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Kåre Bremer
Uppsala University
Department of Systematic Botany
Villav 6
SE-752 36 Uppsala
Sweden

Philip D. Cantino
Ohio University
Department of Environmental and Plant Biology
Athens, OH 45701-2979

Kevin de Queiroz
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History
Division of Vertebrate Zoology
Washington, DC 20560

Michael J. Donoghue
Harvard University Herbaria
22 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

Jacques Gauthier
Yale University
Geology and Geophysics Department
New Haven, CT 06520

Peter Hoch
Missouri Botanical Garden
4344 Shaw Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63110

Kathleen Kron
Wake Forest University
Biology Department
203 Winston Hall
Winston Salem, NC 27106

Dan Lewis
Huntington Library
History of Science and Technology
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108

J. Mark Porter
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
1500 North College Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 17, October 23, 1999, p. 268. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.