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THE following have been elected foreign members of the Linnean Society of London: Prof. M. L. Fernald, Prof. B. A. Fedschenko, Prof. P. Pelseneer, Prof. K. F. von Tubeuf and Prof. W. M. Wheeler. Prof. M. L. Fernald, curator of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University, is well known for his highly critical work on the flora of eastern North America and for his studies in geographical botany, especially on the relations between his special area and Europe, which has had considerable influence on recent ideas about plant distribution. He has also published several important monographs on genera. He is editor of Rhodora and, with B. L. Robinson, edited the last edition of Gray's “Manual”. Prof. B. A. Fedschenko is professor of botany in the University of Leningrad and curator of the herbarium in the Botanic Garden. His chief work has been on the flora of Asiatic Russia, especially Turkestan. In a long series of floras and monographs he has dealt both with the purely taxonomic aspects and with more general vegetation studies. He was formerly editor of the Journal Botanique Russe and has long taken a leading part in influencing taxonomic botany in Russia.
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Linnean Society of London: New Foreign Members. Nature 137, 896 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137896a0
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