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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. B 7 Pacific Northwest Aquatic Plants Reviewed in Key Corvallis - The first illus trated key to the aquatic plants) of the Pacific Northwest-some 440 species In all -has been published by Ore gon State college. Eight years in the making, the key covers the Columbia River Basin and the North west Coast of North America from the Klamath river to the southern tip of Alaska. Water plants are especi:''y numerous and important in the Northwest, the book points out. Included in the aquatic plant category are those plants that live under and on the water, and those whose roots are flooded a good part of the year. In the Pacific Northwest, the period of flowering and fruiting of aquatic plants is short com pared to most other areas. For this reason, the key em phasizes vegetative characters-root, stem and leaf. Preparation of the book was started in 1952 by the late Dr. Albert N. Steward, curator of the college herbar ium for many years. After his death in June 1959, the work was completed by Le Rea Dennis, botany instructor and assistant herbarium cu rator, and Dr. Helen Gilkey, professor emeritus of botany. Special grants of approxi mately $9,000 were received from National Science Foun dation ior support of the re search work and for prepara tion and publication of the plnnt key. Initial work was aided by grants from the OSC graduate school. , The book will be s value not only to botanists but also to workers in such varied fields as fish and game man agement, entomology, animal husbandry, and related plant and animal sciences, Miss Dennis said.' Copies of the book may be purchased from the OSC of fice of publications. Paper bound copies are $2.50 and cloth bound books, $4.50. Spaceman Project Is Wasting Time, Money and Effort Oxford, England (Science Service) - The drive to put a man into space is having a bad effect on science in both the United States and Russia, a British space expert, Dr. R. L. F. Boyd of the Univer sity of London, charged here. He said that attempting to put a man into space is a prostitution of science since the main fruits of success will be political. Scientifically, "we are try ing to run before we can walk," Boyd charged at Ox ford university here. The ef fort is costing both the United States and Russia much be cause the highest grade scien tific manpower and resources are being diverted to the space effort from other pro grams of far greater immedi ate importance. At present, Boyd said, ex periments involving statellites and rockets reninre h '' pre cision in orientation and sta bilization. The presence of any living creature on board makes this infinitely more dif ficult, if not impossible, thus severely limiting the scope of the experiment. The space and weight taken up by the occupant could, he believes, be used far more profitably by instruments. Boyd believes the space ef fort is premature rather than useless. When exploration of other planets is imminent, sending a man will be more desirable than relying on such gadgets as remote controlled robots. However ingenious, ro bots will always be at a dis advantage due to the time taken by control signals in traveling to and from earth Boyd is i also on the staff of University college, London, where much of the British space exploration work, in cluding some of the field ex periments on the Woomera rocket range in Australia, is centered. IDEAL GIFT-For young and old, the piano accordion is an ideal gift. 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