Provenance
Gift from Smith College Genetics Experiment Station and the Genetics Society of America and accessioned, 12/08/1959 (1959 1700ms).
General physical description
12.5 linear ft., ca. 15,000 items.
Genetics Note
This collection contains materials which relate to the history of genetics.
| Author | Format | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Allen, C. E. | Correspondence (26 items) | 1916-1934 |
| Avery, Amos G. | Correspondence (9 items) | 1923-1927 |
| Avery, George S., Jr. | Correspondence (34 items) | 1932-1953 |
| Babcock, Ernest Brown | Correspondence (64 items) | 1922-1947 |
| Barss, Howard P. | Correspondence (47 items) | 1944-1946 |
| Bateson, William N. | Correspondence (8 items) | 1907-1921 |
| Baur, Erwin | Correspondence (19 items) | 1906-1930 |
| Bergner, A. Dorothy | Correspondence (25 items) | 1921-1933 |
| Biological Abstracts | Correspondence (6 folders) | 1927-1953 |
| Blakeslee, Albert Francis (Series II-III) | Manuscripts (87 folders) | 1915-1957 |
| Blakeslee Family (Series IV) | Manuscripts (30 pages) | 1912-1954 |
| Botanical Society of America | Correspondence (2 folders) | 1929-1953 |
| Boyd, William C. | Correspondence (86 items) | 1949-1956 |
| Brink, R. Alex | Correspondence (18 items) | 1924-1947 |
| Buchholtz, John T. | Correspondence Manuscripts (45 folders (720 items)) | 1921-1951 |
| Bush, Vannevar | Correspondence (20 items) | 1940-1952 |
| Butler, E. G. | Correspondence (34 items) | 1944-1949 |
| Carnegie Institution of Washington | Records (3 folders) | 1924-1931 |
| Cartledge, J. Lincoln | Correspondence (48 items) | 1921-1952 |
| Cattell, James McKeen | Correspondence (52 items) | 1904-1932 |
| Chrysler, M. A. | Correspondence (46 items) | 1907-1934 |
| Cleland, Ralph E. | Correspondence (182 items) | 1929-1951 |
| Cook, Robert C. | Correspondence (147 items) | 1924-1949 |
| Creighton, Harriet | Correspondence (80 items) | 1949-1950 |
| Davenport, Charles Benedict | Correspondence (200 items) | 1912-1943 |
| Davis, Bradley Moore | Correspondence (69 items) | 1904-1944 |
| Dodge, B. Ogilvie | Correspondence (28 items) | 1921-1952 |
| East, Edward Murray | Correspondence (34 items) | 1909-1937 |
| Flynn, John E. | Correspondence (145 items) | 1943-1946 |
| Four-College Genetics Conference | Records (6 folders) | 1943-1954 |
| Fox, Arthur L. | Correspondence (64 items) | 1931-1953 |
| Gager, C. Stuart | Correspondence (137 items) | 1914-1942 |
| Gilbert, Walter M. | Correspondence (65 items) | 1906-1946 |
| Gortner, Ross Aiken | Correspondence (35 items) | 1921-1933 |
| Harvard University | Correspondence (5 folders) | 1948 |
| Hyde, James H. | Correspondence (151 items) | 1947-1954 |
| International Botanical Congresses | Correspondence (3 folders) | 1910-1954 |
| Jones, Donald F. | Correspondence (62 items) | 1923-1950 |
| Karpechenko, Georgii Dmitrievich | Correspondence (10 items) | 1929-1931 |
| Merriam, John C. | Correspondence (117 items) | 1921-1936 |
| Meyerhoff, Howard A. | Correspondence (22 items) | 1945-1952 |
| Morgan, Thomas Hunt | Correspondence (34 items) | 1904-1934 |
| Muller, Hermann Joseph | Correspondence (22 items) | 1920-1954 |
| Randolph, Lowell Fitz | Correspondence (25 items) | 1924-1948 |
| Robbins, William J. | Correspondence (34 items) | 1928-1954 |
| Satina, Sophie | Correspondence (36 items) | 1922-1954 |
| Schramm, Jacob Richard | Correspondence (30 items) | 1921-1952 |
| Shull, George Harrison | Correspondence (90 letters) | 1909-1948 |
| Sinnott, Edmund W. | Correspondence (325 items) | 1916-1953 |
| Smith College, Genetics Experiment Station (Series IV) | Records (7 folders) | 1946-1955 |
| Thaxter, Roland | Correspondence (27 items) | 1904-1928 |
| Tukey, Harold Bradford | Correspondence (31 items) | 1944-1951 |
| van Overbeek, Johannes | Correspondence (35 items) | 1942-1950 |
| Weston, William H., Jr. | Correspondence (45 items) | 1922-1943 |
| Wetmore, Ralph H. | Correspondence (34 items) | 1944-1954 |
| Wright, Benjamin F. | Correspondence (23 items) | 1949-1954 |
| Ziegler, Irmgard | Correspondence (60 items) | 1958-1976 |
Physiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics Note
Scholars of physiology, biochemistry, or biophysics may find the following items of interest:
| Author | Format | Date | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northrop, John Howard, 1891-1987 | Correspondence (3 items) | 1926 | English |
| Stanley, Wendell M. (Wendell Meredith), 1904-1971 | Correspondence (5 items) | 1942-1943 | English |
| Van Slyke, Donald D. (Donald Dexter), 1883-1971 | Correspondence (1 item) | 1952 | English |
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