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ABSTRACT THE first Mary Soper Pope Medal of the Cranbrook Institute of Science, Michigan, has been awarded to Dr. Frans Verdoorn, editor of Ghronica Botanica, in recognition of his editorial

and international relations work in biology as well as for his researches in crvptogamic botany and the history of the plant sciences. Dr. Verdoorn, who was born in Amsterdam in 1906, went

to the United States in 1940. He is managing editor of the Chronica Botanica Co., which publishes _Chronica Botanica_, “A New Series of Plant Science Books”, and _Annales Cryptogamici et

Phytopathologici_. He is also botanical secretary of the International Union of Biological Sciences and special adviser to the Netherlands Indies Department of Agriculture. His principal

books are: “de Frul-laniaceis” X-XVIII, “Manual of Bryology”, “Manual of Pteridology”, “Plants and Plant Science in Latin America”, “Science and Scientists in the Netherlands Indies” (with

P. Honig), and the “Index Botani-corum”, a biographical dictionary of plant scientists, now in preparation in co-operation with the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, with which Dr.

Verdoorn has been connected since 1941. From 1947 onwards, Dr. Verdoorn will issue a monthly biological news-letter, _Biologia_, and an annual review of progress in international relations

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