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Finding Aids to Records of Professional Societies in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 7141
International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology
Records, 1969-1973
Historical Note
The First International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology met in Boulder, Colorado, August 4-12, 1973. The idea for the meeting was conceived by Richard Sumner Cowan, National Museum of Natural History, and Frans Antonie Stafleu, University of Utrecht, Netherlands. The International Association for Plant Taxonomy and the Society of Systematic Zoology sponsored the meeting.
Introduction
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Descriptive Entry
These records pertain to the International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (ICSEB), 1969-1973, and were maintained by Sally W. Yochelson, administrative assistant, Office of the Director, National Museum of Natural History. Her arrangement of the records and description of their contents made possible this descriptive finding aid. Records include Steering Committee minutes and correspondence; program development and plans; keynote speaker correspondence; symposia organizer correspondence; abstracts of contributed papers, and photographs of the steering committee members.
Correspondents include Walter Bock, Charles E. Bracker, Martin A. Buzas, John O. Corliss, Richard Sumner Cowan, Theodore J. Crovello, Gilbert S. Daniels, Walter M. Fitch, Lawrence Gilbert, David W. Goodall, Stephen Jay Gould, Terrell H. Hamilton, Stephen P. Hubbell, David A. Hull, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., International Association for Plant Taxonomy, Richard Levins, Helen Niña Tappan, Askell Löve, Doris Löve, Malcolm C. McKenna, Lynn Margulis, James F. Mello, Robert W. Pennak, James A. Peters, Peter H. Raven, John R. Reeder, James L. Reveal, Robert K. Selander, Frans Antonie Stafleu, Society of Systematic Zoology, B. L. Turner, William A. Weber, David L. Wood, and Ellis L. Yochelson.
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Name
- Askell Löve, 1916-
- Bock, Walter
- Bracker, Charles E., 1895-1955
- Buzas, Martin A.
- Corliss, John O.
- Cowan, Richard S., 1921-
- Cowan, Richard S., 1921-1997
- Crovello, Theodore J.
- Daniels, Gilbert S.
- Fitch, Walter M., 1929-2011
- Gilbert, Lawrence
- Goodall, David W., 1914-
- Gould, Stephen Jay
- Hamilton, Terrell H.
- Hubbell, Stephen P., 1942-
- Hull, David A.
- Hurd, Paul David, 1921-
- International Association for Plant Taxonomy
- International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology
- Levins, Richard
- Löve, Doris
- Margulis, Lynn, 1938-2011
- McKenna, Malcolm C.
- Mello, James F., 1936-
- Pennak, Robert W. (Robert William)
- Peters, James Arthur, 1922-1972
- Raven, Peter H.
- Reeder, John R.
- Reveal, James L.
- Selander, Robert K.
- Society of Systematic Zoology (U.S.)
- Stafleu, Frans Antonie
- Tappan, Helen Niña, 1917-2004
- Turner, B. L. (Billie Lee), 1925-
- Weber, William A. (William Alfred), 1918-
- Wood, David L.
- Yochelson, Ellis L. (Ellis Leon), 1928-2006
- Yochelson, Sally W.
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7141, International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, Records