00925nam a2200121 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000170006024500330007726000470011030000100015752006360016716429592000-01-20       1971    bl uuuu      00u1 u    #d1 aKENDRICK, B.  aTaxonomy of fungi imperfecti  aToronto: University of Toronto pressc1971  a309p.  aA friend once suggested that, from the purely scientific point of view, conferences were essentially a waster of time; that if new information was ready to be brought forth, it would be presented in the journals; that if ideas were to be worked out, they would be elaborated by individuals thinking in the privacy of their own laboratories; that if one scientist was wrong, another right, time would tell. My own experience of conference-going had done little to contradict these statenments, but I had a few ideas of my own for improving the yield, and enthusiastically went ahead and planned the conference reported in this book.