Arthur E. Wade (1895-1989) was, for over 40 years, Assistant Keeper of Botany at the National Museum of Wales. One of the foremost field botanists of his day, he was also a leading expert on the Borage family of flowering plants (Boraginaceae) and a founder of the British Lichen Society. Quentin O. N. Kay is Lecturer in Botany at the School of Biological Sciences, University College Swansea. He is primarily an ecological geneticist and plant population biologist and has published widely on these and related topics. He also acts as County Recorder for the Botanical Society of the British Isles in Glamorgan. R. Gwynn Ellis is Assistant Keeper of Botany at the National Museum of Wales, in charge of vascular plants. He has a special interest in the history and distribution of Welsh plants, compiles an annual list of Welsh Plant Records, and is author of Flowering Plants of Wales. He also edits BSBI News for the Botanical Society of the British Isles.
