The Paul S. Martin papers 1910-2006

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The Paul S. Martin papers 1910-2006

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.

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Botanical laboratories-Arizona-Tucson-History

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Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution

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Established by Volney M. Spaulding and William A. Cannon at Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Arizona, in 1903, sold to the U.S. Forest Service in 1940, later sold to the University of Arizona in 1960. Its purpose was the research of adaptation of desert plants to their environment. The Laboratory was directed by D.T. MacDougal from 1906 to 1918, then by Forrest Shreve from 1929 to 1938. By 1920, the Coastal Laboratory was established in Carmel, California with MacDougal as director. From the de...

Martin, Paul S., (Paul Schultz), 1928-2010

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Paul Schultz Martin was born August 22, 1928 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. in Zoology from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1951. He then earned a Master's degree in Zoology in 1953, followed by a Ph.D. in Zoology in 1956, both from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His early career aspiration to focus on collecting and studying plant and fossil specimens from tropical rainforests was cut short when he contracted polio at age 23 while in Mexico. After...

Martin, Paul S. 1882-

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Paul Schultz Martin was born August 22, 1928 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. in Zoology from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1951. He then earned a Master’s degree in Zoology in 1953, followed by a Ph.D. in Zoology in 1956, both from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His early career aspiration to focus on collecting and studying plant and fossil specimens from tropical rainforests was cut short when he contracted polio at age 23 while in Mexico. After...