From Plant Press Vol. 9, Issue 2, from April 2006.
The goals of the Smithsonian are the increase and diffusion of knowledge. There are many ways of accomplishing these goals. On the diffusion side we scientists can publish papers, give talks at meetings and for the public, and train students and staff. The Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield program (Vicki A. Funk, Director and Carol L. Kelloff, Assistant Director) has taken the additional step of helping Guyana publish a new scientific journal. The Contributions to the Study of Biological Diversity, a new publication series aimed at contribution to our knowledge about the Guyana region, is published out of the Centre for the Study of Biological Diversity, University of Guyana (UG) in Georgetown, Guyana. It is edited by Philip DaSilva, Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences (UG) and Funk and Kelloff (SI). The first volume was published in 2003 and contained a paper by Kelloff. The second volume has just been published (December 2005) and it contains three papers by graduating seniors at UG. These papers represent a milestone for UG in training its students to be productive members of the conservation and biodiversity communities in Guyana.
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