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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 00-131
National Museum of Natural History. Department of Botany
Flora North America Project Records, 1967-1983
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of correspondence and grant proposals pertaining to the Flora North America (FNA) Project. FNA was a project to create a computerized data bank of information about the vascular plants of North America north of Mexico. The FNA Project was organized in 1966 by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, and was funded, in large part, by the National Science Foundation, in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution. Funding for the Project ended in 1972. These records were created and maintained by Stanwyn G. Shetler, Program Secretary, 1967-1971; and Program Director, 1972.
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Name
- Shetler, Stanwyn G.
- National Science Foundation (U.S.)
- Flora North America Project
- American Society of Plant Taxonomists
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 00-131, National Museum of Natural History. Department of Botany, Flora North America Project Records