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  1. Gray Herbarium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Otto T. Solbrig

  2. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois

    John Skok

  3. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    David French

  4. Chicago Natural History Museum, Chicago 5, Illinois

    John W. Thieret & C. Earle Smith

  5. Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kans.

    Kling L. Anderson

  6. Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, Maine

    M. T. Hilborn

  7. Sub-Tropical Experiment Station, Homestead, Florida

    John Popenoe

  8. Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois

    Floyd Swink & Ray Schulenberg

  9. Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc., Yonkers, New York

    George L. Mcnew

  10. U. S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.

    William L. Stern

  11. Montana State College, Bozeman, Montana

    William G. Walter

  12. University of California, Riverside, California

    T. W. Fisher

  13. Utah State University, Logan, Utah

    Wynne Thoene

  14. Chicago Teachers College, Chicago, Illinois

    Anna P. Kummer

  15. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri

    Hugh Cutler

  16. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Alexander H. Smith

  17. United States National Arboretum, Washington, D. C.

    Henry T. Skinner

  18. Soil and Water Conservation Research Division, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Md.

    Joseph H. Caro

  19. University of California, Berkeley, California

    Harold F. Madsen

  20. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

    L. W. R. Jackson

  21. Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois

    Lawrence Kaplan

  22. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

    Duane Isely

  23. Botanical Institute, Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany

    Alphons Th. Czaja

  24. Prairie Regional Laboratory, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

    Willard A. Taber

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Solbrig, O.T., Skok, J., French, D. et al. Book reviews. Econ Bot 15, 180–204 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02904091

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