Research Training Program

Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History

PROJECT SUMMARY
1989

Tina Schaffer
California State University - Sacramento
Sacramento, CA

Robert DeFilipps, Ph.D.
Project Advisor
Department of Botany

"The staff at the Smithsonian is a caring group of professionals. I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to work with them."

Tina Schaffer

Checklist of Medicinal Plants of the Guianas

This project involved the preparation of manuscripts which included an examination of literature for data on medicinal plants. This also involved arranging illustrations of plants, preparing information to be entered into a computer word processing system, and various other duties. This research involves the study of "potentially useful tropical plant species as a premise for the conservation of plant resources and habitats."