Huitième Congrès International de Botanique - Paris, Juillet 1954 / Eighth International Botanical Congress - Paris, July 1954 Source: Taxon, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan., 1953), p. 14 Published by: International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1217699 . Accessed: 18/09/2011 12:27

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http://www.jstor.org Huitieme Congres International de Botanique - Paris, Juillet 1954 Eighth International Botanical Congress - Paris, July 1954 Section de Nomenclature Section Nomenclature Les propositions concerant le Code Inter- Proposals regarding the International Code national de la Nomenclature Botanique (1952) of Botanical Nomenclature (1952) must be doivent etre soumises au Rapporteur-Gene- submitted to the Rapporteur-GeneralDr J. ral Dr J. Lanjouw avant le ler Decembre Lanjouw before 1 December 1953. All pro- 1953. On pourra publier toutes les propo- posals can be published in Taxon. Botanists sitions dans Taxon. Les botanistes qui ont preparing proposals are earnestly requested en vue quelque proposition, sont instamment to give them the form of the example which pries d'y donner la formule qui sera publiee will be published in Taxon vol. 2 no. 2 dans Taxon vol. 2 n. 2 (Mars 1953). (March 1953). Bureau du Rapporteur-General: Office of the Rapporteur-General: International Bureau for Plant Taxonomy International Bureau for Plant Taxonomy and Nomenclature, Lange Nieuwstraat 106, and Nomenclature, Lange Nieuwstraat 106, Utrecht - Hollande. Utrecht- Netherlands.

W. C. WORSDELL, A.L.S. by J. HUTCHINSON(Kew) Naturalists, especially botanists, are notor- carries out from various languages for mem- iously long-lived, contrasted with business bers of the staff. men who frequently die from inactivity after Worsdell was born at Aloona, Pennsyl- retirement. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker added vania, U.S.A., in 1867, where his father was to his fame by reaching his 95th year, a employed by the local railway company. On record exceeded by Mr H. N. Ridley who his parents' return to England when he was at the time of writing (November 1952) is 4 years of age, he lived at the railway town approaching his 98th year. Both of these of Crewe in Cheshire, where his father was botanists spent a considerable period of their manager of a large steel-works. At 9 years lives in the tropics. he was sent to a boarding school at Egre- Out of curiosity, a short time ago, the mont, kept by Quaker ladies, his parents writer compiled a list of British naturalists being members of the Society of Friends. who had lived to be 80 years old or more, In 1880 he was transferred to the Friends' and whose interests were mainly but not public school at Sidcot, in the Mendips, exclusively botanical. No fewer than 380 Somerset, his interest out of school hours came under this category. Of these only being butterflies and tame dormice. In 1882 about 9 lived to be 90 years of age or more, he was sent to Queenwood College, near prominent among them, besides Hooker, Stockbridge, Hants., where he acquired an being Sir John Kirk (90 years), John Miers elementary knowledge of German. On leaving (90 years), R. C. Alexander Prior (93 years), he chose horticulture as a career, and spent Sir Edward Sabine (95 years), Sir Hans Sloane 21/2 years as a pupil in a nursery in Holland, (93 years), Sir Richard Strachey (91 years), and gained a thorough knowledge of the Alfred Russell Wallace (90 years), and the Dutch language. After that he spent two Rev. George Henslow (90 years). years as a semi-pupil in the nurseries of On September 15th, 1952, Mr W. C. Wors- Fisher Son and Sibray at Handsworth, near dell celebrated his 85th birthday, and his Sheffield, and in the evenings attended a many friends at the Kew Herbarium hope botanical course in Sheffield conducted by he will be spared for several more years Professor A. Denny. Worsdell then deserted to continue the valuable translation work he the practical side for the more purely botan- 14