| 1 | Creator: | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Darwin Papers Editorial Project Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1821-1882 | | | | Abstract: | The project to publish the complete correspondence of the British naturalist Charles Darwin began in 1974 under the editorial guidance of Frederick Burkhardt with the assistance of Sydney Smith. Drawing heavily on the 9,000 letters located at Cambridge University and 950 at the American Philosophical Society, the project has made efforts to locate, transcribe, and publish every known letter written by Darwin. Over 200 institutions in 20 countries have contributed to the project, yielding a total of 15,000 letters.
The Darwin material was assembled in photocopy by the Darwin Papers Editorial Project, and includes a copy of nearly every letter known to have been written by Darwin and many written to him. These are arranged alphabetically by correspondent, and are inventoried thoroughly in Burkhardt,
A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.28 | | | | Extent: | 48.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Evolution (Biology) | |
| 2 | Creator: | Society for the Study of Evolution. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Society for the Study of Evolution Records
| | | | Dates: | 1944-present | | | | Abstract: | Founded in 1946, the Society for the Study of Evolution is one of the principle organizations for the study of the evolutionary sciences. Its bimonthly journal,
Evolution, publishes work of general interest to researchers in the range of evolutionary disciplines.
The Records of the Society for the Study of Evolution are a growing collection that includes material on the organization and governance of the Society, its conferences, and its journal,
Evolution. The largest series by far contains the editorial files for
Evolution, documenting Ernst Mayr's early efforts to solicit material for the journal, but including the editors' complete files from the 1980s onward. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.81 | | | | Extent: | 79.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Creationism. | Editorial files | Evolution (Biology) | Evolution (Biology)--Periodicals | Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Couch, Jonathan, 1789-1870 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jonathan Couch Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1839-1891 | | | | Abstract: | In many ways, Jonathan Couch was a prototype of the Victorian provincial naturalist, a trained physician whose eclectic, but intensely local interests ran from the life sciences to geology, Cornish folk beliefs, and local history. His major works included a three-volume translation of
Pliny's Natural History (London, 1847-1849) published by the Wernerian Club of London,
The History of Polperro (Truro, 1871), and the exhaustive four-volume
A History of the Fishes of the British Islands (London, 1862-1868).
The remnants of a wide-ranging mind, the Couch Papers contain a sampling of correspondence, rough drafts of articles, and notes on a variety of topics of interest to the Cornish naturalist and antiquarian, Jonathan Couch. The bulk of the correspondence relates to Couch's translation of Pliny's Natural History, published by the Wernerian Club of London between 1847 and 1849. The notes are highly diverse, but include some systematic descriptions of fishes, probably used in his
A History of the Fishes of the British Islands and notes Cornish folk beliefs. Of particular interest are his "Notes connected with instinct and reason" and three manuscripts relating to evolutionism: "Enquiry into the circumstances...," "On the history and development of man," and "The Natural History of the Creation of the World, with its changes to the subsidence of the flood and Noah." | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C831 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astronomy--Great Britain--18th century | Beyond Early America | Conchology--Great Britain | Cornwall--Description and travel | Couch, Jonathan, 1789-1870 | Creationism. | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Developmental biology--Great Britain | Dreams | Evolution (Biology) | Fisheries--Great Britain | Fishes--Great Britain | Human evolution | Instinct | Natural history--Great Britain--19th century | Pen works | Photographs | Pliny the Younger | Superstition--Great Britain | Wernerian Club (London, England) | Zoology--Great Britain | |
| 5 | Creator: | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne, 1772-1844 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Étienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1811-1844 | | | | Abstract: | An evolutionist before Darwin, an embryologist, paleontologist, and comparative anatomist, Étienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire was a Professor of Vertebrate Zoology at the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris for the half century following the Reign of Terror. Following in the footsteps of Lamarck, Geoffroy held tenaciously to a belief in the underlying unity of organismal design, to the great change of being, and the possibility of the transmutation of species in time, amassing evidence for his claims through research in comparative anatomy, paleontology, and embryology.
The Geoffroy Collection is comprised of 0.75 linear feet of lecture notes and correspondence relating to Geoffroy's diverse interests in natural history, Egypt, comparative anatomy, analogies, paleontology, and embryology, and it is particularly rich for his studies of teratology. All items are in French. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.G287p | | | | Extent: | 0.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anatomy--France | Beyond Early America | Conjoined twins | Cuvier, Georges, 1769-1832 | Dinosaurs | Egypt--Antiquities. | Egypt--Description and travel | Embryology--France | Engravings. | Evolution (Biology) | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne, 1772-1844 | Homology (Biology) | Lecture notes | Light--Philosophy | Monsters | Natural history--France--19th century | Natural history--Study and teaching--France | Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 | Paleontology--France | Sketches. | Teratology | Zoology--Study and teaching--France | |
| 6 | Creator: | Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Paul Kammerer Papers, 1910-1972
| | | | Dates: | 1910-1972 | | | | Abstract: | The Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer was an outspoken proponent of the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics (Lamarckism) during the time in which Mendelian theory was becoming deeply entrenched in biology. His major research efforts, straddling the First World War, centered on experiments performed on salamanders and on the midwife toad, and seemed to provide empirical support for a Lamarckian mechanism in evolution. He also developed a monistic "law of seriality," in which he attempted to explain coincidence as the product of a higher order natural law. A Socialist, Kammerer was widely regarded as a brilliant scientist, but for scientific, personal, and political reasons, he engendered as much antagonism as support, preventing him from ever obtaining a regular university appointment. His career ended tragically in allegations of fraud, followed by his suicide.
The Kammerer Papers is comprised of photocopies of materials that document the brief, but controversial career of a non-Darwinian evolutionary biologist. The bulk of the collection consists of photocopies of articles by Kammerer, often from obscure newspapers or periodicals, along with a small number of letters to his friend Hugo Iltis, the geneticist and biographer of Mendel. Nearly all of these pertain to the Kammerer's experiments with amphibians to test Lamarckian inheritance or to his other biological theories. The collection also includes a small number of items dating from after Kammerer's death, but relating to his life and work, including two letters from his former supervisor Hans Przibram, a letter from Hugh Iltis (Hugo's son) to Arthur Koestler and the reply, and a brief biographical reminiscence of Kammerer written by Hugo Iltis. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.K128 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adaptation (Biology) | Amphibians | Bibliographical matters | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Iltis, Hugo | Biographical and personal data -- Kammerer, Paul | Evolution | Evolution (Biology) | Genetics | Genetics -- Amphibians | Genetics--Austria | Heredity | Iltis, Hugo, 1882-1952 | Inheritance of acquired characters | Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926 | Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983 | Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de | Lamarckism | Przibram, Karl, 1878-1973 | Publication | Publication -- Science | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | |
| 7 | Creator: | Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Alfred Russel Wallace Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1867-1913 | | | | Abstract: | A prime exponent of evolutionary theory in the late nineteenth century, the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace arrived independently at the theory of natural selection nearly simultaneously with Charles Darwin. The numerous publications that emerged from his extended field excusions into the Amazon Basin and the Malay Archipelago (Indonesia) Wallace resulted in major contributions to evolutionary theory, biogeography, ecology, and ethnography, and made Wallace, by the end of his life, one of the best known naturalists in Britain. A Socialist, social progressive, and Spiritualist, Wallace's distinctive take on evolutionary change differed from the Darwinian mainstream in significant ways.
The Wallace Collection is a miscellaneous assemblage of letters written by and to Alfred Russel Wallace, primarily during the last twenty five years of his life. Varied in content, the letters touch on Wallace's views on evolution, Spiritualism, and to a less degree, his progressive social commitments. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W15a | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Birks, Edward | Brazil | Cats | Collins, William Jon, 1859-1946 | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 | Evolution (Biology) | Farmer, W. J. | Gladstone, W. E., (William Ewart), 1809-1898 | Harrison, Benjamin, 1837-1921 | Harting, James Edmund, 1841-1929 | Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Sir, 1817-1911 | Lippitt, Francis James, 1812-1902 | Maskelyne, John Nevil, 1839-1917 | Merlons, Hugo | Miller, Dewitt, 1857-1911 | Natural history--Great Britain | Natural selection | Poe, Edgar Allen, 1809-1849 | Pontifex, Arthur | Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916 | Salt, Henry Stephens, 1851-1939 | Sargent, Epes, 1813-1880 | Scudder, Samuel Hubbard, 1837-1911 | Spiritualism--Great Britain | Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 | |
| 8 | Creator: | Various | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Scientists Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1563-1973 | | | | Abstract: | The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology.
Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer. | | | | Call #: | Mss.509.L56 | | | | Extent: | 5.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abeille, Louis Paul, 1719-1807 | Akademiia Nauk S.S.S.R. | Animal magnetism. | Astronomy | Astronomy--Early works to 1800 | Azores--Description and travel | Barton, Henry Askew, 1898-1983 | Beadle, Elias R. | Bertrand, J. (Joseph), 1822-1900 | Beyond Early America | Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 | Clarke, Frieda | Compton, K. T., (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 | Conchology | Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864 | Dickerson, Mahlon, 1770-1853 | Evolution (Biology) | Geology | Gray, Joseph Alexander, 1884-1966 | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Lynge, Herman Henrik Julius, 1822-1897 | Natural history | Paleontology | Perisco, Enrico | Photographs | Physicists. | Physics | Physics--Early works to 1800 | Science | Segrè, Emilio Gino, 1905-1989 | Shells. | Silkworms | Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854 | Various | Vulliamy, Benjamin Lewis, 1780-1854 | Wien, W. , (Wilhelm), 1864-1928 | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | |
| 9 | Creator: | Trippe, T. Martin, b. ca.1848 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | T. Martin Trippe Journals
| | | | Dates: | 1865-1871 | | | | Abstract: | T. Martin Trippe was an avid amateur ornithologist from Orange, New Jersey, who spent the majority of his free time as a teenager and young man exploring the woods and observing, shooting, and collecting birds. After graduating from New York University with a degree in engineering in 1869, Trippe worked in various positions for the Iowa Central, Northern Pacific, and Albia, Knoxville, and Des Moines Railroads, continuing to devote his spare time in the interests of ornithology.
The two surviving volumes of Trippe's journals document his ornithological and natural historical observations between 1865 and 1871, including meticulously detailed records of the avifauna (and to lesser degree other fauna) in central New Jersey, central Iowa, and southern Minnesota. They include detailed, and Trippe provided year-end taxonomic and meteorological indexes for 1869, 1870, and 1871. | | | | Call #: | Mss.598.2.T73 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Auroras. | Birds--Classification | Birds--Migration | Bogs--Minnesota | Brothers--Death | Chippewa Indians | Christmas | Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882. Variation of animals and plants under domestication | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Deluge | Evolution (Biology) | Fathers--Death | Fertilizer | Fires--New Jersey | Fish showers | Iowa--Description and travel | Lakes--Minnesota | Long Island (N.Y.)--Description and travel | Mammals--New Jersey | Mauch Chunk (Pa.)--Description and travel | Meteorology--Observations | Miller, Hugh, 1802-1856 | Minnesota--Description and travel | Natural history--Iowa | Natural history--New Jersey | Natural history--New York (State)--Long Island | New Jersey--Decription and travel | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Description and travel | Northern Pacific Railroad | Orange (N.J.)--Description and travel | Ornithology--Iowa | Ornithology--Minnesota | Ornithology--New Jersey | Plagiarism | Rabbits | Railroads | Railroads--Iowa | Saint Paul (Minn.)--Description and travel | Saint Paul Academy of Science (St. Paul, Minn.) | Thunderstorms | Trippe, T. Martin, b. ca.1848 | Unemployment | |
| 10 | Creator: | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
| | | | Dates: | 1799-1882 | | | | Abstract: | One of the most important natural historians in nineteenth century Britain, Charles Darwin provided the first compelling mechanism to account for organismal evolutionary change. Although lacking a coherent model of heredity, Darwin's natural selection has exerted an enormous influence over the biological sciences and since the introduction of Mendelian genetics, had remained the key unifying principle in the discipline.
The APS Darwin Papers are a large a valuable assemblage of Darwin's correspondence with scientific colleagues, including Charles Lyell and George J. Romanes. They are included in the print version of the
Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge Univ. Press). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D25 | | | | Extent: | 2.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adaptation (Biology) | Beyond Early America | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Coral reefs and islands | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Darwin, Jane -- Trials, litigation, etc. | Evolution (Biology) | Evolution--Religious aspects | Eyton, Thomas Campbell, 1809-1880 | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Forbes, David, 1828-1876 | Foster, M., Sir, (Michael), 1836-1907 | Genetics | Geology--Great Britain--19th century | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Gulick, John Thomas, 1832-1923 | Günther, Albert C. L. G. , (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf), 1830-1914 | Hancock, Albany, 1806-1873 | Herbert, John Maurice, 1808-1882 | Heredity | Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 | Lankester, E. Ray, Sir, (Edwin Ray), 1847-1929 | Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 | Lubbock, J. W., (John William), 1803-1865 | Milne-Edwards, H., (Henri), 1800-1885 | Natural history--Great Britain--19th century | Natural selection | Naturalists--England | Ogle, William, 1827-1912 | Phillips, John, 1800-1874 | Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de, 1810-1892 | Race, race relations, racism | Ramsay, A. C., (Andrew Crombie), 1814-1891 | Religion and science--1860-1899 | Romanes, George John, 1848-1894 | Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick, 1811-1882 | Transmutation of animals | Variation (Biology) | Walsh, Benjamin Dann, 1808-1869 | Wyman, Jeffries, 1864- | |
| 11 | Creator: | Cain, Arthur J. (Arthur James), 1921-1999 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Arthur J. Cain Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1945-1988 | | | | Abstract: | Arthur J. Cain is an evolutionary biologist whose research interests have included genetics, natural selection, biogeography, and systematics. Based at Oxford University and, later, the University of Liverpool, much of Cain's research was field-based, focusing on terrestrial gatsropods. This collection contains correspondence, grant applications, reports, programs for scientific meetings, unpublished papers and lectures, research notes, charts, graphs, maps, and manuscript reviews of journal articles and books. The Cain Papers is divided into three series: I. Correspondence ; II. Subject Files ; and, III. Papers by Colleagues. Arrangement is alphabetical by folder title, and chronological within each folder. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.63 | | | | Extent: | 15.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Museum of Natural History | American Philosophical Society | Anthropology | Bibliographical matters | Biographical and personal data | Biology | Biology--Classification | Birds. | Business | Cain, Arthur J. (Arthur James), 1921-1999 | Cancer, chemotherapy | Clarke, B. C. (Bryan C.) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Committee activities | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Simpson, George Gaylord. 80th birthday | Cranach, Mario von, b. 1931 | Darwin, Charles | Davis, George Morgan | Dobzhansky, Theodosius | Drosophila genetics | Ecology | Editorial matters | Evolution | Evolution (Biology) | Fellowships, assistantships | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer | Ford, Edmund Brisco | Gastropoda | Genetics | Genetics -- Birds | Genetics -- Cats | Genetics -- Invertebrates | Genetics -- Snails | Genetics Society (Great Britain) -- London | Genetics of plants | Glass, Bentley | Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson | History of biology, especially genetics | Human genetics | Huxley, Julian | Invitations | Kirkaldy, J. S. | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Lectures, public speaking | Maps | Mayr, Ernst | Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 | Medawar, Peter Brian | Mendel, Gregor | Mollusks | Natural selection | Ornithology | Oxford University | Paleontology | Population genetics | Population genetics -- Snails | Population, demography | Preservation of historical materials | Publication | Publication -- Animal Species and their Evolution | Pulmonata | Requests for reprints | Research support | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific refugees | Sheppard, P. M. (Philip Macdonald), 1921-1976 | Sheppard, Philip M. | Teaching | Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre | Travel -- Africa | Travel -- Europe | Travel -- Greece | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- Solomon Islands | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Woodruff, David S. | Wright, Sewall | Zoology | Zoology -- Africa | Zoology -- Classification | Zoology -- Gastropods | Zoology -- Invertebrates | Zoology -- Nomenclature | |
| 12 | Creator: | Sheppard, P. M. (Philip Macdonald), 1921-1976 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Philip M. Sheppard Papers
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1940-1976 | | | | Abstract: | A geneticist and educator, Philip Macdonald Sheppard was head of the Department of Genetics at the University of Liverpool from 1963-1976. His research centered on polymorphism, mimicry, blood groups, genetic disease, and speciation, using a variety of subjects, including the gastropod
Cepaea nemoralis, butterflies, and humans. He may be best remembered for his classic study of industrial melanism in the pepper moth
Biston betularia.
The Sheppard Papers (1911-1983; bulk dates, 1940-76) contain correspondence, subject files, notes, and manuscripts that document Sheppard's life as a geneticist. The earliest piece in the collection is a lepidopterist's notebook from 1911, possibly J. R. Hobhouse's, however the bulk dates from 1940 to 1976, Sheppard's most productive and influential years. Among other things, these materials document Sheppard's research on the Scarlet Tiger moth, swallowtail butterflies, and ABO blood groups in humans, as well as his position as head of the Department of Genetics at the University of Liverpool. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.65 | | | | Extent: | 16.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adaptation (Biology) | American Institute of Biological Sciences | Ayala, Fransisco José, 1934- | Bibliographical matters | Biographical and personal data | Biston betularia | Blood | Brower, Lincoln P. | Brown, Keith S. | Business | Cain, Arthur J. (Arthur James), 1921-1999 | Cain, Arthur James | Cancer, chemotherapy | Carson, Hampton L. | Clarke, Cyril A., (Cyril Astley) | Clarke, Cyril Astley | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Columbia University | Conferences and symposia | Conferences and symposia -- Darwin Centennial | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Darwin medal | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Royal Society (Great Britain) | Crow, James F. | Cytogenetics | Darlington, Cyril Dean | Darwin, Charles | Dobzhansky, Theodosius | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Drosophila Information Service | Drosophila genetics | Dunn, Leslie Clarence | Ecology | Editorial matters | Educational matters | Embryology, developmental genetics | Evolution | Evolution (Biology) | Fellowships, assistantships | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, Sir, 1890-1962 | Ford, E. B. (Edmund Briscoe), 1901- | Ford, Edmund Brisco | Genetics | Genetics -- Birds | Genetics -- Butterflies, moths | Genetics -- Cats | Genetics -- Polymorphism | Genetics -- Snails | Genetics -- Wasps | Genetics of plants | Genetics--Research | Graduate study | Graduate study -- Great Britain | Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson | Honors -- Walden prize | Human genetics | Human genetics -- Blood groups | Huxley, Julian | International Congress of Genetics | International Congress of Genetics -- Twelfth Congress | International Congress of Zoology | Invitations | Kettlewell, H. B. D. (Henry Bernard Davis) | Kettlewell, Henry Bernard Davis | Kimura, Motoo | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures, public speaking -- University of Liverpool | Lepidoptera--Genetics | Lerner, Isadore Michael | Levene, Howard | Lewontin, Richard C. | Li, Ching Chun | MacDonald, W. W. | Manuscripts | Mayr, Ernst | Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 | McConnell, Richard B. | Medical genetics | Medical research | Mendel, Gregor | Mimicry (Biology)--Genetic aspects | Molecular genetics | Natural selection | Notebooks | Oxford University | Photographs | Physiology | Political issues -- England | Population genetics | Publication | Publication -- American Naturalist | Publication -- Discovery | Publication -- Evolution | Publication -- Genetics | Publication -- Practical Genetics | Radiation genetics | Recommendations | Referee's report | Requests for reprints | Research support | Reviews | Royal Society (Great Britain). | Royal Society (Great Britain). Aldabra Research Committee | Science Research Council (Great Britain) | Sheppard, P. M. (Philip Macdonald), 1921-1976 | Simpson, George Gaylord | Snails -- Genetics. | Society for the Study of Evolution | Solicitations for support or contribution -- University of California, Berkeley | Speciation | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Teaching | Teaching -- University of California, Berkeley | Travel -- Africa | Travel -- Brazil | Travel -- Canada | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- Surinam | Turner, John R. G. | Turner, John R. G. | University of Liverpool | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. -- Fieldwork | Wigglesworth, Vincent B. | Wright, Sewall | Zoology -- Classification | |
| 13 | Creator: | Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Raymond Pearl Papers
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1895-1940 | | | | Abstract: | Raymond Pearl spent the majority of his academic career (1918-1940) at Johns Hopkins University, where he was Professor of Biometry and Vital Statistics and Director of the Institute of Biological Research. Founder of the
Quarterly Review of Biology and
Human Biology, he made significant contributions in the areas of biology, genetics, eugenics, and statistics. The Pearl Papers includes correspondence as well as notebooks, scrapbooks, diplomas, photographs, and 33 volumes of diaries. There is significant correspondence with his wife, Maud (ca. 500 letters), and mother, Ida May (ca. 300 letters), particularly for the years 1895-1934. Of special note is Pearl's correspondence with his friend, colleague, and fellow Baltimoreian, H. L. Mencken (ca. 500 letters). The collection contains important information on the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, The Baltimore
Sun, the Birth Control Federation of America, Dartmouth College, the International Institute of Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, and the National Academy of Sciences. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P312 | | | | Extent: | 19.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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L., (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 | Meyer, Adolf | Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945 | Mouse genetics | National Academy of Sciences | National Academy of Sciences. (U.S.) | National Research Council | Needham, Joseph | Pearl, Ida May McDuffee | Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940 | Pearson, Karl | Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936 | Philosophy of science | Physiology | Physiology -- Alcohol, tobacco | Physiology -- Longevity | Poetry and literature | Political issues | Political issues -- Birth control | Political issues -- Sterilization | Population biology | Population genetics | Population, demography | Poultry genetics | Protozoan genetics | Protozoology | Publication | Publication -- Baltimore Sun | Publication -- Biological Abstracts | Publication -- Dial | Publication -- Encyclopedia Britannica | Publication -- Human Biology | Publication -- Journal of Experimental Zoology | Publication -- Quarterly Review of Biology | Race, race relations, racism | Recommendations | Recommendations -- Gause, Georgii Frantsevitch | Recommendations -- LeBlanc, Thomas J. | Recommendations -- Park, Thomas | Recommendations -- Weinstein, Alexander | Referee's report | Requests for aid in finding positions | Research support | Reviews | Reviews -- Flexner, Simon | Reviews -- Gowen, John W. | Ritter, William Emerson, 1856-1944 | Rockefeller Foundation | Russell, E. S. (Edward Stuart), 1887-1954 | Russian politics and science | Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966 | Saturday Night Club | Science publishing. | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Agendas | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Committees | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Finances | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Minutes | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Newsletters | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Statutes | Scientific refugees | Shull, George Harrison | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Solicitations for support or contribution | Statistics | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics -- Japan | Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 | Stopes, Marie C. | Sweeney, James Shirley, 1896- | Teaching | Teaching -- Johns Hopkins University | Teaching -- University of London | Teaching -- University of Michigan | The Quarterly Review of Biology. | Thomas, Charles C., 1925- | Travel -- Europe | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- Japan | United States Fish Commission | University of Iowa | University of Maine | University of Michigan | University of Pennsylvania | University of Wisconsin | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Walcott, Frederic Collin, 1869-1949 | Wheeler, William Morton | Wheeler, William Morton, 1865-1937 | Wildlife management | Willcox, Walter Francis, 1861-1964 | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964 | World War I -- Food Administration | World War I -- Impact on science | World War II -- Impact on science | World War, 1914-1918 | Yale University | Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956 | Zea (maize) genetics | Zoology | Zoology -- Animal behavior | |
| 14 | Creator: | Dunn, L. C. , (Leslie Clarence), 1893-1974 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | L. C. Dunn Papers
| | | | Dates: | ca. 1920-1974 | | | | Abstract: | L.C. Dunn was one of the most significant figures in the emerging field of developmental genetics in the 20th century. His T-locus work with the mouse established a number of important genetic principles, including ideas of gene interaction, the distribution of alleles in wild populations, and the factors that influence fertility. He wrote an important textbook of genetics,
Principles of Genetics (1925), in collaboration with Sinnott (and later Dobzhansky); other significant books authored or co-authored by him include
Heredity, Race and Society (1946), and
A Short History of Genetics (1965). He worked in poultry genetics for eight years at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Storrs, CT, from 1920-1928. The remainder of his career was spent at Columbia University, where he worked with rats, mice, and fruit flies, and proved himself to be an inspiring teacher as well. His interest in international scientific collaboration led him to establish ties to Soviet scientists, and to help relocate refugee scientists during World War II. He remained active in his profession to the end of his life. This collection includes correspondence, reports, notebooks, lectures, and photographs. It is a rich collection, documenting the development of American genetics as well as Dunn's interests in humanitarian efforts and international affairs. There is significant material relating to American-U.S.S.R. contacts, particularly in the files on the American-Soviet Friendship Council and the American-Soviet Science Society. There is much, as well, on the impact of the Lysenko controversy in the U. S. Dunn's inerestt in European scientists can also be seen in the sizable amount of material on the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars. Material relating to the Kilgore and Magnusson bills for the support of science (predecessors to the NSF) are also in the collection. Of note are data on the following: National Research Council Committee on Experimental Animals and Plants; research on the population study of the Jewish community in Rome; and Columbia University. There is much in the correspondence concerning Drosophila, poultry genetics, and other such topics; Walter Landauer is Dunn's major correspondent. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D917 | | | | Extent: | 15.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Academic freedom | American Philosophical Society | American-Soviet Friendship Council | American-Soviet Science Society. | Anthropology | Atomic Energy Commission | Bibliographical matters | Biochemistry and organic chemistry | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Cannon, Walter Bradford | Biographical and personal data -- Castle, William Ernest | Biographical and personal data -- Iltis, Hugo | Biographical and personal data -- Mohr, Otto Louis | Biographical and personal data -- Muller, Hermann Joseph | Biographical and personal data -- Nominations | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Bjerknes, Kristian Bonnevie, 1901- | Blakeslee, Albert Francis | Blakeslee, Albert Francis,1874-1954. | Bonnevie, Kristine | Bridges, Calvin B. (Calvin Blackman), 1889-1938 | Business | Cancer, chemotherapy | Carrel, Alexis, 1873-1944 | Caspari, Ernst W. | Castle, William E., (William Ernest), 1867-1962 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Columbia University | Columbia University. | Committee activities | Committee activities -- Committee on experimental animals and plants | Committee activities -- Scientific refugees | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Corner, George Washington, 1889-1981 | Cytogenetics | Danforth, Charles H., (Charles Haskell), b. 1883 | Dartmouth College | Davenport, Charles Benedict | David, Paul R. | David, Paul R. | Demerec, M., (Milislav), 1895-1966 | Developmental genetics | Displaced German Scholars -- Braun, Joachim Werner | Displaced German Scholars -- Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict | Displaced German Scholars -- Gruneberg, Hans | Displaced German Scholars -- Stern, Curt | Displaced German scholars | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Drosophila genetics | Drosophila--Genetics | Dunn, L. C. , (Leslie Clarence), 1893-1974 | Editorial matters | Editorial matters -- Advances in Genetics | Editorial matters -- Genetics | Educational matters | Embryology, developmental genetics | Ephrussi, Boris, 1901-1979 | Ethical issues | Eugenics | Eugenics -- Germany | Evolution | Evolution (Biology) | Evolution -- Race | Fellowships, assistantships | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, Sir, 1890-1962 | Ford, Edmund Brisco | Geneticists | Genetics | Genetics -- Books on genetics | Genetics -- Ephestia | Genetics -- Gammarus | Genetics -- Habrobracon | Genetics -- Nomenclature | Genetics -- Sheep | Genetics Society of America | Geyer-Duszynska, Irene, 1924- | Goldschmidt, Richard | Graduate study | Graduate study -- Auerbach, R. | Graduate study -- Bridges, Philip | Graduate study -- Dunn, Leslie Clarence | Graduate study -- Pollitzer, William S. | Gumbel, Emil J. | Harvard University -- Castle, William Ernest | Harvard University -- East, Edward Murray | Harvard University -- Wright, Sewall | Heredity | History of biology, especially genetics | History of biology, especially genetics -- Mendel, Gregor | Honors | Human evolution, physical anthropology | Human evolution, physical anthropology -- Institute for the Study of Human Variation | Human genetics | Human genetics -- Race | Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 | Iltis, Hugo | Immunogenetics | International Congress of Genetics -- Seventh Congress | Invitations | Italy--Population studies | Ivanyi, Pavol | Jennings, H. S., (Herbert Spencer), 1868-1947 | Jews--Population studies | Jews--Rome | Jollas, Victor | Landsteiner, Karl, 1868-1943 | Lectures | Lectures, public speaking | Lewontin, Richard Charles, 1929- | Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich, 1898-1976 | Mendel Museum of Genetics | Mice--Genetics | Mohr, Otto Louis, 1886- | Mohr, Tove | Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945 | Mouse genetics | Mouse genetics -- Nomenclature | Muller, H. J., (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | National Academy of Sciences | National Research Council | National Research Council. Committee on Experimental Animals and Plants | National Science Foundation | Notebooks | Philosophy of science | Photographs | Photoprints | Physiology | Poetry and literature | Political issues | Political issues -- Kilgore Bill | Political refugees--United States | Popuation biology | Population genetics | Population genetics -- African Americans | Population genetics -- Blood groups | Population genetics -- Records | Population genetics -- Rome, Jewish community | Population genetics -- Sickle cells | Population genetics -- Thalassemia | Population, demography | Poultry genetics | Poultry--Genetics | Preservation of historical materials | Publication | Publication -- Genetics | Publication -- Journal of Heredity | Publication -- McGraw-Hill Book Company | Publication -- Reprints | Race, race relations, racism | Radiation genetics | Rat genetics | Recommendations | Recommendations -- Belar, Karl | Recommendations -- Book, Jan | Recommendations -- Caspari, Ernst Wilhelm | Recommendations -- Charles, Donald Randolph | Recommendations -- Ephrussi, Boris | Recommendations -- Gershenson, S. M. | Recommendations -- Jollos, Victor | Recommendations -- Muller, Hermann Joseph | Recommendations -- Schweitzer, Morton | Referee's report | Requests for reprints | Research support | Reviews | Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory | Russian politics and science | Russian politics and science -- Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich | Science and politics | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific refugees | Shull, George Harrison | Stern, Curt, 1902-1981 | Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station | Teaching | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- Italy | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964 | World War II -- Impact on science | Wright, Sewall | |
| 15 | 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 | |
| 16 | Creator: | Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | George Gaylord Simpson Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1918-1984 | | | | Abstract: | One of the seminal figures in the emergence of the Modern or Neo-Darwinian Synthesis during the mid-twentieth century, George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984) helped define the unique contribution made by vertebrate paleontology to the life sciences. A specialist in Mesozoic and early Cenozoic mammals, Simpson's contributions to the fusion of Darwinian natural selection and Mendelian genetics were both empirical and theoretical, culminating in his major works
Tempo and Mode in Evolution and
The Meaning of Evolution. From his posts at the American Museum of Natural History (1927-1959), Columbia University (1945-1959), Harvard (1959-1967), and the University of Arizona (1967-1984), Simpson became one of the most influential paleontologists of the century, helped in part by his ability to write successfully for both a technical, professional audience and a popular audience.
The Simpson Papers include a comprehensive assemblage of professional and personal correspondence, reflecting nealy all phases of Simpson's career. Written with charm, wit, and a sense of literary style, the correspondence touches on all aspects of modern paleontology, providing an important perspective on the emergence of contemporary evolutionary theory, biogeography, systematic theory and methodology, the relationship of science and religion, and creationism, as well as more general issues in scientific epistemology and social and political issues. The collection also includes autobiographical data and writings, lectures, class notes and papers, research data, material on his scientific expeditions (diaries in carbon form, photos, notes, etc.), publication material (he was author of some 800 publications), extensive photographic material, diplomas, and medals. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.31 | | | | Extent: | 74.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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(Camille), b. 1885 | Ayala, Francisco J. | Ayala, Fransisco José, 1934- | Barbour, Thomas, 1884-1946 | Bebe, William | Beck, William Samson, 1923- | Behavior evolution | Behavioral genetics, IQ | Bennett, Wendell Clark, 1905-1953 | Bibliographical matters | Bibliographical matters -- Greenwood, Peter Humphrey | Bibliographical matters -- Jenkins, Farish A. | Bibliographical matters -- Levi, Herbert Walter | Bibliographical matters -- Williams, Ernest Edward | Biogeography. | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Greenwood, Peter Humphrey | Biographical and personal data -- Jenkins, Farish A. | Biographical and personal data -- Levi, Herbert Walter | Biographical and personal data -- Williams, Ernest Edward | Biology--Classification | Bohr, Niels | Bordas, Alejandro F. | Boucot, A. J., (Arthur James), 1924- | British Museum | Business | Cabrera, Angel, 1879-1960 | Clark, Wilfrid E. Le Gros, (Wilfrid Edward Le Gros), 1895-1971 | Cloud, Preston, 1912- | Cockerell, Theodore D. A. , (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 | Colbert, Edwin A. | Colbert, Edwin Harris, 1905- | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Columbia University | Columbia University -- Faculty. | Committee activities | Conferences and symposia | Conferences and symposia -- Darwin Centennial | Conferences and symposia -- History of Evolutionary Synthesis | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Dobzhansky, Theodosius. 70th birthday | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- National Academy of Sciences | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- National Medal of Science | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Presidential Science Award | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Royal Society (Great Britain) | Coon, Carleton S. | Couturier, Marcel A. J., 1897- | Cracraft, Joel | Creationism. | Crompton, Alfred W., 1927- | Darwin, Charles | De Beer, Gavin Rylands, 1899- | De Camp, L. Sprague (Lyon Sprague), 1907- | Diplomas. | Displaced German scholars | Dobzhansky, Theodosius | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Drosophila genetics | Dunbar, Carl O., (Carl Owen), 1891-1979 | Dunn, Leslie Clarence | Edinger, Tilly, 1897- | Editorial matters | Educational matters | Educational matters -- Biology textbooks | Educational matters -- Netherlands | Elias, Maxim K. (Maxim Konradovich), 1889- | Epling, Carl, 1894- | Evolution | Evolution (Biology) | Evolution -- Horses | Evolution -- Plants | Evolution -- Reptiles | Evolution -- Teeth | Evolution--Religious aspects | Evolutionary synthesis. | Extinction (Biology) | Fellowships, assistantships | Field Museum of Natural History | Field notes. | Ford, E. B. (Edmund Briscoe), 1901- | Freeman, Derek | Gazin, Charles Lewis, 1904- | Genetics | Genetics -- Horses | Genetics Society of America -- Golden Jubilee | Genetics of plants | Geological Society of America. | Gidley, James W. | Gingerich, Philip D. | Gould, Stephen Jay | Gould, Stephen Jay | Graduate study | Graduate study -- Yale University | Grant, Verne | Gregory, Joseph Tracy, 1914- | Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876- | Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond), 1902- | Harvard University | Harvard University -- Museum of Comparative Zoology | Harvard University--Faculty | Heberer, Gerhardt, 1901-1973 | Hibbard, Claude William, 1905-1973 | History of biology, especially genetics | Hoffstetter, Robert | Honors | Honors -- Darwin medal | Honors -- Elliot Medal | Hooijer, Dirk Albert | Hooijer, Dirk Albert | Hopwood, Arthur Tindell, 1897- | Horses--Evolution | Human evolution, physical anthropology | Human genetics | Human genetics -- Race | Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 | International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature | International Congress of Zoology -- Seventeenth Congress | International Congress of Zoology -- Thirteenth Congress | Invitations | Jenkins, Farish A., 1940- | Jepsen, Glenn Lowell, 1904- | Kellogg, Remington, 1893- | Kermack, K. A. (Kenneth A.) | Kuhn-Schnyder, Emil | Kurtén, BjC6rn | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Laporte, Léo F. | Lattimore, Owen, 1900- | Lavocat, René | Leakey, L. S. B., (Louis Seymour Bazett), 1903-1972 | Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures, public speaking -- Dobzhansky memorial | Lerner, Isadore Michael | Lewontin, Richard Charles, 1929- | Lillegraven, Jason A., 1938- | Lull, Richard Swann, 1867-1957 | Lyell, Charles, Sir | Mammals, Fossil | Mammals--Evolution | Marshall, Larry G. | Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 | Mayr, Ernst | Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 | McGrew, Paul Orman, 1909- | McKenna, Malcolm C. | Medals | Molecular genetics | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | Morgan, Arthur Ernest, 1878-1975 | Muller, H. J., (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales, Argentina | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Buenos Aires | Museo de la Plata, Argentina | National Academy of Sciences | National Academy of Sciences. (U.S.) | National Research Council | National Research Council -- Committee activities | National Science Foundation | Natural selection | Nelson, Gareth J. | Newell, Norman Dennis, 1909-2005 | Olsen, Stanley John, 1919- | Olson, Everett Claire, 1910- | Osborn, Henry Fairfield | Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 | Ostrom, John H. | Oxford University | Paleontology | Paleontology -- Africa | Paleontology -- Nomenclature | Paleontology--Argentina--Patagonia | Paleontology--Venezuela | Paleoscatology | Pascual, Rosendo | Pascual, Rosendo | Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)--Description and travel | Patterson, Bryan | Patterson, Bryan, 1909- | Phelps, William Henry | Philosophy of science--Language of science | Photographs | Photographs | Photonegatives | Physiology | Poetry and literature | Political issues | Political issues -- Animal welfare | Political issues -- Argentina | Political issues -- England | Political issues -- Environment | Population genetics | Population, demography | Provine, William B. | Publication | Publication -- American Journal of Science | Publication -- American Mesozoic Mammalia | Publication -- American Naturalist | Publication -- American Scientist | Publication -- Animal Species and their Evolution | Publication -- Attending Marvels | Publication -- Evolution | Publication -- George Gaylord Simpson Biography | Publication -- Life - An Introduction to Biology | Publication -- Meaning of Evolution | Publication -- Principles of Classification | Publication -- Quantitative Zoology | Publication -- Quarterly Review of Biology | Publication -- Science | Recommendations | Recommendations -- Gregory, Joseph T. | Recommendations -- Kurten, Bjorn | Recommendations -- Simpson, George Gaylord | Recommendations -- Williams, Ernest Edward | Referee's report | Reig, Osvaldo | Religion and science--20th century | Rensch, Bernhard, 1900- | Requests for aid in finding positions | Requests for reprints | Research support | Reviews | Reynolds, Thomas Emmett, 1892- | Riggs, Elmer Samuel, 1869- | Roe, Anne, 1904- | Romer, Alfred Sherwood, 1894-1973 | Russell, Loris Shano, 1904- | Russian politics and science | Sagan, Carl | Scaglia, Galileo J. | Schaeffer, Bobb | Schuchert, Charles, 1858-1942 | Scientific expeditions | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Zoological Society of London | Scott, William Berryman, 1858-1947 | Simons, Elwyn L. | Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 | Slides. | Society for the Study of Evolution | Society for the Study of Evolution -- Committee activities | Society for the Study of Evolution. | Society of Systematic Zoology (U.S.) | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Stebbins, G. Ledyard | Stebbins, G. Ledyard, (George Ledyard), 1906-2000 | Stirtin, Ruben Arthur, 1901-1966 | Stirton, Ruben Arthur | Teaching | Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre | Tieje, Arthur Jerrold, 1889- | Travel -- Algeria | Travel -- Antarctica | Travel -- Argentina | Travel -- England | Travel -- France | Travel -- India | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- North Africa | Travel -- South America | U.S. Geological Survey | University of Arizona--Faculty | University of California, Berkeley | University of Chicago | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Van Valen, Leigh | Venezuela--Description and travel | Westoll, T. Stanley | Wilson, Edward Osborne, 1929- | Wood, Albert Elmer, 1910- | Wood, Horace | Wood, Horace | Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1944 | World War II -- England | World War II -- Impact on science | World War, 1939-1945 | Yale University -- Peabody Museum of Natural History | Zoology | Zoology -- Africa | Zoology -- Animal behavior | Zoology -- Classification | Zoology -- Insects | Zoology -- Nomenclature | Zoology -- Snakes | ongratulations, greetings, thanks -- Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 70th birthday | |
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