Ghillean T. Prance Records (RG4)Prance, Ghillean T., 1937-

Ghillean T. Prance Records (RG4)

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	Collectors:	Prance, Ghillean T., 1937-
	Title:	Ghillean T. Prance Records (RG4)
	Dates:	1963-1988
	Quantity:	19.2 linear feet; 36 boxes
	Call Phrase:	Prance (RG4)

Biography of Ghillean T. Prance

Ghillean Tolmie Prance was employed by the NYBG from 1963 as a research assistant until his departure in 1988 as Director of the Institute of Economic Botany and Senior Vice-President for Science. A systematic botanist who has made an enormous contribution to the inventory of the Amazon flora and the ethnobotany of the Amazon region, Much of his 25 year career at the NYBG was spent conducting extensive fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazonia. Dr. Prance has participated in expeditions to Turkey, Surinam, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana and Brazil.

Ghillean Tolmie Prance was born July 13, 1937 in Brandeston, Suffolk, England. He credits his two aunts, both amateur botanists, with instilling a love of botanical exploration in him at an early age. He attended Oxford University from 1952 to 1963 when he received his D. Phil. In Forest Botany from the Commonwealth Forestry Institute. His dissertation is entitled "A Taxonomic Study of Chrysobalanaceae". In the preparation of this work, he came to the NYBG herbarium to study and was offered a position as research assistant to help identify the backlog in this family of specimens.

Dr. Prance worked from 1963 to 1966 as a research associate and was promoted to Associate Curator in 1966. In 1968 he was appointed the B. A. Krukoff Curator of Amazonian Botany. In 1975 he became the NYBG Director of Botanical Research and served as Vice-President of the NYBG from 1977 to 1981. In 1981 he became Senior Vice-President for Science and was appointed the first director of the Institute of Economic Botany. He would hold both of these positions until his departure from the garden in 1988 to return to his native England and assume directorship of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. He was offered the position of Director of the NYBG at this time but turned it down in favor of Kew. His tenure at Kew has been marked by the development of Kew's infrastructure for fund-raising and the enhancement of its educational and tourist facilities.

During his tenure at the NYBG, Dr. Prance maintained visiting and adjunct professorships at two local institutions, Lehman College CUNY (1968-1988) and the Yale University School of Forestry (1983-1988). He also taught in 1978 at Aarhus University in Denmark, in 1982 at the Universidad Nacional in Bogota, Colombia, in November 1986 at the Nanjing Institute for the Comprehensive Utilization of Wild Plants in China and in March 1987 at the University of Texas in Austin. From 1974 to 1988, he was Professor of Botany at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia in Manaus, Brazil.and from 1973 to 1975 he served as the first director of the Instituto's graduate training program in tropical botany, the first of its kind in the region. Dr. Prance has served as graduate advisor for twenty students during his tenure at the NYBG and two of them, Douglas Daly and Andrew Henderson went on to become members of the NYBG scientific staff themselves.

In addition to his other duties, Dr. Prance was an active and valued member of many organizations. He served as Deputy Director from 1972 to 1975 and then as Executive Director from 1975 of the United Nations program entitled Organization for Flora Neotropica, He served as Chairman of the Tropical Rainforest Task Force Species Survival Commission (IUCN) from 1982 to 1988. He has been a fellow of the Linnean Society since 1961 and the Explorers Club since 1978. He was elected a Corresponding Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 1976 and in 1988 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. He was President of the Association for Tropical Botany from 1979 to 1980 and President of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists from 1984 to 1985. In 1981 he received an honorary degree from the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus and in 1983 he received an honorary degree from Goteborgs Universitet in Sweden. NYBG awarded him a Distinguished Service Award in 1986 and the Henry Shaw Medal was awarded to him in 1988. He was elected a member of the Corporation of the New York Botanical Garden in 1981.

Scope and Content

The collection covers Dr. Prance's 25 year career at the New York Botanical Garden from 1963 to the time of his departure in 1988. The collection consists entirely of correspondence and field notebooks. Dr. Prance held several administrative positions throughout his career at the NYBG but much of this correspondence is not arranged to reflect these positions because it was processed in keeping with the arrangement in which it was found. Therefore, there are several specific series left as found and a large run of correspondence which has been divided into subject oriented and person oriented topics. The field notebooks are kept seperately as part of the NYBG Field Collectors Notebooks Collection.


Arrangement
	The collection is organized into thirteen series:

		Series 1: Association for Tropical Biology
		Series 2: Electronic Data Processing
		Series 3: Cooperative Parks Study Unit
		Series 4: Flora of North America
		Series 5: Projeto Flora Amazonica
		Series 6: Projeto Flora Amazonica Correspondence
		Series 7: Cary Arboretum
		Series 8: Lehman College
		Series 9: Herbarium
		Series 10: Evolutionary Biology
		Series 11: Subject Correspondence
		Series 12: Personal Correspondence
		Series 13: Field Notebooks

Restrictions

Access restrictions

This collection is open for research with permission from Mertz Library staff.

Copyright

Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be submitted in writing to the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden.


Indexing Terms
	The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
	Persons
		Bennett, Bradley C., 1956-
		Prance, Ghillean T., 1937- -- Archives.
	Subjects
		Botanical exploration -- Brazil.
		Botanical exploration -- Venezuela.
		Association for Tropical Biology -- Records and correspondence.
		Flora of North America North of Mexico.
		Herbaria -- Data processing.
		Institute of Economic Botany (New York Botanical Garden)
		New York Botanical Garden -- Automation.
		New York Botanical Garden -- History -- Sources.
		New York Botanical Garden Archives.
		New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium -- Records and correspondence.
		Plants -- Brazil.
		Plants -- Venezuela.
		Projeto Flora Amazônica -- Records and correspondence.
		Timber -- Brazil -- Para (State)

Related Material

New York Botanical Garden

RG4--Herbarium Office Records

RG12--Cooperative Parks Study Unit

RG18--Records of the Institute of Economic Botany

CFN--Collectors' Field Notebooks

Series 1. Association for Tropical Biology.

Scope and Content: The files cover the period when Dr. Prance was the President of ATB and helped coordinate their 5th International Conference. Included as copies of the papers delivered. The conference proceedings were eventually published by Columbia University Press and the related reviews, abstracts and correspondence are included here.
Box	Title	Date
1	ATB 5th International Symposium	n.d.
1	ATB 5th International Symposium papers	n.d.
1	ATB Accounts	n.d.
1	ATB Office files	1978-1981
1	Columbia University Press	1978-1981
1	Conservation Workshop	1978
1	Misc. Correspondence	1978-1980
1	ATB Press
1	ATB Conference Resolution	1979
1	Grant application	1978
1	Ab'Saber	1978-1980
1	Absy	1978-1980
1	ADIS	1978-1981
1	Andrade-Lima	1978-1980
1	Benson	1978-1981
1	Brown	1978-1980
1	Campbell	1978-1980
1	Diamond	1978
1	Cleef	1978-1979
1	Duellman	1978-1979
1	Echeverry	1978-1979
1	Emsley	1979
1	Endler	1979-1982
1	Erwin	1979-1981
1	Gentry	1978-1980
1	Gifford	1978-1979
1	Gorzula	1979
1	Graham	1978-1979
1	DeGranville	1978-1981
1	Haffner	1978-1980
1	Grubb	1978-1981
1	Heyer	1978-1981
1	Huber	1978-1980
1	Irion	1978-1979
1	Kinzey	1978-1980
1	Labouriau	1980
1	Lamas	1978-1979
1	Livingstone	1979
1	Lovejoy	1978-1981
1	Maley	1978
1	Meggers	1978-1980
1	Meijer	1979-1980
1	Migliazza	1979-1981
1	Muller	1978-1979
1	Myers	1979-1981
1	Oren	1979-1981
1	Padua	1978-1979
1	Pearson	1979-1980
1	Rocho Porto Padra	1978
1	Prance conference paper
1	Poster session	1978-1979
1	Pires	1978-1979
1	Salgado	1979
1	Rzedowski	1978
1	Raw	1979
1	Strong	1978-1979
1	Sioli	1979
1	Struthsaker	1978
1	Steyermark	1978-1980
1	Terborgh	1978-1981
1	Toledo	1978-1980
1	Turner	1979-1981
1	Van Der Hammen	1978-1980
1	Vanzolini	1978
1	Venezuelan Environmental Minister	1978
1	Walker	1978-1980
1	Weitzman	1979
1	Wetterberg	1978-1979

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Series 2. Electronic Data Processing.

Scope and Content: Dr. Prance was actively involved in bringing computers to the NYBG. He was a member of a committee formed to research the feasibility of their installation and use and his report dated 1972 is included herein. Several institutional models were researched by the committee such as CUNY, University of Notre Dame, Smithsonian, Gulf University Research Consortium and the Colombian National Herbarium. Eventually IBM products were recommended and adopted. There was also a major conference at Kew which addressed the topic.
Box	Title	Date
2	NYBG Computer Plans	n.d.
2	NYBG Computer feasibility study	1972
2	NYBG Computer feasibility study manuscript	n.d.
2	NYBG Computer feasibility study attachments	n.d.
2	American Horticultural Society	n.d.
2	Arroyo electrophoretic data	n.d.
2	Cary Arboretum	n.d.
2	Colombian National Herbarium	n.d.
2	Consumer report on cluster analysis	n.d.
2	Crovello	n.d.
2	CUNY	n.d.
2	Dendograph	n.d.
2	Dialog Information Retrieval Service	n.d.
2	Flora Neotropica	n.d.
2	Fordham University	n.d.
2	General Correspondence	n.d.
2	GeoCode	n.d.
2	Gould	n.d.
2	Greene article	n.d.
2	GURC	n.d.
2	Hanks, Sharon	n.d.
2	Herbarium label data	n.d.
2	IBM System 3	n.d.
2	IBM System 38	n.d.
2	ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)	n.d.
2	Kew EDP Conference	n.d.
2	Lehman College	n.d.
2	Morris, Jeff	n.d.
2	Morton Collectanea	n.d.
2	Museum Computer Network	n.d.
2	Mudpie	n.d.
2	National Heritage Trust program	n.d.
2	Natural history data processing conference 1968	n.d.
2	NSF	n.d.
2	Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden Pankhurst keys	n.d.
2	Prance data	n.d.
2	Revisio	n.d.
2	Scientific Publications needs	n.d.
2	SECOS	n.d.
2	Systems Inventory	n.d.
2	TAXIR	n.d.
2	University of Colorado data sheets	n.d.
2	University of Georgia herbarium	n.d.
2	Word processing	n.d.

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Series 3. Cooperative Parks Study Unit.

Scope and Content: The Flora of North America was one of the projects under the aegis of this unit. This correspondence reflects the complex relationship between the two bodies, name changes, financial and administrative records. A rare plants conservation symposium was also held by the NYBG through this unit. This unit was funded by the National Parks Service and final reports to the NPS are included in this correspondence.
Box	Title	Date
2	Feasibility of a Continental Floristic Information Synthesis	n.d.
2	Appendices	n.d.
2	NPSFinal Report & Appendices 1-8	n.d.
2	NPS Final Report Supplements	n.d.
2	Gilbert	n.d.
2	NPS Grant Proposal	n.d.
2	Henifin	n.d.
2	Lawyer	n.d.
2	Morse	n.d.
2	Plant Distributions Information Synthesis Plan	n.d.
2	Quarterly reports	n.d.
2	Rare plant conservation symposium packet	n.d.
2	Rare plant conservation symposium book	n.d.
2	Summer interns	n.d.
2	Torrey Club Bulletin	n.d.
2	Work plans/budgeting	n.d.

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Series 4. Flora of North America.

Scope and Content: Flora of North America is a project which began in 1967 with the formation of an editorial committee. It is a planned 12 volume publication whose compilation is ongoing and began in 1993 with the release of the first three volumes. Its goal is to create a flora of the vascular plants of North America north of Mexico. Dr. Prance coordinated the NYBG's role in the compilation of this project.
Box	Title	Date
3	SCS Species list	n.d.
3	Budgeting/Contracts	n.d.
3	FNA Meeting Jan/Feb 1977	n.d.
3	Taxon databank	n.d.
3	US Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station	n.d.
3	Denver Service Center NPS	n.d.
3	Crovello	n.d.
3	FNP (Flora of National Parks)	n.d.
3	Raven	n.d.
3	Reports -- bibliography & index	n.d.
3	MAB/FNA	n.d.
3	Greene	n.d.
3	FNA Reports	n.d.
3	US Dept of Interior	n.d.
3	Bell	n.d.
3	Evans	n.d.
3	Kartez	n.d.
3	Threatened and endangered species	n.d.
3	Hall	n.d.
3	Hunt Institute	n.d.
3	Reveal	n.d.
3	Wasshausen	n.d.
3	MacBryde	n.d.
3	Shetler	n.d.
3	Graham	n.d.
3	ASPT Standards for EDP	n.d.
3	Bassett	n.d.
3	NPS/NYBG Study on Inter-institutional Cooperation	n.d.

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Series 5. Projeto Flora Amazonica.

Scope and Content: Dr. Prance served as a member of the organizational committee and was US Coordinator for the Projeto Flora program, a binational plant collecting program active from 1976 to 1987 which was funded and administered by the NSF and the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq). These files are divided between personal correspondence and subject oriented correspondence. Correspondence includes field reports, application papers and reports to the NSF on the four phases of the project. Extensive correspondence exists between Dr. Prance and Bruce Nelson, the Resident Project Manager from June 1979 to the end of the project in 1987.
Box	Title	Date
3	Advisory Committee	n.d.
3	Amana expedition	n.d.
3	Amapa expedition	n.d.
3	Araca expedition	n.d.
3	Authorizations	n.d.
3	Balbina expedition	n.d.
3	Carajas expedition	n.d.
3	CNPq agreements	n.d.
3	CNPq computers	n.d.
3	CNPq memo of understanding	n.d.
3	Convenio CNPq/NSF	n.d.
3	Copeland	n.d.
3	Decree #65.057	n.d.
3	Draft report of NAS/CNPq meeting	n.d.
3	Expeditions 1-17	n.d.
3	Feasibility meeting	n.d.
3	Field reports	n.d.
3	Field work application requirements/permission	n.d.
3	French (LACSP)	n.d.
3	Funding	n.d.
3	Handbook (Portuguese)	n.d.
3	Herbarium shipments	n.d.
3	Irwin	n.d.
3	Manual de Preenchimento dos Formularias	n.d.
3	Manual for participants	n.d.
3	Maraca expedition	n.d.
3	Marie Selby Botanical Gardens	n.d.
3	Mato Grosso expedition	n.d.
3	Meetings	n.d.
3	Mike Madison controversy (Selby Gardens expedition)	n.d.
3	National Space Science Data Center	n.d.
3	NYBG Library	n.d.
3	Participants/Results summaries	n.d.
3	Possible participants 1979-1987	n.d.
3	Publications	n.d.
4	Phase 1 Initial proposal	n.d.
4	Phase 2	n.d.
4	NSF Proposal Phase 2	n.d.
4	Phase 3	n.d.
4	NSF Proposal Phase 3	n.d.
4	Phase 4	n.d.
4	NSF Proposal Phase 4	n.d.
4	Programa Flora manual de Preenchimento	n.d.
4	Project description	n.d.
4	Purchase Orders/Field supplies	n.d.
4	Questionaire responses	n.d.
4	Relatorios	n.d.
4	Rondonia expedition	n.d.
4	Samuel expedition	n.d.
4	Scheduling	n.d.
4	Shelter article	n.d.
4	Smithsonian	n.d.
4	Southwest Amazonia expedition	n.d.
4	Travel expenses	n.d.
4	Vehicles	n.d.
4	Visa applications	n.d.

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Series 6. Projeto Flora Correspondence.

Scope and Content: These files consist of correspondence between Dr. Prance and various persons related to the Projeto Flora project both in the US and in Brazil.
Box	Title	Date
4	Ackerly	n.d.
4	Araujo	n.d.
4	Alcorn	n.d.
4	Anderson	n.d.
4	Archibald	n.d.
4	Au	n.d.
4	Austin	n.d.
4	Balee	n.d.
4	Balick	n.d.
4	Bastiani	n.d.
4	Beck	n.d.
4	Boise	n.d.
4	Bradley	n.d.
4	Braga	n.d.
4	Brako	n.d.
4	Buchman	n.d.
4	Buck	n.d.
4	Callejas	n.d.
4	Campbell, Christopher	n.d.
4	Campbell, David	n.d.
4	Castaneda	n.d.
4	Cavalcanti de Albuquerque	n.d.
4	Condon	n.d.
4	Cress	n.d.
4	Croat	n.d.
4	Crosby	n.d.
4	Crovello	n.d.
4	Daly	n.d.
4	Davidse	n.d.
4	DeSilva, Marlene	n.d.
4	DeSilva, Milton	n.d.
4	Davidse	n.d.
4	Davidson	n.d.
4	Davis	n.d.
4	Dibben	n.d.
4	Dios dos Reis	n.d.
4	Dobson	n.d.
4	Dumont	n.d.
4	Dunn	n.d.
4	Estabrook	n.d.
4	Eisenberg	n.d.
4	Farr	n.d.
4	Fe	n.d.
4	Feller	n.d.
4	Ferreira	n.d.
4	Fernandes Batista	n.d.
4	Fife	n.d.
4	Fish	n.d.
4	Frame	n.d.
4	Gentry	n.d.
4	Giacometti	n.d.
4	Ginzbarg	n.d.
4	Goos	n.d.
4	Grayum	n.d.
4	Grimes	n.d.
4	Gunn	n.d.
5	Halling	n.d.
5	Harriss	n.d.
5	Haynes	n.d.
5	Heinis	n.d.
5	Henderson	n.d.
5	Hennen	n.d.
5	Hill	n.d.
5	Hopkins	n.d.
5	Hosford	n.d.
5	Huber	n.d.
5	Huft	n.d.
5	Jangoux	n.d.
5	Janssen	n.d.
5	Keller	n.d.
5	King	n.d.
5	Kirkbride	n.d.
5	Knapp	n.d.
5	Kral	n.d.
5	Kress	n.d.
5	Kubitzki	n.d.
5	Langenheim	n.d.
5	Larkey	n.d.
5	Lentz	n.d.
5	Libonati-Barnes	n.d.
5	Lowrie	n.d.
5	Lowy	n.d.
5	Maas	n.d.
5	Martinelli	n.d.
5	McFarland	n.d.
5	McHargue	n.d.
5	Mori	n.d.
5	Mueller	n.d.
5	Mussi	n.d.
5	Nauman	n.d.
5	Nee	n.d.
5	Neill	n.d.
5	Nelson 1974-1988	n.d.
5	Nevling	n.d.
5	Nishida	n.d.
5	O'Grady	n.d.
5	Paixao	n.d.
5	Parker	n.d.
5	Petersen	n.d.
5	Pipoly	n.d.
5	Pires	n.d.
5	Plowman	n.d.
5	Poole	n.d.
5	Prance	n.d.
5	Pruski	n.d.
5	Radding	n.d.
5	Ramamoorthy	n.d.
5	Ranker	n.d.
5	Rebbeck	n.d.
5	Reese	n.d.
5	Reynolds	n.d.
5	Richardson	n.d.
5	Rickson	n.d.
5	Riefner	n.d.
5	Rodrigues	n.d.
5	Samuels	n.d.
5	Sanders	n.d.
5	Scaff	n.d.
5	Schatz	n.d.
5	Schuster	n.d.
5	Sobel	n.d.
5	Stevenson	n.d.
5	Stirton	n.d.
5	Strudwick	n.d.
5	Taylor, Carl	n.d.
5	Taylor, Elizabeth	n.d.
5	Thomas	n.d.
5	Ter Welle	n.d.
5	Todzia	n.d.
5	Tryon	n.d.
5	Van der Werff	n.d.
5	Vincent	n.d.
5	Vieira	n.d.
5	Vitt	n.d.
5	Wasshausen	n.d.
5	Webster	n.d.
5	Wlliams	n.d.
5	Yano	n.d.

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Series 7. Cary Arboretum.

Scope and Content: This series concerns the Cary Arboretum which was a part of the NYBG at the time. These files were found labeled under the heading Cary Arboretum and were kept in this order.
Box	Title	Date
5	AAM Accreditation	n.d.
5	Board of Managers	n.d.
5	Budget 1972-1982	n.d.
5	Housing	n.d.
5	Master plan	n.d.
5	Public Access Policy	n.d.
5	Small Mammal Damage	n.d.
5	Staff Research	n.d.
5	Wappingers Creek Study	n.d.

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Series 8. Lehman College.

Scope and Content: This series concerns the NYBG's relationship with Lehman College, located in the Bronx and a branch of the City University of New York. Lehman College operates a graduate program in botany in conjunction with the NYBG. Dr. Prance served as graduate advisor to twenty students during his tenure, two of these are now members of the scientific staff at the NYBG. At one time, the NYBG considered operating its own graduate school and this file can be found within series 11 under the heading NYBG University proposal.
Box	Title	Date
5	Graduate Program	n.d.
5	Lehman Coordinating Committee	n.d.
5	Lehman Graduate Committee	n.d.
5	Plant Molecular Biology	n.d.
5	Research Initiation & Support	n.d.

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Series 9. Herbarium.

Scope and Content: These records are associated with Dr. Prance in his capacity as Director of Botanical Research from 1975-1981 and as the B. A. Krukoff Curator of Amazonian Botany from 1968-1975. Included in these files are correspondence with numerous individuals concerning botanical specimen identification, loans and collecting requests. Dr. Prance was also involved in arrangements for the second International Mycological Congess.
Box	Title	Date
6	AIBS	n.d.
6	Acquisitions/Deaccessioning	n.d.
6	Algologist	n.d.
6	Andrade-Lima	n.d.
6	Aldrich/IMC2	n.d.
6	Anchel	n.d.
6	Benny	n.d.
6	Bigelow	n.d.
6	Becker	n.d.
6	Buritica	n.d.
6	Carey	n.d.
6	Carpenter	n.d.
6	Chambers	n.d.
6	Collecting requests	n.d.
6	Dumont	n.d.
6	Farr	n.d.
6	Fidalgo	n.d.
6	Fuller	n.d.
6	Goos	n.d.
6	Guzman	n.d.
6	Haines	n.d.
6	Hanlin	n.d.
6	Hennen	n.d.
6	Herrera	n.d.
6	Hervey	n.d.
6	Holbert	n.d.
6	Holmquist	n.d.
6	Huang	n.d.
6	Hunter	n.d.
6	Joyal	n.d.
6	Kaslof	n.d.
6	Koyama	n.d.
6	Krukoff	n.d.
6	Landrum	n.d.
6	Lazo	n.d.
6	Lees	n.d.
6	Lindeman	n.d.
6	Lowy	n.d.
6	Makinen	n.d.
6	Merner	n.d.
6	Moore	n.d.
6	Morse	n.d.
6	Nair	n.d.
6	Niklas	n.d.
6	Paden	n.d.
6	Pavlich	n.d.
6	Payne	n.d.
6	Perez-Silva	n.d.
6	Pinkley	n.d.
6	Raj	n.d.
6	Reynolds	n.d.
6	Rogers	n.d.
6	Samuels	n.d.
6	Schofield	n.d.
6	Seymour	n.d.
6	Sherwood	n.d.
6	Simmons	n.d.
6	Singer	n.d.
6	Smith	n.d.
6	Vassar	n.d.
6	Wright	n.d.

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Series 10. Evolutionary Biology

Scope and Content: As Botanical Editor of the journal Evolutionary Biology since 1980, these files reflect articles published in that journal.
Box	Title	Date
6	Beattie	n.d.
6	Barrett	n.d.
6	Dafni & Bernhardt	n.d.
6	Dahlgren	n.d.
6	Gentry	n.d.
6	Giannasi	n.d.
6	Gottlieb	n.d.
6	Hecht	n.d.
6	Hilu	n.d.
6	Lloyd	n.d.
6	MacIntyre	n.d.
6	Niklas	n.d.
6	Plenum Publishing	n.d.
6	Solicitations	n.d.
6	Stuessy	n.d.
6	Sultan	n.d.
6	Szweykowski	n.d.
6	Walker	n.d.
6	Wallace	n.d.

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Series 11. Subject Correspondence.

Scope and Content: These files are a compilation from various sources and reflect the offices held by Dr. Prance at the NYBG. It was difficult to discern which files belonged to which office as he held positions simultaneously. From 1977 to 1981 he was Director of Botanical Research and Vice President of the NYBG. Also, from 1981 to 1988 he served as Senior Vice President for Science and Director of the Institute of Economic Botany. These files are strictly subject oriented. Following this series are the personal correspondence files in a separate series. Subjects covered extensively include grant and film proposals, determination lists, Classification Society of North America, CODEL (a consortium of Christian organizations concerned with Third World development issues), INPA, Rio Pacaja Timber Survey, the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank and the World Wildlife Foundation.
Box	Title	Date
7	AABGA 1982 meeting	n.d.
7	AAM Accredidation	n.d.
7	AAAS Symposium	n.d.
7	Achelis Foundation	n.d.
7	AETFAT	n.d.
7	AID Diversity Management Proposal	n.d.
7	AID Panama Project	n.d.
7	Alpha Helix Project	n.d.
7	Amazon cruise (Society Expeditions)	n.d.
7	Amazon region dams	n.d.
7	Amazona 2000	n.d.
7	American Cyanamid	n.d.
7	American Museum of Natural History	n.d.
7	Americanists Symposium	n.d.
7	Ants	n.d.
7	Aquatic Weed Program	n.d.
7	Army Corps of Engineers	n.d.
7	Assessment report	n.d.
7	Austin, Rebecca (subject)	n.d.
7	Awards	n.d.
7	Beetles	n.d.
7	Biotropica reviews	n.d.
7	Bogota course	n.d.
7	Bombacaceae	n.d.
7	Botany Committee 1973-1980	n.d.
8	Braga thesis	n.d.
8	Bristol Myers soil grant	n.d.
8	Brittonia	n.d.
8	Brooklyn Botanic Garden	n.d.
8	Budget Crisis 1976-1979	n.d.
8	Cambridge Conference on Rare Plant Conservation	n.d.
8	Cayman Islands	n.d.
8	CEPLAC Inventory	n.d.
8	CEPLAC Symposium	n.d.
8	China	n.d.
8	CIAO	n.d.
8	CIAT visit 1974	n.d.
8	CLASP (USAID)	n.d.
8	Classification Society Meetings	n.d.
8	Classification Society 1972 Annual Meeting	n.d.
8	Coalition for Christian Outreach	n.d.
8	CODEL	n.d.
9	CODEL	n.d.
9	Colombian Ethnobotany Symposium	n.d.
9	Columbia University	n.d.
9	Columbia University Press	n.d.
9	Committee on Nuclear Power	n.d.
9	Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs	n.d.
9	Conservation Biology	n.d.
9	Continuing Medical Education Advisory Board	n.d.
9	Contraceptives in Plants	n.d.
9	Copaifera	n.d.
9	Copy editor	n.d.
9	Corporate support	n.d.
9	Cousteau Society	n.d.
9	CUIBA	n.d.
9	CUNY position	n.d.
9	Defense Mapping Agency	n.d.
9	Department of the Interior	n.d.
10	Determination Lists	n.d.
10	Dichapetulum prancei	n.d.
10	Drift seeds	n.d.
10	Ecotechnics Institute	n.d.
10	Ecuador	n.d.
10	Edgewood Arsenal	n.d.
10	Endangered grasses	n.d.
10	Endangered Species Conference photos	n.d.
10	Environmental law	n.d.
10	EROS Data Center, USGS	n.d.
10	Extinction is Forever reviews	n.d.
10	Fanshawe Checklist	n.d.
10	FBCN Endangered Species List	n.d.
10	Field Museum	n.d.
11	Flora of Equador/Panama	n.d.
11	Flora of Europaea Symposium	n.d.
11	Flora of the Guianas	n.d.
11	Flora of the Lesser Antilles	n.d.
11	Flora of Malaya	n.d.
11	Flora of Mesoamericana	n.d.
11	Flora of Panama project	n.d.
11	Flora Regiao da Bahia	n.d.
11	Flora Neotropica accounts	n.d.
11	Flora of Suriname (Chrysobalanaceae)	n.d.
11	Flora of Venezuela	n.d.
11	Flora Yucatanensis	n.d.
11	Fordham University	n.d.
11	Fordham University Calder Center	n.d.
11	Fritzsche D&O	n.d.
11	From This Garden (film)	n.d.
11	Fulbright	n.d.
11	Funatura Foundation for Nature	n.d.
11	Galapagos tour	n.d.
12	Garden Club of America	n.d.
12	Generic Flora of the Southeast US	n.d.
12	Genetic Sciences International	n.d.
12	Gesneriad Research Foundation	n.d.
12	Goeldi grant	n.d.
12	Grace Foundation	n.d.
12	Graduate program	n.d.
12	Grant information	n.d.
12	Greenworld Award	n.d.
12	Haiti	n.d.
12	Hamburg	n.d.
12	Harding Lab	n.d.
12	Heat emission	n.d.
12	Henderson grant (NSF)	n.d.
12	Herbal Conference 1985	n.d.
12	Hoffmann-LaRoche	n.d.
12	Horticulture	n.d.
12	IABG	n.d.
12	IBC Planning Committee 1992	n.d.
12	IBC Rio 1975	n.d.
12	IBC Sydney 1981	n.d.
12	IBC Symposium (1987 Berlin)	n.d.
12	INDERENA	n.d.
12	Indian Institute of Science	n.d.
12	Industrial Botany	n.d.
12	INPA botanists impressions	n.d.
12	INPA Contract	n.d.
12	INPA Courses	n.d.
12	Institute of Urban Horticulture	n.d.
12	Instituto Nacional Forestal y de Fauna	n.d.
13	Inter Action Council	n.d.
13	INTERCIENCIA	n.d.
13	International Congress of Americanists (1982 Manchester)	n.d.
13	International Congress of Systematic & Evolutionary Botany	n.d.
13	International Convention Advisory Committee	n.d.
13	International Council for Research in Agroforestry	n.d.
13	International Paper Company	n.d.
13	IUCN Latin American Plant List	n.d.
13	International Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources	n.d.
13	International Union of Biological Sciences	n.d.
13	Journal of Ethnopharmacology	n.d.
13	Kaehler (subject)	n.d.
13	Krukoff biography	n.d.
13	Kuikuro Indian Proposal	n.d.
13	Lab Director search	n.d.
13	Lab Review Committee	n.d.
13	Larnottea	n.d.
13	Latin American Botanical Congress IV	n.d.
13	Latin American Forest Tree Seed Bank	n.d.
13	Lecythidaceae	n.d.
13	Leeds Rainforest Symposium	n.d.
14	Lieberman Lab	n.d.
14	Lindbergh Fund	n.d.
14	Longwood Gardens	n.d.
14	Louisiana State University	n.d.
14	MAB Program	n.d.
14	MacArthur Foundation	n.d.
14	Manaus correspondence 1965-1969	n.d.
14	Manchester Museum	n.d.
14	Memoirs	n.d.
14	Microscope grant	n.d.
14	Miraflores Gardens	n.d.
14	Monts grant application	n.d.
14	Montshire Museum of Science	n.d.
14	Morton Collectanea	n.d.
14	Mosaic Magazine	n.d.
14	Museu Goeldi	n.d.
14	Museums Collaborative Inc.	n.d.
14	Myrtaceae project (Landrum)	n.d.
14	National Audubon Society Conference	n.d.
14	National Bulk Carriers	n.d.
14	National Geographic	n.d.
14	National Museum Act	n.d.
14	National Park Service	n.d.
14	National Public Radio	n.d.
15	Native Plant Garden	n.d.
15	Natural History Magazine	n.d.
15	Natural Resources Defense Council	n.d.
15	Nature Conservancy	n.d.
15	Neblina Expedition	n.d.
15	Neblina Expedition press	n.d.
15	New England Aquarium	n.d.
15	New Guinea project	n.d.
15	New library/herbarium building	n.d.
15	HNK Television program	n.d.
15	NIH	n.d.
16	NSF	n.d.
16	NSF Proposals (Prance)	n.d.
16	NSF Proposals (others)	n.d.
16	NSF Workshop in Tropical Biology	n.d.
16	NYBG South America tour 1973	n.d.
16	NYBG Organizational charts	n.d.
16	NYBG University proposal	n.d.
16	NY Rainforest Alliance	n.d.
16	NY Zoological Society	n.d.
16	OAS	n.d.
16	O'Hara Sculptures	n.d.
16	Organization for Tropical Studies	n.d.
16	Oxford Expedition to Venezuela (1984)	n.d.
16	Oxford University Press	n.d.
16	Paleobotany	n.d.
16	Paleontological Research Institution	n.d.
16	Paraguay	n.d.
16	Pennington Sapotaceae project	n.d.
17	Pew Trust	n.d.
17	Phytochemical Bulletin	n.d.
17	Poisonous plants	n.d.
17	Pollination Journal	n.d.
17	*Polygonathus amazonicus*	n.d.
17	Prance Amazonia Fund	n.d.
17	Prance family	n.d.
17	Project Babassu	n.d.
17	Rainforest Conference	n.d.
17	Rare Animal Relief Effort	n.d.
17	Raymond & Whitcomb Co.	n.d.
17	Remote sensing	n.d.
17	Revista de Botanica	n.d.
17	RJ Reynolds Industries	n.d.
17	Rio Pacaja Timber Survey	n.d.
17	Rockefeller Foundation	n.d.
18	Rodale Press	n.d.
18	Royal Geographical Society	n.d.
18	Sapotaceae	n.d.
18	Science Museum of Long Island	n.d.
18	Science World	n.d.
18	Scientific American Rainforest issue	n.d.
18	Scientific Publications	n.d.
18	Scientific Publications Committee	n.d.
18	Scimone article	n.d.
18	SCOPE Conference (1979)	n.d.
18	Seed policy	n.d.
18	SEMARO	n.d.
18	Sensory trail	n.d.
18	Sierra Club	n.d.
18	Sierra Treks/Lou Gold	n.d.
18	Sinauer Publishers	n.d.
18	SITES	n.d.
18	Smith Barney Harris Upham & Company	n.d.
18	Smithsonian List of Plant Names	n.d.
19	Society for Economic Botany	n.d.
19	Solanaceae Symposium proposal	n.d.
19	Southampton University	n.d.
19	Space allocation	n.d.
19	Stigonema	n.d.
19	Stone Center Symposium (Tulane)	n.d.
19	Subcommittee on Human Rights	n.d.
19	Summit meetings (1981)	n.d.
19	Survival International	n.d.
19	Syracuse University	n.d.
19	Tenure	n.d.
19	Threatened Plants Committee	n.d.
19	Time Life Books	n.d.
19	Torrey Botanical Club	n.d.
19	TRAFFIC USA	n.d.
19	Tropic Ventures	n.d.
19	Tropical Audubon Society	n.d.
19	Tropical botany course	n.d.
19	Tropical deforestation film	n.d.
19	Tropical Forests Symposium (Aarhus)	n.d.
20	NRDC Tropical Forests Working Group	n.d.
20	Twyford Plant Laboratories	n.d.
20	Tyler Prize	n.d.
20	United Nations	n.d.
20	Universidade do Amazonas	n.d.
20	University of Iowa	n.d.
20	University of Michigan Program Evaluation Report	n.d.
20	University Representatives	n.d.
20	Uppsala Symposium (1977)	n.d.
20	Urban Horticulture Institute	n.d.
20	Utrecht	n.d.
20	Venezuelan Botanical Congress (1976)	n.d.
20	Vicariance Biogeography Symposium (1979)	n.d.
20	*Victoria amazonica*	n.d.
20	Waltheria	n.d.
20	Washington Post article reply	n.d.
20	Waura Indians	n.d.
20	Weber Vedder Proposal	n.d.
20	Whitehall Foundation	n.d.
20	Wisconsin Amazonia Symposium (1978)	n.d.
20	Woods Hole	n.d.
20	World Bank	n.d.
21	World Garden Journal	n.d.
21	World Wildlife Fund	n.d.
21	WWF Eastern Brazil survey	n.d.
21	WWF Forest Inventory Project	n.d.
21	WWF Plant Symbols List	n.d.
21	WWF Tropical Forests Project	n.d.
21	WWF stamps	n.d.
21	Zilker Botanical Garden	n.d.

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Series 12. Personal Correspondence.

Scope and Content: This series consists of the personal correspondence of Dr. Prance. Much of this deals with his professional duties. Extensive correspondants include Anthony Anderson, Thomas Elias, Enrique Forero, David Giannasi, Otto Huber, Annette Hervey, David F. Karnosky, Walter Kerr, Tetsuo Koyama, B. A. Krukoff, Thomas Lovejoy, Cecile Lumer, K. H. Palta, T. D. Pennington, John J. Pipoly, Peter Raven, Edmund de Rothschild, Frederick Seaman, Marlene Silva, Hermann Otto Sleumer, Jeremy Strudwick, and Alcides Ribeiro Teixeira.
Box	Title	Date
22	Abalo	n.d.
22	Absy	n.d.
22	Ackerly	n.d.
22	Acosta	n.d.
22	Agostini	n.d.
22	Albuquerque	n.d.
22	Allkin	n.d.
22	Alvim	n.d.
22	Anderson, Anthony	n.d.
22	Anderson, William	n.d.
22	Angely	n.d.
22	Araujo	n.d.
22	Arroyo	n.d.
23	Bennett	n.d.
23	Bennett papers	n.d.
23	Benson	n.d.
23	Bentley	n.d.
23	Berg	n.d.
23	Bergstrom	n.d.
23	Berlin	n.d.
23	Bernardi	n.d.
23	Bettolo	n.d.
23	Bisby	n.d.
23	Bisset	n.d.
23	Boeke	n.d.
23	Bond	n.d.
23	Brand	n.d.
23	Brenan	n.d.
23	Brenha	n.d.
23	Breteller	n.d.
23	Brett	n.d.
23	Bromley	n.d.
23	Brooks	n.d.
23	Brown	n.d.
23	Bruckmann	n.d.
23	Budowski	n.d.
23	Bunting	n.d.
23	Cabrera	n.d.
23	Campbell	n.d.
23	Carauta	n.d.
23	Carbono	n.d.
23	Careira	n.d.
23	Carlquist	n.d.
23	Carneiro	n.d.
23	Carreira	n.d.
23	Carroll	n.d.
23	Castro de Giraldo	n.d.
23	Cavalcante	n.d.
23	Champon	n.d.
23	Chen	n.d.
23	Cisneros	n.d.
23	Clark	n.d.
23	Cleef	n.d.
23	Clemants	n.d.
23	Clement	n.d.
24	Conklin	n.d.
24	Cook	n.d.
24	Coradin	n.d.
24	Cotton	n.d.
24	Cowan	n.d.
24	Cremers	n.d.
24	Croat	n.d.
24	Crosby	n.d.
24	Crovello	n.d.
24	Dahlgren	n.d.
24	Dansereau	n.d.
24	D'Arcy	n.d.
24	Dauncey	n.d.
24	Dean	n.d.
24	Degener	n.d.
24	DeGranville	n.d.
24	Delendick	n.d.
24	Denslow	n.d.
24	DeVries	n.d.
24	Donleavy-Johnston	n.d.
24	Dorn	n.d.
24	Dumont	n.d.
25	Eckardt	n.d.
25	Ehrendorfer	n.d.
25	Eichold	n.d.
25	Eiten	n.d.
25	Elias	n.d.
25	Endress	n.d.
25	Esbaugh	n.d.
25	Escobar	n.d.
25	Fallen	n.d.
25	Farnsworth	n.d.
25	Fearnside	n.d.
25	Filho	n.d.
25	Fish	n.d.
25	Forero, Enrique	n.d.
25	Forero, Luis	n.d.
25	Frodin	n.d.
25	Funk	n.d.
25	Gevaerd	n.d.
25	Giannasi	n.d.
25	Gibbs	n.d.
25	Gifford	n.d.
26	Glass	n.d.
26	Glenboski	n.d.
26	Goldblatt	n.d.
26	Goodenough	n.d.
26	Goodland	n.d.
26	Gottsberger	n.d.
26	Gould	n.d.
26	Goulding	n.d.
26	Graham	n.d.
26	Grainger	n.d.
26	Greene	n.d.
26	Greller	n.d.
26	Griffin	n.d.
26	Groo	n.d.
26	Haffner	n.d.
26	Hall	n.d.
26	Hallsworth	n.d.
26	Hammen, von der	n.d.
26	Hammond	n.d.
26	Harley	n.d.
26	Harling	n.d.
26	Hartshorn	n.d.
26	Hatton	n.d.
26	Hazlett	n.d.
27	Hecht	n.d.
27	Hedberg	n.d.
27	Hemming	n.d.
27	Henderson, Douglas	n.d.
27	Henriques	n.d.
27	Hepper	n.d.
27	Hermans	n.d.
27	Hetzler	n.d.
27	Hill	n.d.
27	Holm-Nielsen	n.d.
27	Holmstedt	n.d.
27	Hoover	n.d.
27	Hopkins, H.	n.d.
27	Hopkins, M.	n.d.
27	Hubbard	n.d.
27	Huber	n.d.
27	Hunter	n.d.
27	Hunziker	n.d.
27	Iltis	n.d.
27	Irwin	n.d.
28	Isely	n.d.
28	Jahoda	n.d.
28	Jain	n.d.
28	Janzen	n.d.
28	Jenkins	n.d.
28	Jermy	n.d.
28	Jimenez	n.d.
28	Johnson	n.d.
28	Kalkman	n.d.
28	Karrfalt	n.d.
28	Kapoor	n.d.
28	Karnosky	n.d.
28	Kelly	n.d.
28	Khoshoo	n.d.
28	Kiger	n.d.
28	Kincaid	n.d.
28	Kirkbride	n.d.
28	Kisseadoo	n.d.
28	Klinge	n.d.
28	Koeppen	n.d.
28	Kostermans	n.d.
28	Krukoff	n.d.
28	Kubitzki	n.d.
29	Kukachka	n.d.
29	Kukle	n.d.
29	Landrum	n.d.
29	Langenheim	n.d.
29	Larsen	n.d.
29	Lasseigne	n.d.
29	Lee	n.d.
29	Leisner	n.d.
29	Leitao	n.d.
29	Leppard	n.d.
29	Lersten	n.d.
29	Letouzey	n.d.
29	Levy	n.d.
29	Lewis, Gwilym	n.d.
29	Lewis, Walter	n.d.
29	Liogier	n.d.
29	Lippman	n.d.
29	Lisboa	n.d.
29	Littler	n.d.
29	Lleras	n.d.
29	Lomba	n.d.
29	Lourenco	n.d.
29	Lourteig	n.d.
29	Lovejoy	n.d.
29	Lucas	n.d.
29	Luces de Febres	n.d.
29	Lumer	n.d.
29	Luna	n.d.
30	McAlpin	n.d.
30	McDaniel	n.d.
30	MacIntyre	n.d.
30	MacRae	n.d.
30	McVaugh	n.d.
30	Maas	n.d.
30	Mabberley	n.d.
30	Macedo	n.d.
30	Machado	n.d.
30	Madison	n.d.
30	Maheshwari	n.d.
30	Mahlberg	n.d.
30	Maia	n.d.
30	Mante	n.d.
30	Marais	n.d.
30	Martin	n.d.
30	May	n.d.
30	Medina	n.d.
30	Meggers	n.d.
30	Meijer	n.d.
30	Mello	n.d.
30	Mena	n.d.
30	Mennega	n.d.
30	Mesquita	n.d.
30	Miller	n.d.
30	Misitano	n.d.
30	Moldenke	n.d.
30	Montag	n.d.
30	Mora	n.d.
31	Morillo	n.d.
31	Mori	n.d.
31	Morin	n.d.
31	Morse	n.d.
31	Muller	n.d.
31	Munn	n.d.
31	Myers	n.d.
31	Neto, Germano	n.d.
31	Neto, Paul	n.d.
31	Nevling	n.d.
31	Newman	n.d.
31	Nilsson	n.d.
31	O'Connor	n.d.
31	Oren	n.d.
31	Orshan	n.d.
31	Pabst	n.d.
31	Padua	n.d.
31	Palmer	n.d.
32	Palta	n.d.
32	Pankhurst	n.d.
32	Parrotta	n.d.
32	Pedersen	n.d.
32	Pena de Sousa	n.d.
32	Pennington	n.d.
32	Pergolotti	n.d.
32	Phelps	n.d.
32	Pijl	n.d.
32	Pipoly	n.d.
32	Plowman	n.d.
32	Posey	n.d.
32	Polhill	n.d.
32	Polunin	n.d.
32	Prado	n.d.
32	Proctor	n.d.
32	Rankin	n.d.
33	Raven	n.d.
33	Ravenna	n.d.
33	Renner	n.d.
33	Renteria	n.d.
33	Reveal	n.d.
33	Revilla	n.d.
33	Richards	n.d.
33	Rickson	n.d.
33	Rivier	n.d.
33	Rodrigues	n.d.
33	Rodrquez	n.d.
33	Rogers	n.d.
33	Rosengarten	n.d.
33	Rothschild	n.d.
34	Salama	n.d.
34	Salati	n.d.
34	Saldarriaga	n.d.
34	Santilli	n.d.
34	Sarukhan	n.d.
34	Sastre	n.d.
34	Sastre de Jesus	n.d.
34	Schaller	n.d.
34	Scheid	n.d.
34	Schultes	n.d.
34	Schunke	n.d.
34	Seaman	n.d.
34	Secco	n.d.
34	Seigler	n.d.
34	Shane	n.d.
34	Sharma	n.d.
34	Silva	n.d.
34	Silver	n.d.
34	Simoes	n.d.
34	Singer	n.d.
34	Skog	n.d.
35	Sleumer	n.d.
35	Smith, Gary	n.d.
35	Smith, Nigel	n.d.
35	Smith, Stephen	n.d.
35	Sobrevila	n.d.
35	Sorensen	n.d.
35	Soule	n.d.
35	Sperling	n.d.
35	Sponsel	n.d.
35	Steussy	n.d.
35	Stewart	n.d.
35	Steyermark	n.d.
35	Stirton	n.d.
35	Stone, Benjamin	n.d.
35	Stone, Thomas	n.d.
35	Strudwick	n.d.
35	Sugden	n.d.
35	Synge	n.d.
35	Takhtajan	n.d.
35	Taylor	n.d.
35	Teixeira	n.d.
36	Ter Welle	n.d.
36	Thomas	n.d.
36	Thorne	n.d.
36	Toledo	n.d.
36	Tryon	n.d.
36	Uhl	n.d.
36	Van der Hammen	n.d.
36	Van Steenis	n.d.
36	Von Reis	n.d.
36	Walter	n.d.
36	Webster	n.d.
36	Wendt	n.d.
36	Wetterberg	n.d.
36	White	n.d.
36	Whitmore	n.d.
36	Wood	n.d.
36	Woolcott	n.d.
36	Xavier	n.d.
36	Zeeuw	n.d.

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Series 13. Field Notebooks.

Scope and Content: This series has been removed and resides in the NYBG Field Collectors Notebooks Collection (CFN). The notebooks are arranged numerically as part of the collection's numbering sequence. They constitute numbers 397 through 425. These 29 volumes cover the following countries: Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Chile, Falkland Islands, Antarctica, China, Italy, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Peru and Mexico. Twenty-four of these notebooks are concerned solely with Brazil.

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