| 1 | Creator: | Shull, George Harrison, 1874-1954 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | George Harrison Shull papers, 1874-1955
| | | | Dates: | 1874-1955 | | | | Abstract: | This collection consists of materials relating to Shull's work commissioned by the Carnegie Institution of Washington to collaborate with their grantee, Luther Burbank, with the aim of analyzing Burbank's data on plant breeding and hybridization and preparing it for publication in suitable scientific journals. Shull visited Burbank's plant-breeding farm in California eight times between 1906 and 1910. There are files for each plant genus involved in Burbank's work. These files contain notes, calculations, clippings from newspapers or periodicals, and an unpublished manuscript of Shull's final report to the Carnegie Institution. There is also a report by Edwin C. MacDowell, which gives background information about the collection. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sh92 | | | | Extent: | 6.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Biographical and personal data | Botany. | Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926 | Carnegie Institution of Washington. | Educational matters -- Textbooks | Evolution | Flowers. | Genetics -- Nomenclature | Genetics of plants | Genetics. | History of biology, especially genetics | International Congress of Genetics | MacDowell, E. Carleton, (Edwin Carleton), 1887-1973 | Notebooks. | Plant breeding--California | Plant genetics. | Plants. | Princeton University | Publication | Reports. | Riley, Herbert Parkes, 1904- | Shull, George Harrison, 1874-1954 | Teaching | World War II -- Impact on science | Zea (maize) genetics | |
| 2 | Creator: | Blakeslee, Albert Francis,1874-1954. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Albert Francis Blakeslee papers, 1904-1954
| | | | Dates: | 1904-1954 | | | | Abstract: | Mostly concerned with Blakeslee's studies on beans, blood groups, colchicine, Datura, embryo cultures, and horticulture. Many letters relate to the support and direction of the Smith College Genetics Experiment Station, which he headed. Other letters are about the Carnegie Institution of Washington, "Biological Abstracts," American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Philosophical Society, Institut de France, University of Connecticut. Also contains travel letters from Germany and miscellaneous lectures. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B585 | | | | Extent: | 12.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Association for the Advancement of Science. | American Philosophical Society. | Amherst College | Beans - Research | Belling, John | Bibliographical matters | Biochemistry and organic chemistry | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Vries, Hugo de | Biographical and personal matters | Blakeslee, Albert Francis,1874-1954. | Blood groups. | Botany and plant genetics | Brooklyn Botanical Garden | Buchholz, J. T., (John Theodore), 1888-1951 | Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974 | Business -- Meetings | Business -- Minutes | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Carnegie Institution of Washington -- Reports | Carnegie Institution of Washington. | Cleland, Ralph E., (Ralph Erskine), 1892-1971 | Colchicine - Research | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Committee activities | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Thaxter, Roland. 70th birthday | Connecticut Argicultural College | Cytogenetics | Datura. | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Davis, Bradley M., (Bradley Moore), b. 1871 | Displaced German scholars | Drosophila genetics | Editorial matters | Editorial matters -- Genetics | Educational matters | Embryology, developmental genetics | Embryology. | Eugenics | Evolution | Fellowships, assistantships | Flynn, John E., (John Edward), 1897-1965 | Geneticists -- United States. | Genetics | Genetics -- Research. | Genetics of plants | Genetics of plants -- Agglutinin from beans | Genetics of plants -- Colchicine | Genetics of plants -- Datura | Genetics of plants -- Mucor | Genetics of plants -- Sex in fungi | Germany -- Description and travel. | Goucher College | Graduate study | Harvard University | Honors | Horticulture. | Human genetics | Human genetics -- Odor | Human genetics -- Taste | Human genetics -- Twins | Hyde, James Hazen, 1876-1959 | Immunogenetics | Institut de France. | International Botanical Congresses | International Congress of Genetics -- Sixth Congress | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures. | Molecular genetics | Mount Holyoke College | National Research Foundation | National Science Foundation | Political issues | Political issues -- Germany | Publication | Publication -- Biological Abstracts | Radiation genetics | Recommendations | Research support | Robbins, William Jacob, 1890-1978 | Russian politics and science -- Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Shull, George Harrison, 1874-1954 | Sinnott, Edmund W. (Edmund Ware), 1888-1958 | Smith College | Smith College. Genetics Experiment Station. | Teaching | Teaching -- Harvard University | Teaching -- University of Halle--Blakeslee, Albert Francis | Thaxter, Roland | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- South America | University of Connecticut. | University of Maine | University of Massachusetts | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. -- Abstracts | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. -- Research | Waksman, Selman A., (Selman Abraham), 1888-1973 | Wellesley College | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964 | World War I -- Impact on science | World War II -- Impact on science | Zea (maize) genetics | |
| 3 | Creator: | Eugenics Record Office . | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Eugenics Record Office Records
| | | | Dates: | 1670-1964 | | | | Abstract: | In 1910, the Eugenics Record Office was founded in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, as a center for the study of human heredity and a repository for genetic data on human traits. It merged with the Station for Experimental Evolution in 1920 to become the Department of Genetics at the Carnegie Institution, and under the direction of Charles B. Davenport and later of Albert Blakeslee and Milislav Demerec, it became the most important center for eugenic research in the nation. However with intellectual currents shifting, the Carnegie Institution stopped funding the office in 1939. It remained active until 1944, when its records were transferred to the Charles Fremont Dight Institute for the Promotion of Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota. When the Dight closed in 1991, the genealogical material was filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah and given to the Center for Human Genetics; the non-genealogical material was not filmed and was given to the American Philosophical Society Library.
Following the original order, the ERO Records are organized into thirteen series: I. Trait Files, 1670-1964 ; II. Trait Card Boxes, 1904-1939 ; III. Family Traits Card Boxes, 1920-1939 ; IV. RFT Submitters Card Catalog, 1910s-1930s ; V. Record of Family Traits, 1911-1940 ; VI. Fitter Family Studies, 1913-1936 ; VII. Field Worker Files, 1911-1926 ; VIII. Volunteer Collaborators, 1912-1939 ; IX. Pedigrees, 1828-1926 ; X. Harry H. Laughlin Files, 1915-1938 ; XI. Bibliographia Eugenica, 1734-1934 ; XII. Midget Schedules, 1919-1964 ; XIII. Index Card Boxes, 1910s-1930s. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.77 | | | | Extent: | 330.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Algonquin Indians | American Eugenics Society | Apache Indians | Aztecs. | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Carib Indians | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Carnegie Institution. Department of Genetics | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. | Cuna Indians | Davenport, Charles Benedict | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Eskimos | Eugenics | Eugenics Record Office | Evolution | Gelatin silver prints | Genetics | Heredity | Human genetics | Indians of Central America--Panama | Laughlin, Harry Hamilton | Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943 | Photomechanical prints | Plains Indians | Pueblo Indians | Race, race relations, racism | Sioux Nation | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.. | Station for Experimental Evolution | |
| 4 | Creator: | Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Robert Andrews Millikan collection, 1847-1953
| | | | Dates: | 1847-1953 | | | | Abstract: | These documents cover the years 1847 to 1953, the year of Millikan's death, but the core of the collection consists of the official papers generated by Millikan after his move to Pasadena in 1921. The collection includes more than 125,000 pages of letters, notebooks, unpublished speeches, addresses, lecture notes, and family papers. | | | | Call #: | Mss.H.S.Film.38 | | | | Extent: | 81.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Aeronautics | Articles. | Autobiographies. | Balloons. | Barrett, Edward C. | Barrows, Albert L. | Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974 | California Institute of Technology. | Carnegie Institution of Washington. | Compton, K. T., (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 | Cosmic rays. | Hale , George Ellery, 1868-1938 | Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 | Jewett, Frank B. (Frank Baldwin), 1917- | Kellog, Vernon | Mason, Max, 1877-1961 | Merriam, John C., (John Campbell), 1869-1945 | Military art and science. | Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953 | Munro, William Bennett, 1875-1957 | National Academy of Sciences. (U.S.) | Notes. | Noyes, Arthur A. , (Arthur Amos), 1866-1936 | Physics. | Robinson, Henry Mauris, 1868-1937 | Rockefeller Foundation. | Speeches. | Thomas, Franklin Stoakes, 1911- | Tolman, Richard Chace, 1881-1948 | |
| 5 | Creator: | Lewis, Warren H.(Warren Harmon),1870-1964. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Warren H. (Warren Harmon) Lewis papers, ca. 1913-1964
| | | | Dates: | 1913-1964 | | | | Abstract: | This collection is primarily correspondence and also notes on experiments concerning the cytology research of Lewis and his wife, Dr. Margaret Reed Lewis, at Johns Hopkins University, Carnegie Institution of Washington, and finally at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia. There is significant material relating to his professional society activity in the American Association of Anatomists (President, 1934-1936) and the International Society for Experimental Cytology. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L586 | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Ambystoma. | American Association of Anatomists. | Bayne-Jones, Stanhope, 1888-1970 | Blakeslee, Albert Francis,1874-1954. | Blood. | Bronk, Detlev W., (Detlev Wulf), 1897-1975 | Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974 | Carnegie Institution of Washington. | Cattell, Jacques, 1902-1960 | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Cell division. | Cowdry, E. V., (Edmund Vincent), 1888-1975 | Cumming, Hugh S, (Hugh Smith), 1869-1948 | Cytology -- Research. | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Demerec, M., (Milislav), 1895-1966 | Farris, Edmond J., (Edmond John), 1907- | Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict, 1878-1958 | Harris, Morgan, 1916- | Hollaender, Alexander, 1898-1986 | Illustrations. | International Society for Experimental Cytology. | Jennings, H. S., (Herbert Spencer), 1868-1947 | Johns Hopkins University. | Lewis, Margaret Reed | Lewis, Warren H.(Warren Harmon),1870-1964. | Long, Esmond R., (Esmond Ray), 1890- | Lucke, Baldwin, 1889-1954 | MacNider, William de Berniere, 1881-1951 | Medical sciences. | Menke, John F. | Mitosis | Motion pictures in science. | Murphy, James B., (James Bernard), 1939- | Murray, Margaret Ransone, 1901- | Notes. | Okkels, Harald, b. 1898 | Opie, Eugene L., (Eugene Lindsay), 1873-1971 | Oppenheimer, Jane M., (Jane Marion), 1911- | Pathology | Rollhaeuser, Johanna ter Horst. | Sabin, Florence Rena, 1871-1953 | Science -- Societies, etc. | Streeter, George Linius, 1873-1948 | Tumors. | White, Elizabeth Lloyd | Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. | |
| 6 | Creator: | Corner, George Washington, 1889-1981 | Requires cookie* | | | | Klebs, Arnold C., (Arnold Carl), 1870-1943 | | | | Title: | George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981
| | | | Dates: | 1903-1982 | | | | Abstract: | The Corner collection includes correspondence, biographical and research data, lectures, publications, notebooks and drawings, and also photographs. He was both a scientist, specializing in mammalian reproduction and the female reproduction cycle (being a co-discoverer of the hormone progesterone along with Willard M. Allen), and a medical historian writing both biography and institutional history. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.11 | | | | Extent: | 25.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Allen, Willard M., 1904-1993 | American Association for the History of Medicine. | American Association of Anatomists. | American Philosophical Society. | Bartlemez, George W., b. 1885 | Beebe, William, 1877-1962 | Belt, Elmer, 1893-1980 | Berle, Adolf Augustus, 1895-1971 | Carnegie Institution of Washington. | Castle, William E., (William Ernest), 1867-1962 | Clark, Wilfrid E. Le Gros, (Wilfrid Edward Le Gros), 1895-1971 | Corner, George Washington, 1889-1981 | Cowdry, E. V., (Edmund Vincent), 1888-1975 | Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 | Drafts (preliminary versions). | Ebert, James David, 1921-2001 | Evans, Herbert Martin | Gandhi, Mahatma , 1869-1948 | Garrison, Fielding H., (Fielding Hudson), 1870-1935 | Hormones, Sex. | Human reproduction -- Endocrine aspects. | Institute for Sex Research. | International Anatomical Nomenclature Committee. | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kinsey, Alfred C., (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956 | Klebs, Arnold C., (Arnold Carl), 1870-1943 | Lindbergh, Charles A., (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 | Medicine -- History. | Medicine -- Research -- United States. | Mencken, H. L., (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | Muller, H. J., (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | National Association for Retarded Children. | National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Research in Problems of Sex. | Planned Parenthood Federation of America. | Raacke, Ilse Dorothea, 1925- | Reproduction. | Rhesus monkey. | Rockefeller Institute. | Romer, Alfred Sherwood, 1894-1973 | Sabin, Florence Rena, 1871-1953 | Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S.. | Singer, Charles Joseph, 1876-1960 | Stockard, Charles R., (Charles Rupert), 1879-1939 | Streeter, George Linius, 1873-1948 | Sudhoff, Karl, 1853-1938 | University of Oxford. | University of Rochester. | Weed, Lewis H., (Lewis Hill), 1886-1952 | Whipple, George Hoyt, 1878- | Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, Inc. | Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956 | Zuckerman, Solly Zuckerman, Baron, 1904-1993 | |
| 7 | Creator: | McClintock, Barbara, 1902-1992 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Barbara McClintock Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1927-1991 | | | | Abstract: | The maize geneticist Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) is credited with the discovery of "jumping genes," that is chromosomal "crossing over" and translocation. She received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983.
The collection is organized into six series: I. Correspondence, 1931-1991; II. Subject files, 1938-1989; III. Works by McClintock, 1944-1989; IV. Works by others, 1927-1991; V. Research notes, notebooks, and card files, 1930s-1990s ; VI. Photographs, 1928-1991. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.79 | | | | Extent: | 70.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bacterial genetics | Bacteriophage and viral genetics | Beadle, George Wells | Beadle, George Wells, 1903-1989 | Bibliographical matters | Biographical and personal data | Blumenschein, Almiro | Brenner, Sydney | Brown, W. L., (William L.), 1913- | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Columbia University | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Nobel Prize | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Presidential medal | Corn--Genetics. | Crick, Francis H. C. | Crossing over (Genetics) | Cytogenetics | Demerec, Milislav | Drosophila genetics | Educational matters | Evolution | Fellowships, assistantships | Fellowships, assistantships -- Guggenheim | Genetics | Genetics of plants | Graduate study | Hershey, Alfred Day | History of biology, especially genetics | History of biology, especially genetics -- Carnegie Institution of Washington | Honors -- Nobel Prize | Invitations | Kato Yamakake, Takeo Angel | Laboratory notebooks | Laboratory notes | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Lantern slides | Lectures | Lectures, public speaking | Lederberg, Joshua | Maize--Genetics | Mangelsdorf, Paul C. | McClintock, Barbara, 1902-1992 | Molecular genetics | National Medal of Science | National Science Foundation | Nobel Prizes | Peterson, Peter Andrew, 1925- | Photonegatives | Photoprints | Plant genetics | Publication | Publication -- Genetics | Publication -- Nobel Prize | Radiation genetics | Recommendations | Research support | Research support -- Rockefeller Foundation | Shapiro, James Allen, 1943- | Sharp, Lester W., (Lester Whyland), b. 1887 | Solicitations for support or contribution | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Teaching | Translocation (Genetics). | Travel -- Brazil | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- South America | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Wallace, Bruce | Watson, James D. | Wolf Foundation Prize | Women botanists | Women geneticists | Women in science | Women scientists | Zea (maize) genetics | |
| 8 | Creator: | Luria, S. E., (Salvador Edward), 1912-1991 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Salvador E. Luria Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1923-1992 | | | | Abstract: | A bacteriologist from MIT, Salvador E. Luria's work with Max Delbruck on bacteriophage demonstrated that bacterial resistance to certain phages arose through genetic mutations. His later work showed that phages also mutate genetically. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969 with Max Delbruck and Alfred D. Hershey.
The collection is organized into seven series: I. Correspondence, 1938-1992 ; IIa. Subject Files, 1938-1990 ; IIb. Personal Material. 1923-1991 ; III. Works by Luria, 1938-1987 ; IV. Works by Others, 1944-1990 ; V. Research Notes and Notebooks, 1941-1979 ; VI. Course Material, 1931-1991 ; VII. Photographs and Negatives, 1957-1982. Arrangement: Alphabetical by folder title and then chronological within each folder. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.39 | | | | Extent: | 44.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Philosophical Society | American Society for Microbiology. | Anderson, Thomas Foxen, 1911-1991 | Annual reports. | Bacterial genetics | Bacteriophage and viral genetics | Bacteriophages-Genetics | Behavioral genetics, IQ | Biochemistry and organic chemistry | Biographical and personal data | Bolton, Ellis T. | Borek, Ernest, 1911-1986 | Boston Area Faculty Group on Public Issues. | Business | Cancer, chemotherapy | Carlson, Elof Axel | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Central America-Foreign relations-1979- | Civil defense | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Columbia University | Committee activities | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Horwitz Prize | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Nobel Prize | Crick, Francis H. C. | Crow, James F. | Darwin, Charles | Davis, Bernard D., 1916- | Delbruck, Max | Demerec, Milislav | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Doermann, August H | Editorial matters | Educational matters | Ethical issues | Federation of American Scientists | Fellowships, assistantships | Fondation Royaumont | Genetics | Genetics Society of America | Glass, Bentley | Graduate study | Gunsalus, I. C., (Irwin Clyde), 1912- | Halvorson, Harlyn O | Harvard University | Hershey, Alfred Day | History of biology, especially genetics | Hollaender, Alexander | Honors -- Horwitz Prize | Honors -- Nobel Prize | Honors -- Sc.D. | Human genetics | International Cell Research Organization | International Congress of Genetics | Jacob, Francois | Laboratory notebooks | Laboratory notes | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Lantern slides | Lectures | Lectures, public speaking | Lederberg, Joshua | Luria, S. E., (Salvador Edward), 1912-1991 | Lwoff, Andre | Massachusettes Institute of Technology | McClintock, Barbara | McClintock, Barbara, 1902-1992 | Medical research | Microbial genetics | Molecular biology | Molecular genetics | Monod, Jacques | Muller, Hermann Joseph | National Academy of Sciences | National Institutes of Health | National Research Council | Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine | Nobel Prizes | Nuclear energy | Nuclear weapons | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994 | Photoprints | Political issues | Political issues -- Atomic weapons | Political participation | Preservation of historical materials | Protozoan genetics | Publication | Publication -- Not in Our Genes | Publication -- Science | Publication -- The Path to the Double Helix | Radiation genetics | Recommendations | Requests for reprints | Research support | Russian politics and science | Salk Institute for Biological Studies. | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Stern, Curt | Teaching | Travel -- France | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | University of Pennsylvania | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 | Viral genetics | Wallace, Bruce | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) | Wiesel, Elie, 1928- | |
| 9 | Creator: | Demerec, M., (Milislav), 1895-1966 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Milislav Demerec Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1919-1966 | | | | Abstract: | The geneticist Milislav Demerec emigrated from Yugloslavia in 1919, spending nearly his entire career in the Department of Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Working initially on the genetics of maize and later on
Drosophila virilis, his research interests included radiation and chemical mutagenesis, and during the Second World War, penicillin and the genetics of antibiotic resistance. Demerec served as head of the laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor from 1941 until 1960.
The Demerec collection contains the extant professional papers of Milislav Demerec, dating primarily from the time of his arrival at Cold Spring Harbor until his retirement. In addition to his correspondence with colleagues, the collection includes interesting material on the administration of Cold Spring Harbor laboratory during the 1940s and 1950s, data and research notes, material relating to professional organizations (e.g. Genetics Society of America, American Society of Naturalists), a lengthy series of lectures given by Demerec, and a large number of photographs pertaining to Demerec's research, but also to his colleagues and Cold Spring Harbor itself. There is also a Register of visitors to the laboratory (1927-1945) and a Milislav Demerec reprint list. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D394 | | | | Extent: | 14.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Academic freedom | American Society of Naturalists. | Antibiotics | Atomic Energy Commission | Babcock, E. B. (Ernest Brown), b. 1877 | Bacterial genetics | Bacterial genetics -- Nomenclature | Bacteriophage and viral genetics | Bateson , Beatrice | Bibliographical matters | Biochemistry and organic chemistry | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Belling, John | Biographical and personal data -- Blakeslee, Albert Francis | Biographical and personal data -- Bridges, Calvin B. | Biographical and personal data -- Demerec, Milislav | Biographical and personal data -- Demerec, Rada | Biographical and personal data -- Muller, Hermann Joseph | Biographical and personal data -- Sutton, Eileen | Blakeslee, Albert Francis,1874-1954. | Bridges, Calvin B. | Bridges, Calvin B. (Calvin Blackman), 1889-1938 | Bronk, Detlev W., (Detlev Wulf), 1897-1975 | Business | Business -- Grant proposals | Business -- Reports | C. W. Post College | California Institute of Technology | Cancer, chemotherapy | Cancer, chemotherapy -- Chemical mutagens | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Caspari, Ernst W. | Castle, William E., (William Ernest), 1867-1962 | Certificates. | Chemical mutagenesis. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Department of Genetics | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. | Columbia University | Committee activities | Committee activities -- Reports | Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974 | Conferences and symposia | Conferences and symposia -- Bacterial genetics | Conferences and symposia -- Bacteriophage and viral genetics | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Cytogenetics | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Demerec, M., (Milislav), 1895-1966 | Diplomas. | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Drosophila Information Service | Drosophila genetics | Drosophila--Genetics | Editorial matters | Editorial matters -- Journal of Heredity | Educational matters | Emerson, Rollins Adams | Emerson, Rollins Adams, 1873-1947 | Ephrussi, Boris, 1901-1979 | Evolution | Fellowships, assistantships | Fellowships, assistantships -- Buck, John B. | Fellowships, assistantships -- Delbruck, Max | Fellowships, assistantships -- Gustafsson, Ake | Fellowships, assistantships -- Hoecker, Frank E. | Fellowships, assistantships -- Slizynski, B. M. | Fellowships, assistantships -- Westergaard, Morgens | Genetics | Genetics -- Mutable genes | Genetics -- Mutation rates | Genetics -- Neurospora | Genetics -- Penicillium | Genetics -- Variegation | Genetics -- Yeast | Genetics Society of America | Genetics of plants | Genetics of plants -- Barley | Genetics of plants -- Crepis | Genetics of plants -- Delphinium | Genetics--Research | Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict | Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict, 1878-1958 | Graduate study | Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson), 1892-1964 | Hollaender, Alexander | Hollaender, Alexander, 1898-1986 | Honors | Honors -- American Philosophical Society | Human evolution, physical anthropology | Human genetics | International Congress of Genetics | International Congress of Genetics -- Eighth Congress | International Congress of Genetics -- Ninth Congress | International Congress of Genetics -- Tenth Congress | Invitations | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Lectures | Lectures, public speaking | Long Island Biological Association | Maize--Genetics | Mangelsdorf, Paul C. | Medical research | Metz, Charles William, 1889-1975 | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | Mouse genetics | Muller, H. J., (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | Muller, Hermann Joseph | Mutagens | Mutation (Biology) | National Academy of Sciences | National Academy of Sciences -- Committee on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation - Genetics Panel | National Research Council | National Science Foundation | Notebooks | Penicillin | Photographs | Plant genetics | Political issues | Political issues -- Yugoslavia | Population genetics | Publication | Publication -- Advances in Genetics | Publication -- American Naturalist | Publication -- Genetics | Radiation genetics | Radiogenetics | Recommendations | Recommendations -- Brink, R. Alex | Recommendations -- Carlson, Elof Axel | Recommendations -- Fano, Ugo | Recommendations -- Harnley, Morris H. | Recommendations -- Huskins, C. Leonard | Recommendations -- Slizynski, B. M. | Recommendations -- Spencer, Warren P. | Recommendations -- Waddington, Conrad Hal | Referee's report | Referee's report -- American Naturalist | Research support | Reviews | Rockefeller Foundation | Russian politics and science | Russian politics and science -- Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific refugees | Sonneborn, T.M., (Tracy Morton), 1905-1981 | Timofeev-Resovskiĭ, N. V., (Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich), 1900-1981 | Travel -- Australia | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- Yugoslavia | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981 | Weaver, Warren | World War II -- Impact on science | World War II -- Yugoslavia | Zea (maize) genetics | Zoology -- Nomenclature. | |
| 10 | Creator: | Schultz, Jack,1904-1971. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jack Schultz papers, 1920-1971
| | | | Dates: | 1920-1971 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes correspondence (18.5 boxes), manuscripts (lectures and articles), research grant material, research data, and some personal notes from his graduate school days. There is significant material relating to his participation in professional organizations such as the American Society of Naturalists (President, 1968), Genetics Society of America (President, 1963), National Research Council, and the National Science Foundation. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.27 | | | | Extent: | 27.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Alava, Aloha Margaret Hannah | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Institute of Biological Sciences | American Philosophical Society | American Society of Human Genetics | American Society of Naturalists. | Articles. | Bacterial genetics -- Nomenclature | Beadle, George Wells, 1903-1989 | Becker, Hans Joachim | Biochemical genetics. | Biochemistry and organic chemistry | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Bridges, Calvin B. | Biographical and personal data -- Krivshenko, Jakov D. | Biology. | Bridges, Calvin B. | Briggs, R. W., (Robert W.) | Business | California Institute of Technology | Cancer, chemotherapy | Carlson, Elof Axel | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Caspersson, Torbjorn | Caspersson, Torbjörn, (Torbjörn Oskar), 1910-1997 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Columbia University | Columbia University. | Committee activities | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Dobzhansky, Theodosius. 70th birthday | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- National Academy of Sciences | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Nobel Prize | Cooper, Kenneth Willard | Crow, James F. | Cytochemistry. | Cytogenetics | Cytology. | Darlington, C. D., (Cyril Dean), 1903-1981 | Davenport, Charles Benedict | Demerec, M., (Milislav), 1895-1966 | Demerec, Milislav | Displaced German scholars | Dobzhansky, Theodosius | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Drosophila Information Service | Drosophila genetics | Drosophila. | Editorial matters | Educational matters | Embryology, developmental genetics | Ephrussi, Boris, 1901-1979 | Fabergé, Alexander C. | Fellowships, assistantships | Genetics | Genetics -- Guinea pigs | Genetics Society of America | Genetics Society of America. | Genetics of plants | Genetics. | Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict | Graduate study | Hadorn, Ernst | Hadorn, Ernst, 1902- | Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson), 1892-1964 | Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson | Hecht, Selig, 1892-1947 | History of biology, especially genetics | Honors -- Kimber Award | Honors -- National Medal of Science | Human Genetics Society of America | Human chromosomes. | Human genetics | Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pa.). | Instituto Agronomico do Norte | International Congress of Genetics | Invitations | Karlinska Institutet | Kerkis, Julius J. | Klein, George, 1925- | Krivshenko, Jakov D. | L'Heritier, Philippe | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures, public speaking -- Mendelian Society, Sweden | Lectures. | Lewis, Edward B., 1920- | Lewontin, Richard Charles | Mampell, Klaus | Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole | Medical research | Miller, Dwight D. | Molecular genetics | Morgan, Thomas Hunt | Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945 | Mouse genetics | Muller, H. J., (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | Muller, Hermann Joseph | National Academy of Sciences | National Research Council | National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Research in Problems of Sex. | National Science Foundation | National Science Foundation -- Solicitations for support or contribution | National Science Foundation, U.S. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Oster, Irwin | Pauling, Linus | Physiology | Political issues -- Environment | Political issues -- Germany | Political issues -- Loyalty oaths | Population genetics | Publication | Publication -- American Naturalist | Publication -- BioScience | Publication -- Genetics | Radiation genetics | Recommendations | Recommendations -- Davidson, R. L. | Recommendations -- Kodani, Masuo | Recommendations -- Lewis, Edward B. | Recommendations -- Stern, Curt | Referee's report | Requests for aid in finding positions | Requests for reprints | Research support | Reviews | Reviews -- Grant proposals | Rudkin, George T. | Russian politics and science | Schultz, Jack,1904-1971. | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Solicitations for support or contribution -- Thomas Hunt Morgan memorial | Stadler, L. J., (Lewis John), 1896-1954 | Stadler, Lewis John | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Stern, Curt | Sturtevant, Alfred Henry | Travel -- Brazil | Travel -- France | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- Sweden | University of California, Berkeley -- Miller Research Professorship | University of Missouri | University of Pennsylvania | University of Rochester | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Ward, George | World War II -- Impact on science | World War II -- Sweden | Zea (maize) genetics | |
| 11 | Creator: | Jennings, H. S., (Herbert Spencer), 1868-1947 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | H. S. (Herbert Spencer) Jennings papers, ca. 1893-1947
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1893-1947 | | | | Abstract: | This is a diverse collection, including correspondence, drafts of letters, notes and notebooks (on biometric methods; tables and formulae; science, nature and method; coefficient and correlation; vitalism; Japanese language); commonplace book (1924); autobiography; and over one hundred folders of unpublished writings. The correspondence and other material covers a variety of topics, including biology, eugenics, evolution and natural selection, human heredity, paramecia, protozoa genetics, U.S. immigration policy. There is much on the Seventh International Congress of Zoology (1907); letters to his father and wives, and from students and colleagues on his seventy-fifth birthday, 1943 (1 v.); diplomas and certificates of membership; and photographs. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.J44 | | | | Extent: | 14.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Animal behavior. | Art | Autobiographies. | Aydelotte, Frank, 1880-1956 | Behavioral genetics, IQ | Bibliographical matters | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Jenks family | Biographical and personal data -- Jennings, Herbert Spencer | Biographical and personal data -- Mark, Edward Laurens | Biographical and personal data -- Pearl, Raymond | Biology. | Biometry. | Brennemann, Joseph, 1872-1944 | Burridge, Mary Louise | Business | Calkins, Gary N., (Gary Nathan), b. 1869 | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Carribbean research | Castle, William Ernest | Certificates. | Chen, T. T. | Chen, Tze-tuan, 1906- | Committee activities | Commonplace books. | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Correlation (Statistics) | Cowdry, E. V., (Edmund Vincent), 1888-1975 | Cytogenetics | Davenport, Charles Benedict | Diplomas. | Displaced German scholars -- Jollos, Victor | Driesch, Hans | Drosophila genetics | Editorial matters | Editorial matters -- Genetics | Editorial matters -- Journal of Experimental Zoology | Educational matters | Emigration and immigration law -- United States. | Ethical issues | Ethical issues -- Indeterminism | Eugenics | Eugenics. | Evolution | Evolution. | Fellowships, assistantships | Fisher, Irving, 1867-1947 | Geiser, Samuel Wood, 1890-1983 | Genetics | Genetics -- Goats | Genetics of plants | Genetics. | Graduate study | Graduate study -- Harvard University | Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson | Harrison, Ross G., (Ross Granville), 1870-1959 | Harvard University | Harvard University -- Bussey Institute | Heredity. | History of biology, especially genetics | Honors -- Joseph Leidy Award | Human genetics | Huxley, Julian | Indiana University | Indiana University--Patten Lectures | International Congress of Eugenics | International Congress of Genetics | International Congress of Zoology -- Seventh Congress | International Union of Biological Societies | Invitations | Japanese language | Jennings, H. S., (Herbert Spencer), 1868-1947 | Jennings, Herbert Spencer -- Cultural life | Jennings, Herbert Spencer -- Death | Jennings, Herbert Spencer -- Second marriage | Johns Hopkins University | Johns Hopkins University -- Business | Johns Hopkins University -- Graduate study | Johns Hopkins University -- Mast, Samuel Ottmar | Johns Hopkins University -- Recommendations | Johns Hopkins University -- Sonneborn, Tracy M. | Kammerer, Paul | Kellogg, Vernon L., (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937 | Kimball, Richard Fuller | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures, public speaking -- Jennings, Herbert Spencer | Lectures, public speaking -- Oxford University | Lectures, public speaking -- Princeton University | Lectures, public speaking -- University of California, Los Angeles | Lectures, public speaking -- Yale University | Lectures. | Lillie, Frank Rattray | Loeb, Jacques | Lovejoy, Arthur O. | Lynch, Ruth Stocking | MacDougal, Daniel Trembly | Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole | Mast, Samuel Ottmar | Mast, Samuel Ottmar, 1871-1947 | Metcalf, Maynard M., (Maynard Mayo), 1868-1940 | Metz, Carl W., 1889-1975 | Moewus, Franz | Morgan, Thomas Hunt | Muller, H. J., (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | Music | Naples Zoological Station | National Academy of Sciences | National Research Council | Natural selection. | Notebooks. | Osterud, Hjalmar Laurits, b. 1883 | Oxford University | Paramecium -- Physiology. | Pearl, Raymond | Philosophy of science | Philosophy of science -- Vitalism | Photoprints. | Poetry and literature | Political issues | Pomeroy, Fred Elmer, b. 1877 | Population, demography | Poultry genetics | Preer, John R. | Protozoa -- Physiology. | Protozoan genetics | Protozoan genetics -- Paramecium mating types | Protozoan genetics -- Protozoan behavior | Psychobiology | Publication | Publication -- Genetics | Publication -- Journal of Experimental Zoology | Publication -- The Anatomy of the Cat | Raffel, Daniel, b. 1899 | Recommendations | Recommendations -- Jennings, Herbert Spencer | Referee's report | Referee's report -- Kammerer, Paul | Research support | Reviews | Rockefeller Foundation | Russian politics and science | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Shull, George Harrison | Shull, George Harrison, 1874-1954 | Sonneborn, T.M., (Tracy Morton), 1905-1981 | Sonneborn, Tracy M. | Spemann, Hans | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics -- Pearson, Karl | Teaching | Travel -- Europe | Travel -- Germany | Travel -- Great Britain | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- Italy | Travel -- Japan | Travel -- Lisbon | Travel -- Mediterranean Sea | Travel -- Oxford | Travel -- Switzerland | Travel--California | Uexkull, Jakob von | United States Fish Commission | University of California, Los Angeles | University of California, Los Angeles -- Chen, T. T. | University of Maine | University of Michigan | University of Pennsylvania | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Vavilov, N. I. (Nikolai Ivanovich), 1887-1943 | Vitalism. | Watson, John B., (John Broadus), 1878-1958 | Weinstein, Alexander | Whitney, Leon Fradley, 1894- | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964 | Woodruff, Charles | World War I -- Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict | World War I -- Impact on science | World War II -- Impact on science | Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956 | Zoologists -- United States. | Zoology | Zoology -- Animal behavior | Zoology -- Rotifera | |
| 12 | Creator: | Wright, Sewall, 1889-1988 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sewall Wright Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1885-1988 | | | | Abstract: | Sewall Wright ranks among the most influential figures in the field of population genetics during the 20th century, and made important contributions to biostatistics, biometrics, and evolutionary theory. These papers contain much of Wright's professional correspondence, scattered research notes, and drafts of a small number of papers. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.60 | | | | Extent: | 17.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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Joe | Bibliographical matters | Biochemistry and organic chemistry | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Castle, William Ernest | Biographical and personal data -- Muller, Hermann Joseph | Biographical and personal data -- Obituary | Biographical and personal data -- Wright, Sewall | Blakeslee, Albert Francis | Bush, Vannevar | Business | California Institute of Technology -- Thomas Hunt Morgan memorial | Cancer, chemotherapy | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Caspari, Ernst Wilhelm | Castle, William Ernest | Cattell, James McKeen | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cole, Leon Jacob | Columbia University | Committee activities | Conferences and symposia | Conferences and symposia -- American Society of Zoologists | Conferences and symposia -- Darwin Centennial | Conferences and symposia -- Mendel Centennial | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- 50-year membership | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Leon J. Cole Professor of Genetics | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Muller, Hermann Joseph. 70th birthday | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- National Academy of Sciences | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Presidential medal | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Royal Society (Great Britain) | Crow, James F. | Cytogenetics | Davenport, Charles Benedict | Demerec, Milislav | Displaced German scholars | Dobzhansky, Theodosius | Dronamraju, Krishna R. | Drosophila genetics | Dunn, Leslie Clarence | East, Edward Murray | Editorial matters | Educational matters | Embryology, developmental genetics | Emerson, Rollins Adams | Epling, Carl | Eugenics Record Office | Evolution | Evolution (Biology) | Evolution -- Race | Fellowships, assistantships | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer | Genetic algebras | Genetics | Genetics -- Animals | Genetics -- Birds | Genetics -- Cattle | Genetics -- Genetic drift | Genetics -- Guinea pigs | Genetics -- Mammals | Genetics -- Neurospora | Genetics -- Nomenclature | Genetics -- Snails | Genetics -- Wasps | Genetics Society of America | Genetics Society of America -- Golden Jubilee | Genetics of plants | Gillespie, John H. | Glass, Bentley | Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict | Gordon, Robert Dean | Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson | Harvard University | History of biology, especially genetics | Honors | Honors -- Kimber Award | Honors -- Royal Society (Great Britain) | House Un-American Activities Committee | House, Verl L. | Human genetics | Human genetics -- Race | Iltis, Hugo | International Congress of Genetics | International Congress of Genetics -- Seventh Congress | International Congress of Genetics -- Sixth Congress | International Congress of Zoology | Invitations | Jennings, Herbert Spencer | Kaufmann, Berwind Peterson | Keeler, Clyde A. | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures, public speaking -- University of California, Berkeley | Levit, Solomon G. | Lewontin, Richard Charles | Little, Clarence Cook | Luria, Salvador Edward | Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole | Medical research | Mendel, Gregor | Mohr, Otto Louis | Molecular genetics | Morgenstern, Oskar | Mouse genetics | Muller, Hermann Joseph | National Academy of Sciences | National Academy of Sciences -- Committee activities | National Academy of Sciences. (U.S.) | National Research Council | National Research Council (U.S.) | National Research Council -- Committee activities | National Science Foundation | Navashin, Sergei Gavrilovich | Neel, James V. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Osborn, Frederick Henry | Paleontology | Pearl, Raymond | Physiology | Political issues -- Hitler manifesto | Population genetics | Preservation of historical materials | Protozoan genetics | Provine, William | Publication | Publication -- American Naturalist | Publication -- Genetics | Publication -- Journal of Heredity | Publication -- Nature | Publication -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Publication -- Science | Publication -- Society for the Study of Evolution | Rabbit genetics | Radiation genetics | Rat genetics | Recommendations | Reed, Sheldon Clark | Referee's report | Requests for aid in finding positions | Requests for reprints | Research support | Reviews | Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory | Russian politics and science | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- American Society of Zoologists | Serebrovsky, Alexander Sergeevich | Sheppard, Philip M. | Society for the Study of Evolution | Sociology | Sokoloff, Alexander | Solicitations for support or contribution | Sonneborn, Tracy M. | Stadler, Lewis John | Stalker, Harrison Dailey | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Stern, Curt | Stern, Kurt | Sturtevant, Alfred Henry | Teaching | Tower, William L. | Travel -- Brazil | Travel -- Great Britain | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- Norway | University of Chicago | University of Chicago. | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. -- Research data | Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich | Wallace, Bruce | Watson, James D. | Whiting, Phineas W. | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell | Woodson, Robert E. | World War II -- England | World War II -- Impact on science | World War II -- Norway | Wright, Sewall, 1889-1988 | Zoology | |
| 13 | Creator: | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Benedict Davenport Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1874-1946 | | | | Abstract: | Founded by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in 1890, the Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., was little more than a languishing outpost until the arrival of Charles B. Davenport in 1898. Over the course of two decades, the ambitious young biologist used his extraordinary administrative skills to transform the institution into the premier center of eugenical study and, as its director, to position himself as the leading spokesman for eugenical research in North America.
The Davenport Papers (ca. 43 lin. feet) is a large and nearly comprehensive body of correspondence, lectures, diaries (1878-1942, mostly brief entries of an uneven character), student notebooks and family correspondence pertaining to Charles Davenport and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The collection is divided into two series, the Charles Davenport Papers, which provides valuable documentation of the development of American biology, animal and plant genetics, and eugenics during the period 1898-1942, with some perspective on the international eugenics movement. Series II, the Cold Spring Harbor Records (ca.20 lin. feet), consists largely of administrative correspondence relating to the laboratory, including Davenport's correspondence with Carnegie administrators (esp. Robert Woodward and John Merriam), accounts and reports concerning financial matters, publications, salaries, material relative to the early history of Cold Spring Harbor labs, and records relative to the numerous professional assistants who worked under Davenport.
Among the major correspondents are the American Breeders Association, Committee on Eugenics; American Eugenics Society; American Society of Naturalists; Committee on a Study of the American Negro; Galton Society (see also the extensive correspondence with William K. Gregory); Eugenics Education Society (see Mrs. S. Gotto correspondence); International Congresses of Eugenics; International Federation of Eugenic Organizations, Committee on Race Crossing; National Committee on Mental Hygiene; National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor; and the Pan-American Conference on Eugenics and Homiculture. There are correspondence and papers relating to the Station for Experimental Evolution, the Eugenics Record Office, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and a substantial series relating to a long-range study of children carried out at Letchworth Village, Thiles, New York. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D27 | | | | Extent: | 63.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Academic freedom | Afro-Americans | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Eugenics Society | American Museum of Natural History | American Philosophical Society | Anthropology | Appointment books, diaries, notebooks | Baur, Erwin | Behavioral genetics, IQ | Belling, John | Bermuda Biological Station | Bermuda Biological Station | Bibliographical matters | Bibliographical matters -- Abstracts | Biochemistry and organic chemistry | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Belling, John | Biographical and personal data -- Bridges, Calvin B. | Biographical and personal data -- Clausen, Roy Elwood | Biographical and personal data -- Davenport, Charles Benedict | Biographical and personal data -- Goodspeed, Thomas Harper | Biographical and personal data -- Vries, Hugo de | Biographical and personal data -- Zeleny, Charles | Biological Farm Project | Biologists. | Biology | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Birds | Blacks. | Blakeslee, Albert Francis | Botany and plant genetics | Brooklyn Botanical Garden | Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute | Burbank, Luther | Business | Cancer, chemotherapy | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Carnegie Institution of Washington -- Burbank, Luther | Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Genetics | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Agol, I. J. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Levit, Solomon G. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Offerman, Carlos | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Property | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. | Committee activities | Committee activities -- Executive committee | Committee activities -- Sterilization | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- 75th birthday | Cytogenetics | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Demerec, Milislav | Displaced German scholars | Drosophila genetics | Drosophila genetics -- Mutation rates | Ecology | Editorial matters | Editorial matters -- Genetics | Educational matters | Educational matters -- Dartmouth College | Embryology, developmental genetics | Ethical issues | Eugenics | Eugenics Record Association | Eugenics Record Office | Eugenics Record Office -- Bylaws | Eugenics Record Office -- Fieldworkers | Eugenics Record Office -- History | Eugenics Record Office -- Psychology | Eugenics Record Office -- Reports | Eugenics Record Office -- Summer courses | Eugenics Research Association | Eugenics Research Association | Evolution | Fellowships, assistantships | Genetics | Genetics -- Dogs | Genetics -- Horses | Genetics -- Lymantria | Genetics -- Sciara | Genetics -- Sheep | Genetics of plants | Genetics of plants -- Bursa | Genetics of plants -- Crepis | Genetics of plants -- Datura | Genetics of plants -- Mucor | Genetics of plants -- Oenothera | Genetics, Animal | Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict | Graduate study | Graduate study -- Harvard University | Harriman, Mrs. | Harriman, Mrs. E. H. | Harris, J. A. | Harvard University | History of biology, especially genetics | History of biology, especially genetics -- Darwin, Charles | History of biology, especially genetics -- Mendel, Gregor | Honors | Human Betterment Foundation | Human evolution, physical anthropology | Human evolution, physical anthropology -- Jamaicans | Human genetics | Human genetics -- Epilepsy | Human genetics -- Musical capacity | Human genetics -- Twins | International Congress of Eugenics | International Congress of Eugenics -- Exhibits | International Congress of Eugenics -- First Congress | International Congress of Eugenics -- Second Congress | International Congress of Eugenics -- Third Congress | International Congress of Genetics | International Congress of Genetics -- Fifth Congress | International Congress of Genetics -- Sixth Congress | International Congress of Zoology | International Congress of Zoology -- Eighth Congress | International Congress of Zoology -- First Congress | International Congress of Zoology -- Second Congress | International Congress of Zoology -- Seventh Congress | Invitations | Jennings, Herbert Spencer | Johns Hopkins University | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Laughlin, Harry Hamilton | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures, public speaking -- Experimental evolution | Letchworth Village | Letchworth Village | Long Island Biological Association | Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole | Merriam, John C., (John Campbell), 1869-1945 | Metz, Charles W. | Mohr, Otto Louis | Morgan, Thomas Hunt | Mount Holyoke College | Mount Hope Farm | Mouse genetics | Nassau County Association. | National Academy of Sciences | National Academy of Sciences -- Committee activities | National Research Council | National Research Council -- Committee activities | Ohio State University | Pellagra | Philosophy of science | Physiology | Political issues | Political issues -- Germany | Political issues -- Immigration | Political issues -- Pollution | Political issues -- Sterilization | Poultry genetics | Psychology | Publication | Publication -- Eugenical News | Publication -- Genetics | Punnett, Reginald Crundall | Rabbit genetics | Race Betterment Foundation | Race crossing | Race, race relations, racism | Radiation genetics | Rafinesque, Constantine | Rat genetics | Recommendations | Recommendations -- Bernstein, Felix | Recommendations -- Blakeslee, Albert Francis | Recommendations -- Burbank, Luther | Recommendations -- Harris, Reginald | Recommendations -- MacDowell, E. Carleton | Recommendations -- Morgan, Thomas Hunt | Recommendations -- Nobel Prize | Recommendations -- Satina, Sophie | Recommendations -- Steggerda, Morris | Recommendations -- Wright, Sewall | Referee's report | Regeneration | Requests for aid in finding positions | Requests for reprints | Research support | Reviews | Reviews -- Books | Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory | Russian politics and science | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- American Breeders' Association | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- International Federation of Eugenics Organizations | Scientific refugees | Shull, George Harrison | Solicitations for support or contribution | Station for Experimental Evolution -- Annual reports | Station for Experimental Evolution -- Beginnings | Station for Experimental Evolution -- Five-year plan (1920) | Station for Experimental Evolution -- History | Station for Experimental Evolution -- Library | Station for Experimental Evolution -- Plans | Station for Experimental Evolution -- Staff | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Steggerda, Morris | Teaching | Teaching -- Dartmouth College | Teaching -- Harvard University | Teaching -- Princeton University | Teaching -- Smith College | Teaching -- University of Minnesota | Tower, William L. | Travel -- Germany | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | University of Chicago | University of Michigan | University of Pittsburgh | University of Texas | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Whitman, Charles Otis | Woodward, Robert | World War I -- Impact on science | World War II -- Impact on science | Zea (maize) genetics | Zoology | Zoology -- Gorillas | |
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