ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Flora could not have been undertaken without the generous assistance of a grant from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. I am extremely grateful for this help which has enabled two research assistants, Dr J. Cullen and Mr M. J. E. Coode, to be employed full-time on the preparation of the Flora. My thanks are also due to the Royal Society for a grant towards the cost of publishing this volume.
A number of collaborators have revised genera for the first volume. I am particularly grateful to Mr I. C. Hedge (part of Cruciferae, including the basis of the key to the genera), and Mr D. M. Henderson (Filicales), both of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; also to Dr T. R. Dudley (Arnold Arboretum; Alyssum and Aurinia), Dr C. D. K. Cook (Liverpool University; Ranunculus Sect. Batrachium) and Dr A. C. Jenny (British Museum; Isoetes). To Janet Dyer I am indebted for all the botanical illustrations except those of Reseda (by Coode), to Mr I. C. Dunn for drawing the maps, and to Edinburgh University Press and the printers, Cunningham of Alva, for facilitating the speedy production of the book. Among those who have helped us in various ways I should like to thank Mr B. L. Burtt, Dr H. Demiriz, Professor V. H. Heywood, Professor H. Kayacik, Mr R. D. Meikle, Dr H. Runemark, Mr C. Tobey, Professor D. H. Valentine, Professor D. A. Webb and Dr F. Yaltirik. We look forward to increased collaboration with Turkish botanists as the Flora proceeds.
Among the numerous herbaria which have sent material on loan or allowed us to work on their collections, we are particularly indebted to the Directors of the following institutions: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; British Museum (Natural History); Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien; Conservatoire et Jardin Botanique, Geneve; Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Leningrad; Museum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle (Laboratoire de Phanerogamic), Paris; Botanical Museum, Lund; and the Botany Departments of the Ankara and Istanbul herbaria. Dr A. Huber-Morath (Basel) has put much of his important Turkish collection at our disposal and provided us with new records for the Flora.
The writing of the Flora has been greatly facilitated by the large collections, which are conserved in the herbaria of The Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew and Edinburgh, made in Turkey by myself, colleagues and research students. For grants to undertake these expeditions I should like to thank the following bodies: The Royal Society, Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, University of Edinburgh, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Leverhulrne Trust, Royal Horticultural Society, Godman Fund (British Museum), Mount Everest Foundation, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation.
The work has been undertaken at the University Department of Botany, Edinburgh, using the excellent herbarium and library facilities provided by the Royal Botanic Garden. I am indebted to Professor Robert Brown, of the University Department of Botany, for help and encouragement, and to Dr H. R. Fletcher, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, for providing facilities.
P. H. D.