awarded in July 1969. Geographically, each of the floristic landmarks represented one of the three major realms of the north temperate zone-Asia, Europe, and North America, and scientifically each represented one of the three great communities of floristic scholars-Soviet, European, and North American. Together the three efforts had involved or would involve virtually every country in the north temperate zone, and they could be said to constitute as truly an international scientific endeavor as there could be. Nothing could have been a more fitting subject for an international symposium, therefore, than "North Temperate Floristics." Five papers were presented: (1) "Floristics in the USSR," by Andrey A. Fedorov of the Komarov Botanical Institute; (2) "Floristics in Europe," by D. H. Valentine of the University of Manchester; (3) "Floristic Work in North America," by Arthur Cronquist of the New York Botanical Garden; (4) "The Flora North America Project," by Roy L. Taylor of the University of British Columbia; and (5) "Flora North America as an Information System," by Stanwyn G. Shetler of the Smithsonian Institution. The symposium was introduced and summarized by Robert F. Thorne, its organizer and chairman, and his summary is being published with the papers. Dr. Cronquist has declined to submit his paper for publication. Flora North America is a program of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, and the AIBS co-sponsored the symposium on behalf of FNA.