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