Newsletter of the Southern African Botanical Diversity - SANBI

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letters to the editors Just a line to thank you all at SABONET for SABONET Report Series No. 22, which is greatly appreciated and such a valuable compendium. Because I had managed to pay a short visit to Aburi when en route to Nigeria in 1971, I was especially interested in the coverage for West Africa. It’s especially interesting to read about the mutual relationship between Limbe and North Carolina. —Jim Chapman 11 Koromiko Crescent R.D.I, Lyttelton New Zealand Thank you very much for the latest excellent publication in your SABONET Report series. ‘Herbarium essentials’ is quite magnificent and will not only enhance the efficacy of the local herbarium, but also prove to be a most useful teaching tool. —Rodney Moffett (Prof.) Qwaqwa Campus University of the Free State South Africa Many thanks for your latest publication, the herbarium users manual, and other recent publications received from you. I congratulate the team which compiled this excellent manual, which should play a valuable part in stimulating interest in botanical exploration and collecting. I especially appreciate the sections on treating difficult material, and regret I did not have this when I started collecting in the 1960s. —Mike Bingham Lusaka mbingham@webtech.co.zm We have just received a copy of your wonderful ‘Herbarium essentials’. We will review it in our publications. I can imagine that this publication would be very useful for many institutions. —Etelka Leadlay BGCI 199 Kew Road, Richmond Surrey TW9 3BW Email: Etelka.Leadlay@bgci.org editors@sabonet.org Thank you very much for sending the Southern African Plant Red Data Lists Database on CD-ROM, as well as for sending SABONET News regularly, which is always a great pleasure to read. Both publications are a valuable source of information for our work. —Dr Uwe Schippmann Bundesamt für Naturschutz Konstantinstrasse110 53110 Bonn hanks for the terrific Herbaria in SAB- TONET countries. SABONET should be able to sell copies to every botany student in the world and to a lot of amateurs besides. And even to professional botanists, like me. I am really impressed with its comprehensive, useful, well-illustrated coverage. It’s a classic already. —Dr Fay Robertson PO Box CH 385 Chisipite Harare Zimbabwe Email: faykevin@zol.co.zw just opened an envelope containing the book Herbarium Essentials, and I must say that I am truly impressed. So impressed, in fact, that I was inspired to write an email congratulating everyone involved in this fine I publication. Over the years, I’ve come to expect the highest-quality output from SABONET, but this recent publication raises that level. The design, layout and content are all superb—what a marvelous resource it will be—not only in Africa but elsewhere as well. It’s one of those books that you just want to keep dipping into, since the information is presented in an attractive and accessible way. My major activities involve the computerization of herbaria (and living collections), and so I was particularly interested to read the section on compterization (pp 45-46). It is quite a short section on a large and complex topic and I was wondering if there are plans to expand on this important topic at any point in the future? Please do send my remarks on to the editors and others involved in this publication, and keep up the good work! 1) Manuscripts should preferably be in English. 2) If possible, text should be sent in electronic format via e-mail or on a stiffy disk and should be in Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or Rich Text Format. Otherwise, hard copy can be sent or faxed to the SABONET head office. 3) Tables and charts should be in one of the following formats: Microsoft Excel, Quattro Pro, Lotus 1-2-3, or Harvard Graphics. Data must be supplied with charts. instructions to authors 4) If possible, include colour slides, blackand-white photographs, or line drawings to illustrate articles. If you want to submit scanned images with your article, scan them at 300 dpi and save as TIF or JPEG files. 5) Caption all tables, figures, and photographs clearly on a separate sheet. Include photographer credits. 6) Each author should their provide name, affiliation, postal address, telephone and fax numbers, and an e-mail address (if applicable). —Kerry S. Walter, BG-BASE Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Inverleith Row Edinburgh EH3 5LR Scotland, UK Email: bg-base@rbge 7) Look at the most recent issue of SABONET News for stylistic conventions. 8) SABONET News holds the right to edit any received copy. 9) Manuscripts should be sent to Marthina Mössmer. Via e-mail: editors@sabonet.org Hard copy: SABONET, National Botanical Institute, Private Bag X101, Pretoria 0001, SOUTH AFRICA. Fax: (27) 12 804- 5979/3211. 10) Submissions for the next issue should reach the editors before 30 November 2004. Late submissions will not be included. 4 SABONET News Vol. 9 No. 1 September 2004
Establishing National Botanical Gardens in South Africa BY CHRISTOPHER K. WILLIS & BRIAN J. HUNTLEY “The site chosen should be conveniently accessible. A garden, however well managed and stocked with interesting and valuable plants, will be sure to languish if withdrawn in consequence of inconvenience of situation from the eye of the residents.” (Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, 1880) The Botanical Society Conservatory enables Kirstenbosch to display South African plants which cannot be grown in the outdoor gardens. Here, under one roof, you will find plants from high mountain peaks, shady forests and hot, dry deserts. The main house, dominated by a large baobab tree, features succulents from the arid regions of southern Africa. Special collections of bulbs, ferns and alpines are displayed in smaller corner houses. (Source: http://www.nbi.ac.za/kirstenbosch/mainpage.htm ) (Photo: Hi-Shots, South Africa.) A visit to the Lowveld National Botanical Garden is incomplete without one first taking in this stunning view of the Crocodile River cascades. (Photo: Hans Heilgendorff.) Increasingly, South Africa’s national botanical gardens are being transformed into embassies of South Africa’s biodiversity and culture. (Photo: Hans Heilgendorff.) An on-site storage dam provides the Kirstenbosch National Botanical SABONET Garden News with Vol. a consistent 9 No. 1 September supply of 2004 water throughout the year, despite this garden being exposed to hot, dry summers. (Photo: Christopher Willis.) Adequate safe parking and ablution facilities are essential elements of infrastructure for national botanical gardens. (Photo: Hans Heilgendorff.) 5
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