The Southern Appalachian Botanical Club: Past and Future

Ten years ago the writer was sitting with a friend in the office of the herbarium of West Virginia University preparing a list of acquaintances whose interest in southeastern botany might lead them to underwrite the publication of a journal to be devoted to recording advances in our knowledge of that field. The launching of a new botanical periodical at that time, to join the hosts of others already being issued, was necessarily accompanied by considerable uncertainty and the definitely abnormal period of world history in which were passed its initiation and early life was likewise unfavorable.