<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Peter,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br>Thanks for sharing the news in this difficult time. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br>I wonder if there is an address to which we can send 'Thank you for your work' cards to Dr Michener. If he is unable to value them, perhaps his family still will. <br><br>While I did not know him personally his book and contributions are very valuable to our lab.<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Lisa<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br><br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Peter Bernhardt <a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu" target="_blank">bernhap2@slu.edu</a> [beemonitoring] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beemonitoring-noreply@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">beemonitoring-noreply@yahoogroups.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p></p><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues:<div><br></div><div>I was contacted by Walter Michener, the son of Dr Charles Michener, our great bee taxonomist. Dr Michener senior is in hospice. His son believes that Dr Michener has only a few more days.</div><div><br></div><div>I've been wrestling with this information for several hours, uncertain as to whether to circulate it. Dr Michener has been identifying bees for our laboratory for a quarter of a century. What he did not identify he sent to colleagues. The two of us exchanged brief emails over the past months as he intended to identify specimens I sent him from Yunnan, China, collected over last summer. His son, Walter, found the communications and formed me of his father's condition.</div><div><br></div><div>Many of you have also benefited from Dr. Michener's professional expertise, guidance and his personal kindness. It is probably best to wait for a final announcement from his family, the KSU museum and the press before expressing condolences, That is what I will do. Perhaps we might think privately about future tributes.</div><div><br></div><div>A link to Michener's wiki is provided. Please note he is 97 years old. Consider the remarkably long time in which he helped us and made bee biology comprehensible.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duncan_Michener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duncan_Michener</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Peter Bernhardt, Prof. of Biology, Saint Louis U.</div><div>Research Associate: The Missouri Botanical Garden</div><div>Research Associate: Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney</div><div> </div></div>
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