title: The voice of American botanists: the founding and establishment of the American Journal of Botany, "American botany," and the Great War (1906-1935).
abstract: This paper examines the crucial early history of the American Journal of Botany from the years following the founding of the Botanical Society of America in 1906 to the termination of the agreement for publication with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 1935. It examines the efforts of individuals like F. C. Newcombe, who did the most to raise support for the journal and became the first Editor-in-Chief, in the context of the growing numbers of professional botanists and plant scientists who were actively engaged in research requiring appropriate publication venues and in the process of forming an independent identity as "American botanists." It also examines the launching of the journal in the context of the Great War in Europe and the transition from German botany to American botany in the second decade of the 20th century.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology and Department of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 USA.
authors.forename: Vassiliki Betty
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Smocovitis
mesh_terms: D001901:Botany / Q000266:history*; D005060:Europe; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*; D012958:Societies, Scientific / Q000266:history; D014481:United States; D047828:World War I
keywords: American Journal of Botany; American botany; Botanical Society of America; F.C. Newcombe; German botany; The Great War