BSA, 1974

Consists of meeting minutes, correspondence, and notices relating to the administration and publications in the several organizations represented. Affiliations include the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Institute for Biological Sciences (IABS), the Botanical Society of America (BSA), Flora North America (FNA), the Torrey Botanical Club (TBC), and three International Botanical Congresses. As council member of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT), Cronquist received documents relating to the founding of the organization in 1936 and correspondence of the first 25 years of the society's existence. These files, all prior to Cronquist's ASPT stewardship, have been removed from the collection and placed with the records of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (Repository Archives, NYBG).