| 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. | |