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The article offers the author's insight on Richard Evans Schultes, an ethnobotanist and editor of the journal "Society for Economic Botany," from 1962 to 1979 who died on April 10, 2001. He says that Schultes can be rightfully called the father of modern ethnobotany, due to his numerous researches in the field. He adds that the book "The Healing Forest," written by Schultes and Raffauf is a medicinal plant book which describe the uses of 1600 species of plants found in the Northwest of Amazonia.