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Congress held in the same city. In 1964 he was appointed
Honorary Vice-Chairman of the X International Botanical Congress held in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was chairman of the Latin American Committee on National Parks (CLAPN) under the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) based in Switzerland. In 1967 it was incorporated as a Number Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Chile. Many honors were bestowed upon him, but most notably was his appointment, in 1974, as Knight in the Most Excellent Order of the Golden Ark by his Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, for outstanding service in the cause of nature conservation.
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Chilean vascular flora. He also actively participated in creating the National Botanical Garden in the Region of Valparaiso (Chile). His enthusiasm for taxonomic studies was crucial for the complete refurbishing of the National Herbarium located at the National
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Forestry School at the University of Chile. He
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Commission for the Protection of the Flora, Fauna, and Natural Scenic Beauty, which met in Washington (USA). That same year he was Vice President of the Biological Science Commission of the VIII American Scientific
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Spanish, including the "Bibliographic Index of Chilean Grasses (1941), "Synopsis of the Chilean Flora" (1959 and 1966), "Plant Species described by
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University of Chile, from which he graduated in 1937. During 1939 and 1940 he studied plant taxonomy in the United States of America (USA), first at
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On May 12, 1976, while he was participating in the conference “Extinction is forever: threatened and endangered species of plants in the
Americas and their significance in ecosystems today and in the future” at the
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Muñoz P., Carlos. 1966. Sinopsis de la flora chilena. Claves para la identificación de familias y géneros. Ediciones
Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, 2da edición, 500 págs., 243 lám. incl. en el texto, 4
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Muñoz P., Carlos. 1959. Sinopsis de la flora chilena. Claves para la identificación de familias y géneros. Ediciones
Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, 840 págs, 238 lám. incluidas en el texto, 5
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Muñoz P., Carlos. 1941. Índice bibliográfico de las gramíneas chilenas. Ministerio Agricultura, Departamento de Genética y Fitotécnica, Santiago de Chile. Boletín Técnico 2:1-88.
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Muñoz P., Carlos. 1960. Las especies de plantas descritas por R.A. Philippi en el siglo XIX. Ediciones Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, 189 págs.
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in commemoration of the Bicentennial of the United States of America, a heart attack ended his life at age 63.
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in the 19th Century" (1960), "Wild Flowers of Chile" (1966), and "Chile: Endangered Plants Species" (1973).
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