For those of you who are feeling pressed for time to meet our September 1 deadline for submission of manuscripts, I have some good news.  Karen and I have recently realized that there is no way we can make the December publication date with Harvard Papers -- they actually wanted the finished, reviewed manuscripts by September 1 -- it was not originally clear to us that they wanted it that way. So, we have extended the deadline for submission of manuscripts until December 1, with the intent of getting peer reviews done in December, allowing another month (January) for changes by the authors, and having the whole thing ready to send to Harvard by the end of February for a June 2001 publication.  While this will not be the year of Gil's 75th birthday, it will be the 40th anniversary of his life as a professional mycologist. I hope that this does not anger anyone -- some of you have submitted your manuscripts and met the original deadline.  We thank you very much for your promptness.

• There are a couple of other items I wanted to bring to your attention.  First, when you send your three hard copies of your manuscript  for review, please do not send your disk along with it -- hold on to your disk and you will make any changes on it and then submit the disk as the final "copy."
• Second, Gustavo Romero, the editor of Harvard Papers in Botany, said that they would prefer electronic versions of the figures as well as the text.  Please read the info about figures carefully under "Instructions to Authors" on our webpage.  If you have an extremely technical question, you might consider calling or emailing Gustavo personally instead of asking us -- he usually has the answer on the tip of his tongue and we usually have to write him and ask him whatever you have already asked us!  (romero@oeb.harvard.edu)  A couple of things that we do know -- we can use black and white photos only, and digital photos are OK.
• Third, as a reminder, we may be calling upon many of you to review some of the papers in the festschrift.  If you wish to recommend some people whom you think might be reasonable reviewers, that will always be helpful.

If you submit illustrations electronically:

• Black and white photographs and artwork (graphs, line drawings) can be scanned easily. Digital photos (i.e., images taken with a digital camera) are OK, but only if they have the resolution we need (see below).
• If authors decide to submit illustrations in electronic format, they must be files in TIFF (tagged image file format). Furthermore, illustrations with continuous tone (black and white photographs that contain black, white, and a gradient of gray tones)  should be submitted at 300 p.p.i. (pixels per inch); line drawings (containing only black or white) should be at 1200 p.p.i.
• The illustrations should be pre-sized (to fit the printed page, 5.5 X 8 inches) or larger, but always within the proportions of the printed page (so we do not end up with lots of blank spaces). Here we can read Zip, Jazz, and Clik cartridges, as well as CDs (regular diskettes usually do not have enough storage space to accommodate a full-page illustration in TIFF).

The following points should be considered in your review:

Consider yourself an ally of the author with the goal of promoting clear communication and sound science. Please do not make any comment in your review regarding the acceptability of the paper. Your recommendation for acceptance, minor or major revisions or rejection should be made separately in your cover letter. Under no circumstances should you contact the authors about your review; other reviewers and the editors may have different opinions from yours.

Page Lindsey and Karen Nakasone
Associate Editors, Gilbertson Festschrift