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The Homer L. Shantz Collections, 1904 to 1958: A Botanist in Africa and the Americas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Kathleen McConnell
Kathleen McConnell*
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Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, Emil W. Haury Bldg, Rm 316, P.O. Box 210030, Tucson, AZ 85722-0414
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This large collection is important to the history of science. Homer L. Shantz was one of the pioneers of environmental studies of vegetation, soils and available moisture over large regions. He studied the effects of erosion, increased salinity and alkalinity of soils and the damage that could be caused by introduced vegetation. His work is at the foundation of the environmental ‘engineering’ efforts of the 1960s and later.

Homer L. Shantz was born in Michigan in 1876. He was educated at Colorado College and received a doctorate at the University of Nebraska in 1905 where he first began environmental surveys from the Botany Department. He was then employed by the Department of Agriculture, the Bureau of Plant Industry, during the first decades of the 1900's, where he worked for the Land Classification Board.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 92 , 2003 , pp. 55 - 60
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Copyright © African Research & Documentation 2003

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