Agnew, John David (P. O. Box 1326, Toowong, Brisbane 4066, Australia) is currently investigating seedlings and mature plants of Paphiopedilum that show premature leaf senescence and flower only rarely. He has isolated endophytic bacteria from the vascular cells of these plants and cultured them on nutrient agar. Further work awaits funding. He is also studying polyploidy in Paphiopedilum and needs assistance with chromosome counts.

Alves, R. J. V. (Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Dep. de Botanica - Herbario-P, Quinta da Boa Vista, Sao Cristovao, Rio de Janeiro, 20940-040, RJ, Brazil) reports that all orchids at R are now in a database in MS-Works format, although some nomenclatural updating is necessary. He is continuing his long-term monitoring of lithophytic orchid communities in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and has made trips to the Serra de San Jose in Minas Gerais, along with five other ranges.

Atwood, John T., Jr. (new address: Box 566, Woodstock, Vermont 05091, USA) is continuing at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens as Senior Scientist and will completing his treatment of Maxillaria for Flora Mesoamerica in the next few months and then turn to the South American Maxillaria species.

Averyanov, Leonid V. (Herbarium, Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prof. Popov str., 2, St.-Petersburg 197376, Russia) has completed his work on the orchid flora of Russia (funded by a grant from the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Sciences), the orchids for the Red Book of the St.-Petersburg area, and endangered Vietnamese Paphiopedilum species (funded by the San Diego Orchid Society). He is continuing his fieldwork on the highland flora of southern Vietnam as well as studying the distribution of Paphiopedilum vietnamense.

Brasch, James D. (P. O. Box 354, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 1C0) is planning an expedition to Peru in November 2000.

Da Silva, Manoela (Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Dep. Botanica, Cx.P 399, CEP 66.040-170, Belem (PA), Brazil) is continuing her work on orchid diversity and conservation in Amazonian Brazil.

Huda, Mohammed Kamrul (Department of Botany, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh) is continuing fieldwork on the diversity, ecology, reproductive biology, and conservation of orchids of southeastern Bangladesh.

Li, Heng (Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650204, China) has completed the manuscript for the orchid flora of Yunnan and continues work on the biodiversity and flora of Gaoligong Mountains in Yunnan.

Oakeley, Henry F. (77 Copers Cope Rd., Beckenham, Kent, BR3 1NR, UK) has finished his revision of Anguloa and is on the verge of completing a revision of Lycaste. He will make a field trip to Venezuela in 2001. Toward work on these two genera, he would like plant material and data on herbarium specimens held. He offers to identify same.

Tremblay, Raymond L. (new address: Department of Biology, 100 Carr. 908, University of Puerto Rico, Humacao, Puerto Rico 00791-4300, USA) has recently finished (with J. D. Ackerman) work on gene flow and effective population size of Lepanthes and its evolutionary importance. He is continuing the work on population dynamics of Lepanthes with Elvia Melendez-Ackerman.

Vij, Suraj Parkash (Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh- 160 014, India) has completed research on conservation and micropropagation of Indian orchids and also on the distribution, frequency, and habitat preferences of terrestrial orchids. He is now focusing on the conservation and commercialization of Himalayan orchid diversity through biotechnology, in vitro chromosomal dynamism in orchids, and mycorrhizal associations. Last year he went on field trips to the western Ghats of southern India and the Kangra Valley of western Himalaya. For the future he plans an enumeration and evaluation of northwest Himalayan orchids.

Wells, Terence Charles Ernest (94 High Street, Upwood, Cambs. PE26 2QE, UK) wishes to report a change of address to the above.

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Pseudocentrum in Peru

January 2001.
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