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51_60 Kew, England - Dr. A.S. Hitchcock is here and came to have a word with me in the alcove where I am working. He has had two surgical operations and is to undergo another on his return to Washington which will be shortly. He inquired about my work, what I was doing, and seemed suprised that my research lay upon another part of the Flora of California. It interested me vastly that he thought I had given up that work. - Dr. John Briquet has just come in from Geneva. As we looked about the herbarium he spoke of the crowding that was obvious. He said that at Geneva they were soon to add another wing, which wing would be stopped by the lake, then they would turn at right angles in the |
51_61 August 14, 1930. future as required, and at right angles again making a quadrangle - but long after his time he said. They have at Kew between four and five million sheets. At Geneva about two and one-half million sheets. Dr. Briquet deprecated the English and American practice of glueing down the plant specimen to the herbarium sheet and gave some striking instances of cases where workers had been obliged to give up a particular piece or item or detail of research. (cf. p. 107) Briquet said they at the herbarium were being squeezed between two powerful forces, the League of Nations (with plenty of money) on one hand, and the International Labor Office (also with plenty of money) on the |
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