From Plant Press, Vol. 3, No. 1, January 2000.
Alain Touwaide, senior fellow in Byzantine Studies at Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and his wife, Emanuela Appetiti, have recently been appointed collaborators in the Deparment. Touwaide is preparing a materia medica, primarily medicinal plants, of the Ancient World (Mediterranean), from Greek, Latin and Arabic texts. He is particularly interested in the problems of the transfer of knowledge from the ancients and understanding how we think we know what plants and other elements were used. After visiting many European libraries holding original texts, the Touwaides have compiled a massive database including the original texts, a bibliography, the identifications proposed by authors in the bibliography and their illustrations in the manuscripts. They hope to publish a book in the next two to three years.
John Pruski has been appointed to the Comité Asesor (Advisory Committee) of the journal Acta Botanica Venezuelica.
Gery Allan, post-doctoral fellow, has been selected for the Rupert Barneby Award for herbarium studies at the New York Botanical Garden, in connection with his research on the genus Lotus.
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