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This book is based on 40 years of tropical plant collecting in Central and South America by the senior author and his colleagues and, in particular, draws from his experience in publishing a guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana and a monograph of the Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae). Although traditional field and herbarium techniques are discussed in detail, the book also covers how new techniques provided by digital photography, electronic databases, and the Internet have revolutionized plant collecting and data presentation in systematic botany. The audience for this book is tropical biologists who, as part of their field work, need to gather botanical specimens to document their scientific studies. The book will also be useful for those taking field biology courses in the tropics.