Abstract

In the years 1960–1977, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden fully embraces its role as teaching institution and as advocate and guardian of the native California flora. Expansion of the living collection, landscaping of the grounds, public education, herbarium and library activities, and publication output are detailed. To accommodate a growing number of graduate students, the faculty—consisting of Richard K. Benjamin, Sherwin Carlquist, and Lee. W. Lenz—is joined by Peter H. Raven, Ronald Scogin, John P. Simon, and Robert F. Thorne.

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  • Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/aliso Part of the Botany Commons, and the Horticulture Commons

  • In October 1959 the Board of Trustees announced the retirement of Dr Munz effective 1 September 1960 and Dr Lenz was appointed to succeed him

  • The Board conferred on Dr Munz the title of Director Emeritus and he retained an office at the garden and continued his work on the Onagraceae of North America which was published in 1965 as volume five of the North American Flora, the culmination of 42 years of study on the group

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Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/aliso Part of the Botany Commons, and the Horticulture Commons. The Board conferred on Dr Munz the title of Director Emeritus and he retained an office at the garden and continued his work on the Onagraceae of North America which was published in 1965 as volume five of the North American Flora, the culmination of 42 years of study on the group.

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