Notwithstanding the appearance in 1952 of another good text, 
the demands for ‘‘Hill’’ have increased over the years, and it is 
now Selling more than ever before and has become the major text 
in this field in English. Ted’s greatest influence in this fast 
growing field of economic botany has undoubtedly been this 
scholarly text. Who can tell how many of the recently proliferat- 
ing college courses in this discipline were inspired by the final 
availability of a good textbook? A thorough, inclusive, laconic, 
and decidedly practical production, it is designed for the serious 
student of plants and their effects upon human affairs. There is, 
of course, no way precisely to measure its effect in establishing 
this new interdisciplinary field, but one may safely assert that it 
has been a major contribution. 
Rather wistfully, Ted often said to me: ‘‘Never has it been my 
good luck to carry out any special research in my field’’. This 
may be true, but over the years he has been one of the busiest 
men in economic botany. Nomenclatural and taxonomical prob- 
lems in preparing his textbook led to several papers in the 
Botanical Museum Leaflets of Harvard University, of which he 
was the editor for a number of years. 
The availability for the first time of a truly international, 
standardized set of rules of botanical nomenclature meant that 
sundry, well established but incorrect names of economic 
species had to be studied; and with Prof. Ames, Ted Hill felt 
most strongly the need for putting economic botany firmly in line 
with the new nomenclature. For anumber of years, he served on 
the nomenclature committee of the United States Phar- 
macopoeia; he was responsible for the nomenclature of the 
encyclopaedic Wealth of India: he checked for accuracy the 
technical names in Edition II of Standardized Plant Names. For 
Six Or seven years he served as associate editor for the journal, 
Economic Botany; more recently, he was a member of the 
editorial board for five years; and for many years he held a place 
on the editorial board of Rhodora. During all of these years, he 
actively reviewed botanical books for Quarterly Review of Biol- 
Ogy. 
In the meantime, his multitudinous duties at the Botanical 
Museum grew to include many time-consuming tasks in the 
library, the herbarium, and the products collections. He was 
appointed, first part-time and then full-time, librarian of the 
Oakes Ames Library of Economic Botany. Over the many years 
that Ames, and then Prof. Paul C. Mangelsdorf, offered Har- 
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