Volume 42 – Issue 1 (March 1977)

This second edition of Reid’s well-known test carries on, in the original tradition, the clarity, good explanation, and quality of the original.

As Wood states it, . . . in recent years, there has been a burgeoning of interest in environmental problems . . . but environmentalists are often generalists . . . while . . . academic departments of colleges and universities may continue to produce specialists.”

The proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Numerical Taxonomy include the members, the papers, and the discussions of the conference.

It’s seldom that a reviewer receives a completely scientific volume which is so easy to read and in which the data is so concisely and accurately summarized.

This is the third volume of Hutchinson’s well-known “Treatise on Limnology,” the first dealing with Geography, Physics, and Chemistry, the second with Lake Biology and Limnoplankton.

On 12 October, 1971 William Leach collected a robust dodder severely parasitising a large stand of Pueraria on the Clemson University Campus (Leach 154, CLEMS).

In view of the intensity of present-day botanical research and the inevitable delays in publication, it is almost axiomatic that many publications are in need of revision by the time they see the light of day. So it is with our “Western Pennsylvania Orchids.”

In 5 symposium sessions leading investigators will lecture or engage in panel discussions on the role that biosystematics has in agriculture.

In Castanea 35:299. 1970, I, as senior author of “Amendments to The Flora of Virginia. I,” reported Mazus miquelii Makino (incorrectly spelled “miguelli” in the paper as submitted) as new to the flora of Virginia.

The North Carolina State Museum of Natural History will begin publication of a new bulletin, entitled Brimleya, the summer of 1976. Although the “enclosed note announcing the new publication” wasn’t enclosed in my letter, readers of Castanea will be interested in the bulletin. It will be available from NCSMNH, 101 Halifax St., Raleigh, NC 27611.