@article{94aabf3fa3184cf283740246bea59ccb,
title = "Global imaginary of arid lands: Early twentieth-century united states botanists in Africa",
abstract = "From the 1890s through the 1930s, arid land scientists drew connections between US and African landscapes. As they studied desert nature at home and abroad, modified agricultural landscapes and collected and described species in the world{\textquoteright}s deserts, they envisioned a global imaginary. This paper traces these connections and transformations, using the Sonoran Desert and US southwestern botanical scientists who traversed abroad - including William Cannon, Edgar Mearns, Robert Forbes and Homer Shantz - as case studies.",
keywords = "Arid lands, Sahara, Sonoran desert",
author = "Morrissey, {Katherine G.} and Burtner, {Marcus A.}",
note = "Funding Information: Although lack of funding dashed his hopes for an extensive scientific exploration team, Mearns garnered his own support from the American Museum of Natural History, the Army Medical Museum and the Smithsonian. It was a quid pro quo arrangement: as he advocated, if the US National Museum could help him gain {\textquoteleft}proper status{\textquoteright} and offer other supplies and logistics, {\textquoteleft}I will reciprocate by most earnestly endeavoring to build up the Smithsonian collections by sending in fine series of specimens in various departments{\textquoteright}.23 In the end, the biological survey drew on {\textquoteleft}the cooperation of the U.S. National Museum and Smithsonian Institution, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and, from the Colorado river westward, also by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City{\textquoteright}.24 The Smithsonian Institution provided the {\textquoteleft}necessary apparatus for collecting specimens{\textquoteright} and the War Department transported the Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 The White Horse Press.",
year = "2019",
month = mar,
doi = "10.3197/ge.2019.120105",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "12",
pages = "102--133",
journal = "Global Environment",
issn = "1973-3739",
publisher = "White Horse Press",
number = "1",
}