Alwyn Howard Gentry papers, 1967-1993.

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Alwyn Howard Gentry papers, 1967-1993.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61772606

Major correspondents are Franklin Ayala, Olga de Benavides, Paul Berry, Rick Clinebell, Hermes Cuadros, Calaway H. Dodson, Mike Dillon, Camilo Diaz, James Duke, Ecotechnic Institute, Don Faber-Langendoen, Enrique Forero, Valerie Kapos, B. A. Krukoff, Scott Mori, Norman Myers, Percy Nunez, Timothy Plowman, Ghillean Prance, Peter Raven, Enrique Renteria, Abundio Sagastegui, Jose Schunke, David Smith, Julian Steyermark, and Elsa Zardini. Major subjects are Madagascar and Peru. There are slides on animals, phytogeography, ethnobotany, and forest features. The taxonomic collection is divided into monocots, dicots, and Bignoniaceae (his specialty). The geographic areas represented are Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Colombia, West Indies, Central America, North America, United States, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Asia, Australia, S.E. Asia, Africa, Madagascar, islands, Europe, and Temperate Asia.

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Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H Raven Library

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Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H Raven Library

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Krukoff, B. A.

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Krukoff (1898-1983) was a Russian immigrant who spent his career with Merck and Co. working with plants as sources of various drugs, including anesthetics, antimalarials, anthelmintics, and cortisone. He was a specialist on the American species of Strychnos. Between 1928 and 1955, he led numerous botanical expeditions to South America, Africa, and Sumatra to discover useful plants. From the description of Boris Alexander Krukoff papers, 1942-1982. (Missouri Botanical Garden). WorldCa...

Kapos, Valerie

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Diaz, Camilo.

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Ayala, Franklin, 1981-

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Nunez, Percy.

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Faber-Langendoen, Donald, 1958-

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Gentry, Alwyn H.

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Curator at the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1972-1993; botanist of tropical America; he received his Ph.D. from Washington University in 1972 and was a specialist in woody plants and the family Bignoniaceae. From the description of Alwyn Howard Gentry papers, 1967-1993. (Missouri Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 61772606 ...

Plowman, Timothy

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Schunke-Vigo, Jose M.

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Mori, Scott A., 1941-....

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Benavides, Olga de.

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Smith, David Nelson.

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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...

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Steyermark (1909-1988) received his Ph.D. in 1933 from the Henry Shaw School of Botany at Washington University; professor at the Field Museum in Chicago and the Instituto Botanico in Caracas, Venezuela; research associate at the Garden throughout his career and into retirement; botanist, plant explorer, and collector of Missouri and the American tropics. He was a specialist in the Rubiaceae, and wrote floras of Missouri, Guatemala, and Venezuela. From the description of Julian Alfre...

Raven, Peter H. 1936-

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Zardini, E. M. (Elsa M.)

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Berry, Paul E.

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Forero, Enrique, 1942-...

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Dillon, Michael O.

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Dodson, Calaway H. 1928-

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Cuadros, Hermes

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Clinebell, Richard Ray.

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Myers, Norman L., 1932-

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Renteria Arriaga, Enrique, 1950-

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