The Bean Bag no. 1

doi:10.34885/acxj-k551

The Bean Bag no. 1

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May 1975

Abstract

Historical Note: The First International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (ICSEB) was something new under the sun in several respects. For the first time it brought together botanical and zoological practitioners of systematics for the interchange of ideas, philosophy, methodology, and goals; this was the principal purpose of the Congress organizers. There was another less evident purpose, however; it provided an opportunity for specialists in various groups of organisms to convene informal meetings to discuss how they might cooperate more closely with each other and with scientists of all sorts whose work has the potential for providing new data for the synthesis that is the essence of systematic biology. So it was that the devotees of the Leguminosae who were at the Congress came together for a very interesting meeting. One of the conclusions reached (there were not all that many!) was that we needed to be in touch with each other regularly and that a newsletter should be undertaken by someone. Initially, Tom Elias (Carey Arboretum of the New York Botanical Garden) volunteered to produce such a publication and he set about the task with enthusiasm; many of you completed a questionnaire which he mailed out rather widely. However, his administrative duties as director of the Arboretum finally forced him to give up the task and the editors listed above have stepped into the breach. How well we do at it is strongly dependent on your assistance, about which, more follows. Credit for the name of the newsletter should also be recorded. It was proposed very early, perhaps even during the Boulder ICSEB meetings, by Mary Kalin Arroyo who was at that time assisting Howard Irwin with his research on Brazilian legumes but has since taken a position at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. Responses to our 10 March letter to most of you have contained a few comments on the name, mostly favorable. It was not intended to be frivolous, as we believe the content of future issues will prove, but a rather fanciful title for what will necessarily be a highly diversified collection of news and notes of interest to leguminologists.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Cowan, R.S.

Gunn, Charles R.

Tangerini, Alice

Arroyo, Mary Kalin