Abstract
Abstract Professor Ghillean (lain) Prance was appointed Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1988, after spending 25 years in the United States. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on the Amazon rainforests. After graduation and the award of a doctorate at Oxford University, Iain Prance went to New York on what was intended to be a temporary appointment at the New York Botanical Gardens; in the event, he stayed on to become, in 1968, Curator of Amazonian Botany. He was subsequently appointed Director of Research at the New York Botanical Gardens and then Director of its Institute of Economic Botany. He held Visiting Professorships at the City University of New York and at Yale University. He was Leader of the United States Amazonian Exploration Program for 20 years and visited the region on numerous occasions. He is the author of several books on botany and Amazonia.
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