From aceska@cue.bc.ca Fri Aug 27 23:18:26 1993 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 05:33:39 -0700 From: Adolf Ceska To: ben@cue.bc.ca Subject: BEN # 59 BBBBB EEEEEE NN N ISSN 1188-603X BB B EE NNN N BBBBB EEEEE NN N N BOTANICAL BB B EE NN NN ELECTRONIC BBBBB EEEEEE NN N NEWS No. 59 July 15, 1993 Address: aceska@cue.bc.ca Victoria, B.C. ---------------------------------------------------- MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR DR. VLADIMIR KRAJINA A memorial service for Dr. Vladimir J. Krajina will be held on Wednesday July 21, 1993 at 2:00 p.m. in the University of British Columbia Chapel (formerly United Church), 5375 Univer- sity Blvd. (near Toronto Rd). This church is on the north side of the University Boulevard, west of the golf club. VICTORIA BOTANY COMING EVENTS July 20, 1993 (Tuesday) 10:30 a.m. - Dr. Siraj Hasan (C.S.I.R.O. Biological Control Unit, Montpellier, France): "Progress towards biological control of weeds of European origin with particular respect to phytopathogens." Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 West Burnside Rd. July 24, 1993 (Saturday) 9:00 - 12:00 a.m. - Controlled removal of Scotch Broom in Uplands Park, Phase 2. Meet at Cattle Point. In this phase we will pull or cut broom from Joel Ussery's test plots left behind as controls. This action is not widely advertised, we don't need so many people as in the first attack, but come and bring your friend, if you can. JAMES C. HICKMAN (1941 - 1993) From: The Jepson Globe (Vol.4, No.4) Jim Hickman, editor of the newly published Jepson Manual: Higher plants of California, died on June 15 of Aids-related pneumonia. The landmark field guide to all California's native plants was result of Jim's planning and organizing. We are grateful that Jim lived long enough to see the result of his efforts. Born in Iowa, Jim spent his early years in Portsmouth, Ohio. He obtained a degree in biology from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in ecology and systematic botany from the University of Oregon. Besides teaching at Washington State University, Pullman, Swath- more College and University of California, Berkeley, Jim was editor of Madrono and a program director with the National Science Foundation. Jim's life was a celebration. Music, intellectual curiosity, and friends were his touchstones. His passing reflected his life - one of awareness, courage and surrounded by friends. James C. Hickman's name on The Jepson Manual is fitting memorial to his vision and perseverance. [I met Jim in 1978[?], when he and Dr. Melinda Denton led a field trip through the Cascade Mountains of central Oregon. It was the best organized field trip I have been on and every participant of the trip greatly appreciated Jim's vast knowledge of plants and the phytogeography of the Pacific Northwest. - AC] JEPSON MANUAL SOLD OUT From: The Jepson Globe (Vol.4, No.4) The first printing of The Jepson Manual (7,500 copies) has been sold out. The new manual was snatched up in record time - just three months after coming onto the market. The second printing is already underway and, hopefully, will be available by August. The Jepson Manual Project Staff would like to hear from you about any errors (the entire family of Balsaminaceae was left out!) and about any difficulties you encounter using keys or descriptions. Address your letters to Jepson Manual Project, Jepson Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE OUT OF TOUCH WITH NATURE ? From: CBO radio interview with Dr. A. Emery, Director June 21, 1993 Jennifer Frye (JF - interviewer): "Roberta has just told us about big doings of one sort at the Canadian Museum of Nature. Well, staff at the museum are awaiting ... word on the result of reorganization that could mean 51 [only 1 from management] of the museum's 253 employees lose their jobs." Dr. Alan Emery (AE - Director of the Canadian Museum of Nature): "We want to catapult the museum from a kind of a traditional organization that deals with the old-fashioned kinds of museum- type exhibits, old-fashioned types of research and ways of holding collections, into the future; to be a new dynamic or- ganization, one that's in touch with nature (which is our sub- ject) and also in touch with society and at the leading edge of our research and collection efforts." JF: "Some employees even had said they worry their phones are being tapped, morale is so poor..." AE: "Yes, there's two philosophies of how to do.. how to deal with employees from a management perspective. One is to be secretive, and that is to do everything completely behind closed doors" ..."but we wanted to be more open and to use our staff's input as much as we could.." JF: "When do you think they'll know for sure if they are cut?" AE: "Don't know. The board has delayed the decision for 30 days from that board meeting, which would be July 9th, and then they will decide when they are going to make the decision." If you are interested in the full transcript of the interview, send me your snail address or the FAX number. The letter that accompanied the transcript had a P.S. "Please don't mention my name" and stated "the days of systematic botany, as we have known it in the museum, are numbered." The Board of Trustees was supposed to meet on Friday July 9th. According to the news from Ottawa, the meeting was postponed and now it has been schedulled for July 20. Dr. Alan R. Emery is an ichthyologist, B.Sc.(Hons.) University of Toronto, M.Sc. McGill University, and Ph.D. from University of Miami. He was Curator of Ichthyology and Herpatology at the ROM and Associate Prof., Univ. of Toronto 1980-83 and has been the Director of the Canadian Museum of Nature since 1983. RE: NOXIOUS WEEDS [Ben 58] From: Jim Pojar Why isn't Cytisus scoparius a noxious weed ? I mean officially, we all know it really is. AC: I asked the same question in 1979. The answer I got from the Ministry of Agriculture was: "Because it grows only in abandoned fields."