Commentary

Personal Library Needs Home

Editor:

After a 50-year career of teaching and research, I am now faced with the problem of disposition of my sizable personal library. Areas emphasized include morphology, anatomy, palynology, paleobotany, systematics and economic botany. I also have bound volumes of the reprint edition of the American Journal of Botany (Vols1-7, 1914-20), plus green buckram-bound volumes of AJB 29-70 (1942-1983). Persons interested in specific titles should contact me at the address listed below. Phone: 602-965-1762; Fax: 602-965-6899; E-mail: jecbot@imapl.asu.edu

U.S. National Herbarium Wood Collection Now On-Line

Editor:

Label information associated with the Wood Collection (U.S. National Herbarium, US) is now available electronically. The Wood Collection of the Sniithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (USw) contains approximately 42,500 specimens representing almost 3000 genera. In addition, approximately 5000 microscope slides are associated with the Wood Collection. The label information associated with these collections has been WAIS indexed and interested parties are encouraged to access this information electronically at the following URL: gopher://nmnhgoph.si.edu where they should first select <Botany at the Smithsonian Institution>, then <Wood Collection (U.S. National Herbarium, US)>. This will give them a choice to read either more information about the collection or initiate a search of the database. The "about" file also provides information regarding formal requests for material for sectioning.

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