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Dr Peter Gasson, at Kew, is compiling a new edition of Index Xylariorum, a guide to institutional wood collections around the world, to be published by the International Association of Wood Anatomists. He would be glad to include entries for significant wood collections (say 500+ specimens) housed in archaeology labs. He asks that curators of such collections fill in the questionnaire below and email it to him, if possible by the end of March 2007. His contact details are: [log in to unmask] Thanks Mark =============================================== 1. Complete name and address of the institution in which the wood collection is housed. Website address of wood collection (if available) 2. If your wood collection has a special name, please state it. 3. Year of foundation of the collection. 4. Name of the curator or individual in charge of the collection, his/her official institutional title (e.g. Prof., Curator, Keeper); degree title (e.g. Dr., Ing.) and area of research. Please give email address(es) if available. 5. Other personnel associated with the collection, their titles and areas of research if relevant. Please give email address(es) if available. 6. Number of specimens in the wood collection. 7. Number of genera represented in the collection. 8. Regions, countries or taxa in which your wood collection specialises. 9. Is a herbarium containing vouchers for the wood collection associated with the wood collection? (a) If so, how many specimens are in the whole herbarium? (b) If there is no herbarium directly associated with the wood collection, do you maintain records showing where herbarium vouchers are deposited? 10. About what proportion of the wood collection is associated with herbarium vouchers? 11. List any major special collections, e.g. Desch’s Malayan woods, Gamble’s Indian woods, Jessup collection of woods of North America, Krukoff’s Brazilian woods, Koorder’s Javanese woods. 12. Are any periodicals dealing wholly or in part with woods published by your institution? If so, please name them. 13. Will you make available small samples of wood suitable for research to qualified scientists? 14. Do you maintain a microscope slide collection of woods? (a) How many slides are in the collection? (b) Are these slides available on loan to qualified investigators? (c) Do you have any slides for exchange? 15. Are duplicate wood specimens available for exchange or distribution? (a) From what areas or taxa are wood specimens desired? (b) From what areas or taxa can wood specimens be provided? 16. Is there a catalogue of the wood collection? If so, what form does it take (e.g. hard copy, computer database, internet site)? 17. Please record below any other information of importance concerning your wood collection. 18. Do you know of any institutional wood collections which were not included in Index Xylariorum 3? If so, please give the names and addresses of these below. ********************************** Dr Mark Nesbitt ********************************* Dr Mark Nesbitt Jodrell Laboratory Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE Tel (direct): +44 (0)20 8332 5386 or 5771 Fax: +44 (0)20 8332 5310 www.kew.org/scihort/ecbot www.plantcultures.org.uk