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Associate curator of phanerogams Velva E. Rudd continued work 

 on lier manuscript on the papilionoid legaimes of Mexico, bringing part 

 one to completion. In connection with lier studies in the Leguminosae, 

 she spent 6 days in September at the herbarium of the Universidad 

 Nacional Autonomo de Mexico in Mexico City. This research oppor- 

 tunity was afforded by her attendance at the Secundo Congreso Mexi- 

 cano de Botanica, which met in San Luis Potosi. 



From mid-June through August, Dr. Stanwyn G. Shetler, associate 

 curator of phanerogams, traveled to Alaska and collected plants in the 

 western Brooks Range with a University of Alaska expedition. He 

 also studied collections in the herbarium of the University of Alaska 

 and searched for a suitable setting for a diorama planned for the hall 

 of plant life. 



Associate curator of phanerogams Wallace R. Ernst completed a 

 manuscript on "The Genus Eschscholz'm in the South Coast Ranges of 

 California" and, with Dr. H. J. Thompson of the University of Cal- 

 ifornia, Los Angeles, another manuscript on the pollination patterns 

 and taxonomy of the genus Eucnide. At the American Institute of 

 Biological Sciences (AIBS) meetings at Amherst, Mass., in August his 

 joint paper with Dr. Thompson won an award in taxonomy. During 

 the last 3 months of the year he was in Dominica, particii^ating in the 

 Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian biological survey of that island. 



Associate curator of phanerogams Dan H. Nicolson, along with 

 associate curators Stanwyn Shetler and David Lellinger, visited the 

 Great Smoky Mountains National Park in May in search of sites usable 

 in preparing an eastern deciduous forest life-group in the planned Hall 

 of Plant Life. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Dr. Thomas R. Soderstrom, 

 associate curator of grasses, was in the Wilhelmina Momitains of 

 Surinam, on a New York Botanical Garden expedition which col- 

 lected mitil October. About from 5 to 8 percent of the collections 

 represent grasses, all of which, including duplicates, are being iden- 

 tified in 1:he National Herbarium for distribution to major herbaria. 



C. V. Morton, curator of ferns, spent 3 weeks during July in librar- 

 ies in London and Paris checking bibliographic information in con- 

 nection with his study of the photographs he made of fern types 

 in European herbaria. With associate curator David B. Lellinger, he 

 prepared a treatment of the genus Aspleniimi in Venezuela, based 

 largely on the extensive collections assembled from the Guayana High- 

 lands region by the New York Botanical Garden and the Chicago 

 Natural History Museum. 



In August, on his way to the AIBS meetings in Amherst, Mass., 

 Dr. Mason E. Hale, curator of cryptogams, collected lichens in north- 

 western New Jersey, in the Catskill Mountains in New York, and in 



