| 1 | Creator: | Riddle, Oscar,b. 1877. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Oscar Riddle papers, 1919-1963
| | | | Dates: | 1919-1963 | | | | Abstract: | Includes correspondence, autobiographical notes, addresses, articles, and drawings. The collection reflects Riddle's interests in breeding, heredity, and evolution. He was interested in humanism and the presentation of biological and evolutionary theories. There is much information on Riddle's activities in favor of freedom of scientific teaching, especially in high schools. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R43 | | | | Extent: | 3.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Biology. | Birds -- Research. | Blakeslee, Albert Francis,1874-1954. | Breeding. | Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 | Evolution. | Genetics. | Heredity. | Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 | Kinsey, Alfred C., (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956 | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | Physiology. | Pigeons. | Riddle, Oscar,b. 1877. | Science -- Study and teaching (Secondary) | Sketches. | University of Chicago. -- Dept. of Zoology. | Whitman, Charles Otis, 1842-1910 | Zoology. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Francis Galton Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1867-1909 | | | | Abstract: | The polymath Francis Galton led a privileged and adventurous life, lending his talents to the development of statistical inference, scientific meteorology, psychology, and becoming one of the first to apply the evolutionary theories of his cousin Charles Darwin to human populations, founding the new fields of eugenics and biometrics.
The Galton Collection is a miscellaneous assemblage of 15 letters and one photocopy written by Francis Galton to a variety of correspondents. These letters reflect Galton's research in meteorology, statistics, and, to a lesser degree, the heredity of intelligence. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.G136.m | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Clarke, Hyde, 1815-1895 | Eugenics | Evolution | Frere, Henry Bartle Edward, 1815-1884 | Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 | Heredity | Human genetics | Jebb, Henry Gladwyn | Meteorology | Miller, W. J. C. (William John Clarke) | Population genetics | Proctor, Annie | Ravenstein, Ernest, 1834-1913 | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Strachey, Richard, Sir, 1817-1908 | |
| 3 | 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. | |
| 4 | 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 | |
| 5 | Creator: | Lerner, I. Michael(Isadore Michael),1910- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | I. Michael (Isadore Michael) Lerner papers, ca. 1930s-1970s
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1930s-1970s | | | | Abstract: | The correspondence in this collection concerns behavior genetics, evolution, heredity, etc. There is material relating to the congresses of the Permanent International Committee on Genetics, and the IXth (Bellagio, 1953), Xth (Montreal, 1958), and XIth (The Hague, 1963) International Congress of Genetics. There is also correspondence pertaining to the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology (1955), the Mendel Semi-Centennial Symposium (1950), the Soviet geneticists' visit to the U.S. in 1967, and to Anton R. Zhebrak. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L563 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Academic freedom | American Philosophical Society | Behavior genetics. | Berg, Raisa, 1913- | Biographical and personal data | Biology. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Committee activities | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Crow, James F. | Cytogenetics | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Drosophila genetics | Editorial matters | Educational matters | Educational matters -- U.S.S.R. | Evolution | Evolution. | Galley proofs. | Genetics | Genetics -- Homeostasis | Genetics -- Nomenclature | Genetics of plants | Genetics. | Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict, 1878-1958 | Gustafsson, Åke, -- 1908- | Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson), 1892-1964 | Heredity. | History of biology, especially genetics | Honors -- Nobel Prize | Human genetics -- Race | International Congress of Genetics -- Eleven Congress | International Congress of Genetics -- Ninth Congress | International Congress of Genetics -- Tenth Congress | International Congress of Genetics -- Twelfth Congress | International Congress of Human Genetics -- First Congress | International Congress of Zoology -- Sixteenth Congress | International Union of Biological Societies | Koltsov, N. K. | Landauer , Walter, 1896- | Lerner, I. Michael(Isadore Michael),1910- | Lewontin, Richard Charles, 1929- | Lush, Jay L., (Jay Laurence) | Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich, 1898-1976 | Manuscripts (for publication). | Mather, Kenneth | Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 | Medawar, P. B. (Peter Brian), 1915- | Medvedev, Zhores A., 1925- | Memorabilia | Mendel, Gregor | Mouse genetics | Muller, H. J., (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | Muller, Hermann Joseph | National Academy of Sciences | Needham, Joseph, 1900- | Neel, James V., (James Van Gundia), 1915-2000 | Permanent International Committee on Genetic Congresses -- Constitution | Permanent International Committee on Genetic Congresses -- Minutes | Permanent International Committee on Genetics. | Philosophy of science | Physiology | Political issues | Population genetics | Poultry genetics | Provine, William B. | Publication | Referee's report | Reviews | Russian politics and science | Russian politics and science -- Dubinin, Nikolai Petrovich | Russian politics and science -- Lobashov, M. E. | Russian politics and science -- Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich | Russian politics and science -- Medvedev, Zhores A. | Russian politics and science -- Timofeeff- Ressovsky, Nikolai W. | Russian politics and science -- Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr | Sonneborn, T.M., (Tracy Morton), 1905-1981 | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Teaching | Timofeeff-Ressovsky, Nikolai W. | Timofeev-Resovskiĭ, N. V., (Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich), 1900-1981 | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. -- Medvedev, Zhores A. | Waddington, C. H., (Conrad Hal), 1905-1975 | Wallace, Bruce | Wallace, Bruce, 1920- | World War II -- Impact on science | Wright, Sewall, 1889-1988 | Zhebrak, Anton R. | |
| 6 | 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- | |
| 7 | Creator: | Castle, William E., (William Ernest), 1867-1962 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William E. Castle Papers
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1950-1961 | | | | Abstract: | A modest Midwesterner who became one of the most influential geneticists of the first half of the 20th century, William E. Castle spent his career at Harvard and the University of California working on patterns of inheritance in mice, horses, and a variety of other mammalian taxa. An early proponent of Mendelian theory, Castle was director of the Bussey Institution at Harvard for almost thirty years, helping to train a number of important geneticists.
The Castle Papers contain one linear foot of correspondence dating primarily from the period after Castle's "retirement" to Berkeley in 1936 until his death in 1962, dealing almost exclusively with his research on horse breeding and the inheritance of coat coloration in horses. Castle's correspondence with his former student L. C. Dunn is an exception, focusing on mouse genetics and ranging to a variety of topics from the conduct of scientific research during the Second World War to Castle's interests in the early history of genetics. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.14 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society | Bell, Donald C. | Bibliographical matters -- Castle, William Ernest | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Castle, William Ernest | Blandy Experimental Farm (Boyce, Va.) | Castle, William E., (William Ernest), 1867-1962 | Dunn, L. C. , (Leslie Clarence), 1893-1974 | Editorial matters | Editorial matters -- Genetics | Genetics | Genetics -- Cattle | Genetics -- Horses | Genetics -- Nomenclature | Genetics -- Pigs | Genetics Society of America | Genetics--Research--United States | Gregory, Paul Wallace, 1898- | Hair Samples -- Horses | Harvard University. Bussey Institution | Heredity | History of biology, especially genetics | Horses--Breeding | Horses--Genetics | Human genetics | International Congress of Genetics -- Tenth Congress | Mice--Genetics | Mouse genetics | National Research Council | Odriozola, Miguel | Photographs | Photographs | Political issues -- Kilgore Bill | Ponies--Genetics | Publication | Publication -- Genetics | Publication -- Journal of Heredity | Publication -- The California Horseman | Rabbit genetics | Rat genetics | Requests for reprints | Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory | Singleton, W. Ralph (Willard Ralph), 1900- | Singleton, Willard Ralph | Smith, Frank H. | Steele, Dewey George, 1898- | Teaching -- Harvard University | Travel -- Guatemala | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Welsh Pony Society of America. | World War II -- Impact on science | Zoology -- Animal behavior | |
| 8 | 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 | |
| 9 | 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 | |
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