Wow, I certainly hope that some appropriate individual
or society has the skills to archive and preserve Dr.
Asher's slides. An excellent talk on the
cochlopetalum paphs by Dr. Asher was the subject of
the very first orchid society meeting I ever attended.
As a wet-behind-the-ears graduate student in genetics
AND an orchid neophyte in Michigan during the
early/mid 1990s, I was tremedously excited to meet not
one, but two, distinguished geneticists who were also
enthusiastic orchidists: James H. Asher and James V.
Neel. Since I went to that _other_ school, I knew Dr.
Neel better than Dr. Asher, but it was a privilge to
hear Dr. Asher lecture, both on slipper orchids and on
deafness genes. Sadly, both men are no longer with
us, but hopefully their legacies will live on.
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