Thanks to the efforts of the Presidium of the Polish Botanical Society, President - Prof. Anna Mikula, Director of our Garden Prof. Arkadiusz Nowak, Prof. Jan Rybczynski, the year 2022 was established as the Year of Botany by a resolution of the Senate of the Republic of Poland. The House thus honored Polish botanists and their achievements, and recognized the civilizational importance of this field of science.

"We want the Year of Botany to bring even greater recognition in our society of the role of science, especially botany, and its contribution to the economy and impact on our daily lives," the senators wrote.

The resolution recalls the figures of Polish researchers with significant discoveries in plant science. The pioneer was Michał Hieronim hr Leszczyc-Sumiński (1820-1898), who, combining his passions for botany and painting, discovered and described as the first in the world the developmental cycle of ferns. Antoni Rehman (1840-1917) researched the flora of South Africa, while Edward Strasburger (1844-1912), an alumnus of the Warsaw High School and a botanist of world renown, was the founder of the foundations of modern plant cytology.

These and other successes of Polish botanists, as well as the need to standardize research and nomenclature after the partition period, led to the establishment of the Polish Botanical Society soon after independence. The first founding convention was convened on April 9 and 10, 1922. It was held in the historic lecture hall of the Department of Botany in the building of the Warsaw University Main School. Warsaw was designated as the seat of the Society's general authorities. It was also decided to establish five branches: in Krakow, Lviv, Poznan, Warsaw and Vilnius. Thus, the Polish Botanical Society ranks as one of the oldest, which eloquently demonstrates its importance, role and position in building a strong and modern Polish science.

Today, knowledge of the environment, the plant world, its changes and its impact on our future is of fundamental importance. Appreciation of the Society's great role in scientific research, activities that protect the achievements and history of Polish botany from oblivion, as well as in the dissemination of knowledge about this special part of nature by all means deserves to be honored," the Senate resolution wrote.

Source: www.senat.gov.pl

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