The Bean Bag

A newsletter to promote communication among research scientists concerned with the systematics of the Leguminosae/Fabaceae

Number 43
May 1996

Bean Bag addresses:

Editorial: USDA, ARS, SB&ML, Rm. 304, Bldg. 011A, BARC-West Beltsville, MD 20705-2350 USA
Distributional: Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, Great Britain

From the Editors

Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr., John H. Wiersema, and Roger M. Polhill

The Bean Bag is designed to promote communication among research scientists concerned with legume systematics. To achieve this goal The Bean Bag is issued in May and November of each year and features six columns:

From the Editors (this page),
News (meetings, major events, announcements, etc.),
Latin American Legume Report,
Nodulation and Nitrogen Fixation (new nodulation records),
Gleanings, and
Recent Legume Literature.

Data in the Gleanings column are derived from questionnaire sheets which Readers complete and return. If you have news about legume systematics, send it to us for this column. The Recent Legume Literature column contains published research papers of specific interest to Bean Bag Readers. Recent is defined as one year old. We rarely will publish a citation that is more than one year old. Specific interest to Bean Bag Readers is defined as research papers of interest to a worldwide group of legume systematic botanists. We encourage Bean Bag Readers to send us notices, observations, etc.

Diacritical marks can now be placed in The Bean Bag. If such marks should be placed in your name, address, publications, etc., please let us know. We are especially interested in correcting our Directory.

The Bean Bag and the Directory can now be delivered to Readers via e-mail. If you wish to have your copies e-mailed to you, please send the following standard e-mail message

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http://WWW.rbgkew.org.uk:80/herbarium/legumes/legumes.html or at

http://muse.bio.cornell.edu/misc/news.html.

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