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INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC UNIONS IN COOPERATION WITH UNESCO
International Union of Biological Sciences
INTERNATIONAL BIOHISTORICAL COMMISSION
from the secretariat: Chronica Botanica House, Waltham 54, Mass., U.S.A. — Telephone: WA 5-0600 — Cables: FLORA
NEWSLETTER 1 - ON FUTURE VOLUMES OF CHRONICA BOTANICA
Upon completion of Vols. 14-16 (E.D. Merrill's "The Botany of Cook's Voyages", I.W. Bailey's "Contributions to Plant Anatomy", E.H. Krelage's "Three Centuries of Flowering Bulbs in the Netherlands" which are in press), CHRONICA BOTANICA will be issued, under the auspices of the Int. Biohistorical Commission, as "An International Biological and Agricultural Record", with special reference to the cultural, international, historical and methodological aspects of the life sciences, according to the following, tentative scheme of Volume 17 (1955):
MEMOIRS. - To include, e.g., Garrett's "Biology of Root-Infecting Fungi" and Rickett's "Strabo's Hortulus".
"SYMPOSIA & MANUALS". - To include, e.g., "Recent Advances in Tropical Biology and Agriculture" and the "Paradisus Arcadiensis" (the scope of the latter will be extended to cover the United States Subtropics and neighbouring regions).
RETROSPECTS AND PROSPECTS. - Recent advances in the biological sciences in historical perspective.
THE FORUM. - Essays on timely, methodological and historical subjects.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE C.B. LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES. - To include, e.g., "Linnaeus and his Time", "The Plant Sciences during the Second World War", and (in later volumes) various guides to the history of biology.
THE CHRONICLE. - News, Quotations, New Books, Notices, etc.
RAMBLES IN THE PAST. - Mainly notes on the history of botanical gardens.
FOURTH WORLD LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN PLANT SCIENCE INSTITUTIONS. - A revised world list of other institutions will appear in subsequent volumes, while this section will be devoted in later volumes to our "Concise Biographical Dictionary of Plant Scientists (Indicis Botanicorum Prodromus)".
INDEX BOTANICORUM, I. - Biographical sketches of plant scientists, according to the outlines given in Chron. Bot. 8: 425-448 (1944).
BIOLOGIA 3. - A survey of international biological and medical affairs (Biologia 3 seq. will no longer be made available separately).
CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME 17. - INDICES TO CHRONICA BOTANICA 17 and BIOLOGIA 1 & 2.
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT (Fallas 3). - Perhaps, Hales's "Statical Essays" (p.p.).
Volume 17 seq. will be issued as single, 500-600 two-column page, volumes, to be set up with electric typesetters, in our own office, which will enable us (1) to bring more material in the new "Record" than we had in previous volumes, (2) to produce fairly sizable volumes, fast and economically, (3) to include again World List data such as we had in Chron. Bot. 1/3, (4) to include again news and articles such as we had in Chron. Bot. 1/3, (5) to publish worth-while, lengthy mss. which cannot be produced, under present conditions, as single books, (6) to publish certain symposia and manuals, which cannot easily be completed or produced as single volumes, over a period of years, and (7) to publish the very extensive bibliographies which we have been preparing since the early 1940's in appropriate instalments. - Photographs and old prints will be reproduced, in a superior way, on coated offset inserts. - The Chronica Botanica Co. will publish at least one volume of the new "Record", a year, on behalf of the Int. Biohistorical Commission, at approximately the same volume price as previously.
June 16, 1954
General Secretary
