Re: [aroid-l] Josef Bogner

From: "ron iles" <roniles at eircom.net> on 2004.02.10 at 14:31:03(11137) And surely it couldn't happen to a more gracious & talented Gentleman. Please send him by warmest congratulations. Do you know, after the Spath Collection survived temperatures in water I thought lethal, some look better than ever & only lost two I think. Now that the 18 month traumas are hopefully mostly over d'yu know I could get quite keen on them again! The Spaths are fighters too! Who knows the glory of the future! Cheers Ron +More Ron ----- Original Message ----- To: Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 10:16 PM Subject: [aroid-l] Josef Bogner > Fellow Aroiders! Good news!! > > Herr Josef Bogner will be awarded an honorary Ph.D. in Botany from the > Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich on March 5, 2004 at 1:30 pm at the > Institut fuer Systematische Botanik, Muenchen. The program will include > guest speakers Dr. Simon Mayo (Aroid systematics and phylogeny: Josef > Bogner's contribution) and Dr. Thomas B. Croat (Bogner: the Intrepid > Collector). A reception following the award program will be held in the > foyer of the Botanical Institute. > > This honorary promotion award ceremony and reception is open to the public. > The ceremony will be held at the Systematische Botanik, Menzinger Str. 67, > D-80638 Muenchen/Munich, Germany. Please join the festivities and > congratulate Josef on receiving his honorary doctorate. > > Contact Dr. Susanne Renner (renner@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) for more > information. > > >

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