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.
Collection Number:
MS 442
Language:
English
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/
E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu
Biographical Note
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 receiving his Ph.D., he conducted
postdoctoral research in Biogeography at Yale University from 1955-1956 and then at
Université de Montreal from 1956-1957. In 1957, he moved to Tucson to accept a position
as a Research Associate with University of Arizona's Geochronology Laboratories, thus
beginning his long association with Tumamoc Hill Desert Laboratory. He was named
Assistant Professor in 1961 and Associate Professor in 1962. He held the position of
Professor in the Department of Geosciences from 1968 until 1989 when he was named
Emeritus Professor. He remained an active researcher and vital part of the Tumamoc Hill
Desert Laboratory for more than 50 years. Dr. Martin is well-known as a primary
developer and leading expert on the subject of prehistoric overkill, a pattern of global
extinction over the last 40,000 years which coincided with human colonization spreading
out of Africa and Asia. His theories have been the subject of much debate since the
1960's and have helped rejuvenate interest in the study of prehistoric extinctions. His
interest in the extinction chronology of late Pleistocene large animals has taken him to
fossil sites all around the world including Chile, New Zealand and Australia. This
fossil research led him to develop extinction models based on human activity as the main
cause of the rapid extinctions of large animals such as the mammoth, mastodon and giant
ground sloth. In addition, Dr. Martin conducted research about Pleistocene biotic
changes in arid regions. He studied the biogeography of eastern Mexico, the Pleistocene
fossil pollen record of Arizona, and the ability of fossil packrat middens to reveal
important information about climatic changes. Dr. Martin is the author of numerous books
and articles, including The Last 10,000 Years: A Fossil Pollen Study of the American
Southwest, Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a Cause, and Twilight of the
Mammoths. Before his retirement, he was also a highly regarded professor of Quaternary
Biogeography for more than 30 years, well known for his gentle nature, memorable quotes,
and enthusiasm for facilitating discovery and learning. His research gave him a unique,
long range perspective on the mechanisms and impact of species extinction and
environmental destruction. His dedication to ecological and social issues is reflected
in his involvement with various efforts to protect endangered flora and fauna of the
Southwest from potential human destruction.
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains correspondence, research files, publication files, newspaper
clippings, scrapbooks, photographic transparency slides, and audiovisual materials
related to the work and research conducted by Paul S. Martin. Series I consists of
correspondence, including letters written by and received by Dr. Martin during of his
professional career (principally covers the years 1975-1990). This material includes
correspondence with various scientists, researchers, publishers, students and others.
This series is arranged alphabetically by last name of correspondent.
Series II includes publication files. Publication materials include various materials
gathered in the course of scientific and professional research conducted by Paul S.
Martin. Additional materials include copies of Dr. Martin's National Science Foundation
grant proposals, data on Southwestern fauna, efforts to stop the controversial
construction of a telescope on Mount Graham, as well as other articles and newspaper
clippings about varied topics. This series includes two subseries. Subseries 1 consists
chiefly of Martin's published work, or Martin's work in various states of publication.
Subseries 2 consists of publication materials not by Martin, but items that were
collected by Martin for his own future research.
Series III consists of research files and records detailing data collected by Dr.
Martin. This series is divided into three subseries. Subseries 1 includes general files
focusing on different subjects of interest to Martin. These materials are arranged
alphabetically. Subseries 2 consists of research materials related to the spraying of
Agent Orange on the town of Globe, Arizona in 1969. These materials are arranged
alphabetically and chronologically. Subseries 3 contains field notes and field notebooks
collected by Paul S. Martin, many of which are his personal notes and musings from the
field. They are arranged chronologically, although some of the notebooks are undated.
Series IV includes newspaper clippings collected by Martin. These materials have been
kept in the order Martin arranged them in. Note that additional clippings can be found
in individual research folders if Martin separated them. A majority of the clippings are
about Dr. Paul S. Martin and his research during the years 1959-2000.
Series V focuses on the Tumamoc Hill Desert Laboratory. This series contains
correspondence related to activities at the Desert Lab, as well as fundraising
materials, staff bibliographies and library information. Blueprints, planning and policy
documents, and research files are also included. Materials about flora and fauna of
Tumamoc Hill are also present. Articles and photographs describing the history of
Tumamoc Hill Desert Lab form another part of this series. Also, the various threats to
the lab and its continued operation from the 1960's through the early 2000's are
detailed through collected newspaper clippings.
Series VI of the collection consists of nine scrapbooks of newspaper clippings collected
by Dr. Martin from 1951-1970 which detail political, social and ecological issues of the
times. They are arranged chronologically.
Series VII consists of photographic transparency slides that Martin used in his work as
a professor. A majority of the slides are arranged for college-level presentation and
instruction. The order of the slides has been preserved as arranged by Martin. Many of
the slides are individually labeled but any accompanying notes are also includes in the
slide binders. Slides are arranged in their original organizational structure as
received by Martin.
Series VIII includes audiovisual materials related to Paul S. Martin's work. The series
includes two ¼" reel tapes that are currently in need of further preservation before
they are accessible to researchers. Please contact and archivist if you are interested
in working with the audiovisual materials in this collection.
There are no restrictions on this collection. Use of original audio visualmaterialsis
restricted due to their fragile nature. No access copiesare currently available. Please
contact Special Collections for more information.
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.
Access Terms
Corporate Name(s)
Desert Botanical Laboratory of the
Carnegie Institution
Geographic Name(s)
Globe (Ariz.) -- History
Subject(s)
Botanical laboratories -- Arizona -- Tucson --
History
Paul S. Martin papers (MS 442). Special Collections, University of Arizona
Libraries.
Processing History
This collection was processed by C. Alexandria Caster in 2010. Accessions 2013.011 and
2016.022 were processed and added to the collection in September 2019 by Michelle Nicole
Boyer-Kelly.
This series is arranged alphabetically by last name of the correspondent. In some
cases, grouped correspondence relating to a particular subject have been housed
together as per Paul S. Martin's original groupings of correspondence. All
correspondence is dated between 1959 and 2005.
This series consists of Dr. Paul S. Martin's published works and related
materials. The first part of this series containing published articles is arranged
chronologically. The remaining files of correspondence and reviews are arranged
alphabetically by the title of the published work to which the material
refers.
This sub-series includes articles authored by Martin or that pertain to
Martin's work. Materials are arranged alphabetically by title and then
chronologically.
box
folder
38
17
"Archaeology of Global Change", 2001
box
folder
14
8
Articles, 1951-1959
14
9
Articles, 1960-1964
14
10
Articles, 1965-1967
box
folder
15
1
Articles, 1968-1980
15
2
Articles, 1981-1986
15
3
Articles, 1987-1990
15
4
Articles, 1995
15
5
Articles, 1998-1999
15
6
Articles, 2000-2006
15
7
Articles, Undated
15
8
Articles, Undated
15
9
Correspondence, Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants,
15
10
Correspondence, "Paleolithic Players on the American
Stage",
15
11
Correspondence, Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a
Cause,
15
12
Correspondence, Quaternary Extinctions: A Prehistoric
Revolution,
box
folder
16
1
Correspondence, Quaternary Extinctions: A Prehistoric
Revolution,
16
2
Correspondence, Quaternary Extinctions: A Prehistoric
Revolution,
16
3
Correspondence, Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and
the Rewilding of America,
16
4
Correspondence, Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and
the Rewilding of America,
box
folder
38
18
"Geologic Time Scale", 2004
38
19
"Herbivore" intro, manuscript materials, circa 1968-1970
38
20
Prehistoric Extinctions: In the Shadow of Man, 2001
box
folder
16
5
Resumes, Reports and Conferences America,
16
6
Reviews, Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants, 1998
16
7
Reviews, "The Last 10,000 Years: A Fossil Pollen Study of the
American Southwest", 1963
box
folder
38
21
Reviews, Miscellaneous and correspondence, 2000-2005
box
folder
16
8
Reviews, "Packrat Middens: The Last 40,000 Years of Biotic
Change", 1990
16
9
Reviews, Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a
Cause, 1967
16
10
Reviews, Quaternary Extinctions: A Prehistoric
Revolution, 1984
16
11
Reviews, Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the
Rewilding of America, 2006
box
folder
17
1
"A Survey of Potential Natural Landmarks, Biotic Themes of the
Mojave-Sonoran Desert Region", 1979
box
folder
38
22
Torreya book, miscellaneous, 2004
38
23
Twilight of the Mammoths additional correspondence, notes, and
edits, 2004-2005
38
24
Twilight of the Mammoths, Doris Kretschmer, color prints, and
reviews, 2000-2005
This sub-series includes several publications that were collected by Martin,
but they do not feature his work. Items are arranged alphabetically by title
and then chronologically.
box
item
47
5
CoEvolution: Journal for the Protection of All Beings, No.
19, Fall 1978
47
6
"Feral burro management and ecosystem restoration plan and draft
environmental statement", January 15, 1979
47
7
Fort Frederick: Potomac Outpost by Allan Powell, 1988
47
8
National Geographic, September 1979
47
9
National Geographic, October 1988
47
10
The Southwestern Nationalist, Vol. 41, no. 2, June 1996
47
11
The Southwestern Nationalist, Vol. 42, no. 1:1-126, March 1997
47
12
"The Tucson, Arizona, Flood of October 1983," National Academy
Press, 1984
47
13
Vanishings, Library of Curious and Unusual Facts, 1990
This series is arranged alphabetically into three subseries. Subseries 1: General
files, includes general research files kept by Paul S. Martin. Subseries 2: Agent
Orange spray, Globe, Arizona, 1969, pertains to one specific grouping of research
Martin conducted in Globe, Arizona. Subseries 3: Field notes includes an
alphabetical grouping of field notes and field notebooks pertaining to Martin's
research.
Photographs. Gene Griffen, Rampart Cave negatives, June 1990
40
27
Photographs. Mexico prints, 1947-1950
40
28
Photographs. Mexico negatives, 1947-1950
40
29
Pine disaster size and frequency, undated
box
folder
19
8
Plant List (1),
19
9
Plant List (2),
19
10
Plant List (3),
19
11
Plant List (4),
box
folder
40
30
Pollen diagrams, undated
40
31
Pollen photographs, undated
40
32
Pollen projects, 1966-1968
40
33
Predators. Whales, otters, Estes, Dayton, Whale Falls, undated
40
34
PSM book, undated
40
35
PSM letters, 1953
box
folder
41
4
Quarterinary extinction figures and tables, undated
41
4b
Rampart Cave. Parasites, 1984-1991
41
5
Rampart Cave. Permit and correspondence, 1969-1972
41
6
Rampart Cave. Photographs, 1969-1972
41
7
Rampart Cave. Pollen counts, 1969-1972
41
8
Rampart Cave. Publicity, 1969-1972
41
9
Rampart Cave. References, undated
41
10
Rampart Cave. Remington Kellogg's field notes, 1942
41
11
Rampart Fire. Correspondence and notes, 1977-1978
box
folder
18
12
Research Ranch/Audubon Appleton-Whittel Research Ranch,
box
folder
19
1
Research Ranch/Audubon Appleton-Whittel Research Ranch,
box
folder
41
12
Resume for Paul S. Martin, undated
41
13
Retirement, 1985-1989
box
folder
19
2
Santa Rita Research Station,
19
3
Santa Rita Research Station,
19
4
Santa Rita Research Station,
box
folder
41
14
Schultz, Isaac, 1981-1984
41
15
SCRIPPS / La Joya, 1964-1965
41
16
Seminar. Extinctions, 1996
41
17
Shasta ground sloth c14 dates, 1972-1978
41
18
Shelter Cave, New Mexico, 1932-1936
box
folder
19
5
Sierra de Alamos, Sonora, Mexico,
box
folder
41
19
Size and extinction, undated
box
item
47
3
Sloth ball sample, undated
box
folder
41
20
Sloth photos to Greeley, Colorado by Cynthia Lindquist, undated
41
21
Sloths, undated
41
22
Smithsonian letter, 1998-2001
41
23
Soda Lake, undated
41
24
South America, 1964-1972
41
25
South America, undated
41
26
Southwest extinction, undated
41
27
Southwest extinction, negatives, February 1990
box
folder
19
6
Southwestern flora and fauna,
box
folder
41
28
Stafford illustrations, undated
41
29
Stanton Cave, undated
41
30
Stanton Cave. Dung profile, grid AA, undated
box
folder
42
1
Stanton Cave. Goat dung, grid AA, undated
42
2
Stanton Cave. Grid BB, undated
42
3
Stanton Cave. Grid BB, undated
42
4
Stanton Cave. Grid CC, undated
42
5
Stanton Cave. Grid DD, undated
42
6
Stanton Cave. Grid EE, undated
42
7
Stanton Cave. Grid FF, undated
42
8
Stanton Cave. Grid G-19, undated
42
9
Stanton Cave. Grid H-19, undated
42
10
Stanton Cave. Grid HH, undated
42
11
Stanton Cave. Grid I-19, undated
42
12
Stanton Cave. Grid J-19, undated
42
13
Stanton Cave. Grid L-19, undated
42
14
Stanton Cave. Grid M-19, undated
42
15
Stanton Cave. Grid O-19, undated
42
16
Stanton Cave. Grid P-19, undated
42
17
Stanton Cave. Grid Q-19, undated
42
18
Stanton Cave. Notes, Iberall, undated
42
19
Stanton Cave. Paper drafts, undated
42
20
Stanton Cave. Pollen counts, 1969
42
21
Stanton Cave. Strat test #1, 1970
42
22
Steven's Cave, undated
42
23
Steven's Cave data, undated
42
24
Straw bale forum, August 4-8, 1999
42
25
Surface tally, transcendentalism, undated
42
26
Terepa images and pollen exercises, undated
42
27
Todd Surorell, 2001
42
28
Tramway bat guano, circa 1958-1965
42
29
Trigger 1987 The Children of Ace, Vibel 1995, Humanities
1990, 1987-1995
42
30
Tule Springs, 1964
42
31
Tumamoc Hill. 1980s articles, 1982-1983
42
32
Tumamoc Hill and Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum fact
sheets, undated
42
33
U-Bar Cave, undated
42
34
U-Bar Cave. Notes, correspondence, and pollen counts, 1960-1962
box
folder
19
7
Van Devender, Thomas,
box
folder
42
35
Wetherhill Mesa Archaeological Project, 1961
42
36
Wetherhill Mesa Archaeological Project. 128th AAS meeting in Denver,
Colorado, December 26-31,
1961
42
37
Wetherhill Mesa. "Manganese and Phosphorus Abundances in Wetherhill
Mesa Feces and Soils, and the History of Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellers" by Bruno
E. Sables, undated
42
38
Wetherhill Mesa. Pollen counts, Mug House, and Long
House, 1963
42
38b
Wetherhill Mesa. Pollen lab data, J. Schoenwetter, November 23, 1950
42
39
Wetherhill Mesa. Pollen stratigraphy, James
Schoenwetter, 1960
This subseries includes field notes recorded by Paul S. Martin. Notes on loose
paper are arranged at the beginning of the subseries chronologically. Items
without dates are listed alphabetically by subject after dated materials. Field
notebooks have been arranged chronologically, when dates can be determined, at
the end of the subseries.
box
folder
43
1
Field notes, 1946-1947
43
2
Field notes, 1954
43
3
Field notes. Knob Lake, 1956
43
4
Field notes, 1958
43
5
Field notes, 1959
43
6
Field notes, 1960
43
7
Field notes, 1961
43
8
Field notes. INQUA, 1961
43
9
Field notes, 1962
43
10
Field notes, 1963
43
11
Field notes. Lab book by D. M. Peabody (09-17-1963) and D. K. Warren
(02-01-1963), 1963-1964
43
12
Field notes, 1964
43
13
Field notes, 1965
43
14
Field notes, 1969
43
15
Field notes, June 1971
43
16
Field notes. Rampart Cave, 1971
43
17
Field notes, 1972
43
18
Field notes, 1973
43
19
Field notes, 1974
43
20
Field notes. New Zealand, 1974
43
21
Field notes, 1975
43
22
Field notes. Transect of the Sierra Madre, March 1975
43
23
Field notes, 1976
43
24
Field notes. Range Wars, 1977
43
25
Field notes, 1978-1979
43
26
Field notes, 1980
43
27
Field notes, 1981
43
28
Field notes, 1982
43
29
Field notes, 1983
43
30
Field notes, 1984
43
31
Field notes, 1985
43
32
Field notes, 1986
43
33
Field notes. GEO 596I, Sierra Madre, 1986
43
34
Field notes. Sabbatical, 1986
43
35
Field notes, 1987
box
folder
44
1
Field notes, 1988
44
2
Field notes, 1989
44
3
Field notes, 1990
44
4
Field notes, 1991
44
5
Field notes, 1992
44
6
Field notes, 1992
44
7
Field notes, 1993
44
8
Field notes, 1994
44
9
Field notes, 1995
44
10
Field notes, 1996
44
11
Field notes. E. Anderson list, 1996
44
12
Field notes. Malpais borderlands, 2000
44
13
Field notes. Africa addresses, undated
44
14
Field notes. Africa project, undated
44
15
Field notes. Barnowski, undated
44
16
Field notes. Baz, undated
44
17
Field notes. BL and WH figures, Rampart Cave, undated
44
18
Field notes. Bone, skeletal, and archaeological
collection, undated
44
19
Field notes. Bring back, undated
44
20
Field notes. Chapters, undated
44
21
Field notes. Deep History and Wild America, undated
44
22
Field notes. El Cielo to G. Sanchez, circa 1948, undated
44
23
Field notes. Erasmo Losano, undated
44
24
Field notes. Field trip guides, undated
44
25
Field notes. Florida State Museum, sloths, undated
44
26
Field notes. Flessa-Hardy file, undated
44
27
Field notes. Fort Frederick draft paper, circa 1999, undated
44
28
Field notes. Geose 299, Cindy Nicholson, undated
44
29
Field notes. Grand Canyon, circa 1967-1974, undated
This series includes seven boxes of photo transparency slides used by Paul S.
Martin for research and for presentations. Slides were received in accession
#2013.011 and remain in the same physical arrangement as they were received by
Martin. All of Martin's original notes on the slides have been kept, including
sheets at the beginning of each section of slides.
box
31
Slides, and Slides 5-14, 1958-1998
box
32
Slides 15-29, 1882-1975
box
33
Slides 29-36, 1969-1983
box
34
Slides, 1961-2002
box
35
Pete Kresan hill views, Mexico hydro-thermal and Slides
1-37, 1976-2002
box
36
Clovis Culture of North America slide set, Polar Ice Cores, Anthro
Talks 2005, Extinction, and Slides, 1980-2006
box
37
Slides, 1960-2006
box
item
47
4
Unidentified sheet of transparency slides, September 1996
Use of original audio visualmaterialsis restricted due to their fragile nature. No
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