Vignettes from the History of Plant Morphology
By Richard L. Hauke
Copyright 1996


FOREWORD
by Kathleen Hauke

When my husband Richard was a graduate student, he hoped one day to do some work on British morphologist Agnes Arber. He thought her ideas on science and mysticism proved the link that he sees between science and religion. But other intellectual pursuits caused the Agnes Arber project to be postponed until Richard was nearing retirement.

When he won a Fulbright lectureship to Kenya for 1987-1988, we devised a route to Africa that would take in Cambridge, England, where Agnes Arber had spent her life. Our first phone call in Great Britain was to Agnes Arber's daughter, Muriel, who invited us to tea, joyously answered our questions about her mother and showed us Agnes Arber's spots. Doing that research was a dream fulfilled for Richard.

Some 38 years after the seed was first planted in graduate school, Richard has brought to fruition his idea of investigating Agnes Arber and publishing the results.

Kathleen Hauke
Christmas 1996

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