Corrections: Remarks on the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
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Source: Taxon, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Feb., 1978), p. 144
Published by: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT)
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RICHARD D. WOOD, Professor of Botany for 30years at the University of Rhode
Island and specialist on the Characeae, 11 October 1977, aged 59. His widow asks that
anyone wishing reprints of current articles on Characeae should write to her (Mrs. Richard
D. Wood, 76 Stonehenge Rd., Kingston, R.I., 02881) because his list of names for mailing
reprints cannot be found. Donations to a Richard Dawson Wood Memorial Fund for establishing a botany scholarship may be sent to the U.R.I. Foundation, Richard D. Wood
Memorial Fund, 21 Davis Hall, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R.I., 02881. Dr.
Wood's herbarium will be deposited at the New York Botanical Garden.
CHESTER ARTHUR ARNOLD, Professor Emeritus of Botany in The University of
Michigan, died in Ann Arbor on November 19, 1977. He was born in Leeton, Missouri, on
June 25, 1901. Chester Arnold was educated at Cornell University, receiving the B.A. degree
in 1924 and the Ph.D. degree in 1929. He joined the botany faculty of The University of
Michigan in 1928, became curator of fossil plants in the Museum of Paleontology in 1929,
and achieved the rank of Professor in 1947. Through his many research papers on the nature
and evolution of paleozoic plants, and as the author of the foremost textbook on paleobotany in English, he achieved international distinction. In 1958-59 he was visiting scientist
at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow, India, which in 1972 awarded
him their Silver Medal. Between 1959 and 1964 he served as president of the International
Organization of Palaeobotany. In 1974 he received the coveted Merit Award of the Botanical Society of America and in 1977, the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Paleobotanical Section, Botanical Society of America, an award he prized above all others because it was presented by his paleobotanical colleagues. (Charles B. Beck)
CORRECTIONS
Dr. V. P. BOTSCHANTZEV wishes to make the following corrections to Dr. Steyskal's
translation of his Remarks on the Code (Taxon 26: 413. 1977). The changes are italicized.
(1) p. 413, 4th paragraph, 2nd sentence: read "... the names of authors whose surnames
are written with Latin letters are very difficult for us to read, but nevertheless we write
them after the names of taxa in the way used by the authors themselves."
(2) p. 414, 4th paragraph: read "... any other decision than to maintain the traditional
spelling of authors' names after designations of taxa will, on the one hand, be discriminatory
(if it stabilizes the surnames of less than those of all nationalities) and, on the other hand,
further complicate the already complex matters of nomenclature."
(3) p. 414, 6th paragraph, 2nd sentence: read "... it [the Code] would have to be
maximally clear, simple and easy to use. It was so originally, but now, in my opinion, it has
been turned into the opposite."
(4) p. 414, 7th paragraph, 2nd sentence from the bottom: read "... the number of them
[Soviet] would be immeasurably greater than the number of such scholars and organizations
in other countries (in particular, the USA or England and perhaps greater than in both taken
together)."
REQUEST
James E. Rodman, Yale University, Department of Biology, Osborn Memorial Laboratories, New Haven, Conn. 06520, U.S.A., requests mature fruits and seeds of any taxa of
Descurainia and Erysimum (Cruciferae), for his monographic work on these genera, which
includes cytological and chemotaxonomic (glucosinolate) studies. Plants will be grown from
the seed, and a specimen will be sent back to the donor's institution (herbarium) as partial
recompense for the seed sample. North American collections are especially desired, but
weed taxa and Old World collections would also be appreciated.
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