A special edition New Jersey license plate, designed by Robin A. Jess, AS '76, a freelance botanical illustrator, benefits that state's Pinelands Preservation Fund. The Pinelands of New Jersey, the largest tract of open space on the Mid-Atlantic coast, is represented on the license plate by some of that area's natural resources: cranberries, blueberries, pitch pines and the Pine Barrens' tree frog. For more than 20 years, Jess, who lives in Edison, N.J., illustrated textbooks and research publications for the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. An artistic collaborator on the Illustrated Companion to Gleason & Cronquist's Manual, named best book in the biology category for 1998 by the Association of American Publishers, Jess donated a copy to UD's library in honor of her botany professor, G. Fred Somers. A recipient of a Distinguished Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Jess recently created a series of 40 watercolor illustrations of New Jersey Pine Barrens flora.