BOTAOTCAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY 



Camhridgh, Massaciu setts Spring 1983 Vol. 29, No. 2 



GORDON WINSTON DILLON — 1912-1982 



AN APPRECIATION 



Richard Evans Schultes 



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a friend, a colleague and an innovator when, on August 22, 1 982, 

 Gordon Winston Dillon died at his home in East Orleans on Cape 

 Cod, Massachusetts. He is survived by his wife, Mary, who 

 devotedly helped him in his long struggle with illness, and his son 



David. 



Gordon was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 17, 

 1912. He was graduated from the Muhlenberg Township High 

 School in 1934 and came to work as botanical illustrator at the 

 Orchid Herbarium of Oakes Ames in the Botanical Museum in 

 the same year. While his specialty was the orchid family, his 

 versatility was such that he illustrated technical articles which 

 demanded understanding of other plant families. In the academic 

 year 1947-1948, Prof. Paul Mangelsdorf, Director of the Muse- 

 um, appointed him as botanical illustrator in the Museum. 



At that time, the then young American Orchid Society had its 

 headquarters in the Orchid Herbarium in the Museum, and its 

 Bulletin was edited in this location. When the editor Dr. Louis O. 

 Williams was called to government work connected with the war 

 in January 1943, Gordon assumed the editorship, a position 

 which he carried out with exceptional distinction from 1943 to 

 1966 and from 1970 to 1973, when he retired from that position. 

 In addition to his editorship, he fulfilled other functions as well in 

 the Orchid Society. He was the Executive Secretary from 1950 to 



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