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BEN # 193
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No. 193 May 18, 1998
aceska@victoria.tc.ca Victoria, B.C.
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Dr. A. Ceska, P.O.Box 8546, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3S2
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REED ROLLINS, HARVARD PROFESSOR AND MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL
ACADEMY, DIES AT 86
From: "David E. Boufford" <boufford@oeb.harvard.edu>
Reed C. Rollins, the Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany
Emeritus and director of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Univer-
sity from 1948 to 1978, died April 28, 1998. He was 86.
Born in Lyman, Wyoming, he graduated with honors from the
University of Wyoming, reached his master's degree from
Washington State University and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1941.
A member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard from 1937 to 1940,
he joined Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1948.
Before coming to Harvard, Rollins served as associate professor
of biology at Stanford University and as a geneticist for the U.
S. Department of Agriculture. He worked on the Emergency Guayule
Rubber Research Project for the U. S. Department of Agriculture
during World War II. His research covered many areas in taxonomy
and genetics but the primary focus of his work was on the mus-
tard family, Brassicaceae. He was a member of the National
Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.
He leaves his wife Kathryn; a daughter, Linda White of Hingham;
a son, Richard of Portland, Ore.; stepdaughters, Sydney Roby of
Baltimore and Helen Roby of Toronto, Ontario; a sister, Aileen
Carter of Tulsa, OK and a brother, Dr. J. P. Rollins of Phoenix,
Arizona.
Contributions may be made to the Reed C. Rollins Fund for
Botanical Field Work in care of the Harvard University Herbaria,
22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138.
A memorial service will be held at the Memorial Church on
Friday, May 22, at 2 p.m. Contact: Professor Donald H. Pfister,
22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617-495-2368
Editorial note:
One of Dr. Rollins' last papers was the description of a new
species of Lesquerella from central Washington discovered by
Kathryn Beck and Florence Caplow (see BEN # 146):
Rollins, R.C., K.A. Beck & F.E. Caplow. 1996. An undescribed
species of Lesquerella (Cruciferae) from the State of
Washington. Rhodora 97 ("1995"): 201-207.
In 1993, Dr. Rollins published a monumental work on Brassicaceae
in North America:
Rollins, Reed C. 1993. The Cruciferae of continental North
America: systematics of the mustard family from the Arctic to
Panama. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California. 976
p.
BOTANY BC - JULY 9 TO 11, 1998 - PEACE RIVER BREAKS, TAYLOR, BC
From: Craig Delong <SDELONG@mfor01.for.gov.bc.ca>
Thursday, July 9
- option to leave Prince George for Taylor (near Fort St. John)
at 10:00 a.m. for a tour up through Pine Pass; arrive in
Taylor at 6:00 p.m.
- meeting in Taylor at community hall from 8 p.m. to about
12:00 p.m. for information, fun, and talks (any volunteers!?)
Friday, July 10
- riverboat tour along Peace River to look at various plant
communities
- group BBQ scheduled for approximately 4:30-5 p.m. at Taylor
Landing (boat launch and provincial park)
Saturday, July 11
- half day scheduled to tour wetland sites and look at any
other important local plant communities
Accommodations
District of Taylor Municipality
For those wanting the comfort of a nice, warm bed at night,
there is:
1. Taylor Lodge (250) 789 3024
For those wanting to brave the outdoors and rough it a little,
there is:
2. Peace Island Provincial Park, just south of Taylor
contact: Peggy Freeman, caretaker (250) 789 9295
Alternative lodgings, if necessary/desired:
Hotels just south of downtown Fort St. John
1. Best Western Coachman Inn (Mile 47) 1 888 388 9408
2. Northgate Inn (Mile 47) (250) 787 8475
Bed & Breakfast
1. Mile 49 Bed & Breakfast (250) 787 3050
Registration: Regular Fee - $55.00 Student's Fee - $45.00
After June, Regular Fee - $65.00 Student's Fee - $45.00
Please make cheques for registration fee ONLY payable to Botany
BC Mail to:
Botany BC
c/o BC Ministry of Forests, Research Branch
3rd Floor, 712 Yates St.
Victoria, BC V8W 1L6
The Botany BC agenda and registration form is up on ftp site
142.36.191.210 pub/incoming/botbc as a Word 2.0 document.
For more information, you can contact:
Craig DeLong (250) 565 6202
Jennifer Lucke (250) 565 6100
fax number (250) 565 4349
e-mail address: jalucke@mfor01.for.gov.bc.ca
DO YOU KNOW OF THE LOCATION OF ANY BOGS ON VANCOUVER ISLAND?
From: Karen Golinski <golinski@uvic.ca>
I am a University of Victoria graduate student and my research
focuses on the ecology and restoration of peat bogs. I am look-
ing for further study sites to conduct vegetation and hydrologi-
cal sampling. If you know of any true bogs (i.e., dominated by
Sphagnum mosses and ericaceous shrubs) please contact me at
<golinski@uvic.ca>.
Thanks and hope to hear from you soon,
Karen Golinski
LICHEN WORKSHOP ON IDENTIFICATION OF PELTIGERA WAS SUCCESSFUL
From: Vivian Miao <vmiao@thamnolia.terragen.com>, Cari Olson &
Patrick Wiliston <patrickw@unixg.ubc.ca>
A lichen workshop focussing on the genus Peltigera was held at
the Wells Gray Education and Research Centre in Clearwater on
the weekend of April 24 to 26, 1998. The event was organized by
Patrick Wiliston, a graduate student in Botany at UBC, and
instructed by lichenologist, Trevor Goward. Support for the
workshop was provided partially by TerraGen Diversity, Inc.
Eleven lichen enthusiasts learned how to recognize and identify
the Peltigeras, and became familiar with the ecology of various
species. The workshop consisted of evening and morning lectures,
mid-morning lab work and afternoon field trips. In the lab
component of the workshop a majority of the 28 species of Pel-
tigera known to occur in B.C. were examined. Twenty-one species
were also found in the field.
The consensus at the end of the workshop was that it was very
successful, and that similar workshops should be held in the
future. Suggestions for genera to cover in the next lichen
workshop are welcome. Please send them to Patrick Wiliston,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., e-mail:
<patrickw@unixg.ubc.ca>.
BEAR WITNESS TO THE LOGGING OF JOHNSTON CREEK, BRITISH COLUMBIA
From: Forest Action Network <fanbc@envirolink.org>
(Johnston Creek, BC). The Forest Action Network (FAN) launched a
new website via satellite. Activists will bear witness to
Interfor's logging operations in the Great Bear Rainforest. New
images will be uploaded daily onto the Internet on
http://www.fanweb.org/johnston
Interfor is blasting a road into pristine Johnston Creek valley,
within about 100 feet of salmon bearing waterways at the valley
floor. The Johnston is a major coho salmon run. It has been
identified as "excellent rearing habitat" and "one of the best
coho producers in the [Rivers] Inlet."
"Coho stocks are facing extinction and only 20% of BC's rain-
forest valleys are still pristine. How can we allow Interfor to
destroy yet another watershed?" said FAN campaigner Laura
Chenoweth.
"For the first time, people around the world can witness logging
operations as they happen" said computer programmer Dave Olsen
from on board the MV Starlet, FAN's campaign boat at Johnston
Creek.
80% of the major rainforest valleys on the west coast of Canada
have already been lost to logging, and Interfor and other com-
panies will log many of the remaining valleys within the next 5
years.
Forest Action Network
Box 625, Bella Coola, BC, Canada V0T 1C0
TEL 250.799.5800 - FAX 250.799.5830
http://www.fanweb.org
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