FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDATES AND RECENT Ph.D.s IN BOTANY The Anne S. Chatham Fellowship In Medicinal Botany ESTABLISHED to protect and preserve knowledge about the medicinal use of plants, thus preventing the disappearance of plants with therapeutic potential. Dr. Peter H. Raven, President of the Missouri Botanical Garden where the fellowship is administered, says “The timely Anne S. Chatham Fellowship will help support research on the medicinal plants that are so important to humankind yet are under ever-increasing threat.” Providing this research opportunity for botanists can in turn assist medical science in its ability to protect lives and develop medicines. To this end, the Chatham scholar may elect to work either in the field or in the laboratory. Selection is by a panel of botanists appointed by the Missouri Botanical Garden.   Established in 1997 • Funds one scholar annually at $4000 • Deadline January 15 • Contact: Dr. Robert E. Magill • Missouri Botanical Garden, PO Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 • Phone: (314) 577-9503, Fax: (314) 577-9596 • E-mail: bob.magill@mobot.org • To apply contact: www.wlbcenter.org/chatham.htm