The Bryological Times Number 111 December 2003 Newsletter of the International Association of Bryologists CONTENT Obituaries • Hyoji Suzuki ............................................................................................................................................................................... 2 • Willem Meyer ..............................................................................................................................................................................2 Training course report • The second regional training course on biodiversity and conservation of bryophytes and lichens in Tropical southeast Asia offered by SEAMEO-BIOTROP of Indonesia ............................................................... 3 Country report • Bryology in Turkey ..................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Book reviews • Manual of Tropical Bryology .................................................................................................................................................... 7 • Guide to the Plants of Central French Guiana: Part 3: Mosses ............................................................................................. 8 • Mosses of Lithuania .................................................................................................................................................................... 9 New publications • Red list of Bryophytes of the G.D. Luxembourg ...................................................................................................................... 9 • Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of Brazil .................................................................................................................................... 10 • Moss Flora of Middle-European Russia. Vol. 1: Sphagnaceae – Hedwigiaceae. .................................................................10 Research news ................................................................................................................................................................................11 Web news ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 11 • Genera of Pottiaceae: mosses of harsh environments ............................................................................................................11 • Checklist of mosses of sub-Saharan Africa .............................................................................................................................11 De Candolle Prize ........................................................................................................................................................................... 12 News of bryological journals ..........................................................................................................................................................12 • Herzogia • Lindbergia Theses in bryology .......................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Latest conference news .................................................................................................................................................................. 15 Upcoming meetings ........................................................................................................................................................................ 16 Editorial IAB This is the last newsletter of this year and I would like to thank all those who contributed to the 4 newsletters that appeared in 2003. Keep your bryological antennae active and collect and send your contributions, literature reviews, conservation news, research news etc to the column editors, so that this newsletter will promote networking and bryological research. In the next newsletter of March 2004, I intend to provide you an inside view of the IAB world Congress that will take place in Merida, Venezuela. I hope this conference will be an excellent opportunity to meet your colleagues and to discuss new frontiers in bryological research and bryophyte conservation. I wish you all the best in 2004! Geert Raeymaekers email: [email protected] ISSN 0253-4738 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The International Association of Bryologists (IAB) is an organisation open for all interested in bryophytes. For membership, contact Sandi Vitt, Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL 62901-6509, USA ([email protected]). Visit also our web site at http://www.devonian.ualberta.ca/iab/. The Bryological Times is issued 4 times per year. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ OBITUARY Hyoji Suzuki, 1915-2003 Dr. Hoji Suzuki, Professor Emeritus of exsiccata of 42 taxa of Sphagnum entitled Hiroshima University, passed away on 10 May Sphagnotheca Japonica. 2003. He was an authority on bryophytes, Professor Suzuki lectured on plant taxonomy especially on Sphagnum, and on vegetation and ecology at Hiroshima University from ecology of the mires, wetlands, forests and 1914-1968 He also held important posts in other habitats in Japan. He was born in many professional and scientific societies in Shirakawa, Fukushima Pref., NE Japan, on 13 Japan: Councillor of the Botanical Society of April 1914, and graduated from the Faculty of Japan (1969-72, 1975-78), Chief Secretary of Science, Hiroshima University in 1937. He the Ecological Society of Japan (1970-84), the received his Ph.D. degree from Hiroshima Hikobia Botanical Society (1974-91) of which University, under the guidance of Prof. Y. he was one of the founders, and President of Horikawa, for taxonomic studies on the the Bryological Society of Japan (1981-83). Japanese members of Sphagnum Sect. In deep mourning, we thank an eminent Subsecunda. Under the difficult circumstances botanist and revered teacher: Professor Hyoji of, and just after, World War 2, he investigated Suzuki. most mires and bogs in Japan, and analyzed the relationships between the morphological Tarow Seki variation and ecology of Sphagnum. In Prof. Emer. Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, addition to his accumulated field experience, Japan his line drawings and distribution maps of Japanese species of Sphagnum were highly distinguished. In 1981, he distributed Willem Meyer Dr. Willem Meijer, Emeritus Prof. of Biology at helped to form the Kentucky Native Plant the University of Kentucky, died of heart failure Society and led many field trips for wildflower on October 22 at enthusiasts across Kentucky on its behalf. Lexington's St. Joseph Wherever he found himself, he never ceased Hospital-East. A native of being an ardent, outspoken advocate for Amsterdam, Holland, Dr. appreciating, understanding, and conserving Meijer specialized in the local plants, wildlife, and natural tropical botany, environment. He is survived by a daughter, especially in Malaysia and Frederica, in Amsterdam, a son, Johan, and Indonesia, as well as the two granddaughters in Portland, Oregon, and a local flora of Kentucky. son, George, and two grandsons in He held associate Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as countless positions with the friends, colleagues, former students, and Missouri Botanical innocent bystanders around the world. A Garden and the National memorial gathering to celebrate his legacy to Herbarium of the the earth and its inhabitants was organized on Netherlands. In 1968 he 29 October at a memorial gathering at the UK- began his teaching and research career in Lexington Arboretum Visitor Center. Kentucky where his influence on a generation of Kentucky biologists, other students, and Source: Bryonet everyone he encountered is unmistakable. He _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 2 The Bryological Times, Issue 111 – December 2003 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ TRAINING COURSE REPORT The second regional training course on biodiversity and conservation of bryophytes and lichens in Tropical southeast Asia offered by SEAMEO-BIOTROP of Indonesia B. C. Tan, S. R. Gradstein and H. J. Sipman The second regional training course on the biodiversity and presentation, prepared by Prof. R. Hall at the Department of conservation of bryophytes and lichens in tropical Geology, Royal Holloway College, University of London, Southeast Asia took place Sept. 3 - 12 this year at the showing plate tectonics of SE Asian island blocks. At the BIOTROP headquarter in Bogor, Indonesia. This followed request of the students, Drs. Gradstein and Sipman gave a two long years of preparation (for report of first training demonstration on the techniques and principles involved in course see BRYOLOGICAL TIMES 105: 4-5. 2002). the collection and preparation of herbarium specimens of bryophytes and lichens for research and deposition. This second training program was attended by 16 participants representing six ASEAN countries, namely Indonesia (9 persons), Malaysia (1), Singapore (2), Thailand (2), Vietnam (1) and the Philippines (1). The 16 participants came from diverse backgrounds and included postgraduate