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NEWS from the Arnold Arboretum NEWS from the Arnold Arboretum Indonesia Supports Major Program for Biodiversity Conservation Robert E. Cook, Darector August brought us wonderful documented. Indonesia’s ability to news for the Arboretum. We have maintain and enhance knowledge been awarded $2,375,000 from of its biodiversity is severely lim- the Government of Indonesia for a ited by a shortage of trained staff five-year contract to provide tech- with expertise m botany and zool- nical assistance as part of a ogy, by inadequate storage and re- $12,000,000 project to increase search facilities, by deteriorating the capability of Indonesian scien- zoological and botanical collec- tists and government agencies to tions, and by a lack of modern conserve the country’s biodiversity computer technology and a system An Indonesian botanist collecting and manage its natural resources. for information management. a specimen of Finschia (Proteaceae), Dr. John Burley of our staff has as- With the Biodiversity Collec- a canopy tree of the lowland an Arboretum will sembled international team of tions Project, the tropical forest. experts drawn from Harvard Uni- create an international model for versity, London’s Natural History biodiversity conservation through of future leadership in Asian Museum, the National Museum of technical assistance to a develop- systematic biology. More impor- Natural History, and the ing country. This assistance will tantly, it will directly address the Rijksherbarium of the Nether- provide support for the restoration threat of species extinction and lands, and the Commonwealth and development of zoological and the loss of tropical biodiversity in Scientific and Industrial Research botamcal collections, the creation the most fundamental way pos- Organization (CSIRO) of Austra- of biodiversity databases, and the sible : by helping the Indonesians lia. The Arboretum is the lead in- training of Indonesian scientists themselves to protect their envi- stitution in this collaborative in botany, zoology, information ronment and prudently conserve effort, which is being funded by management, and resource their natural heritage through the the World Bank through a pro- conservation. development, management, and gram it manages called the Global I believe this project will place wise use of knowledge about the Environment Facility (GEF). the Arboretum in a clear position fauna and flora of their country. Indonesia contains 10% of the world’s tropical forests and is sec- Boston Teachers Learn Arboretum Science ond only to Brazil in the richness Richard Schulhof, Ar.restant Director for Educataon and Publec Affairs of its fauna and flora. Many sectors of the economy are dependent The need to better educate our with teachers. Across the country, upon the sustainable management children about science is well school systems are working not of these resources. Yet 30% of the known, but education reformers only to enhance the scientific flora and 90% of the fauna are not are just discovering that much of knowledge of teachers but also to fully described or scientifically the needed change must begin provide training in the inqmry- Boston teachers who participated in the Arboretum’s science education workshop pose for a class photo. Diane Syverson, Arboretum school science program manager, is on the far right. based teaching methods that can All participating teachers were As the workshop drew to a succeed in engaging children in alumni of previous Arboretum close, both project staff and teach- science learning. Yet in our larger workshops, thus permitting the ers looked forward to continued cities this can be a daunting task. group to hit the ground running learning during the school year With only limited resources and with a particular emphasis on how through meetings at the Arbore- under the pressures of urban class- living plants can be used to in- tum and classroom visits from rooms, how can teachers increase volve students in the excitement Arboretum staff. In the words of their knowledge as well as reshape of actual scientific observation, one teacher, "I have discovered their teach~ng~ In the Boston area, questioning, and discovery. In the many new ways to use the Arbore- Arnold Arboretum summer work- Arboretum landscape teachers ex- tum as a resource.... I expect shops are proving to be at least a amined "weeds" that can be found plant science to take off in my small part of the answer. near the schoolyard and used for classroom." With planning under- This past July the Arboretum life science explorations, while in- way for next year’s workshop, hosted twenty-six teachers for an doors they conducted seed experi- plant science may be taking off intensive two-week workshop led ments that serve as models for across the Boston Public School by school science program man- scientific investigation. system. ager Diane Syverson and instruc- tors Debbie Knight and Helen Arboretum October 16 McElroy. Supported by a grant Open House, Sunday, from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Join Arboretum staff for a special open house welcoming members Math and Science Education pro- of the Friends of the Arnold Arboretum and the larger Boston gram, the goal of the workshop community. Scheduled to run from 2:00 to 4:00 pm, the event will was to provide advanced training feature tours of the landscape, greenhouse, and Hunnewell Building for teachers from schools in and offer opportunities to chat with Director Bob Cook and other Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Hyde staff about Arboretum plans and programs. Please mark your Park, and other Roxbury, nearby calendars. We look forward to seeing you this October! Boston communities. 2 The Library Is Back return. Although we came up dedicated library committee, the with a scheme that allowed each library is now in better order than Shezla Hortzcultural Archivzst Connor, shelf of books to be removed and it was before the renovation oc- has been so im- Among my friends there are a stored in strong, ridged, sealable curred. Its setting few who, while otherwise quite crates that would not only keep proved that now the quality of its value of mature and respectable, are the books and the journals in surroundings matches the intimidated by libraries. I know order but would protect them its content. With new lighting this because they often confide in during their year in limbo, there and paint, refimshed floors, tables, me, expecting, I am sure, a certam always loomed the possibility that and a whole range of appropriately amount of sympathy. Unfortu- a crate or crates would be misnum- sized new shelving, the library is than it was in nately, very little is forthcoming bered or somehow go astray. better appointed for this is an affliction that I sim- Moreover, it was also possible that 1892 when the Hunnewell Build- ply cannot understand. I had mismeasured the amount of ing first opened. I can say this There is nothing like a library, new shelving needed even though with no disloyalty to Charles S. and there are no two libraries that I measured and figured it at least Sargent, the Arboretum’s first are alike. I can walk into one any- four ways from Sunday. Or worse director, nor to Longfellow, Alden where, and even if the classifica- yet, because the library was going and Harlow, the bmlding’s origi- tion scheme is unique and the to be rearranged, I may have nal architects. Of course, the cli- we now have in titles are in a foreign language, I totally miscalculated absolutely mate control that the instantly feel a sense of order, sta- everything. So although I had the library and throughout bility, and security. I feel at home. missed the library sorely, you can building had not yet been in- That probably explains why understand that it was with both vented, but it would appear that of elec- throughout the year of our re- anticipation and genuine fear that Sargent had an innate fear cently completed renovation of the I welcomed it back. tricity (and perhaps of natural gas Build- Hunnewell Building I felt more I am delighted to report that as well) for the Hunnewell than displaced, I felt lost. On it fit. And through the combined ing was not lighted until after his occasion I found myself concoct- efforts of an able assistant, the death in 1927. fears that ing any kind of excuse that would staff of the Botany Libraries, vol- I should allay any a with the enable me to use another library. unteers, summer interns, and those familiar library I not only missed what was inside the books, I missed how they looked and how they felt. I even missed how they smelled. (No, not that damp musty odor of books stored too long in the base- ment, just that slight hint of leather and library paste.) The Arnold Arboretum’s library-books, journals, pam- phlets, photographs, glass plates, maps, files, bindery equipment, and a good part of the archives- were packed up and shipped off for the duration. It is no mean feat to move a library. The classifica- tion sequence of the monographs held a event the and the organization of the jour- In May the Arnold Arboretum special honoring memory and accomplishments of Donald Wyman, Arboretum nals must not be disturbed. In horticulturist from 1935 to 1970. Pictured here with a portrait of fact, everythzng must remain m Dr. Wyman are Donald Wyman, Jr., and Donald Wyman Thomas. order or chaos will reign upon its 3 might have concerning changes in been reopened-and glassed in on general, plus monographs on its ambiance. The beautiful read- the library level-the core of light North Temperate Zone plants, ing room-with its grand over- that passes through the center of dendrology, ecology, forestry, sized table and walls of windows this room imparts an extraordi- landscape gardening, seaside that allow a glimpse of the living nary feeling of openness.
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