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Hawaiian Botanical Society - page 27
October, 1965

Department of Botany. Dr. Gladys Baker and visiting research mycologist,
Dr. Louise Potter visited Tahiti in August, obtaining several collections of fungi
for their current research. Dr. Dieter Mueller-Dombois carried out ecological
research on the island of Hawaii during the summer months. Dr. Mueller-Dombois
is making a vegetation survey of Hawaii National Park. Dr. Charles Lamoureux is
now on sabbatical and is currently working in the laboratory of Professor W. R.
Philipson at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Visitors. Dr. W. H. Wagner and Mr. M. L. Tessene of the University of Michigan
pursued research projects in Hawaii during this past summer. Dr. Wagner continued
his extensive study on the cytotaxonomy of the ferns, and Mr. Tessene
studied populations of Plantago in conjunction with his biosystematic studies of
the genus. Dr. Sherwin Carlquist continued his studies of the Hawaiian flora
during the summer and completed field work for papers on dispersal and breeding
systems. The Rev. Mr. Norman Cruttwell, Anglican missionary from Eastern Papua,
New Guinea visited briefly en route to continue his 19 years of work with the
Papuans. Mr. Cruttwell is an active collector, having been trained in his youth
by Sir E. J. Salisbury, former director at Kew.

VOLCANO, Hawaii — An
authority on the plant life of
the Big Island's volcanic
country wants a "fool-proof"
fence built to protect it from
the axis deer.

Dr. Otto Degener of Vol-
cano and Honolulu has urged
the State Supreme Court to
delay introduction of the
high-leaping game animal to
the island until a fence can
be erected to protect the national
park's flora.

And he is calling on con-
servation groups as far away
as the Mainland to help fi-
nance it.

A plan by the State Fish
and Game Division to fence
in the deer on Mauna Kea
for a period of adjustment
before deciding on their gen-
eral release may ease Dr.
Degener's fears somewhat.
Division director Michio

flora if fauna is introduced
with the court's position that
introduction of the deer to
ists have protested the re-
lease.
One of them, Dr. Roger
Baldwin, said the experience
on Molokai and Lanai of
deer appetites is not valid
here because they stayed
mainly in kiawe forest.
If they should find the Big
Island's mamane palatable,
he said, they would destroy
many other native species of
ground cover as well be-
cause of the interdependence
of the plants.