> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 550](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333689) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9539-1) LSID 9539-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5890115) QID Q5890115 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Shantz, Homer LeRoy (1876-1958), American botanist, agronomist and soil technologist; Dr. phil. Univ. Nebraska 1905; instructor in botany, Colorado Coll. 1901-1902; id. School of Agric, Nebraska 1903-1904, Missouri State Univ. 1905-1906, Louisiana State Univ. 1907; with the Bureau of Plant Industry, USDA 1908-1926; head of the department of botany Univ. Illinois, Urbana 1926-1928; president of the University of Arizona 1928-1936; travelled in Africa 1919-1920 (Smithsonian African Exp.), 1924 and 1958. **Abbreviated name**: *Shantz* \[standard form in IPNI: *Shantz*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection US|US]]. – Duplicates in [[Collection FHO|FHO]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LCU|LCU]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection RM|RM]], [[Collection TEX|TEX]]. Collected in Africa 1919, 1924, 1934. – *Letters* to W.G. Farlow at [[Collection FH|FH]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 265 (b. 24 Jan 1876, d. 23 Jun 1958); BL 1: 17, 318; BM 4: 1904, 8: 1182; Bossert p. 362; Ewan ed. 1: 303, ed. 2: 199-200; IH 1 (ed. 6): 364, (ed. 7): 342; Kelly p. 213; Langman p. 696; NW p. 57; PH 444; SIA 227; Tucker 1: 646-647, 779, 3: 278. #### Biofile - Anon., Agronomy J. 50: 777. 1958 (obit.).; New York Times 24 Jun 1958, p. L 31; Science 128: 134. 1958 (d.); Who's who Amer. 10-30, 1918-1959; Who was who Amer. 3: 775-776. 1960. - Cattell, J.M., ed., Amer. men Sci. ed. 1: 287. 1906, ed. 2: 421. 1910, ed. 3: 615. 1921, ed. 4: 880. 1927, ed. 5: 1003. 1933, ed. 6: 1276. 1938, ed. 7: 1600. 1944, ed. 8: 2243. 1949; Leaders in education ed. 1: 836. 1932, ed. 2: 909. 1941. - Exell, A.W. & G.A. Hayes, Kirkia 6(1): 101. 1967 (coll. Fl. Zambes.). - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 68, 69, 120, 121, 125, 127. 1969. - Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. Expl. S. Afr. 322. 1981 (portr., African visits). - Kearney, T.H., Leafl. W. Bot. 8: 279. 1958 (Shantz, Clements and Kearney were leaders of Int. Phytogeogr. Exc. 1913 in the Rocky Mountains; Engler episode). - Pruitt, E.L., Ann. Ass. amer. Geogr. 51: 392-394. 1964 (biogr., bibl., portr.). - Rogers, A.D., Liberty Hyde Bailey 284-285. 1949. - Sauer, C.O., Geogr. Rev. 49: 278-280. 1959 (obit.). - Syford, E.C., Nebraska Alumnus 37(3): 18. 1941 (portr.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 308. 1936, 3: 265, 274. 1937, 4: 139, 276, 575. 1938, 6: 162, 332. 1941. #### Composite works - (1) *Plant communities in Utah and Nevada*, in I. Tidestrom, Fl. Utah Nevada 15-23. 1925. #### Eponymy *Shantzia* Lewton (1928). ### Publications ##### n.11.857. Natural vegetation as an indicator of the capabilities of land for crop production **Title** *Natural vegetation as an indicator of the capabilities of land for crop production* in the Great plains area... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1911. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Nat. veg. indic. crop prod.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 16 Mar 1911, p. \[1\]-100. *Copy*: B, USDA. – USDA Bureau Plant Industry, Bull. 201. ##### n.11.858. The vegetation and soils of Africa **Title** *The vegetation and soils of Africa* by H.L. Shantz... and C.F. Marbut... with a section on the land classification of Africa by J.B. Kincer... New York (published jointly by the National Research Council and the American Geographical Society...) 1923. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Veg. soils Africa*. **Notes** *Co-author*: Curtis Fletcher Marbut (1863-1935) (for part on the soils of Africa p. 115-217; co-author p. 225-244). *Publ*.: 1923 (Nat. Nov. Apr 1924), p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-x, \[1\]-263, 2 maps, 50 figs. on *46 plates. Copies*: BR, G, HH, MO, NY, USDA. *Follow-up*: Photographic documentation of vegetational changes in Africa over a third of a century, Tucson 1958 (rephotographing, with B.L. Turner, of sites visited in 1918-1919 and 1924. ##### n.11.859. Indicator significance of the natural vegetation **Title** *Indicator significance of the natural vegetation* of the southwestern desert region... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1925. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: R.L. Piemeisel. *Publ*.: 24 Mai 1924, cover-t.p., p. 721-801, *pl. 1-14* with text. *Copies*: B, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. agric. Res. 28(8): 721-801, *pl. 1-14* with text. 1924.