At the American Philosophical Society: More detailed guides for many collections are at: http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/index.htm

American Society of Human Genetics. Records, 1948-1981. 14 linear ft.

The American Society of Human Genetics was founded in 1948 by Herluf H. Strandskov, Charles Cotterman, H.J. Muller, and L.H. Snyder. This archive is composed chiefly of correspondence and membership applications. Also included are minutes of Board of Directors meetings, a few annual reports from officers, and materials relating to annual meetings, awards, committees, and associated organizations. Presented by the American Society of Human Genetics, 1978-1988.

The collection is arranged into seven series: Series I, Constitution and Minutes; Series II, Officers; Series III, Membership; Series IV, Committees; Series V, Annual Meetings; Series VI, Travel Grants and Awards; Series VII, Miscellaneous.

Finding aids: Table of contents (5 pp.) available in the repository.

(Ms. Coll. 49)

Anderson, Thomas Foxen, 1911-1991 Papers, 1928-1989. 43 lin. ft.

Thomas F. Anderson was a biophysicist and electron microscopist whose research included Raman spectroscopy; the physiology of yeast; the biological effects of radiation; the biological applications of electron microscopy; and the genetics of bacteria, bacterial viruses, and bacteriophage. He was a Professor of Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Member of the Institute for Cancer Research in Fox Chase.

The Anderson collection is organized into seven series: I. Correspondence, 1932-1989; II. Subject Files, 1928-1989; III. Grant Files, 1940-1983; IV. Works by Anderson, 1934-1985; V. Works by Others, 1933-1988; VI. Research Notes and Notebooks, 1931-1977; VII. Photographs, 1938-1988. Arrangement: Alphabetical by folder title and then chronological within each folder.

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Anderson, 1992-1993 (Ms. Coll. 75)

Bateson, William (1861-1926) British biologist, geneticist.

One of the principle figures of turn of the century anti-Darwinian evolutionism, William Bateson was a professor at Cambridge University for 23 years before leaving to become

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first director of the John Innes Horticultural Institute (1910-1926). Developing a unique "vibratory theory" of organismal variability during the 1890s that envisioned evolutionary change as a discontinuous process, Bateson became well known as the first English advocate of the recently rediscovered theories of Gregor Mendel.

The APS houses three collections relating to William Bateson and his family, two of which are comprised of copies from the material held at the John Innes Horticultural Institute.

William Bateson Collection, 1902-1921. 0.25 ln. ft. Photocopy.

Consisting of photocopies of letters written by the geneticists Erwin Baur and Leonard Doncaster to their British colleague William Bateson, the Bateson Collection contains important material relating to the early history of Mendelian genetics in Britain and particularly to Bateson's opposition to the chromosomal theory of inheritance. The originals are held in the William Bateson Papers in the Archives of the John Innes Horticultural Institute.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

From originals in the John Innes Institute Presented by William Coleman, 1978. (B B319)

William Bateson Papers, ca. 1875-1924. Microfilm. 6 reels.

A selected portion of the scientific papers of William Bateson that are now at the Cambridge University Library. The entire collection was described by A. G. Cock, "The William Bateson Papers," The Mendel Newsletter 14 (1977).

Table of contents (28 pp.).

From originals in the Cambridge University Library Gift of William Coleman, 1967. (H.S. Film 26)

Bateson Family Papers, 1829-1940. 2 ln. ft.

For a man inclined to drama and disputation in science, it was Bateson's family life that took on the airs of Greek tragedy. The two linear feet of correspondence, diaries, and photographs that comprise the Bateson Family Papers provide valuable insight into the social milieu of the Batesons and their decidedly unorthodox upper middle class academic life, as well as their responses to the tragic deaths of two of their sons.

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Deposited by Mary Catharine Bateson, 1980 (Ms. Coll. 2)

Bergmann, Max (1886-1944) Biochemist. Papers, ca. 1930-1945. ca. 7,500 items. (7.5 ln. ft.).

Letters, reports, addresses and lectures relating to biochemistry and other scientific topics, the Rockefeller Institute, refugee scientists, professional associations, etc.

Among the correspondents are:

Lawrence W. Bass George W. Beadle Franz Boas James McKeen Cattell Jacques Cattell Alfred E. Cohn H. D. Dakin René J. Dubos Albert EinsteinSimon Flexner Paul Gyorgy Karl Landsteiner Irving Langmuir Otto Loewi Duncan A. MacInnes John H. Northrop Winthrop J. V. Osterhout William J. Robins Peyton Rous Fred M. Uber Harold C. Urey Donald D. Van Slyke Selman A. Waksman Warren Weaver

Also described in Lily Kay, Molecules, Cells, and Life

Presented by the Rockefeller Institute, 1964 (B B445)

Blakeslee, Albert Francis (1874-1954) Botanist. APS 1924. Papers, 1904-1954. ca. 15,000 items. (12.5 ln. ft.).

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Mostly concerned with Blakeslee's studies on beans and blood groups, colchicine, Datura, embryo cultures, and horticulture; many letters relate to the support and direction of the Smith College Genetics Experiment Station, which he headed; other letters are with and about the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Biological Abstracts, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Philosophical Society, Institut de France, University of Connecticut; also travel letters from Germany, and miscellaneous lectures.

Principal correspondents include:

John Theodore Buchholz Vannevar Bush Ralph E. Cleland Charles B. Davenport Bradley M. Davis John E. Flynn James H. Hyde William J. Robbins George Harrison Shull Edmund W. Sinnott Selman A. Waksman E. B. Wilson

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

Presented by Smith College Genetics Experiment Station and the Genetics Society of America, 1959 (B B585)

Cain, Arthur J. (Arthur James), (1921- ) Zoologist, evolutionary biologist Papers, 1945-1988. 15.75 lin. feet.

Arthur J. Cain was an evolutionary biologist whose research interests 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 gastropods. 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.

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Gift of Arthur James Cain through William B. Provine, 1989 (Ms. Coll. 63)

Carson, Hampton L. (Hampton Lawrence), 1914- Papers, 1921-1993. 15 linear ft.

The population geneticist Hampton L. Carson spent the major part of his career at Washington University (1949-1963) and the University of Hawaii (1963-1985) investigating the cytogenetics and evolution of Drosophila. As one of the major figures in the Hawaii Drosophila project, he made particularly important contributions to the study of speciation and selective and non-selective evolutionary mechanisms.

The Carson Papers (1921-1993) contain correspondence, subject files, manuscripts of published and unpublished works by Carson, papers by colleagues and students, research notes, course material, and photographs, which document Carson's career in genetics. The collection is organized into seven series: I. Correspondence, 1944-1993 ; II. Subject Files, 1946-1989 ; III. Works by Carson, 1951-1985 ; IV. Works by Others, 1949-1987 ; V. Research Notes, 1921-1993 ; VI. Course Material, 1943-1986 ; VII. Photographs, 1948-1985.

Gift of Hampton L. Carson, 1994-2003 (Ms Coll 83)

Caspari, Ernst Wolfgang (1909- ) Geneticist. Papers, 1932-1980. (9.5 lin. ft.).

Ernst Wolfgang Caspari was an important contributor to behavior and developmental genetics, working primarily on the mealmoth Ephestia. Trained in Alfred Kuhn's laboratory at the University of Göttingen (1933-1935), Caspari was forced from his position by the Nazis in 1933, escaping to the United States five years later. As a professor of biology at Lafayette College, Wesleyan University, and the University of Rochester, Caspari continued his research on Ephestia, mouse genetics, and behavior genetics until his retirement in 1975.

The Caspari Papers includes correspondence, papers, grant reports, and lectures relating to Caspari's genetic research dating primarily from the period after his departure from Germany. In addition to substantial material on behavior genetics and human evolution, the collection includes correspondence relating to Caspari's editorial work for Advances in Genetics, and his involvement with the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Fifth Banff Conference on Theoretical Psychology, Genetics Society of America, International Conference on the Unity of Science, Social Science Research Council, Committee on Genetics and Behavior, and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

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Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

Presented by Ernst W. Caspari, 1980 (Ms. Coll. 1)

Chargaff, Erwin (1905-2002) Biochemist, nucleic acid pioneer. APS 1979 Papers, 1929-1992. 56 lin. feet.

A biochemist at Columbia University, Erwin Chargaff discovered the base-pairing regularities or "complementarity relationships" of nucleic acids that provided one of the key steps in developing a structural model for DNA. During his long career, Chargaff is credited with conclusively falsifying the tetranucleotide hypothesis; demonstrating the existence of a large number of DNA species; and creating the first descriptions of hypochromicity, hyperchromicity, and the denaturation of a DNA. In addition, Chargaff conducted important research on blood coagulation, lipids and lipoproteins, the metabolism of amino acids and inositol, and the biosynthesis of phosphotransferases. He retired to emeritus status in 1974 and remained active in research almost to the time of his death in June 2002.

The Chargaff Papers are organized into seven series: I. Correspondence, 1931-1992 ; IIa. Grants, 1930-1982 ; IIb. Subject Files, 1940-1984 ; III. Works by Chargaff, 1929-1989; IV. Works by Others, 1936-1985 ; V. Research Notes and Notebooks, 1929-1951 ; VI. Photographs, 1935-1977.

Also described in Lily Kay, Molecule s, Cells, and Life

Gift of Erwin Chargaff, 1989 (B C37)

Clayton, Frances E. (1922-1998) Geneticist Papers, 1940-1996. 25 lin. feet.

A native Texan, Frances E. Clayton studied genetics at the University of Texas, receiving her doctorate in 1952. After a brief stint at Texas, she settled at the University of Arkansas, where she spent the remainder of her career. Clayton's research centered on speciation and evolution of Drosophila, concentrating on Hawaiian populations. From 1962 through the mid-1980s she worked in close concert with Hampton Carson.

The Clayton Papers are a highly selective collection of Clayton's correspondence, research notes, and miscellaneous data, emphasizing her work on Drosophila. Her teaching and administrative commitments at the University of Arkansas are sparsely documented.

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Uncatalogued.

Bequest of Frances E Clayton, 2000. (Ms. Coll. 108)

Cohen, Seymour S. (Seymour Stanley), 1917- Papers, 1938-1990. 25.5 linear ft.

Working on bacterial viruses in 1945, Seymour S. Cohen offered the first systematic exploration of the biochemistry of virus-infected cells and of how viruses multiply. His subsequent research included delineating the phenomenon of thymineless death, developing derivatives of ara-A compound, working on RNA synthesis, studying the effects of polyamines on metabolic systems, and studying plant viruses (including viral cations). Much of his research has contributed to the chemical treatment of cancer and viral infections.

The Cohen Papers have been organized into six series: I. Correspondence, 1940-1990 ; II. Subject Files, 1944-1986 ; III. Works by Cohen, 1941-1986 ; IV. Works by Others, 1940-1983 ; V. Research Notes and Notebooks, 1938-1980 ; VI. Photographs, 1941-1983.

Gift of Seymour S. Cohen, 1987, 1990, 1995 (Ms. Coll. 48)

Davenport, Charles Benedict (1866-1944) Biologist; director, Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington, APS 1907. Papers, 1874-1944. (63 lin. ft.).

Founded by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in 1890, the Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., was little more than a languishing outpost until the arrival of Charles B. Davenport in 1898. Over the course of two decades, the ambitious young biologist used his extraordinary administrative skills to transform the institution into the premier center of eugenical study and, as its director, to position himself as the leading spokesman for eugenical research in North America.

The Davenport Papers (ca.43 lin. feet) is a large and nearly comprehensive body of correspondence, lectures, diaries (1878-1942, mostly brief entries of an uneven character), student notebooks and family correspondence pertaining to Charles Davenport and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The collection is divided into two series, the Charles Davenport Papers, which provides valuable documentation of the development of American biology, animal and plant genetics, and eugenics during the period 1898-1942, with some perspective on the international eugenics movement. Series II, the Cold Spring Harbor Records (ca.20 lin. feet), consists largely of administrative correspondence relating to the laboratory, including Davenport's correspondence with Carnegie

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administrators (esp. Robert Woodward and John Merriam), accounts and reports concerning financial matters, publications, salaries, material relative to the early history of Cold Spring Harbor labs, and records relative to the numerous professional assistants who worked under Davenport.

Among the major correspondents are the American Breeders Association, Committee on Eugenics; American Eugenics Society; American Society of Naturalists; Committee on a Study of the American Negro; Galton Society (see also the extensive correspondence with William K. Gregory); Eugenics Education Society (see Mrs. S. Gotto correspondence); International Congresses of Eugenics; International Federation of Eugenic Organizations, Committee on Race Crossing; National Committee on Mental Hygiene; National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor; and the Pan-American Conference on Eugenics and Homiculture. There are correspondence and papers relating to the Station for Experimental Evolution, the Eugenics Record Office, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and a substantial series relating to a long-range study of children carried out at Letchworth Village, Thiles, New York.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

Presented by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1965 (B D27)

Demerec, Milislav (1895-1966) Geneticist. APS 1952. Papers, 1919-1966. (10.75 linear feet)

The geneticist Milislav Demerec emigrated from Yugloslavia in 1919, spending nearly his entire career in the Department of Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Working initially on the genetics of maize and later on Drosophila virilis, his research interests included radiation and chemical mutagenesis, and during the Second World War, penicillin and the genetics of antibiotic resistance. Demerec served as head of the laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor from 1941 until 1960.

The Demerec collection contains the extant professional papers of Milislav Demerec, dating primarily from the time of his arrival at Cold Spring Harbor until his retirement. In addition to his correspondence with colleagues, the collection includes interesting material on the administration of Cold Spring Harbor laboratory during the 1940s and 1950s, data and research notes, material relating to professional organizations (e.g. Genetics Society of America, American Society of Naturalists), a lengthy series of lectures given by Demerec, and a large number of photographs pertaining to Demerec's research, but also to his colleagues and Cold Spring Harbor itself.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections... and in Lily Kay, Molecules, Cells, and Life.

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Presented by Mrs. Mary Demerec, 1966 (B D394)

Dobzhansky, Theodosius (1900-1975) Geneticist. APS 1942. Papers, ca. 1917-1975. (12 ln. ft.)

One of the four horsemen of the evolutionary synthesis of the 1940s, Theodosius Dobzhansky played a crucial role in bridging the gap between theoretical and empirical approaches in genetics and in promoting the Neo-Darwinian synthesis. His contributions to the biological species concept and to an understanding the evolutionary dynamics of wild populations of Drosophila were fundamental to the development of modern population genetics and evolutionary thought.

The Dobzhansky Papers are a remnant of the correspondence and writings of the geneticist and evolutionary biologist, Theodosius Dobzhansky. The correspondence (7.5 linear feet) provides insight into Dobzhansky's scientific, philosophical, and social views, particularly during the last decade of his life. Equally valuable are the 54 notebooks (ca.1917-1975) which comprise an almost uninterrupted self-commentary on Dobzhansky's career, replete with typescripts of personal letters and short essays sent to colleagues and friends. The collection also contains two unbound volumes of annotated "reminiscences" from the Columbia Oral History Project, 1962; two bound volumes of papers dedicated to him on his 70th birthday; and 1.5 linear feet of photographs.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections... .

Presented by the Estate of Theodosius Dobzhansky, 1976. (B D65)

Dunn, Leslie Clarence (1893-1974) Geneticist. APS, 1943. Papers, ca. 1920-1974. (15 lin. ft.).

This collection includes correspondence, reports, notebooks, lectures, photographs, etc. It is a rich collection, documenting the development of American genetics as well as Dunn's varied interests. 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 interests 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 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

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Jewish community in Rome; files of material concerning Columbia University, where he spent most of his academic career. There is much in the correspondence concerning Drosophila, poultry genetics, and other such topics, with Dunn's major correspondence being Walter Landauer (ca. 3 boxes).

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections... .

Presented by Dr. Dunn, 1967-74. (B D917)

Eugenics Record Office Records, 1670-1964. 330.5 linear ft.

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.

Gift of the Charles Fremont Dight Institute for the Promotion of Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota, 1992-1993 (Ms. Coll. 77)

Genetics Society of America Records, 1921-1982. 22 lin. ft.

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Founded in 1931, the Genetics Society of America works to facilitate communication among scientists with an interest in research and education in genetics and cognate fields.

The GSA Records provide information on the history of the Genetics Society of America from the time of its founding in 1931. Included is correspondence between various officers, members, and outside individuals and organizations, files on standing and ad hoc committees, records concerning accounts and finances, membership data, files relating to annual meetings, local meetings, and international meetings, and information on special commissions or ad hoc groups of the Society. Among the more noteworthy files are those for the Committee on Genetics, Race, and Intelligence, 1974-1975.

Presented by the Society, 1970- (575.06 G28p)

Goad, Walter B. (1925-2000) Papers, 1942-2001. 6 linear feet

A physicist with the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Walter Goad became interested in molecular biology in the mid-1960s, devoting nearly all of his research to the analysis, storage and retrieval of information relating to nucleic acid sequences by the early 1970s. He was among the founders of GenBank, the world's first nucleic acid database, and was influential in the development of computational techniques for the analysis of DNA sequences. In the late 1980s, he served on the steering committee overseeing the establishment of the Human Genome Project.

The Goad Papers relate primarily to the establishment and early operation of GenBank, the early phases of the Human Genome Project, and, more generally, to Goad's role as godfather of the new field of bioinformatics.

Gift of Maxine S. Goad, 2001 (Ms. Coll. 114)

Goodale, Hubert Dana (1879-1968) Geneticist Papers, ca. 1919-1956. (27 lin. ft.).

A pioneer and leader in poultry and cattle genetics, Goodale spent most of his professional life, from 1922 to 1962 as the geneticist at the Mount Hope Farm in Williamston, Mass. In addition to correspondence relating to poultry genetics and egg production, there are significant series concerning breeding records, heredity, and race genetics. There are about 50 notebooks kept by Goodale, and some 62 volumes of Mt. Hope Poultry Farm records for the period 1919 to 1956. There are also photographs. Correspondents include:

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B. B. Bohren C.B. Davenport H.P. Davis Milislav Demerec L.C. Dunn Edward F. Godfrey John W. Gowen John C. Graham Charles C. Hurst Wendell H. Kyle Walter Landauer I. Michael Lerner T.H. Morgan Jose F. Nonidez Ezra Parmalee Prentice J. Rockefeller Prentice Theobald Smith Sewall Wright

Table of contents (17 pp.).

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

Presented by Mrs. Goodale and Marion P. Goodale, 1969-1972 (B G61)

Hollaender, Alexander (1898-1986) Geneticist Papers, ca 1955-1974. ca. 4000 items (8 ln. ft.).

Alexander Hollaender was a leading researcher on the genetic effects of radiation. Born in Samter, Germany, in 1898 and arriving in the United States in 1921, Hollaender was educated at the University of Wisconsin, receiving his AB, MA, and Ph.D. there. He served on the faculty at the University of Tennessee and the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. He was director of the division of biology at the Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridge National laboratory from 1946 until 1966

The 8 linear feet of the Alexander Hollaender Papers contain incoming and outgoing correspondence and reports relating to the genetic effects of radiation, specifically atomic radiation. Also included are documents of the International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy; the NAS Committee on the Biological Effects of Atomic Energy, Genetics Panel; the United Nations Scientific Committee on Atomic Radiation; and the World Health Organization all of which Hollaender was closely involved with.

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Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections... and in Lily Kay, Molecules, Cells, and Life

Gift of Alexander Hollaender, 1974 (B H717)

Jennings, Herbert Spencer (1868-1947) Naturalist and geneticist. APS 1907. Papers, ca. 1893-1947. ca. 7,000 items. (14.5 ln. ft.)

A diverse collection, including correspondence, drafts of lectures, 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, paramecium, protozoa genetics, U. S. immigration policy. There is much on the Seventh International Congress of Zoology (1907); letters to his father, and wives; from students and colleagues on his seventy- fifth birthday, 1943 (1 vol.); diplomas and certificates of membership; and photographs. Correspondents include:

Jerome Alexander Frank Aydelotte Herbert Blumer Joseph Brenneman Luther Burbank Gary N. Calkins James McKeen Cattell T. T. Chen Edward G. Conklin Edmund V. Cowdry Charles B. Davenport Irving Fisher Samuel W. Geiser Frank J. Goodnow Ross G. Harrison Vernon Kellogg Alfred Korzybski Frank R. Lillie S. O. Mast Maynard M. Metcalf Carl W. Metz Hermann J. Muller Hjalmar L. Osterud Raymond Pearl Fred E. Pomeroy

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Daniel Raffel Jacob Reighard George H. Shull Tracy M. Sonneborn N. I. Vavilov John B. Watson Leon F. Whitney Edwin Bidwell Wilson Robert M. Yerkes

Table of contents (30 pp.). Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

Presented by Mrs. Vernon Lynch, Burridge Jennings, Carolyn Jennings, Ralph E. Cleland, and Tracy M. Sonneborn, 1947-1977. (B J44; J44a)

Lerner, Isadore Michael (1910-1977) Geneticist. Papers, ca. 1930s-1970s. ca. 2500 items (3 ln. ft.).

The correspondence in this collection concerns behavior genetics, evolution, heredity, etc. There is material relating to the Permanent International Committee on Genetics congresses, and the IXth (Bellagio, 1953), Xth (Montreal, 1958), and XIth (The Hague, 1963) congresses. There is also correspondence pertaining to the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology(1955), the Mendel Semi-Centennial (1950), the Soviet Geneticists' visit to the U.S. (1967), and to Anton R. Zhebrak. Of particular note is the manuscript and other material relating to Lerner's 1969 translation of Z. A. Medvedev's, The Rise and Fall of T. D. Lysenko.

The important or major correspondents include:

R. L. Berg Theodosius Dobzhansky Richard B. Goldschmidt Ake Gustafsson J. B. S. Haldane Walter Landauer Richard C. Lewontin Jay L. Lush Kenneth Mather Ernst Mayr Peter Medawar Zhores A. Medvedev

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H. J. Muller Joseph Needham James V. Neel Tracy M. Sonneborn N. W. Timoféef-Ressovsky C. H. Waddington Bruce Wallace Sewall Wright

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

Presented by Dr. Lerner, 1971-1977 (B L563; B L995m.L1)

Lewontin, Richard Charles (1929- ) Population biologist. Papers, ca. 1963-1980. ca. 2000 items. (4 ln. ft.). Photocopy.

This represents a portion of Lewontin's correspondence files (mainly A-L), and included are copies of papers, all of which will be added to in the future. The topics discussed in the letters are numerous, including much on contemporary scientific controversies: race, Darwin, evolution, intelligence, biological determinism, etc.

Correspondents include:

Philip H. Abelson Wm. K. Baker Stuart Barker Thomas Bethel Nigel Calder James F. Crow Max Delbrück Theodosius Dobzhansky Paul R. Ehrlich Arthur S. Goldberger J. B. S. Haldane Jerry Hirsch Albert Jacquard George Johnson Leo Kamin Costas Krimbas George G. Simpson

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

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Presented by Richard Lewontin, 1980 (B L59p)

Luria, S. E. (Salvador Edward) (1912- ) Bacteriologist, geneticist. Papers, 1931-1992. 47 lin. feet.

Salvador E. Luria was a bacteriologist whose work with Max Delbruck on bacteriophage demonstrated that bacteria resistant to certain phages arose through gene mutations. His later work showed that phages also mutate genetically. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969 with Max Delbruck and Alfred D. Hershey.

Organized into seven series: I. Correspondence, 1938-1992 ; IIa. Subject Files, 1938-1990 ; IIb. Personal Material. 1923-1991 ; III. Works by Luria, 1938-1987 ; IV. Works by Others, 1944-1990 ; V. Research Notes &Notebooks, 1941-1979 ; VI. Course Material, 1931-1991 ; VII. Photographs &Negatives, 1957-1982. Arrangement: Alphabetical by folder title and then chronological within each folder.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

Presented by Salvador Luria and the Luria estate, 1985-1994 (Ms. Coll. 39)

McClintock, Barbara (1902-1992) Maize geneticist. Papers, 1927-1991. (70.5 lin. ft.).

The maize geneticist, Barbara McClintock, is credited with the discovery of "jumping genes," that is chromosomal "crossing over" and translocation. She received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983.

The collection is organized into six series: I. Correspondence, 1931-1991 ; II. Subject files, 1938-1989 ; III. Works by McClintock, 1944-1989 ; IV. Works by others, 1927-1991 ; V. Research notes, notebooks, and card files, 1930s-1990s ; VI. Photographs and negatives, 1928-1991.

Arrangement: Alphabetical by folder title and then chronological within each folder. Major correspondents include George Wells Beadle, Almiro Blumenschein, Royal Alexander Brink, William L. Brown, Charles R. Burnham, Melvin M. Green, Takeo Angel Kato Yamakake, Joshua Lederberg, Oliver Evans Nelson, Jr., Peter Andrew Peterson, Marcus M. Rhoades, James A. Shapiro, and Lester W. Sharp. McClintock appears as a correspondent in a number of other collections at the APS, including the Chargaff, Luria, Stern, and Caspari Papers.

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Presented by the Barbara McClintock estate, 1992 (Ms. Coll. 79)

Mayr, Ernst (1904- ) Zoologist. APS 1965. Papers, 1946, 1974-1979. ca. 700 items.

The Mayr collection consists of correspondence, drafts of talks, and personal data sheets relating to the Conference on Evolutionary Synthesis sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, held in Boston in May and October 1974. The collection includes background material on the organization of the conference, as well as correspondence (especially with William Provine) on the editing and publication of the proceedings (Mayr, ed. The Evolutionary Synthesis... 1980).

In addition to the above there is material on the 1947 Princeton Conference on Genetics, Paleontology & Evolution, and documents relative to the organization and history of the Society for the Study of Evolution.

Correspondents include:

Ernest Boesiger Ralph E. Cleland Theodosius Dobzhansky C. D. Darlington E. B. Ford Julian Huxley Charles W. Metz Michael Lerner Richard C. Lewontin H. J. Muller Bernhardt Rensch Edmund W. Sinnott George G. Simpson G. Ledyard Stebbins Curt Stern N. W. Timoféef-Ressovsky Alexander Weinstein

Table of contents (3 pp.).

Presented by Ernst Mayr, 1979, 1982. (B M541)

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Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 Physical anthropologist Papers, ca. 1930-1999. ca.70 linear feet.

Born in London's East End in 1905, Israel Ehrenberg seemingly defied orthodoxy from birth. Changing his name upon entering academia, the working class Ehrenberg opted for the aristocratic airs of Montagu Francis Ashley-Montagu - later shortened in the American vernacular to a simpler Ashley Montagu. Studying anthropology under Bronislaw Malinowski and later Franz Boas, he received his doctorate in 1937 for Coming Into Being Among the Australian Aborigines, and quickly established a reputation as a productive and provocative physical anthropologist. In 1942, the publication of his second book initiated an unusually creative period devoted to the biological analysis of the "problem" of race and social inequality, themes he returned to repeatedly in later years. In Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race Montagu advanced the argument that race was a social construct imposed upon a complex biological substratum and he demolished the arguments for inherent inequality between human populations. He extended his egalitarian arguments to gender in the Natural Superiority of Women (1953), provoking yet another segment of the population, and even in his seemingly harmless work on early hominid evolution, he kicked up controversy. Montagu was the first to document that the famous Piltdown Man fossils were a hybrid forgery.

Montagu's frustration with academia grew during the 1950s as his progressive views clashed repeatedly with his more conservative peers. After delivering a lecture critical of Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1955, he suffered a storm of abuse, eventually leading him to resign his position at Rutgers, and he never again held (or sought) a standard academic appointment, though his research and publication continued unabated. From 1960 on, Montagu became, in effect, a public intellectual, a Promethean figure bringing the ideas of anthropology to the lay public through works on love, swearing, and violence.

The collection document nearly the entire career of Ashley Montagu from approximately 1937 until his death in 1999, with extensive research notes and subject files relating to Montagu's diverse interests. The collection includes significant correspondence with colleagues ranging from Theodosius Dobzhansky and Melville Herskovits to Clyde Kluckhohn, Marshall McLuhan, and Pitirim Sorokin.

Acquired from the Montagu estate, July 2001. (Ms. Coll. 109)

Motulsky, Arno G. (1923- Geneticist. APS 2003. Papers, 1930's-2000's. 128 lin. feet.

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A medical geneticist trained at the University of Illinois, Arno Motulsky became interested in blood-borne diseases while serving in the army. In 1953 he obtained a position as a hematology instructor at the University of Washington and went on to found the University's medical genetics division and serve as its head. Motulsky developed and broadened his research interests to include hematologic genetics, clinical genetics, population genetics, and color vision genetics. Motulsky undertook research that established him as a founder of pharmacogenetics, the study of genetically determined drug reactions. He conducted important research in lipid disorders with coronary heart disease and in establishing paradigms for understanding the genetics of human traits. He has written numerous definitive articles, and authored or co-authored texts still used in the field.

The Motulsky Papers include the full run of his professional correspondence, conference material, works by Motulsky, and material related to his work in Africa which led to documenting the first evidence of the AIDS virus. He served on the president’s commission for the study of ethical problems in medicine and biomedical research.

Presented by Arno Motulsky, 2006 (Ms Coll 133)

Neel, James V. (James Van Gundia), 1915-2000 Papers, ca.1939-1999. ca.100 lin. feet

Papers of James V. Neel, pioneering human population genetecist and professor in the Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School. Curt Stern's first graduate student at the University of Rochester, and a post-doctoral student under Theodosius Dobzhansky, Neel began his career as a Drosophila geneticist, but after taking his first professional appointment as an assistant professor at Dartmouth, decided to alter his course into human genetics. Reasoning that he needed a solid medical education to complement his genetical training, he returned to Rochester in 1942 to study for an MD.

Like all medical students during the Second World War, Neel was inducted into military service. Rochester was the base for studies in radiation biology associated with the Manhattan Project, and at the end of the war, with Neel still in the military, a chance friendship with the adjutant to the head of the project resulted in Neel's appointment to help organize a genetical survey of the atomic bomb survivors. In 1946-1947, Neel lived in Hiroshima, organizing this project, part of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Committee (ABCC), and he maintained a close connection to the study until his death. His work in Japan mushroomed, too, into a series of related projects into the biology and genetics of consanguinity, among other topics.

While at Rochester, Neel also began to establish a name for himself in other areas of human genetics. As a resident at Rochester's Strong Memorial Hospital, Neel encountered a case of thalassemia, and reading the medical literature, he became

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convinced that it was a genetic recessive disease. Over a span of five years, he delineated the genetic basis of haemoglobin diseases - first thalassemia, then sickle cell disease - in the process, helping to precipitate the revolution in biochemical genetics of the 1950s through 1970s. Neel's work also encompassed the evolutionary implications for these diseases, implanting balanced polymorphism and heterozygote advantage into the vocabularies of evolutionary biologists. Neel's studies of thalassemia and sickle cell disease were recognized with the receipt of the Lasker Award in 1955.

In the late 1950s, Neel entered into a third major set of projects, turning to extensive field studies in population genetics. Recognizing that the number of human populations isolated from modern medicines and modern technology was rapidly dwindling, Neel embarked on an ambitious genetic survey of the comparatively "primitive" Xavante of Brazil and, later, the Yanomamo of the Brazilian-Venezuelan borderlands. These studies, carried out over the course of more than a decade, and involving even longer spans of laboratory work, constitute the first and most comprehensive studies of human population and breeding structure and genetic diseases among "primitive" peoples. Dr. Neel died in February, 2000.

Gift of James V. Neel, 1999 (Ms. Coll. 96)

Osborn, Frederick (1889-1981) Administrator, humanist, scientist. APS 1948. Papers, ca. 1903-1980. ca. 6,000 items. (9 lin. ft.).

Frederick Henry Osborn was an administrator, humanist, and scientist. This collection includes letters, diaries, reports, speeches, drafts of articles and books, oral history interviews, and photographs. There are diaries and letters for his service in Europe with the American Red Cross during World War I. There are some letters and documents, such as patent applications and plans for inventions, from his "business career" period prior to 1928, after which he became a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History studying anthropology and population. This study led to his later important contributions to the redirection of eugenics study in the U.S. and the reorganization of the American Eugenics Society. His other related organizational work and publications relating to human and population genetics are also documented in this collection.

There is significant material (letters, diaries, reports) related to Osborn's World War II contributions as the chairman of the Civilian Committee on Selective Service in 1940, and as head of the Morale Branch of the U.S. Army (later, the Information and Education Division of Special Services) in 1941. Also included are important documents, especially his diary, from his work as deputy representative on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the U.N. Commission for Conventional Armaments. His letters, writings, and speeches relating to foreign policy are extensive, spanning the period from the 1940s until his death, much of it from the Vietnam War years. The correspondence with Kathleen Harris is particularly rich in this respect. There is family correspondence

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reflecting his dynamic philosophy of life, with long series of letters to his parents (1917-1945) and to his children and grandchildren. His later civic and regional interests, as a long-time resident of Garrison, N.Y., are evidenced in the work he did on the Palisades Interstate Park Commission.

Presented by Oslands, Inc., through Mrs. Alice Osborn Breese, 1983 (Ms. Coll. 24)

Pearl, Raymond (1879-1940) Biologist, statistician. APS 1915. Papers, ca. 1895-1940. (15 lin. ft.).

This collection includes correspondence as well as notebooks, scrapbooks, diplomas, photographs, and 33 volumes of diaries. Pearl spent most of his academic career (1918-1940) at Johns Hopkins University, where he was Prof. 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. There is significant correspondence with his wife (ca. 500 letters) and mother (ca. 300 letters), particularly for the years 1895-1934. Of special note is the correspondence with his friend, colleague, and fellow Baltimoreian, H. L. Mencken (ca. 500 letters). The papers contain interesting information on: American Assoc. of Physical Anthropologists, The Baltimore Sun, Birth Control Federation of America, Dartmouth College, International Institute of Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, National Academy of Sciences. There is a biographical memoir in APS Year Book 1940.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

Accessioned, 1973. (B P312)

Price, Bronson (1905-1978) Geneticist, psychologist, statistician. Papers, 1934-1976. ca. 800 items. ca. 7000 cards.

The psychologist and behavioral geneticist Bronson Price made important contributions to the study of the genetics of mental traits in twins. Receiving his doctorate from Stanford in 1934, Price began down a research path that led him to study under Aleksandr R. Luria in Moscow from 1934-1935, and thereafter to the Department of Psychology at Ohio State. In 1941, Price changed course professionally, entering into war-time government service, never to return to academia, working first with the National Office of Vital Statistics and later as a statistician with the Children's Bureau and the Office of Education.

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The Price Papers contains one linear foot of correspondence relating to Bronson Price's interests in genetics and eugenics, with an emphasis upon Price's post-doctoral experiences in the Soviet Union and his long-term interests in the genetic study of twins. In addition to fairly extensive correspondence with H. J. Muller and Lewis Terman, the collection includes interesting materials relating to the Foundation for Germinal Choice, eugenic sterilization, and an extensive bibliographic card file used by Price in his research on twins post-1940.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

Presented by Mrs. Price, 1978. (Ms. Coll. 16)

Riddle, Oscar (1877-1968) Zoologist, physiologist. APS 1926. Papers, 1919-1963. ca. 3,500 items. (3.5 lin. ft.).

Includes correspondence, autobiographical notes, addresses, articles, drawings. Riddle, who spent most of his professional career at the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, did most of his zoological study on birds and reproduction. His collection reflects his interests in breeding, heredity, and evolution. He was interested as well in humanism and the presentation of biological and evolutionary theories. Of note is documentation of his problems in the Department of Zoology at the University of Chicago in 1911.

The correspondence is not voluminous but included are the following important correspondents:

Albert F. Blakeslee Theodore Dreiser Sir Julian Huxley Alfred C. Kinsey Henry A. Moe Robert Simpson Charles O. Whitman

Presented by the Riddle Estate, 1969 (B R43)

Schultz, Jack (1904-1971) Geneticist, biochemist. Papers, 1920-1971. ca. 25,000 items. (27.5 lin. ft.).

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There are correspondence (18.5 boxes), manuscripts (lectures and articles), research grant material, research data, and some personal notes from his graduate school days. He obtained his A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. (1929) from Columbia University, where he was the last graduate student to get his doctorate under T. H. Morgan (for a recollection of his days in Morgan's fly-room see, Schultz to G. W. Beadle, 7-31-70; he also worked with Morgan at the California Institute of Technology 1929-1936, 1941-1942). Schultz's career centered on the study of the nature and function of the gene; chemical genetics of Drosophila; cytochemical and nutritional techniques; cytochemistry of growth; and the pattern of human chromosomes.

As a Rockefeller Foundation fellow in 1937-1939 he worked under Torbjörn Caspersson at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden (there are 11 folders of correspondence with Caspersson, 1937-1971). The remainder of his career was spent at the Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was Senior member and head of the Department of Genetics and Cytochemistry (1943-1957), and Chairman of the Division of Biology (1957-1969). Much of his tenure at the Institute was spent as an administrator, rather than on original research; he had much success in choosing, encouraging, and stimulating a brilliant research staff. He did not publish prolifically, relying more on lectures and informal discussions (there are 7 boxes of his lectures and articles). There is significant material relating to his participation in professional organizations: American Society of Naturalists (Pres., 1968); Genetics Society of America (Pres., 1963); National Research Council; and the National Science Foundation.

Since he was a poor correspondent, the collection consists of letters to him. Important correspondents include:

George W. Beadle Robert W. Briggs Torbjörn O. Caspersson Kenneth W. Cooper Cyril D. Darlington Milislav Demerec Theodosius Dobzhansky Boris Ephrussi Alexander C. Fabergé Ernst Hadorn John B. S. Haldane Selig Hecht George Klein Edward B. Lewis T. H. Morgan H. J. Muller George T. Rudkin Lewis J. Stadler Curt Stern Alfred H. Sturtevant

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George Wald

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections... and in Lily Kay, Molecules, Cells, and Life

Presented by Mrs. Helen Redfield Schultz, 1983 (Ms. Coll. 27)

Sheppard, P. M. Papers, 1911-1983. 16.75 linear ft.

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.

Presented by Arthur Cain through William Provine, 1989. (Ms. Coll. 65)

Shull, George Harrison (1874-1954) Botanist, professor of botany and genetics, Princeton University. APS 1918. Papers. 6 lin. ft.

This consists principally of reports to the Carnegie Institution of Washington on the work of Luther Burbank, whose plant-breeding farm at Sonoma, California, Shull visited eight times, 1906-1910. There is a report by Edwin C. MacDowell giving background information about the collection. There are also two notebooks by Shull, "Oenothera," 1938, 1941; and about forty letters (1931-1955) to Herbert P. Riley concerning genetic work on flowers.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

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Presented by Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1954, and Herbert P. Riley, 1966, 1968 (B Sh92r)

Simpson, George Gaylord (1902-1984) Vertebrate paleontologist. APS 1936. Papers, 1922-1984. 74.5 lin. ft.

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.

A second, smaller collection of Simpson letters (B Si5) is comprised of letters written by Simpson to his sister, Martha Lee Simpson Eastlake, 1918-1962. Predominantly personal, these recount his travels and experiences on scientific expeditions to New Mexico, Arizona, Argentina, and Chile.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

Presented by Anne Roe Simpson, 1985 (Ms. Coll. 31)

Society for the Study of Evolution Records, 1944-present. 79 linear feet.

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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.

Gift of the SSE and Ernst Mayr, 1979 to present. (Ms. Coll. 81)

Stalker, Harrison Dailey (1915-1982) Geneticist, zoologist Papers, 1936-1977. ca. 1500 items.

This collection of correspondence, reports, manuscripts, etc., concerns Stalker's research in genetics and evolutionary biology, particularly the evolutionary genetics of Drosophila. Most of the letters are scientific, although the usual academic politics in various departments is mentioned. There is material as well on the Society for the Study of Evolution (1970). Correspondents include, among others:

Hampton L. Carson Theodosius Dobzhansky H. Bentley Glass Max Levitan Richard C. Lewontin Ernst Mayr Dwight D. Miller H. J. Muller J. T. Patterson Sheldon Reed Warren P. Spencer Curt Stern A. H. Sturtevant

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

Presented by Mrs. Stalker, 1983. (Ms. Coll. 23)

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Stern, Curt (1902-1981) Geneticist. APS 1954. Papers, ca. 1920s-1980. (21 lin. ft.).

The collection includes extensive correspondence, lectures (1920s-1970s, 1.5 boxes), autobiographical material, articles and papers, zoological course notes, photographs, etc. Stern's various areas of scientific interest are documented in the collection: chromosome theory of heredity, role of gene mutation and chromosome rearrangements in evolution, action and interaction of genes during individual development, and particularly his contribution to the development of human genetics as a discipline (centered on his popular and influential book, Principles of Human Genetics, 1949, 1960, 1973). Both his career in Germany (born in Hamburg) and in the United States is documented in his correspondence. His Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 1924-1926, allowed him to study with T. H. Morgan at Columbia University; he returned to Richard Goldschmidt's lab, 1926-1932, at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute, Dahlem (there is material of note concerning this period) where he helped to establish the cytological basis of crossing over. After a short stay at the California Institute of Technology in 1932, Stern's temporary residence in the U. S. became permanent, and his later career at the University of Rochester, 1933-1947 (Chairman, Department of Zoology) and at the University of California, Berkeley, 1947-1970 (there is significant material on the Department of Zoology, and the university in general) is covered in the collection. There is material of note on: American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science (Inter-Society Committee on Science Foundation Legislation, 1946-1947); American Society of Human Genetics (Pres., 1957); Atomic Energy Commission (Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine, 1950-1955); Genetics (journal); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Advisory Committee for Biology, 1955-1968); and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Stern's correspondence with friends and colleagues in Germany, England, and the U. S., during the 1920s-1930s, is of particular note as it documents not only the developments in genetics and the institutional and administrative networks supporting research, but it also offers general comments and observations on science, Germany, and politics. The photographs (2 boxes) include pictures of many prominent geneticists and scientists.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

Presented by Mrs. Stern, 1981, 1982 (Ms. Coll. 5)

University of California. Genetics Department Records, 1911-1947. ca. 200 items.

In 1912, the University of California, Berkeley, became the first university in the nation to form a separate Department of Genetics. The first two appointments in the department went to plant geneticists Ernest Brown Babcock and Roy E. Clausen, and as the department grew slowly, shifting slightly away from its roots in agricultural science, it

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gained a strong reputation as an important center for research in several areas in genetics and evolutionary biology.

The U.C. Berkeley Department of Genetics Collection contains a selective sampling of correspondence relating to the organization and early history of the nation's first Department of Genetics. Centered in the years 1912-1930, the collection consists primarily of correspondence to and from Babcock and Clausen, pertaining to their research, administrative matters, and the genetical community. Prominent among their correspondents are George H. Shull, Thomas Hunt Morgan, A. H. Sturtevant, and H. J. Muller.

Presented by the Dept. of Genetics, 1967 (378.744 C12gen

Weir, Jack A. (d. 1997) Geneticist Collection, 1920s-1997. 6.25 linear feet.

An agricultural geneticist with the Department of Zoology at the University of Kansas, Jack A. Weir 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 Weir's correspondence relating to his history of the Bussey Institute, his research notes, copies of correspondence from the geneticists he studied from a variety of collections, brief biographical articles on key figures at the Bussey, 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.

(Ms. Coll. 92)

Wright, Sewall, 1889-1988 Papers, 1895-1988. 17 linear feet.

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.

Gift through William Provine, 1988 (Ms Coll. 60)

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