ago one of our taxonomists referred to the "gorgeous collection in such wonderful condition which Dr. Rock sent to the University. …

ma proposer les récoltes d'un membre très-attidu aux sessions que la Société Botanique de France tient annuellement dans les diverses régions les plus intéressan- tes. Les sessions de Poutalies 1869 - Fontainebleau 1881 - antibes 1883 - Charleville 1885 - Milan 1886 - Narbonne & les Corbières 1888 - La Rochelle 1890 y sont largement représentées. J'y ai joint des espèces de provenance très- diverses, et les paquets qui contiennent tout cela sont marqués Divers. Je n'ai fait aucune distinction entre les plantes que je vous envoie, celles les plus rares s'y rencontrent comme cel- les qui sont plus fréquentes, mais …

und ich habe das Institut nicht mehr betreten dürfen. Nur den Garten und die Gewächshäuser standen mir bis ich weg zur Verfügung und auch photographieren konnte ich noch nach Belieben. Ich habe mehr als 600 Bilder von Pflanzen mitgebracht! Ich möchte Ihnen mit diesem Briefe meinen "Lebenslauf" senden. Ich wäre Ihnen sehr dankbar, falls Sie die Liebeswürdigkeit hätten, mir zu sagen, ob ich's Ihrer Meinung nach recht mache. Das, was ich eigentlich tun möchte, d.h., ein botanisches Museum, eine botanische Schausammlung, aufbauen das geht in Kriegszeiten nicht. Ich habe einen langen Artikel darüber geschrieben, habe …

… erested in the articles which you have recently been publishing in the journal of the College of Tropical Agriculture. I am at present preparing a new International List of C. and S. American Plant Science Institutions and Societies which I will publish in an early issue of Chronica Botanica, the International Plant Science Newsmagazine. I should like to ask you for some help with Guatemala. Enclosed you will find a cutting from my last (1938) List. I doubt if this is complete. I want to list all institutions, laboratories, experiment stations, museums, gardens, societies, etc., dealing with agronomy, botany, for …

… o the prestige of the institution. It seems to me that there is need for a getting together of the heads and many of the workers in our larger herbaria for discussion of problems common to all of them, the botanical gardens too. You referred to the fact that at the September meetings in East Lansing there was some such meeting. There was, but it was on a very limited scale. I wonder if some institution would find it personally advantageous to sponsor such a convention. The herbarium was of course one of the Garden's facilities that had an especial appeal to me. I had little contact with it on this visit, but my i …

scientific institutions of 80 foreign countries. For the last five years this activity helped to introduce over 10,000 samples to the collection. All explored material is carefully evaluated by geneticists, physiologists, botanists, biochemists, cytologists, phytopathologists, entomologists and other scientists. Breeding institutions of the country widely utilize the germplasm collection. Every year the Institute disseminates dozens of thousands of samples, which serve as raw materials for new varieties. WM/D4268