Dr. Guanghua Zhu

[Jim.Solomon at MOBOT.ORG]

Dear Colleagues,

It is my very sad duty to inform you that our staff member, Dr. Guanghua
Zhu, died Wednesday, 2 November 2005. He had returned early from a trip to
China, in late September, and then spent most of October in hospital here in
St. Louis. Unfortunately the cancer that he survived a few years ago finally
returned. We shall miss him greatly, especially for his personal qualities,
but also in view of the great contributions that he made to the Flora of
China project (on which he was a co-director) and also to understanding
between Chinese and Western botanists. He is survived by his wife, Fang
Yuxing, and a son, Yifu.

Nicholas J. Turland
Flora of China Project, Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299, Saint Louis, MO 63166-0299, U.S.A.
Tel.: +1 314 577 0269
Fax: +1 314 577 9596
E-mail: mailto:nicholas.turland at mobot.org