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NATURAL
IHISTORY MUSEUM
Photograph by Louis O. Will
STANDLEY ABOUT
Working
in the
1952
herbarium
at Escuela Agrícola
Panamericana
Homage
to
STANDLEY
Papers
in
honor
of
Paul C. Standley
Edited by
Louis O. Williams
CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-22i.Jf3
PRINTED IN THEUNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY
MUSEUM
PRESS
1963
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Contents— Resumen
Homenaje
a Standley
— Homage
Work
to
Standley
5
Louis O. Williams
Paul C. Standley and His
as
Revealed Through
7
His Letters
C. V.
Morton
a Standley
Asi Vi
Yo
23
Faustino Miranda
Man
in a
Hurry
B.
27
Lyman
Smith
Paul C.Standley
Amigo Sincero de Honduras
29
Antonio Molina R.
My
Debt
to
Paul C. Standley
E.
33
Robert
Woodson,
Jr.
Elogio del Dr. Paul C. Standley
37
Armando Dugand
Paul C. Standley
40
Clifford
C
Gregg
Botánicos de Antaño
— Paul C. Standley
44
Oton Jiménez
The
Floristic
Work
of Paul Carpenter Standley
51
Bernice G. Schubert1
Expediciones en América Central, 1925-26
54
Salvador Calderón
Paul C. Standley
60
Llewelyn Williams
La Exploración Botánica de Costa Rica y
Paul C. Standley
la
Obra de
63
Juvenal Valerio Rodríguez
Paul C. Standley
69
Charles H. Lankester
Semblanza de Paul C. Standley
71
Jorge León
Don
Pablito
75
Paul H. Allen
La Orden
del Quetzal
79
ManuelOrellana Cardona
My Acquaintance and Experiences with Paul C.
Earl Edward Sherff
Standley
84
Una
Impresión Personal de Paul Standley
88
José CUATRECASAS
Standley and the Rubiaceae
90
Julian A. Steyermark
Paul C. Standley
95
Maximino Martínez
Standley and Tropical American Botany
F.
97
R. FOSBERG
Standley
— Sixty Years Ago
YUNCKER
100
Otto M.Smith
Tribute to Standley
T. G.
103
Note
to the Editor
P.
104
Ellsworth
Killip
105
Personal Recollections of Paul C. Standley
Paul Russell
Introduction to Standley
106
Margery
Tales
C.
Carlson
and Other Yarns
108
Out
of School,
Louis O. Willl\ms
Homenaje
a
Standley
Homage
The
desire to
to Standley
1884-1963
collection ofpapers presented here
is
the result of a
honor one of America's best known and most prolific systematic botanists, for many years one of the driving forces Paul Carpenter behind the study of neotropical botany. Standley came to Chicago Natural History Museum in 1928 and retired at the end of 1950. Partial assessment of his contributions to knowledge of the botany of our tropics will be foundin several of the papers to follow. He also wrote on the systematics of temperate regions in America, but the greater part of his life was given over to study of plants of the New World tropics. Standley was not only an outstanding student of the neotropical floras in the herbarium but he also made a large number of field trips, covering every country between Upon his the borders of the UnitedStates and Colombia. retirement from the Museum he went to Honduras to live, where he continued to work actively for several years more. It was there that he spent the remainder of his days. In July, 1961, I wrote to about thirty persons who had known Standley, most of them botanists, to invite contributions to this projected paper.
We
are pleased that so
many
busy people have taken thetime to contribute to
this effort.
We know that Dr. Standley would have appreciated it, and on our own part we wish to thank each of the contributors most sincerely. It was our hope that these papers would be published while Standley was living, but that was not to be. They were written while he was living, some have been modified slightly by authors while others remain as they were...
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