Fifth international symposium planning records, [ca. 1977-1979]

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Fifth international symposium planning records, [ca. 1977-1979]

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Correspondence (largely of Clifford Evans, Secretary and Treasurer, and Ghillean T. Prance); accounts; programs; lists of participants; publicity; and hotel and travel arrangements concerning the planning of the Fifth International Symposium of the Association for Tropical Biology, held in La Guaira, Venezuela, 1979. The topic was the Tropical Refugia Model (the biological model of diversification in the tropics). Also included is correspondence concerning the Brazilian government's refusal to allow the meeting to be held at Manaus, Brazil, the location originally planned for it.

ca. 1.3 linear ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Association for Tropical Biology

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Association for Tropical Biology was founded in 1963. From the description of Records, 1962-1974, 1963-1967 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155462140 ...

Evans, Clifford, 1920-1981

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Salt Lake City architect. From the description of Scrapbook. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122554352 ...

Prance, Ghillean T., 1937-

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Ghillean T. (Tolmie) Prance (1937- ) was associated with the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) from 1963-1988. He served first as a research associate (1963-1966), Associate Curator (1966-1968), B.A. Krukoff Curator of Amazonian Botany 1968-1975), Director of Botanical Research (1975), Vice-President of the NYBG (1977-1981), Senior Vice-President for Science (1981-1988). He was the first Director of the Institute of Economic Botany (1981-1988). He was Deputy Director and Executive Director of the...