Main | Family List (MO) | Family List (INBio) | Cutting Edge Draft Treatments | Guidelines | Checklist | Citing | Editors The Cutting Edge Volume XXII, Number 3, July 2015 News and Notes | Leaps and Bounds | Germane Literature | Season's Pick WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND. Back in about 1987, the Manual project started out with an office in the herbarium (CR) of the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica in downtown San José, but in 1989, along with CR, we moved out to the facilities of the then-nascent INBio in Santo Domingo as remodeling at the Museo was going on. About a year thereafter, CR squeezed themselves somewhat precipitously back into the Museo. The Manual project, while continuing the collaboration with both CR and INBio, stayed on physically in Santo Domingo, where a growing herbarium soon acquired its own acronym (INB). Recently, because of accumulating financial problems, INBio decided to unload what some of us believe to be its sole raison d'être, the biological collections. In any case, Manual co-PI Nelson Zamora has been for several years the only botanist on the INBio staff. At the end of March of this year, the Museo formally accepted those collections and took over responsibility for their curation. The collections themselves are still in Santo Domingo (on property and in buildings now owned by the Costa Rican Ministerio de Agricultura), but hopes are high and the talk is that within three years the long-awaited, now near-mythical building designed to house all the combined Museo collections (including Geology, Entomology, Vertebrates, and Botany) in Pavas will finally materialize. Optimism is much lower about how quickly the government will act to fill the several new curatorial positions needed. In this second week of July, the CR entry in Index herbariorum was updated to show the incorporation of INB into CR. All collections are now to be cited with reference to the same acronym, CR. We do so herein, and will continue in that vein from now on. VISITATION. Manual co-PI Barry Hammel and better half Isabel Pérez paid one of their increasingly rare visits to MO, where they spent the month of May working mostly on manuscripts to tie up loose ends from the Manual and moving forward on the Clusiaceae treatment for Flora mesoamericana. They have promised to be less scarce in the future! FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING. MO Director of Research and Manual Boraginaceae contributor Jim Miller has traveled to all corners of the earth, so it was rather surprising to learn that he had never been to Costa Rica. That is no longer the case, as Jim spent the last several days of June and the first few of July in Tiquicia, mainly determining both mounted and unmounted material at both the San José and Santo Domingo branches of CR. Several loose ends were tied up, and at least one momentous discovery resulted (see "Boraginaceae," under "Leaps and Bounds"). TOP