The Bean Bag no. 26.

The BB is designed to promote communication among research scientists concerned with legume systematics. To achieve this goal the BB is issued in May and November of each year and features five columns: From the Editors, News (meetings, major events, announcements, etc.), New Readers, Gleanings, and Recent Legume Literature. Data in the Gleanings column are derived from questionnaire sheets which Readers complete and return. If you have news about legume systematics, send it to us for this column. The Recent Legume Literature column contains citations of published research papers of specific interest Jo BB Readers. Recent is defined as one year old. We rarely will publish a citation that is more than one year old. Specific interest to BB Readers is defined as research papers of interest to a world wide group of legume systematic botanists.

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This issue includes a revised Directory including separate legume specialty and country sorts for all Readers. The publication of this issue of the Bean Bag has been delayed by the conversion of our computer and printing equipment. The Bean Bag is now being prepared on an IBM compatible personal computer, and it is being printed on a laser jet printer. We hope you like our new look created by JHKJ (Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr.).