U.S. Army, then in the throes of the 

 Second World War, used the book in its 

 wilderness-survival training program. 

 The book's publication also coincided 

 with food shortages then sweeping the 

 nation. As Fernald pointed out in his 

 revision of Kinsey's introduction, the 

 consumer of edible wild plants "will be 

 most content; and every time he will 

 recognize that he has made small draft 

 on the ration-book of coupons." 



I 



n 1947 Kinsey established the Insti- 

 tute for Sex Research, Inc. (now the 

 Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, 

 Gender, and Reproduction, Inc.) at In- 

 diana University. The first of his ex- 

 plosive reports was published in 1948, 

 establishing his legacy. Fernald died in 

 1950, shortly after finishing the eighth 

 edition of Gray's Manual of Botany. Soon 

 thereafter, Reed C. Rollins was ap- 

 pointed director of Harvard's Gray 

 Herbarium, and he wrote Kinsey to 

 propose a revised edition ot Edible I Vild 

 Plants. Kinsey agreed, but the publica- 

 tion of the second edition, like that of 

 the first, suffered long delays. In fact, 

 Kinsey died on August 25, 1956, of 

 congestive heart failure, before the sec- 

 ond edition came out. Not until 1958 

 did Harper & Row publish the second 

 edition, which remained in print 

 through the mid-1970s. Edible Wild 

 Plants was reprinted in 1996 by Dover 

 Publications, and it is once again wide- 

 ly available at an affordable price. 



Who could have guessed that a man- 

 uscript on edible plants, written on used 

 herbarium sheets by a frugal graduate 

 student in entomology, would become 

 one of the classics in its field, entertain- 

 ing and educating readers even eighty- 

 seven years later? Its existence is testa- 

 ment to an enduring collaboration by 

 two authoritative scientists, and to Kin- 

 sey's extraordinary intellectual flexibil- 

 ity and scientific curiosity. Just don't leaf 

 through it and expect to find any sex. 



Peter Del Tredici is senior research scien- 

 tist at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard I Uni- 

 versity, where he has worked since 1979. He is 

 also a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School 

 qf Design, where he teaches courses on plants, 

 soils, and urban ecology. 



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