In 1968, the graduate students of the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Michigan State University invited Ralph W. Chaney to campus for a seminar. During that visit, Chaney (left) and Aureal T. Cross (right) were photographed in the W.J. Beal Botanical Garden at M.S.U. They are standing at the base of a large specimen of Metasequoia glyptostroboides which was propagated from cuttings of the species obtained from China shortly after the discovery of the first living trees.