Atribute to Frank White (5th March 1927 to 12th September 1994)

We are grateful for this opportunity to express our ap preciation of our mutual friend Frank White (Figure 1). Angus worked with him early in his career from 1950 and Chapman was associated with him from the early 1960s. We all met for the first time at Chisenga resthouse at the foot of the Mafinga Mts in Malawi in 1952. White and Angus were on an Expedition from Oxford Univer sity, and Chapman, of the Nyasaland Forest Dept, was on ‘ulendo’ with his wife, returning with bulging plant presses from a boundary survey of the Misuku Forests. It was a momentous meeting for Chapman. He learned that all his future collections would be named by Frank him self at Oxford, and it was the beginning of an association that has been the inspiration of Chapman’s work ever since. We have all been friends from that day, and often enjoyed each other’s hospitality. Thus we feel qualified to write about Frank White while we fondly remember him.