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| | 1 | Author: | Shreve, Forrest, 1878-1950. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Forrest Shreve speeches
1920-1933 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1920-1933 | | | | Abstract: | Forrest Shreve, 1878-1950, was a botanist, desert plant ecologist; on the staff of the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie
Institution, Tucson, Arizona, from 1908 to 1929, director from 1929 to 1938. Collection includes transcripts of five speeches,
including author's corrections, relating to Shreve's work at the laboratory. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Botany -- Arizona -- Tucson. | Desert ecology -- Arizona. | Desert plants -- Arizona. | | | | Matches:
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| ...of the Carnegie Institution, Tucson, Arizona, from 1908 to...
...Botany -- Arizona -- Tucson. Desert ecology -- Arizona....
...of the Carnegie Institution, Tucson, Arizona, from 1908 to...
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| 2 | Author: | McGinnies, William Grovernor, 1899-1990. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | The Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: History and Achievements
1981 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1981 | | | | Abstract: | William Grovenor McGinnies was an arid lands ecologist, educator; University of Arizona Assistant Professor, 1927-1929,
Associate Professor, 1930-1932, Acting Head of the Botany Department, 1932-1935, Director of Lab Tree Research, 1960-1964,
Director of Office of Arid Land Studies and Professor of Dendrochronology, 1965-1969, Research ecologist Office of Arid Land Studies,
1969-1974. Originally published as Discovering the Desert: Legacy of the Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory, by the University of
Arizona Press, Tucson, 1981. Original typescript with figures and photographs. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Botanical laboratories -- Arizona -- Tucson. | Desert ecology -- Arizona. | Desert ecology -- Sonoran Desert. | Desert plants -- Arizona. | Desert plants -- Sonoran Desert. | | | | Matches:
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| ...University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1981. Related materials...
...laboratories -- Arizona -- Tucson. Desert ecology --...
...of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1981. Original typescript with...
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| 3 | Author: | Desert Botanical Laboratory of the
Carnegie Institution | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Desert Botanical
Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution records,
1903-1985 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1903-1985 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains chiefly correspondence, along with reports,
minutes of meetings, and financial records related to the establishment,
development, and operation of the Desert Laboratory and Coastal Laboratory
under directors Daniel T. MacDougal and Forrest Shreve. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Desert plants -- Arizona | Desert plants -- Sonoran Desert | Desert ecology -- Arizona | Desert ecology -- Sonoran Desert | Plant ecology -- Arizona | Plant ecologists -- Correspondence | Botanists -- Correspondence | Botanical laboratories -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History --
Sources | Botanical laboratories -- California -- Carmel -- History --
Sources | | | | Matches:
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| ...Property: Tucson, Arizona. 1920-1933...
...Property: Tucson and Carmel. 1928-1933...
...Streets, Mrs. R. B. , Tucson, Arizona. 1925-1927...
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| 4 | Author: | Martin, Paul S. (Paul Schultz),
1928-2010 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Paul S. Martin papers, 1910-2006 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1910-2006 | | | | Abstract: | This collection consists of professional correspondence,
research files and publication files of paleoecologist and geoscientist Dr. Paul S.
Martin, Emeritus Professor of Geosciences at the University of Arizona. Collection also
includes material relating to Tumamoc Hill Desert Laboratory, where Dr. Martin worked
and conducted research for more than 50 years. Completing the collection are nine
scrapbooks of newspaper clippings about ecological, social and political issues
collected by Paul S. Martin from 1951-1970. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Evolutionary
paleoecology | Desert ecology -- Sonoran Desert | Botanical laboratories -- Arizona -- Tucson --
History | | | | Matches:
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| ...The Tucson, Arizona, Flood of October 1983," National...
...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
...laboratories -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History Desert...
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| 5 | Author: | unknown | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Gale Monson papers1889-2003
(bulk 1920-1950) ead | | | | Date(s): | unknown | | | | Abstract: | The Gale Monson papers document the day-to-day life and work of
Gale Monson, a longtime Tucson naturalist and birder, over a period of eight years.
Daily journals and diaries describe life events as well as plant and animal sightings in
the Greater Southwestern United States, Northern Mexico, Europe, and Africa. Journals
are accompanied by photographic slides, as well as limited ephemeral materials. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Bird watching | Diaries -- Authorship | Bird watchers | Plant ecology | | | | Matches:
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| ...The Birds of Arizona. Tucson: The University of Arizona...
...including the May 1988 Tucson Audubon Society "Birdathon."...
...weather conditions. During this time Monson lived in Tucson....
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| 8 | Author: | Taylor, Walter P. (Walter Penn), 1888-1972. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Ecology
1939 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1939 | | | | Abstract: | Photocopy of typescript by Taylor; contains holographic edits and additions by Shantz. This work is a comprehensive text on general
ecology and contains a substantial bibliography. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Conservation of natural resources. | Ecology. | | | | Matches:
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| ...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
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| 9 | Author: | Shantz, H.L. (Homer LeRoy), 1876-1958 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Homer Leroy Shantz
papers,
1903-1958 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1903-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Field notebooks, reprint articles, speeches,
survey abstracts, photographs, diaries, and correspondence pertaining to
Shantz's interests in worldwide agriculture and botany. Shantz's various trips
to Africa resulted in extensive field notes, including those for the
Smithsonian African Expedition, 1919 to 1920, and the African Education
Commission, 1923 to 1924. Background material he collected about Africa
encompasses maps; postcards; dictionaries and primers on languages, including
Swahili; also, articles on the people, the areas they inhabited, and specific
problems, such as the tsetse fly, sleeping sickness, forced labor, and race
relations. Photographs of his travels from the Cape to Cairo depict the Nile,
Egyptian ruins, wild and domestic animals, vegetation and the landscape,
villages and cities, and people in tribal dress. Communal activities documented
include cultivation, thatching roofs, building a road, and weaving a large
bamboo mat to cover a bridge walkway. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Plant ecology -- Africa | Plant ecology -- United States | Vegetation surveys -- South America | Vegetation surveys -- Colorado | Vegetation surveys -- Africa | Swahili language -- Dictionaries -- English | English language -- Dictionaries -- Swahili | Agriculture -- Africa | Soils -- Africa | Agriculture -- United States | Soils -- United States | Africa -- Description and travel | | | | Matches:
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| ...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
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| 10 | Author: | Anderson, Robert | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Cochise County Agricultural
Extension glass plates collection, undated ead | | | | Date(s): | undated | | | | Abstract: | Glass plate negatives from the Cochise County Agriculutral
Extension, largely in part dealing with tree care, animal husbandy, prairie dog
problems, tomatoes, and several untitled glass plates. Plates are undated. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Agricultural extension work -- Arizona | Plant ecology -- Arizona | Plant diseases -- Southwest, New | Animal industry -- Arizona | Trees, Care of | | | | Matches:
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| ...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
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| 11 | Author: | Powell, Brian | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Brian Powell papers,
2000-2005 ead | | | | Date(s): | 2000-2005 | | | | Abstract: | This collection
includes groupings of data collected by Brian Powell and others in relation to the Sonoran
Desert Inventory and Monitoring Network. Ecologists working with the Sonoran Desert
Inventory and Monitoring Network aim to collect pertinent information on plants, water, air,
birds, and climate by making observations at eleven National Park Service units. These
inventories, collected by Powell, include information on birds, amphibians and reptiles
(identified as 'herps' in the inventories), mammals, and plants at different locations
across Arizona. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Desert plants -- Arizona -- Sonoran Desert | Desert ecology -- Arizona | Birds -- Conservation | Birds -- Arizona | Birders (Observers) | Herpetology | Amphibian culture | Reptile culture | Trapping | | | | Matches:
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| ...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
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| 12 | Author: | Barrett, Thomas W. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Thomas W. Barrett papers,
1910-1988
1955-1985 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1910-1988 | | | | Abstract: | Thomas W. Barrett was born September 6, 1917 in Orem, Utah, on
a fruit farm. While growing up on the family farm, Barrett became interested in crops,
soils, and would later find a passion for agronomy (the science of soil management and
crop production). The Thomas W. Barrett papers include personal correspondence,
photographs, and a few family papers. A majority of the collection consists of research
correspondence, photographs, negatives, transparency slides, research files, field
notes, and publications by both Barrett and other agronomists and
agriculturalists. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Agriculture -- Arizona | Agriculture -- Arizona -- Sulphur Springs Valley | Agronomy | Soils -- Arizona | Soil Conservation -- Arizona | Science -- Study and teaching -- Arizona | Plants -- Effect of sulfur dioxide
on | Plant ecology | Air -- Pollution -- Arizona | Air pollution control
industry | | | | Matches:
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| ...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
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