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51_76 Cambridge, England - At the Taxonomy section this morning A. J. Willmot gave a paper on precision in the use of terms and illustrated the diversity of use by showing lantern slides showing the ideas of various botanists as to what is meant by lanceolate, showing figures from various texts, showing lance-head (hastate) figures drawn from the collecton of ancient arms in the Tower of London. It was very amusing - the unlike outlines called lanceolate. Hall's paper on an International Taxonomic Bureau was read by E. D. Merril, commented upon by Ramsbottom, British Museum, as Utopian. A.S. Hitchchock thought there was little call for photos of grass types. Cotton, Kew, in presenting the case, admitted he had found |
51_77 Aug. 19, 1930. no botanist in America or Europe in its favor and conceded that too much reliance might be placed on photos of types, resulting in slip-shod work, a remark which evoked spontaneous applause. It was generally agreed that a finding list of collectors specimens, by herbaria, would be useful if made. No one present, doubtless, suspected the real underlying, or at least first motive of Hall, which Hall fully accomplished, to get his name before the Congress. Sprague remarked that we lacked, in English at least, treatises on the philosophy of botany, referring however to Diel's paper on the subject. It seems that Francis McBride has been spending a year in Berlin photographing types for the Field Museum under a grant (from the Carnegie Institution I think). Also, said Cotton |
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