Desert Botanical Laboratory of the
Carnegie Institution records,
1903-1985
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Desert Botanical Laboratory of the
Carnegie Institution records,
1903-1985 AZ 356 Creator:
Desert Botanical Laboratory of the
Carnegie Institution Collection Name: Desert Botanical
Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution records,
Inclusive Dates: 1903-1985 Physical Description: 4 linear feet 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. Collection Number: AZ 356 Repository:
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
University of Arizona
PO Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Phone: 520-621-6423
Fax: 520-621-9733
URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/
Historical NoteThe Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution was
established by Volney M. Spaulding and William A. Cannon at Tumamoc Hill,
Tucson, Arizona, in 1903. It was sold to the U.S. Forest Service in 1940, and
later to the University of Arizona in 1960. The purpose of the laboratory was
to research the 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, a related institution, the Coastal Laboratory was established
in Carmel, California with MacDougal as director.
Scope and Content NoteThis 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. Correspondents include
Carnegie Institution officials, the Smithsonian Institution, laboratory staff
members Godfrey Sykes and Herman A. Spoehr, Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, William
Boyce Thompson, Andrew E. Douglass, and Mary Austin, as well as societies,
herbariums, and universities around the world. Additional correspondence
relates to equipment, scientific societies, plant exchanges and collecting, the
University of Arizona, and personal material of both Shreve and MacDougal.
Organization This collection is organized into seven series: Restrictions
None.
Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish
from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record,
the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The
user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the
University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all
claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
A related collection of D. T. MacDougal Papers can be found at the
Arizona Historical Society, MS0452.
Separated Material Slides received with the collection were removed and cataloged
separately.
Access TermsPersonal Name(s) Douglass, A. E. (Andrew Ellicott),
1867-1962 -- Correspondence
Austin, Mary Hunter, 1868-1934 --
Correspondence
Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935 --
Correspondence
MacDougal, Daniel Trembly,
1865-1958
Shreve, Forrest, 1878-1950
Spoehr, Herman Augustus, 1885-1954 --
Correspondence
Sykes, Godfrey, 1861-1948 --
Correspondence
Thompson, William Boyce, 1869-1930 --
Correspondence
Corporate Name(s) Carnegie Institution of
Washington
Carnegie Institution of Washington. Coastal
Laboratory
Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie
Institution -- Archives
University of Arizona -- History
Geographic Name(s) Sonoran Desert -- Research
Tumamoc Hill (Ariz.)
Subject(s) Desert ecology -- Sonoran Desert
Botanical laboratories -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History --
Sources
Botanical laboratories -- California -- Carmel -- History --
Sources
Botanists -- Correspondence
Desert ecology -- Arizona
Desert plants -- Arizona
Desert plants -- Sonoran Desert
Plant ecologists -- Correspondence
Plant ecology -- Arizona
Genre Form(s) Correspondence
Credit Line
Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution records(AZ 356).
Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
Container List Series I: Carnegie Institution Officials Records and
Correspondence,
1903-1938 box folder 1 1 Reports.
, 1905-1906,
1909 1 1 Minutes of Executive Meeting.
, January 18,
1910 1 2-9 Correspondence: Woodward, R. S. (President).
, 1905-1913 box folder 2 1-2 Correspondence: Woodward, R. S. (President).
, 1914-1916,
1920 2 3-8 Correspondence: Merriam, John C. (President).
, ca. 1914,
1920-1937 2 9-11 Correspondence: MacDougal, D. T. and Shreve, Forrest.
, 1913-1937 box folder 3 1 Correspondence: Baker, Marcus (Assistant Secretary).
, August 10, 1903-October 12,
1903 3 2-10 Correspondence: Gilbert, Walter M. (Assistant Secretary,
Administrative Secretary).
, 1905-1937 box folder 4 1-6 Correspondence: Wirt, John L. (Bursar).
, 1905-1917,
1920-1924 4 7 Correspondence: Wirt, John L. and Varela, E. A. (Bursar)
, 1925-1937 4 8-9 Correspondence: Barnum, William (Chief Clerk, Editor,
Division of Publications).
, 1904-1916 4 10 Correspondence: Barnum, William and Bunker, Frank F.
(Editors, Division of Publications).
, 1920-1928 4 11 Correspondence: Bunker, Frank F. (Editor, Division of
Publications).
, 1929-1938 box folder 5 1-3 Alcohol Reports and Orders.
, 1915-1916,
1925-1937 5 4 Financial Statements, Notes, "Budget Items."
, 1907-1930 5 5 Wage Accounts.
, March 1928-December
1929 5 5 Petty Cash Account.
, 1928-1929 5 6 Purchase Orders.
, October 1927-December
1929 5 7 Correspondence and Records: Fifth Avenue Bank, New York.
, 1910-1928 5 8 Correspondence: Southern Arizona Bank and Trust Co.
, 1911-1936 5 9 Records: Southern Arizona Bank & Trust Co.
, 1928-1936 box folder 6 1-5 Correspondence: Rose, J. N. (Smithsonian Institution,
Research Associate with the Carnegie Institution, 1912-1921, and Associate
Curator, Division of Plants, U. S. National Museum, 1922-1928).
, 1912-1928
Series II: Desert Laboratory Records and Correspondence,
1905-1937 box folder 7 1 Correspondence: Laboratory construction, telephone, etc.
, 1910-1931 7 2 Correspondence: Arizona State Land Commission, Taxes,
Forest Service.
, 1913-1934 7 3 Correspondence: Breitenbecher, J. K. (Staff).
, 1910, 191520
1920-1925 7 3 Correspondence: Krieger, L. C. C. (Staff).
, 1915 7 3 Correspondence: Leamon, William G. (Staff).
, 1916 7 3 Correspondence: Waller, J. C. (Staff).
, 1916,
1925 7 3 Correspondence: Minzey, J. H. (Staff).
, 1927-1928 7 3 Correspondence: Kenny, Richard (Staff).
, 1933 7 3 Correspondence: Hinckley, Arthur (Staff).
, 1934 7 4 Correspondence: Bovee, B. R. (Staff).
, 1914,
1920-1930 7 5 Correspondence: Cannon, W. A. (Staff).
, 1905,
1915-1934 7 6 Correspondence: Fraps, Mason (Staff).
, 1926-1936 7 7 Correspondence: Mallery, T. D. (Staff).
, 1929-1936 7 8 Correspondence: Runyon, E. H. (Staff).
, 1928-1937 7 9 Correspondence: Sinclair, J. G. (Staff).
, 1913-1915 7 10 Correspondence: Spalding, V. M. and Spalding, Effie, S.
, 1913-1932 7 11 Correspondence: Tower, W. L. (Staff).
, 1912-1924 7 12 Correspondence: Turnage, William V. (Staff).
, 1935-1937 7 13 Correspondence: Working, E. B. (Staff).
, 1920-1937 box folder 8 1-7 Correspondence: Sykes, Godfrey (Staff).
, 8 8 Correspondence: Sykes, Stanley, Gilbert and Glenton.
, 1920-1936 box folder 9 1-3 Correspondence: Strickland, J. C. (Office Secretary).
, 1911-1915 9 4 Correspondence: Strickland, J. C., Huber, Rena, and
Gillies, E. (Office Secretaries).
, 1916-1920 9 5 Correspondence: Huber, Rena (Office Secretary).
, 1921 9 6 Correspondence: Huber, Rena, Maguire, Mary, Mrs.
Strickland (Office Secretaries).
, 1922-1924 9 7-8 Correspondence: Bois, R. S. (Office Secretary).
, 1925-1926 9 9 Correspondence: Keddington, Mrs. Iva and others (Office
Secretaries).
, 1927-1937
Series III: Coastal Laboratory Correspondence,
1910-1938 box folder 10 1 Correspondence: Laboratory construction, land, etc.
, 1912-1925 10 2-6 Correspondence: Pestell, W. A. (Office).
, 1927-1937 10 7 Correspondence: Aucourt, Harry (Staff).
, 1920-1929 10 8 Correspondence: Ballou, Fremont O. (Staff).
, 1925-1933 10 9 Correspondence: Haasis, Ferdinand W. (Staff).
, 1930-1935 10 10 Correspondence: McGee, J. M. (Staff).
, 1916-1924 10 11 Correspondence: McLean, F. T. (Staff).
, 1920-1928 10 12 Correspondence: Tag, Tessie (Staff).
, 1914-1915 10 12 Correspondence: Dutra, J. (Staff).
, 1916 10 12 Correspondence: Cherry, C. W. (Staff).
, 1920-1921 10 12 Correspondence: Goold, C. O. (Staff).
, 1920-1921 10 12 Correspondence: Ridgway, J. L. (Staff).
, 1921 10 12 Correspondence: Newton, William (Staff).
, 1924-1926 10 12 Correspondence: Daugherty, L. (Staff).
, 1924 10 12 Correspondence: Mawdsley, P. (Staff).
, 1925 10 12 Correspondence: Wilbur, P. C. (Staff).
, 1925-1928 10 12 Correspondence: Young, W. G. (Staff).
, 1925-1928 10 12 Correspondence: Immink, D. H.
, 1927-1929 box folder 11 1 Correspondence: G. Stieglitz and A. Smith (University of
Chicago) regarding H. A. Spoehr.
, 1910 11 2-9 Correspondence: Spoehr, H. A. (Staff).
, 1913-1938
Series IV: General Records and Correspondence,
1905-1938 Records and Correspondence of Other Institutions and
Research Divisions,
1905-1937 box folder 12 1 Correspondence: Clements, F. E., Alpine Laboratory,
Manitou, Colorado.
, 1913,
1920-1927 12 1 Correspondence: Lotfield, G., Alpine Laboratory,
Manitou, Colorado.
, 1921-1922 12 2 Correspondence: Kidder, A. V., Division of Historical
Research, Andover, Massachusetts.
, 1934-1935 12 2 Correspondence: Scott, Donald, Division of Historical
Research, Andover, Massachusetts.
, 1935-1936 12 3 Correspondence: Hall, Harvey M., Division of Plant
Biology, Stanford University, California.
, 1924-1931 12 4 Correspondence: Smith, James H.C., Division of Plant
Biology, Stanford University, California.
, 1924-1937 12 5 Correspondence: Harris, J. Arthur, Station for
Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York.
, 1915-1923 12 5 Correspondence: Harris, J. Arthur, Department of Botany,
University of Minnesota.
, 1925-1930 12 6 Correspondence: Blakeslee, A. F., Station for
Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York.
, 1923-1937 12 6 Correspondence: Davenport, Charles B., Station for
Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York.
, 1920-1929 12 7 Correspondence: Chaney, Ralph W., Long, Frances and
Keck, David D. box folder 13 1 Correspondence: U. S. Navy Department regarding Helium.
, 1919-1923 13 2-5 Correspondence: Free, Edward E.
, 1912-1934 13 6 Free, Edward E. Articles. 13 7 Correspondence: Cattell, J. McKeen (Editor,
Science ).
, 1905-1928 13 8 Correspondence: Science Service.
, 1920-1937 13 9 Science Service, Minutes of Meetings.
, 1920-1930 13 10 Science Service, Financial Statements.
, 1922-1930 General Correspondence,
1907-1937 box folder 14 1 Correspondence: Ashby, Eric, England.
, 1930-1936 14 2 Correspondence: Ayer, Edward E.
, 1921,
1923 14 3 Correspondence: Babcock, Ernest B., University of
California Agricultural Experiment Station, Berkeley.
, 1921-1923 14 3 Correspondence: Lesley, J. W., California.
, 1921-1923 14 4 Correspondence: Bailey, L. H., Ithaca, New York.
, 1924,
1936-1937 14 5 Correspondence: Bakke, A. L., Department of Botany, Iowa
State College.
, 1920-1937 14 6 Correspondence: Becking, L. B., Department of Botany,
Stanford University.
, 1920-1929 14 7 Correspondence: Bowman, Isiah, American Geographical
Society.
, 1921-1934 14 8 Correspondence: Britton, N. L., New York Botanical
Garden.
, 1910-1928 14 8 Correspondence: Howe, Marshall, New York Botanical
Garden.
, 1910-1928 14 9 Correspondence: Buxton, P. A., England.
, 1921-1931 14 10 Correspondence: Cahalane, Victor H., Cranbrook Institute
of Science.
, 1932-1934 14 11 Correspondence: Carrel, Alexis, Rockefeller Institute
for Medical Research.
, 1927 14 12 Correspondence: Castetter, E. F., Department of Botany,
University of New Mexico.
, 1931-1937 14 13 Correspondence: Clarke, Beverly L., Food Research
Institute, Stanford University.
, 1924-1931 14 14 Correspondence: Clowes, G. H. A., Eli Lilly and Co.
, 1920-1928 14 15 Correspondence: Cole, A. C., Jr., U. S. D. A., Bureau of
Entomology.
, 1932-1935 14 16 Correspondence: Compton, R. H., National Botanic
Gardens, Union of South Africa.
, 1929-1932 14 17 Correspondence: Conkin, E. G., Department of Biology,
Princeton, University.
, 1920-1925 14 18 Correspondence: Cooper, William S., Department of
Botany, University of Minnesota.
, 1920-1936 14 19 Correspondence: Coulter, John M., Department of Botany,
University of Chicago.
, 1907, 1920-1924,
1928-1929 14 20 Correspondence: Coulter, Stanley, School of Science,
Purdue University.
, 1921-1925 14 21 Correspondence: Coville, Frederick V., (U. S. D. A.,
Bureau of Plant Industry.
, 1921,
1931-1936 14 22 Correspondence: Czaja, A. T., Germany.
, 1923-1924 14 23 Correspondence: Dean, Eva (artist).
, 1924-1934 14 24 Correspondence: De Forest, H. W., New York Botanical
Garden, Department of Botany, University of Southern California.
, 1928-1937 14 25 Correspondence: Dellenbaugh, F. S.
, 1920-1930 14 26 Correspondence: Dice, Lee R., Museum of Zoology,
University of Michigan.
, 1928-1937 14 27 Correspondence: Duggar, B. M., Missouri Botanical
Garden, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin.
, 1928-1937 14 28 Correspondence: Emerson, Fred W., New Mexico Normal
University.
, 1931-1933 14 29 Correspondence: Farrand, Max, Huntington Library,
regarding the cactus garden.
, 1929 14 30 Correspondence: Fritsch, F. E., Department of Botany,
University of London, England.
, 1929-1932 box folder 15 1 Correspondence: Gager, C. Stuart, Brooklyn Botanical
Garden.
, 1915-1929 15 2 Correspondence: Gustafson, F. G., Department of Botany,
University of Michigan.
, 1932-1937 15 3 Correspondence: Harding, John W., American correspondent
for the London
Daily Chronicle .
, 1920-1929 15 4 Correspondence: Harper, R. A., Department of Botany,
Columbia University, University of Alabama.
, 1920-1930 15 5 Correspondence: Harshberger, John W., Botany Department,
University of Pennsylvania.
, 1920-1925 15 6 Correspondence: Hellmich, Walter, Zoologische Sammlung,
Munchen, Germany.
, 1932-1933 15 7 Correspondence: Herrera, Alphonse L., Direccion de
Estudios Biologicos, Mexico.
, 1920-1928 15 8 Correspondence: Hobbs, William H., Department of
Geology, University of Michigan.
, 1924-1925 15 9 Correspondence: Hornaday, William T, New York Zoological
Society.
, 1915-1929 15 10 Correspondence: Humphrey, Robert R., Department of
Botany, University of Minnesota.
, 1930-1936 15 11 Correspondence: Hunnington, Ellsworth, Yale University.
, 1912-1935 15 12 Correspondence: Johnson, Duncan S., Botanical Garden and
Lab, Johns Hopkins University.
, 1915-1937 15 13 Correspondence: Jones, J. S., College of Engineering,
University of Nevada.
, 1914-1915 15 14 Correspondence: Killian, C., Lab de Botanique,
University d'Alger, Algeria.
, 1930-1933 15 15 Correspondence: Kinsey, Alfred C., Department of
Zoology, Indiana University.
, 1920,
1925 15 16 Correspondence: Lee, Frederic L., New York Botanical
Garden.
, 1923-1929 15 17-19 Correspondence: Livingston, Burton E., Lab of Plant
Physiology, Johns Hopkins University.
, 1910-1937 15 20 Correspondence: Lloyd, Francis E., Department of Botany,
McGill University, Montreal.
, 1914-1932 15 21 Correspondence: Long, Esmond R., University of Chicago,
Henry Phipps Institute.
, 1920-1935 15 22 Correspondence: Lotsy, J. P., Holland.
, 1922-1923 box folder 16 1 Correspondence: McKee, Edwin, National Park Service.
, 1929-1934 16 2 Correspondence: Magnes, Judah L., Hebrew University,
Palestine.
, 1931-1933 16 3 Correspondence: Mead, Pauline, Department of Botany,
University of Chicago, National Park Service.
, 1929-1931 16 4 Correspondence: Menninger, C. F., Menninger Clinic,
Kansas.
, 1932-1934 16 5 Correspondence: Merrill, Elmer D., Bureau of Science,
Philippine Islands; New York Botanical Garden.
, 1914-1930 16 6 Correspondence: Meyer, Bernard S., Department of Botany,
Ohio State University.
, 1928-1932 16 7 Correspondence: Moore, George T., Missouri Botanical
Garden.
, 1913-1934 16 8 Correspondence: More, Louis T., University of
Cincinnati.
, 1924-1925 16 9 Correspondence: National Research Council.
, 1921-1932 16 10-11 Correspondence: Overton, J. B., Department of Botany,
University of Wisconsin.
, 1925-1932 16 12 Correspondence: Parish, S. B., San Bernardino,
California.
, 1913-1916 16 13 Correspondence: Peirce, G. J., Department of Botany,
Stanford University.
, 1913-1932 16 14 Correspondence: Richards, Herbert M., Department of
Botany, Barnard College, Columbia University.
, 1913-1929,
1937 16 15 Correspondence: Schratz, E., Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fur
Biologie, Berlin.
, 1927-1934 16 16 Correspondence: Schroter, Carl, Zurich, Switzerland.
, 1914-1926 16 17 Correspondence: Seifriz, William, Botanical Lab,
University of Pennsylvania.
, 1922-1937 16 18 Correspondence: Setchell, William A., Department of
Botany, University of California, Berkley.
, 1913-1929 16 19 Correspondence: Shull, George H., Department of Biology,
Princeton University.
, 1913-1926 16 20 Correspondence: Skottsberg, Carl, University of Upsala,
Sweden.
, 1913,
1934-1935 16 21 Correspondence: Small, J. K., New York Botanical Garden.
, 1920-1936 16 22 Correspondence: Smith, Gilbert, Department of Botany,
Stanford University.
, 1926-1929 box folder 17 1 Correspondence: Snow, Laetitia M., Department of Botany,
Wellesley College.
, 1920-1934 17 2 Correspondence: Thompson, William Boyce, Superior,
Arizona.
, 1924-1925 17 3 Correspondence: Thompson, W. Gilman, New York.
, 1921-1927 17 4 Correspondence: Ulehla, Vladimir and Moravek, Vladimir,
Institute for Plant Physiology, Masaryk University, Czechoslovakia.
, 1924-1928 17 5 Correspondence: Walter, Heinrich, Botanical Institute,
Heidelberg and Stuttgart, Germany.
, 1929-1936 17 6 Correspondence: Weaver, J. E., Department of Botany,
University of Nebraska.
, 1927-1935 17 7 Correspondence: Wilson, Edwin B., Department of Zoology,
Columbia University, Department of Vital Statistics, Harvard University.
, 1920-1926 17 8 Correspondence: Wright, John S., Eli Lilly and Co.
, 1921-1928 17 9-11 Miscellaneous Correspondence.
, 1907,
1912-1937 Includes letters about a shipment of tortoises, May 6-10, 1924
and a letter from George Sarton, December 22, 1929. 17 12 Correspondence regarding soil analysis, temperature,
moisture content, rain gauges, etc.
, 1929-1937 17 13 Correspondence: Invitations.
, 1921-1935 17 14 Correspondence: Carnegie Institution Exhibits.
, 1923-1935 17 15 Correspondence from visitors.
, 1909-1937 Includes requests to visit the Laboratory, thank you notes, and
information regarding the Desert Laboratory Tea, given by Dr. and Mrs. Shreve,
April 3, 1929. Guayule and Dendrograph Correspondence,
1912-1937 box folder 18 1 Miscellaneous correspondence on Guayule.
, 1913-1932 Includes letters to and from Cleveland Dodge, 1915 & 1920,
and Russian professor N. Maximov in Leningrad. 18 2 Correspondence: Requests for Information on Guayule and
rubber.
, 1915-1913 18 3 Correspondence: Dendograph patent and advertising.
, 1921-1924 18 4 Miscellaneous correspondence on the Dendrograph.
, 1919-1932 18 5 Correspondence: Antes, Ernest American Geographical
Society.
, 1923-1927 18 6 Correspondence: Bailey, I. W., Bussey Institution,
Harvard University.
, 1919-1931 18 7 Correspondence: Craighead, F. C., Department of
Argiculture, Ottawa,; U. S. D. A, Bureau of Entomology.
, 1922-1926 18 8 Correspondence: Dixon, Henry, H., School of Botany,
Trinity College, Dublin.
, 1924-1929 18 9 Correspondence: Korstian, C. F., U. S. D. A., Forest
Service.
, 1920-1936 18 10 Correspondence: McCallum, W. B., Rubber Exploration Co.,
California.
, 1912-1928 18 11 Correspondence: Pearson, G. A., U. S. D. A., Forest
Service.
, 1920-1936 18 12 Correspondence: Pole-Evans, T. B., Division of Botany,
Union of South Africa.
, 1920-1922 Includes a letter from Prime Minister, Jan Smuts. 18 13 Correspondence: Reed, H. S., Citrus Experiment Station,
University of California, Riverside.
, 1919-1932 18 14 Correspondence: Streets, Mrs. R. B., Tucson, Arizona.
, 1925-1927 18 15 Correspondence: Sumner, F. B., Scripps Institution,
University of California, La Jolla.
, 1920-1933 18 16 Correspondence: Von Schrenk, Herman, Consulting Timber
Engineer, St. Louis.
, 1913-1933 18 17 Miscellaneous correspondence regarding McDougal's
articles on the Dendograph and tree growth.
, 1919-1930 Includes letter from Gifford Pinchot, July 29, 1921. Correspondence Regarding Plant Exchanges and Collecting,
1912-1937 box folder 19 1-3 Correspondence: Plant exchanges and collecting.
, 1912-1937 19 4 Correspondence: Abrams, L. R., Dudley Herbarium,
Stanford University.
, 1925-1937 19 5 Correspondence: Clayton, Alan B., San Diego & El
Centro, California.
, 1933-1935 19 6 Correspondence: Eig, A., Hebrew University, Palestine.
, 1931-1937 19 6 Correspondence: Epling, Carl, University of California,
Los Angeles.
, 1935-1937 19 7 Correspondence: Ferris, Roxana S., Dudley Herbarium,
Stanford University.
, 1934-1936 19 8 Correspondence: Gentry, Howard Scott, Sonora, Mexico and
California.
, 1934-1937 19 9 Correspondence: Graham, Edward H., Carnegie Museum,
Pittsburgh.
, 1929-1936 19 10 Correspondence: Hester, J. P.
, 1930-1934 19 11 Correspondence: Hoffman, Ralph, Santa Barbara Museum of
Natural History.
, 1928-1932 19 12 Correspondence: Johnston, Ivan M., Arnold Arboretum,
Harvard University.
, 1934-1937 19 13 Correspondence: Kerney, T. H., Peebles, R. H.,
Tidestrom, I., U. S. D. A., Bureau of Plant Industry.
, 1928-1937 19 14 Correspondence: Kraus, E. J., Department of Botany,
University of Chicago.
, 1929-1934 19 15 Correspondence: Labordere, Marcel, Paris.
, 1931-1932 19 16 Correspondence: Manson, James W., Nogales, Arizona.
, 1932-1935 19 17 Correspondence: Miege, E., Rabat, Morocco.
, 1930-1937 19 18 Correspondence: Rethaller, Marcel, Baja California.
, 1934-1937 19 19 Correspondence: Standley, Paul C., Simms, S. C., Gregg,
C. C., Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
, 1931-1937 19 20 Correspondence: Swingle, Walter, T., U. S. D. A., Bureau
of Plant Industry.
, 1925-1935 19 21 Correspondence: Whitehead, Jack, Boyce Thompson
Southwestern Arboretum.
, 1933-1937 19 22 Correspondence: Wiggins, Ira L., Dudley Herbarium,
Stanford University.
, 1932-1937 19 23 Correspondence: Wynd, F. Lyle, Washington University,
St. Louis.
, 1936-1937 Correspondence With Scientific Societies,
1915-1937 box folder 20 1-6 Correspondence: American Association for the Advancement
of Science.
, 1915-1937 Includes material on the AAAS Population Symposium, 1930. 20 7 Correspondence: Prentiss, Elliott C., American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
, 1920-1928 20 8 Correspondence: Botanical Society of America and
American Society of Plant Physiologists.
, 1920-1931 20 9-10 Correspondence: Ecological Society of America.
, 1919-1937 Includes correspondence about its publication,
Ecology , and articles submitted by
MacDougal and others. Also correspondence with Barrington Moore, President.
20 11 Correspondence: Cactus and Succulent Society of America.
, 1930-1937 Includes correspondence about its journal and Shreve articles.
University of Arizona Correspondence,
1909-1937 box folder 21 1 Correspondence: Anderson, Ernest, Department of
Chemistry.
, 1925-1927 21 2 Correspondence: Brown, J. G., Department of Botany,
Department of Plant Pathology.
, 1910-1935 21 3 Correspondence: Buehrer, T. F., Department of Chemistry,
Agriculture Experiment Station.
, 1928-1933 21 4 Correspondence: Crider, F. J., Department of
Horticulture, Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum.
, 1922-1933 21 5 Correspondence: Doublass, Andrew, E., Steward
Observatory.
, 1920-1929 21 6 Correspondence: Forbes, Robert H., Agriculture
Experiment Station.
, 1909,
1919-1924 21 7 Correspondence: Kleinsmid, Rufus B. von, President,
University of Arizona, President, University of Southern California.
, 1916-1924 21 8 Correspondence: Lockwood, Franck, C., Acting President,
University of Arizona, Dean, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences.
, 1921-1930 21 9 Correspondence: Marvin, Cloyd H., President, University
of Arizona.
, 1923-1926 21 10 Correspondence: Shantz, Homer L., Department of Botany,
University of Illinois, President, University of Arizona.
, 1927-1933 21 11 Correspondence: Thornber, J. J., Agriculture Experiment
Station.
, 1913-1934 21 12 Correspondence: Vinson, A. E., Agriculture Experiment
Station.
, 1913-1926 21 13 Correspondence: Vorhies, Charles T., Agriculture
Experiment Station.
, 1922-1935 21 14 Correspondence: Wilde, Arthur H., President, University
of Arizona.
, 1913-1914 21 15 Miscellaneous correspondence regarding the University of
Arizona Presidency.
, 1914-1927 21 16 Miscellaneous correspondence regarding various
University of Arizona topics.
, 1912-1937 Includes Tucson Chamber of Commerce letters regarding the Munk
Library, departmental reorganization, a metal tower on the roof of the Mines
Building, etc. Correspondence Regarding Equipment and Supplies,
1906-1938 box folder 22 1-2 Correspondence: Arthur H. Thomas Co., Philadelphia.
, 1910-1935 22 3 Correspondence: Braun Corporation, Los Angeles.
, 1910-1933 22 4 Correspondence: Braun-Knecht-Heimann Co., San Francisco.
, 1920-1929 22 5 Correspondence: Central Scientific Co., Chicago.
, 1920-1937 22 6 Correspondence: James W. Conway, Atlanta.
, 1928 22 7 Correspondence: Fred S. Carver, New York City.
, 1929-1931 22 8 Correspondence: Harris Laboratories, Tuckahoe, New York.
, 1921 22 9 Correspondence: Fred C. Henson, Co., Pasadena,
California.
, 1928-1936 22 10 Correspondence: Julien P. Friez & Sons, Baltimore,
Maryland.
, 1910-1938 22 11 Correspondence: Standard Oil Company of California.
, 1928,
1932 22 12 Correspondence: Taylor Instrument Companies, Rochester,
New York.
, 1910-1930 22 13 Correspondence: Linde Air Products Co., New York.
, 1919-1921 22 13 Correspondence: Arthur L. Day, Corning Glass Works.
, May, 1920-August,
1920 22 13 Correspondence: Bario Metal Corp., New York.
, 1920-1921 22 13 Correspondence: Special Chemicals Co., Highland Park,
Illinois.
, 1920-1921 22 13 Correspondence: Standard Scientific Co., New York.
, 1920-1921 22 13 Correspondence: A. F. Wells Co., San Francisco.
, 1920-1925 22 13 Correspondence: Leeds & Northrup Co., Philadelphia.
, 1920-1921, 1930,
1937 22 14 Correspondence: Chicago Apparatus Co., Chicago.
, 1925-1927 22 14 Correspondence: Keuffel & Esser Co., Hoboken, New
Jersey.
, 1927-1936 22 14 Correspondence: Ohio Chemical & manufacturing Co.,
Cleveland.
, 1931-1932 22 14 Correspondence: Scott Paper Co., Chester, Pennsylvania.
, 1921-1936 box folder 23 1-6 Miscellaneous correspondence regarding equipment.
, 1906-1937 23 7 Miscellaneous correspondence regarding office supplies.
, 1910-1935 23 8 Correspondence regarding slides and photographic
materials.
, 1912-1936 23 9 Correspondence regarding a motorcycle.
, 1911 23 10 Miscellaneous correspondence regarding automobiles.
, 1910-1934 23 11 Correspondence: Lord Motor Car Co., Los Angeles.
, 1909-1914 23 12 Miscellaneous correspondence regarding automobiles
licenses and insurance.
, 1915-1929 Requests,
1910-1937 box folder 24 1 Requests for plants.
, 1910-1937 24 2 Requests for seeds.
, 1910-1937 24 3 Requests for plant identification.
, 1921-1935 24 4 Requests for advice on plant selection.
, 1920-1934 24 5 Requests for information regarding the Desert
Laboratory.
, 1913-1937 24 6 Requests for information regarding cactus.
, 1913-1937 24 7 Requests for information regarding desert flora.
, 1913-1937 24 8 Requests for information regarding the yucca fiber
industry.
, 1914-1937 24 9 Requests for information regarding plants in general.
, 1913-1937 24 10 Requests for information regarding trees.
, 1914-1937 24 11 Requests for information regarding sap flow in trees.
, 1921-1929 24 12 Requests for information regarding artificial cell.
, 1922-1928 24 13 Requests for information regarding equipment.
, 1920-1937 24 14 Requests for information regarding climatic conditions.
, 1922-1937 24 14 Requests for information regarding health problems.
, 1921-1934 24 14 Requests for information regarding E. L. Larkin and Cell
Life.
, 1922 24 14 Requests for information regarding various people.
, 1916-1932 24 14 Requests for information regarding the Salton Sea.
, 1920-1927 24 14 Requests for information regarding solar radiation.
, 1920-1936 24 15 Requests for miscellaneous information.
, 1913-1936 box folder 25 1 Requests for advice and opinions regarding projects,
publications, theories, study, etc.
, 1913-1937 25 2 Requests for travel advice.
, 1919-1937 Includes correspondence with Comte de Nouy, November 1926 and
Nicholas Roosevelt, February 1930. 25 3 Requests for photographs, films, slides, etc.
, 1910-1937 25 4 Requests for personal recommendations, references, and
endorsements.
, 1920-1932 25 5 Requests for information and recommendations concerning
various publications.
, 1914-1937 25 6 Miscellaneous requests.
, 1921-1934 25 7-9 Requests for jobs.
, 1913-1937 Includes a job request from Donald Culross Peattie, March 6,
1925. 25 10 Requests for letters for introduction and
recommendations.
, 1912-1936 25 11 Desert Laboratory requests to fill positions.
, 1928-1931 Correspondence Regarding Publications, Books, etc.,
1907-1938 box folder 26 1 Correspondence: Requests for various and miscellaneous
Carnegie Publications.
, 1913-1937 26 2 Correspondence: Acknowledgments for Carnegie
Publications.
, 1920-1931 26 3 Correspondence: Publications requested by the Desert
Laboratory.
, 1913-1937 26 4 Correspondence: Publications
, 26 5 Correspondence: Book orders.
, 1909-1938 26 6 Correspondence: Stechert, G. E.
, 1907-1937 26 7 Correspondence: Subscriptions.
, 1909-1935 26 8 Correspondence: Book-binding.
, 1920-1938 26 9 Correspondence: John Crerar Library, Chicago.
, 1920-1937 26 10 Miscellaneous correspondence regarding books,
publications, etc.
, 1910-1937 26 11 Correspondence:
The Plant World .
, 1923-1937
Series V: D. T. MacDougal Personal Papers,
1908-1935 box folder 27 1 Biographical Information for publications.
, 1923-1929 27 2 Personal Correspondence: Family.
, 1920-1924 27 3 Personal Correspondence: Stearns, Harold (family).
, 1920-1922 27 4 Personal Correspondence: Austin, Mary.
, 1920-1924 27 5 Personal Correspondence: Dutton, Louisa B., Carmel
Library.
, 1920-1926 27 6 Personal Correspondence: Fenner, Dr. H. W.
, 1916-1925 27 7 Personal Correspondence: Heard, Dwight B.
, 1925-1929 27 8 Personal Correspondence: Hoffmann, Bernhard.
, 1920-1923 27 9 Personal Correspondence: Taylor, Henry O.
, 1921-1930 27 10 Personal Correspondence: Livingston, Grace.
, June, 1920-November
1920 27 10 Personal Correspondence: Gulick, Sidney L.
, 1920-1921 27 10 Personal Correspondence: Flanders, Grace & Paul.
, 1921-1923 27 10 Personal Correspondence: Lowell, Amy.
, December 21, 1922-December 23,
1922 27 10 Personal Correspondence: Bechdolt, F. R.
, 1922-1928 27 10 Personal Correspondence: Martin, Anne.
, 1923-1924 27 10 Personal Correspondence: James, D. L.
, 1925-1930 27 10 Personal Correspondence: Hunter, Mrs. Robert.
, October 1926-November
1926 27 10 Personal Correspondence: Kahofer, Jules.
, 1926-1929 27 10 Personal Correspondence: Vail, Anna Murray.
, 1925-1927 27 10 Personal Correspondence: Abbott, Lawrence F.
, February 1928-July
1928 27 11 Personal Correspondence: DePauw University.
, 1920-1927 27 12 Personal Correspondence: Art and pageants.
, 1920-1928 Includes correspondence relating to the Arizona Pageantry
Association, 1927-1928, with a letter from James McClintock. 27 13 Personal Correspondence: Books and subscriptions.
, 1920-1924 27 14 Personal Correspondence: Miscellaneous.
, 1908-1959 27 15 Property: Carmel, California.
, 1920-1925 27 16 Property: Tucson, Arizona.
, 1920-1933 27 17 Contributions.
, 1921-1930 Includes correspondence regarding a 1923 Tokyo earthquake and the
Arizona Hut, Inc. box folder 28 1 Personal Correspondence: Articles in
The Garden Magazine .
, 1921-1927 28 2 Personal Correspondence: Alexander, Jerome regarding
MacDougal's contribution to a book on colloid chemistry.
, 1920-1928 28 3 Personal Correspondence: Ingalls, Albert G., Associate
Editor of
Scientific American regarding
articles.
, 1925-1931 28 4 Personal Correspondence: Various publications by MacDougal
including requests for copies and reprints.
, 1913-1935 28 5 Requests for MacDougal to write articles.
, 1915-1928 28 6 Proposed publications.
, 1920-1929 Includes correspondence with Frederick L. Allen of Harper &
Brothers, 1924-1925, and John Farrar of George H. Doran Company, 1926-1929. 28 7 Memberships: American Philosophical Society.
, 1919-1930 Includes correspondence regarding MacDougal's articles published
in its
Proceedings . 28 8 Memberships: California Academy of Sciences.
, 1916-1926 Includes correspondence with Director, B. W. Evermann. 28 9 Memberships: Century Club, N. Y.
, 1920-1930 28 10 Various memberships. 28 11 Memberships declined. 28 12 Personal Correspondence: Speeches.
, 1909-1931 28 13 Speech: "Living Things and Physical Forces in Soils," New
York Farmers.
, December
1924 Includes correspondence with Secretary, Samuel Thorne.
Series VI: Forrest Shreve Personal Papers,
1916-1937 box folder 29 1 Personal Correspondence: Various publications by Shreve
including requests for copies and reprints.
, 1916-1937 29 2 Personal Correspondence:
The Cactus and Its Home .
, 1929-1937 29 3 Personal Correspondence: Hannig, E. regarding Shreve's
contributions to the publication
Pflanzenareale .
, 1929-1930 29 4 Personal Correspondence: "Rainfall, Runoff, and Soil
Moisture Under Desert Conditions,"
Annals of The Association of American
Geographers , v. 24.
, September
1934 29 5 Requests for Shreve to write articles.
, 1930-1937 29 6 Requests for Shreve to critique articles by others.
, 1930-1932 29 7 Personal Correspondence: Proposed publications.
, 1929-1935 Includes Shreve's "little handbook,"
The Desert , and a book to commemorate
the Desert Laboratory's first 30 years. 29 8 Personal Correspondence: Speeches.
, 1931-1934 29 9 Personal Correspondence: Family.
, 1928-1937 29 10 Personal Correspondence: "The Education of Margaret,"
regarding his daughter's schooling, etc.
, 1928-1933 29 11 Personal Correspondence: Miscellaneous.
, 1928-1937 29 12 Memberships.
, 1929-1936 29 13 Property: Tucson and Carmel.
, 1928-1933
Series VII: Desert Botanical Laboratory Plot Records,
1906-1985 box folder 30 5 Plot 4.
, February 16,
1906 30 5 Plot 4.
, March 6,
1968 30 5 Plot 4.
, January 30, 1978, February
15, 1978 30 5 Plot 4.
, March 21,
1985 30 6 Plot 7.
, February 21,
1906 30 6 Plot 7.
, December 13,
1968 30 6 Plot 7.
, March 31, 1978-April 4,
1978 30 6 Plot 7.
, March 26,
1985 30 7 Plot 9.
, February 21,
1906 30 7 Plot 9.
, March 12, 1968,
30 7 Plot 9.
, January 5-7, 1978, January 25,
1978 30 7 Plot 9.
, April 8,
1985 30 8 Plot 10.
, February 21,
1906 30 8 Plot 10.
, April 8,
1968 30 8 Plot 10.
, April 7, 1968, April 10,
1968 30 9 Plot 11.
, February
1906 30 9 Plot 11.
, April
1910 30 9 Plot 11.
, November 2,
1928 30 9 Plot 11.
, April 8,
1936 30 9 Plot 11.
, February 9, 1960, February
18, 1960 30 9 Plot 11.
, January 22,
1968 30 9 Plot 11.
, June 15-19, 1975, June 29,
1975 30 9 Plot 11.
, Spril 13-19,
1978 30 9 Plot 11.
, December 10-12,
1984 30 10 Plot 12.
, February 24,
1906 30 10 Plot 12.
, February 27,
1929 30 10 Plot 12.
, April 1,
1936 30 10 Plot 12.
, March 1,
1960 30 10 Plot 12.
, January 31,
1968 30 10 Plot 12.
, June
1975 30 10 Plot 12.
, September 9-20,
1975 30 10 Plot 12.
, April 19,
1978 30 10 Plot 12.
, December 3,
1982 30 10 Plot 12.
, December 12-17,
1984 30 11 Plot 14.
, February 26,
1906 30 11 Plot 14.
, Aprill 2,
1969 30 11 Plot 14.
, April 11-13,
1978 30 11 Plot 14.
, April 11,
1978 30 11 Plot 14.
, April 9,
1985 30 12 Plot 15.
, May
1910 30 12 Plot 15.
, November 3,
1928 30 12 Plot 15.
, February 17,
1936 30 12 Plot 15.
, July
1936 30 12 Plot 15.
, November
1959 30 12 Plot 15.
, January 8,
1968 30 12 Plot 15.
, June
1975 30 12 Plot 15.
, April 21,
1978 30 12 Plot 15.
, December 18,
1984 30 13 Plot 16.
, November 1,
1906 30 13 Plot 16.
, November 25,
1928 30 13 Plot 16.
, June 10,
1957 30 13 Plot 16.
, October 13-17,
1959 30 13 Plot 16.
, April 19,
1968 30 13 Plot 16.
, December 12,
1967 30 13 Plot 16.
, April 20,
1978 30 13 Plot 16.
, December 12,
1984 30 14 Plot 17.
, April 2,
1906 30 14 Plot 17.
, December 2,
1928 30 14 Plot 17.
, February 24,
1936 30 14 Plot 17.
, 1948 30 15 Area B General: Legend, small sketches.
, 1928-1978 30 16 Area B-1.
, 1928 30 16 Area B-1.
, March 16,
1936 30 16 Area B-1.
, 1948 30 16 Area B-1.
, March 26,
1957 30 16 Area B-1.
, January 12,
1968 30 16 Area B-1.
, February 15,
1978 30 16 Area B-1.
, June 1,
1984 30 17 Area B-2.
, 1928 30 17 Area B-2.
, March 17,
1936 30 17 Area B-2.
, February 13,
1948 30 17 Area B-2.
, April 8,
1957 30 17 Area B-2.
, January 12,
1968 30 17 Area B-2.
, February 22,
1978 30 17 Area B-2.
, June 14,
1984 30 18 Area B-3.
, 1928 30 18 Area B-3.
, March 16,
1936 30 18 Area B-3.
, 1948 30 18 Area B-3.
, April 22,
1957 30 18 Area B-3.
, January 12,
1968 30 18 Area B-3.
, February 22,
1978 30 18 Area B-3.
, June 14,
1984 30 19 Area B-4.
, 1928 30 19 Area B-4.
, March 17,
1936 30 19 Area B-4.
, March 4,
1948 30 19 Area B-4.
, April 12,
1957 30 19 Area B-4.
, January 12,
1968 30 19 Area B-4.
, March 23,
1978 30 19 Area B-4.
, June 14,
1984 30 20 Area B-5.
, 1928 30 20 Area B-5.
, March 4,
1936 30 20 Area B-5.
, February 14,
1948 30 20 Area B-5.
, April 25,
1957 30 20 Area B-5.
, January 15,
1968 30 20 Area B-5.
, March 28,
1978 30 20 Area B-5.
, June 15,
1984 30 21 Area B-6.
, 1928 30 21 Area B-6.
, March 10,
1936 30 21 Area B-6.
, 1948 30 21 Area B-6.
, May 16,
1957 30 21 Area B-6.
, January 15,
1968 30 21 Area B-6.
, March 29,
1978 30 21 Area B-6.
, June 15,
1984 30 22 Area B-7.
, 1928 30 22 Area B-7.
, March 4,
1936 30 22 Area B-7.
, 1948 30 22 Area B-7.
, April 27,
1957 30 22 Area B-7.
, January 15,
1968 30 22 Area B-7.
, March 28,
1978 30 22 Area B-7.
, June 14,
1984 30 23 Area B-8.
, 1928 30 23 Area B-8.
, March 10,
1936 30 23 Area B-8.
, February 28,
1948 30 23 Area B-8.
, June 3,
1957 30 23 Area B-8.
, January 15,
1968 30 23 Area B-8.
, March 29,
1978 30 23 Area B-8.
, June 15,
1984