J. A. Weir Papers

Mss.Ms.Coll.92

Date: 1929-1997 | Size: 6 Linear feet

Abstract

An agricultural geneticist with the Department of Zoology at the University of Kansas, Jack A. Weir (1916-1997) began work on a history of Bussey Institute at Harvard during the late 1960s, collecting information about its faculty, students, researchers and research. The collection includes his research notes, copies of correspondence in a variety of collections and a copy of Weir's unpublished manuscript "Genetics and Agriculture at the Bussey Institution of Harvard. " Weir deposited another copy of this manuscript at the University of Kansas Archives.

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 Series I. Correspondence
  
 American Philosophical Society
  
 Anderson, Edgar
  
 Anderson, Phyllis
  
 Bailey, Donald
  
 Benjamin Franklin, The
  
 [Bernstein], Marianne
  
 Blann, Kathy
  
 Braverman, Mimi
  
 Briggs, Michael
  
 Brink, R.A.
  
 Broder, David
  
 Brown, William L.
  
 Brues, C.T.
  
 Campbell, Frank Leslie
  
 Carnegie Institution of Washington
  
 Castle, Edward S.
  
 Castle, William B.
  
 Castle, William B. and Edward S.
  
 Chase, Sherret S.
  
 Christman, Carolyn (American Minor Breeds Conservancy)
  
 Christian, Robert Jr.
  
 Clark, Curtis L.
  
 Cobb, Robert P.
  
 Conant, James Bryant
  
 Cravens, Hamilton
  
 Crow, James F.
  
 Degan, Anne Hyde
  
 Desjardins, Claude
  
 Dole, Robert
  
 Donoghue, Patrice
  
 Drake, John W.
  
 Drapeau, Mrs. Raoul L.
  
 Dubbets, John
  
 Dunn, L.C.
  
 Ehrman, Cynthia
  
 Elliott, Clark A.
  
 Evans, Howard E.
  
 Evans, Mary Alice (Mrs. Howard E.)
  
 Ford, Caroline
  
 Gabron, Frances M.
  
 Galinat, Walton C.
  
 Goupillot, Bob
  
 Gowen, John W.
  
 Griest, Guinevere L.
  
 Harvard University Press
  
 Haswell, Hollee
  
 Horsfall, James G.
  
 Irwin, M. R.
  
 Jones, Eleanor M.
  
 Kassebaum, Nancy Landon
  
 Keeler, Clyde
  
 Kennedy, Sargent
  
 Kimber, Gordon
  
 Kinney, Richard [Iowa State University Press]
  
 Little, Clarence
  
 Lord, Mrs.
  
 MacDowell, E. C.
  
 McWhir, Anne
  
 Madoff, Morton A.
  
 Madrid Congress 1974
  
 Mangelsdorf, Paul C.
  
 Mendelsohn, Everett
  
 Natural History Museum
  
 O'Brien, Stephen J.
  
 Oregon State University
  
 Owen, Margaret J. [Mrs. Richard C.]
  
 Patrick William
  
 Patten, Dorothy J.
  
 Peirson, Henry B.
  
 Pierson, Lois
  
 President and Fellows of Harvard College
  
 Reed, Sheldon C.
  
 Redei, G.P.
  
 Reingold, Nathan
  
 Roberts, John E.
  
 Sadek, Nancy
  
 Saltonstall, Leverett
  
 Sawin, P. B.
  
 Sax, Karl
  
 Schowen, Richard L.
  
 Sears, E. R.
  
 Shipton, Clifford K.
  
 Silas, Bill
  
 Singleton, Dorothy A.
  
 Small Grants Committee
  
 Smith, Murphy D.
  
 Snell, George
  
 Snyder, L.H.
  
 Stent, Gunther S.
  
 Thompson, W. P.
  
 Tulloch, George S.
  
 University of Georgia Press
  
 University of Missouri, Archives
  
 University of Saskatchewan
  
 University of Toronto Press
  
 Vicedo, Marga
  
 Whalen, R. H.
  
 Wheeler, George C.
  
 Williams, Evan W.
  
 Wright, Kathryn M.
  
 Zirkle, Conway
  
 Miscellaneous
  
 Series II. Research Materials
  5 boxes
 Series III. Rough Drafts
  3 boxes ; 1 Linear feet
 Series IV. Notebooks
  1 box
 Series V. Notecards
  1 box
 Series VI. Biographical Information
  
 Agassiz, Alexander
1835-1910 
 Bailey, Irving Widmer
1884-1967 
 Barbour, Thomas
1884-1946 
 Bateson, William
1861-1926 
 Beadle, George W.
1903- 
 Brink, Royal Alexander
1897-1984 
 Cajal, Santiago Ramon y
1852-1934 
 Castle, William Ernest
1867-1963 
 De Vries, Hugo
1848-1935 
 Dunn, L. C.
1893-1935 
 East, Edward Murray
1879-1938 
 Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict
1878-1958 
 Green, Earl J.
1913-1995 
 Haddow, Alexander
1907- 
 Hayes, Herbert Kendall
1884-1972 
 Irwin, Malcolm Robert
1897-1987 
 McKelvey, Susan Delano
1883-1964 
 Mendel, Gregory
1822-1884 
 Mohr, Otto Lous
1886-1967 
 Muller, Hermann J.
1890-1967 
 Renner, Otto
1883-1960 
 Sabine, Wallace C.W.
1868-1919 
 Sax, Karl
1892- 
 Sinnott, Edmund Ware
1888-1968 
 Storer, Francis Humphreys
1832-1914 
 Wallace, Alfred Russel
1823-1877 
 Wallace, Henry Agard
1888-1965 
 Watson, James D.
1928- 
 Wheeler, William Morton
1865-1937 
 Wright, Sewall
1889-1988 
 Series VII. Unpublished Draft of History of Bussey Institute
  1 box