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.
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