Forty Years of Plant Mounting

From Plant Press, Vol. 4, No. 4 from October 2001.

October 2001 marks the 40^th year of plant mounting by Mary Skinner. She began in 1961 as a US herbarium contract mounter at home, and then from 1969 to 1986 she mounted plants in the National Museum of Natural History for the Herbarium Services Unit. After retiring in1986, she began in the same year as a contract specimen mounter for the Biological Diversity of the Guianas (BDG) Program, and is still going strong. With mounting enthusiasm we file our congratulations on her accomplishment, which at a probable average of around 3,000 sheets per year could amount to nearly 120,000 sheets.