Acknowledgements
Thanks are owed to the following people for making this Web
site possible:
- Dr. Sandra McDonald, Plant Geneticist in the Species Study Group
of the Middle Atlantic Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society and chair
of the ARS Archives and Editorial Committees, for her Introduction to the site,
for photographs of Gregory Bald and Wayah Bald, and for scholarly support
throughout the creation of this site
- George McLellan of the Species Study Group of the Middle
Atlantic Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society, for the photographs
of native azaleas
- Tony Aiello, Christine Pape, and the Morris Arboretum, for permission to
reproduce Henry Skinner's article "In Search of Native Azaleas" and for information
about Dr. Skinner and the Morris Arboretum
- Donald Voss, Director of District 9 of the American
Rhododendron Society, for advice on Dr. Skinner's color codes
- Matt Gibson of the U.Va. Library Etext Center, for
developing these Web pages
- Bradley Daigle and his staff in the U.Va. Library Rare Materials
Digital Services, for digitizing the Skinner manuscripts; and Melinda
Baumann, Kristy Hibbs, and their staff in the Digital Library
Production Services for digitizing the pictures of native azaleas
- Jeanne Hammer, past president of the Middle Atlantic
Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society, for conceiving this project
and getting it started