Re: [Aroid-l] Botanist Mike Madison

From: "John" <criswick at spiceisle.com> on 2010.02.17 at 12:56:21(20615) I used to hear the name Mike Madison a lot. He seemed to me to be up there with Simon Mayo and the other leading lights. +More To stray a little from Aracae this reminds me of a similar case in the 1970s. One of the foremost, if not THE foremost Heliconia experts of the time (before John Kress and Fred Berry) was teaching botany at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York State. On two separate occasions he and I made field trips in Grenada. He had travelled all over the parts of Central and South America where heliconias occur, and told me that he thought Grenada's heliconias were evolving, because the two indigenous spp. found here, H. caribaea and H. bihai, were freely hybridizing. This he had not observed in either neighbouring St. Vincent, nor in Trinidad. Although he and I corresponded, after not having heard from him for a long time I discovered that no-one seemed to know where he was. Eventually I was told that he had dropped out of the botanical world and was making furniture ! Although I remember his first name was Robert, I am unable to recall his surname. John. _____ From: aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of Tom Croat Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 6:28 PM To: Discussion of aroids Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Botanist Mike Madison Dear Christopher: It is amazing that you have seen him. He was not only a botanist but a very good one trained at Harvard and had a very productive series of years at Selby Gardens before he decided to get out of botany for financial reasons. Tom _____ From: aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Rogers Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 12:13 PM To: 'Discussion of aroids' Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Botanist Mike Madison What I find interesting about the search for this guy, is that I have not heard of him, yet I have seen him several times at the Davis Farmer's Market having no clue he was a botanist. D. Christopher Rogers Senior Invertebrate Ecologist/ Taxonomist ((,///////////=======< branchiopod@gmail.com EcoAnalysts, Inc. 1.530.383.4798 P.O. Box 4098 Davis, CA 95616 USA Invertebrate Taxonomy Endangered Species Ecological Studies Bioassessment Invasive Species Plankton Phycology IDAHO  CALIFORNIA  MISSOURI  PENNSYLVANIA  VANCOUVER WWW.ECOANALYSTS.COM  ECO@ECOANALYSTS.COM From: aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of Hort.doc@att.net Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 9:21 PM To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Botanist Mike Madison http://daviswiki.org/yolo_bulb_farm No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2689 - Release Date: 02/15/10 07:35:00 ------=_NextPart_000_005E_01CAAFAF.15CDD8F0 _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --==============y55847405252460290==--

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