Schultes, Richard Evans

Schultes, Richard Evans, and Hofmann, Albert. Plants of the Gods. Rochester, VT Healing Arts Press, 1992. 

Schultes, Richard Evans and Albert Hofmann. 1979. Plants of the Gods— Origins of Hallucinogenic Use. New York McGraw-Hill Book Co. 

Schultes, Richard Evans, and Albert Hofmann. 1980. The botany and chemistry of hallucinogens. Revised and enlarged second edition. 

One month later, in mid-August, the Harvard botanist Richard Evans Schultes, also in Huautla,... 

Past experience has shown that for a divinatory plant to enlist the attention of the outside world two steps are usually necessary. First, it should be correctly and securely identified. Second, its chemistry should be convincingly worked out. Richard Evans Schultes settled the identity of ololiuhqui in the definitive paper published in 1941. OH It is the seed of a species of Convolvulaccne Rivea corymbosa (L.) Hall. hi. 

Richard Evans Schultes, PhD, FMLS Jeffrey Professor of Biology, Emeritus Director, Botanical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts... 

Mouton and Company, The Hague/Paris Gary Menser, Hallucinogenic and Poisonous Mushroom Field Guide Richard Evans Schultes, Professor of Natural Sciences Director Botanical Museum, Flarvard University, Oxford St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138 R.E.L. Masters and Jean Houston, The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience. 

Timothy Plowman, heir-designate of Richard Evans Schultes, who was one of the great Amazonian plant collectors and an expert on Coca and the Brunmansia and Brunfelsia families. 

The ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes sent samples of a cultivated Mexican morning glory to Hofmann in 1959, when it was still called Rivea corymbosa. He had seen it employed in divination by a Zapotec shaman in Oaxaca. Corymbosa is now considered one of five Turbina species—the only one appearing in the Americas. Though there are more than 500 species of Convolvulaceae widely scattered around the globe, they seem to have been used for their psychoactive properties only by tribes in the New World. 

In their four-volume The Cactaceae, written at the turn of the century, Britten and Rose describe 1,235 species of cacti the number of clearly identified species has since gone well beyond 3,000. Peyote is unusual among cacti, displaying spines only as a seedling. It has been found to produce more than sixty separate alkaloids and is thus, as Richard Evans Schultes described the plant, "a veritable chemical factory. In Peyote—The Divine Cactus, Edward... 

The Harvard recipient was the young ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, who had been a medical student until he happened upon Heinrich Kliiver s first monography on "mescal visions. As Schultes later wrote to Kliiver, reading that essay altered his life s course. Schultes changed his doctoral thesis to peyote use on the Kiowa reservation in Oklahoma and thereby began on a lifelong interest in mind-changing plants of the New World. 

Poetic Vision, RA. Durr (Syracuse U., 1970) Hallucinogenic Plants. Richard Evans Schultes (Golden Press, 1976)... 

We thank Dr. Richard Evans Schultes and the staff of the Harvard Botanical Museum for their help with illustrations and Anita McClellan, Karen Frankian, and Signe Warner for their part in tying together the many pieces of this work. 

See Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hofmann, Plants of the Gods, McGraw-Hill 1979 Schultes and Raffauf, vine of the Soul, Synergetic Press 1992 and the numerous references therein, (back)... 

Foster, S. 1984. Herbal Bounty The Gentle Art of Herb Culture. Gibbs M. Smith, Lay-ton,vr. Pte ce by Shiu YingHu, pp. 9-10 foreword by Richard Evans Schultes, p. ii. Foster, S. 1991. Milk thistle Silybum mari-anum American Botanical CouncilBotan-ical Series No, 305 1—8,... 

Ott, J. 1979B. Hallucinogenic Plants of North America. (Psycho-Mycological Studies Number One, Revised Edition) Wing-bow Press, Berkeley, ca. Introduction by Richard Evans Schultes, p, ix. 

Schleiffer, H, (Ed.) 1979. Narcotic [sic Plants of the Old World An Anthology of Texts JrvmAncient Times to the Present. Lubrecht Cramer, MonticeUo, ny. Introduction by Richard Evans Schultes, pp. 1-3. 

In 1897, Manuel Urbina identified ololiuhqui as the seed of Ipomoea sidaefolia (today known by the synonyms Rivea corymbosa and Turbina corymbosa-, Urbina 1897), an identification later accepted by B.P Reko (Reko 1919 Reko 192,9). Some incorrectly maintained that the Aztec snake plant was not a morning glory, but a species oiDatura, in the nightshade family, Solanaceae (Hartwich 1911 VA Reko 1936 Safford 1915). Finally in 1938, Bias Pablo Reko and Richard Evans Schultes collected the first good botanical voucher specimens of coaxihuitl and ololiuhqui, and definitively identified the plant as Turbina corymbosa (Schultes 1941). 

Cooke, M.C. i860. The Seven Sisters of Sleep. Popular History of the Seven Prevailing Narcotics of the World. Blackwell, London, England. Reprinted in facsimile in 1989 (Volume V, Bioactive Plants) by Quar-terman Publications, Lincoln, ma. With a foreword by Richard Evans Schultes and Michael R. Aldrich, pp. veI-xi. 

Hansen, H.A. Translation by M. Cross) 1978. The Witch s Garden. Unity Press-Michael Kesend, Santa Cruz, ca. Foreword to the English edition by Richard Evans Schultes, pp. ix—xii. Originally published as Heksens Urtegdrd. Laurens Bogtiykkeri, T0nder, Denmark, 1976,... 

Chinese Materia Medica. The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, uk. Foreword by Richard Evans Schultes, pp. nc— x preface by E. John Staba, p. xt. 

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