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Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:27:41 +0200
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Dear IAWA Discussion List members, Barbara Gartner has done IAWA (i.e., us) a marvellous service by establishing this discussion forum. It will allow much more active exchange between IAWA members and others interesting in wood anatomy. Here in Leiden Emmy van Nieuwkoop and I are thrilled with the possibilities it offers to inform you directly on forthcoming news about IAWA Journal issues. Issue 4 of this year's IAWA Journal is already in an advanced stage of preparation. Apart from a collection of very interesting papers (including a first description of the Woolemy Pine, Araucariaceae, Australia), the issue will contain reports of the highly successful 5th Pacific Region Wood Anatomy Conference in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia, a month ago. There are two special news items I cannot help advertising in these first greetings to subscribers of the IAWA List: Recently we published IAWA Journal Supplement 3: Woods of the Eocene Nut Beds Flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon, USA (by Elisabeth Wheeler and Steve Manchester). This well illustrated monograph (188 pp) is a documentation of the richest fossil wood flora ever sampled. 76 species belonging to 66 genera are described and pictured in great detail, and the vegetation they were part of is analysed. IAWA Members can order this unique publication at the reduced price of 30 US$ or EURO from the IAWA editorial office (eevn@euronet.nl) [ the normal price is 45 $/EUR). News item 2 is a matter of great National pride here. In the framework of a digitisation programme at the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, the entire Utrecht Wood Collection (Uw) has been databased, and over 6,000 of the finest microslides belonging to that wood collection have been digitally imaged for public inspection on our website (www.nationaalherbarium.nl). Go to Type Specimen database (click on the tulip), in the opening screen of our digitised collections click on wood and use the BRAHMS menu to search for specific taxa you may be interested in. For specimens you want more information on, click on "Utrecht"and full collecting data plus the digitised TS and TLS become visible. If you click on these images they will be enlarged and presented on your computer screen in full glory. If you are interested in all the other 50,000 woods in Uw collection, remove the flag for images, and your search for woods belonging to a certain family, genus or species will cover all samples from the very extensive and well curated Utrecht wood collection. The opening screen to all the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland's digitised collections still has to be adapted, but we don't want you to remain uninformed of this unique access to the wood anatomical information, initially gathered by Dr. Alberta M.W. Mennega, one of our senior IAWA members here in the country, and still actively working with it in her 91st year. With cordial greetings, Pieter Baas P. Baas Director Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Universiteit Leiden branch P.O. Box 9514, 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands Phone: + 31 71 527 3515 Fax: + 31 71 527 3522 new e-mail address: baas@nhn.leidenuniv.nl http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/
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