| 1 | Creator: | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Darwin papers, 1831-1882
| | | | Dates: | 1831-1882 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence of Charles Darwin with his family, Sir William J. Hooker, Sir John W. Lubbock, William Ogle, Daniel Oliver, John Tyndall, and Sir William Ramsay, 1836-1882. (1 reel). Letters to J. Brodie-Innes, W. H. Bates, Lady Dorothy Nevill, and others (1846-1882); also letters to his wife and son and letters and papers about him (1 reel). Letters from Darwin to G. H. K. Thwaites, William B. Tegetmeier, Albany Hancock, Richard Owen, Bernhard Studer, Auguste H. Forel, J. Moulinie, A. Bohrn, Karl Christoph Vogt, François Joseph Pictet de la Rive, and others. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.496 | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bates, William Horatio, 1860-1931 | Beagle (Ship) | Bohrn, A. | Brodie-Innes, J.W., (John William), 1848-1923 | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Evolution. | Forel, Auguste, 1848-1931 | Hancock, Albany, 1806-1873 | Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 | Lubbock, J. W., (John William), 1803-1865 | Microfilm Collection | Moulinié, Jean Jacques, 1830-1872 | Natural history. | Natural selection. | Naturalists -- England. | Nevill, Dorothy, Lady, 1826-1913 | Ogle, William, 1827-1912 | Oliver, Daniel, 1830-1916 | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 | Pictet de la Rive, Francois Joseph,--1809-1872 | Ramsay, William, 1852-1916 | Religion and science -- History -- 19th century. | Studer, B., (Bernhard), 1794-1887 | Tegetmeier, W. B., (William Bernhard), 1816-1912 | Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick, 1811-1882 | Tyndall, John, 1820-1893 | Variation (Biology) | Vogt, Karl Christoph, 1817-1895 | |
| 2 | 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 | |
| 3 | Creator: | Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sir Charles Lyell papers, 1806-1874
| | | | Dates: | 1806-1874 | | | | Abstract: | There is correspondence concerning geology, botany, natural history, natural selection, evolution, British science and scientists, and other scientific topics. Most of the letters are written to Lyell, but there are numerous ones from him. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L981 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 | Ball, John, 1818-1889 | Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 | Beccari, Odoardo, 1843-1920 | Bentham, George, 1800-1884 | Beyond Early America | Botany. | Bunbury, Charles James Fox, Sir, 1809-1886 | Busk, George, 1807-1886 | Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 | Conybeare, William Daniel, 1787-1857 | Curtis, John, 1791-1862 | De La Beche, Henry T., (Henry Thomas), 1796-1855 | Don, George, 1798-1856 | Evolution. | Fitton, William Henry, 1780-1861 | Fleming, John, 1785-1857 | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 | Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 | Geology. | Grey-Egerton, Philip de Malpas, -- Sir, -- 1806-1881. | Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philip August | Henslow, J. S. (John Stevens), 1796-1861 | Herschel, John F. W., Sir, (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 | Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Sir, 1817-1911 | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 | Judd, John W., (John Wesley), 1840-1916 | Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 | Mackenzie, George Steuart, Sir, 1780-1848 | Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 | Milne-Home, David, 1817-1911 | Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871 | Natural history. | Natural selection. | Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907 | Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 | Paleontology. | Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883 | Science -- Great Britain. | Scientists -- Great Britain. | Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 | Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 | Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 | Sowerby, James, 1757-1822 | Torchhammer, Georg | Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858 | Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 | Whewell, William, 1794-1866 | Wood, Searles Valentine, 1798-1880 | |
| 4 | 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- | |
| 5 | 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 | |
| 6 | 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 | |
| 7 | 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 | |
| 8 | 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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| | | | Subjects: | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Humanist Association. | American Museum of Natural History | American Museum of Natural History -- Darwin exhibit | American Philosophical Society | American Society of Mammalogists. | American Society of Zoologists. | Anthropology | Arambourg, C. (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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