[Taxacom] Trying to recover type specimens from China, help

[Freire-Fierro,Alina]

Dear all,


Does anyone have contact with the Chengdu Institute of Biology, P.O. Box
416, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041 (CDBI) in China?

Almost 20  years ago,  PH had sent a loan of 19 types of Vitis for study
of  Dr. Li Chao-Luan, who at that time was a researcher at CDBI. Thanks to
contacts from the Herbaria list, I learned that Dr. Chao-Luan was
deceased. The information about the director of CDBI I have obtained
through members the Herbaria List and from the Index Herbariorum, is the
following:

Director: Dr. Xin-Fen Gao
Emails: xfgao at mail.sc.cninfo.net, xfgao at cib.ac.cn


I have sent repeated letters/emails requesting the return of the loan to
Dr. Xin-Fen Gao, but I have not received any response. Although there are
several researchers listed in the Index Herbariorum, all of them have the
emails addresses of Dr. Xin-Fen Gao.

Does anyone perhaps have direct contact with Dr. Xin-Fen Gao, or with the
current director for CDBI?



Since I have not received any answer, I am hesitant now of sending any
specimens to China.

Many thanks and I hope you would be able to help us!

Best,

Alina.

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Alina Freire-Fierro, M.S.
Collection Manager of Botany (PH), Academy of Natural Sciences
PhD Candidate, Laboratory of Pinelands Research
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