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Conway Zirkle Collection, 1948-1966

Title: Conway Zirkle Collection 1948-1966

A botanist and historian of science at the University of Pennsylvania, Conway Zirkle published on the history of evolutionary thought and genetics, with a particular interest in the discipline as practiced in the Soviet Union. The Zirkle Papers consist of approximately one linear foot of materials accrued by Zirkle during research for his book on Lysenko-era biology in the Soviet Union, (1949). Among the miscellaneous materials in the collection are four volumes (0.5 linear feet) of pressed specimens of ferns and algae. The Death of Science in Russia

ArchivalResource: 1.5 Linear feet

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American Philosophical Society Library. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection. 1668-1983.

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science.

ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet

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Bronson Price Papers, 1926-1978

Title: Bronson Price Papers 1926-1978

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. 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.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 Linear feet

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Demerec, M. (Milislav), 1895-1966. Papers, 1919-1966.

Title: Papers, 1919-1966.

This collection includes much on professional organizations (eg. Genetics Society of America, American Society of Naturalists). There is a lengthy series of lectures given by Demerec, over 60 lab notebooks, certificates and diplomas.

ArchivalResource: ca. 10,000 items (18 linear ft.)

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Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975. Papers, 1899-1980.

Title: Papers, 1899-1980.

Correspondence; diaries; mss. of writings; publications; materials on organizations including Unesco and Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galápagos Isles, conferences including CCTA/IUCN Symposium on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in Modern African States (Arusha, Tanzania, 1961), Darwin Centennial Celebration (University of Chicago, 1959), and Ciba Foundation Symposium on Man and His Future (London, England, 1963), travel, and his tenure as professor at Rice Institute; photos; memorabilia; and subject files, relating to Huxley's interests in biology (especially taxonomy, relative growth, evolutionary theory, genetics, and ethology), social evolution, eugenics, population control, cancer, conservation, and humanism; together with materials of his wife, Juliette Huxley. Correspondents include members of the Asquith, Darwin, and Huxley families and such scientists, artists, authors, and social figures as John Randal Baker, Sybille Bedford, Benjamin Britten, Jacob Bronowski, Paulo Carneiro, Kenneth Clark, Gavin De Beer, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Cyrus Eaton, T.S. Eliot, Richard Goldschmidt, Jane Goodall, Ernst Haeckel, J.B.S. Haldane, Alister Hardy, Jacquetta Hawkes, L.S.B. Leakey, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Loeb, Konrad Lorenz, René Maheu, Ernst Mayr, P.B. Medawar, Henry Moore, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Herman J. Muller, Joseph Needham, Jean Piaget, Herbert Read, Bertram Russell, Margaret Sanger, George Gaylord Simpson, Charles Singer, Stephen Spender, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Niko Tinbergen, Otto Warburg, H.G. Wells, Edmund B. Wilson, Leonard Woolf, and Solly Zuckerman.

ArchivalResource: 91 linear ft.

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Dunn, L. C. (Leslie Clarence), 1893-1974. Papers, [ca. 1920]-1974.

Title: Papers, [ca. 1920]-1974.

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-Soviet Union 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 United States. 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 of the National Science Foundation) are in the collection.

ArchivalResource: ca. 15,000 items (15 linear ft.).

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American Philosophical Society Library. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection. 1668-1983.

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science.

ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet

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I. Michael (Isadore Michael) Lerner papers, ca. 1930s-1970s, Circa 1930s-1970s

Title: I. Michael (Isadore Michael) Lerner papers, ca. 1930s-1970s Circa 1930s-1970s

The correspondence in this collection concerns behavior genetics, evolution, heredity, etc. There is material relating to the congresses of the Permanent International Committee on Genetics, and the IXth (Bellagio, 1953), Xth (Montreal, 1958), and XIth (The Hague, 1963) International Congress of Genetics. There is also correspondence pertaining to the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology (1955), the Mendel Semi-Centennial Symposium (1950), the Soviet geneticists' visit to the U.S. in 1967, and to Anton R. Zhebrak.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 Linear feet, Ca. 2500 items

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Harrison, Ross G. (Ross Granville), 1870-1959. Ross Granville Harrison papers, 1820-1975 (inclusive), 1889-1959 (bulk).

Title: Ross Granville Harrison papers, 1820-1975 (inclusive), 1889-1959 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, administrative and teaching files, and research materials which document the personal life and professional career of Ross Granville Harrison. Correspondence with many academic, medical, and scientific figures is included, as are the records relating to Yale University's Department of Zoology (1920-1938) and Osborn Zoological Laboratory (1919-1938). Drafts of writings, lectures and related visual materials, research files, and photographs are also arranged in the papers.

ArchivalResource: 71.75 linear ft.

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Goldschmidt, Richard, 1878-1958. Richard Benedict Goldschmidt papers, bulk 1900-1956.

Title: Richard Benedict Goldschmidt papers, bulk 1900-1956.

Letters written to him by colleagues and friends, some relating to his scientific work in Germany; copies of letters written by him; manuscripts of his writings; speeches and course lectures; notebooks; bibliography; publications about him, including eulogies and biographical material; clippings; genetic data sheets; drawings for publications. Also includes letters written to and by his colleague Professor Curt Stern about Goldschmidt.

ArchivalResource: 4 cartons, 5 boxes (7 linear feet)Microfilm copies of portions of collection: 1 microfilm reel : negative and positive.

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Warren H. (Warren Harmon) Lewis papers, ca. 1913-1964, 1913-1964

Title: Warren H. (Warren Harmon) Lewis papers, ca. 1913-1964 1913-1964

This collection is primarily correspondence and also notes on experiments concerning the cytology research of Lewis and his wife, Dr. Margaret Reed Lewis, at Johns Hopkins University, Carnegie Institution of Washington, and finally at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia. There is significant material relating to his professional society activity in the American Association of Anatomists (President, 1934-1936) and the International Society for Experimental Cytology.

ArchivalResource: 8.0 Linear feet, Ca. 8000 items

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Lewis, Warren H. (Warren Harmon), 1870-1964. Papers, ca. 1913-1964.

Title: Papers, ca. 1913-1964.

This collection is primarily correspondence and also notes on experiments concerning the cytology research of Lewis and his wife, Dr. Margaret Reed Lewis, at Johns Hopkins University, Carnegie Institution of Washington, and finally at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia. There is significant material relating to his professional society activity in the American Association of Anatomists (President, 1934-1936) and the International Society for Experimental Cytology.

ArchivalResource: ca. 8000 items (8 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122684027 View

Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, genetics research correspondence, Jan 1945-Jun 1992

Title: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, genetics research correspondence Jan 1945-Jun 1992

ArchivalResource: 0.75 metres

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Julian Sorell Huxley papers

Title: Julian Sorell Huxley papers

The collection documents Huxley's role as a synthesizer and educator who influenced thinking in many areas, including studies of taxonomy and relative growth, pioneering work in ethology, and important writing in the early twentiety-century synthesis of Mendelian genetics and Darwinian theory. His belief that evolution was not only biological but social and cultural as well led to interests in eugenics, population control, conservation and humanist movements. Linking scientists, science and other fields and science and the public, Huxley corresponded with such scientists, artists, writers and social figures as Kenneth Clark, J.B.S. Haldane, H.J. Muller, Bertrand Russell, Stephen Spender and H.G. Wells. Other materials found in the papers include original writings, publications of others, organizational, conference and travel materials, personal diaries, photographs and memorabilia. Correspondence forms approximately one-third of the papers. It exemplifies the shape of the collection as a whole in that its volume increases steadily from the early years onward, peaking in the 1950s and 1960s and diminishing sharply during the times of Sir Julian's depressions. The most substantive part of the collection, the correspondence, not only includes letters from many twentieth-century intellectual, social and cultural leaders, but also provides the most information about Sir Julian and his myriad activities. Sir Julian's own writings -- published and unpublished - comprise another one-third of the collection.

ArchivalResource: 91 Linear Feet ( (180 boxes))

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Harrison, Ross G. (Ross Granville), 1870-1959. Ross Granville Harrison papers, 1820-1975 (inclusive), 1889-1959 (bulk).

Title: Ross Granville Harrison papers, 1820-1975 (inclusive), 1889-1959 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, administrative and teaching files, and research materials which document the personal life and professional career of Ross Granville Harrison. Correspondence with many academic, medical, and scientific figures is included, as are the records relating to Yale University's Department of Zoology (1920-1938) and Osborn Zoological Laboratory (1919-1938). Drafts of writings, lectures and related visual materials, research files, and photographs are also arranged in the papers.

ArchivalResource: 71 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122450937 View

Richard Benedict Goldschmidt Papers, (bulk 1900-1956)

Title: Richard Benedict Goldschmidt Papers, (bulk 1900-1956)

Letters written to him by colleagues and friends, some relating to his scientific work in Germany; copies of letters written by him; manuscripts of his writings; speeches and course lectures; notebooks; bibliography; publications about him, including eulogies and biographical material; clippings; genetic data sheets; drawings for publications. Included also: letters written to and by his colleague Professor Curt Stern about Goldschmidt.

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 5 boxes and 4 cartons; Linear feet: 7

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Lerner, I. Michael (Isadore Michael), 1910-. Papers, ca. 1930s-1970s.

Title: Papers, ca. 1930s-1970s.

The correspondence in this collection concerns behavior genetics, evolution, heredity, etc. There is material relating to the congresses of the Permanent International Committee on Genetics, and the IXth (Bellagio, 1953), Xth (Montreal, 1958), and XIth (The Hague, 1963) International Congress of Genetics. There is also correspondence pertaining to the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology (1955), the Mendel Semi-Centennial Symposium (1950), the Soviet geneticists' visit to the U.S. in 1967, and to Anton R. Zhebrak.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2500 items (3 linear ft.).

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Milislav Demerec Papers, 1919-1966

Title: Milislav Demerec Papers 1919-1966

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 , 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. There is also a Register of visitors to the laboratory (1927-1945) and a Milislav Demerec reprint list. Drosophila virilis

ArchivalResource: 14.25 Linear feet

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Flürscheim, Michael, 1844-1912. Michael Flürscheim papers, [ca. 1888-1903].

Title: Michael Flürscheim papers, [ca. 1888-1903].

Letters from Karl Du Prel, Theodor Herzl, Theodor Hertzka, Henry George, George J. Holyoake, George von Gizycki, Friedrich Naumann, Helene Raff, Werner Sombart, Bertha Suttner and Alfred R. Wallace, reflecting their mutual interests in land and monetary reform, and utopian colonies in various parts of the world. Included also are copies of a few letters by Flürscheim, a one page holograph MS, and clippings and reprints of his articles.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.25 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122502362 View

Curt Stern Papers, 1907-1981

Title: Curt Stern Papers 1907-1981

The Papers of Curt Stern include extensive correspondence, lectures (1920s-1970s, 1.5 boxes), autobiographical material, articles, zoological course notes, photographs, etc. Stern's various areas of scientific interest are documented in the collection: the 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, 1949, 1960, 1973). Both his career in Germany and the United States is documented in his correspondence. After studying with T. H. Morgan at Columbia University on a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1924-1926), Stern returned to Richard Goldschmidt's lab at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute (1926-1932). There is material of note in the collection concerning this period when Stern 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 abundant material on the Department of Zoology) is covered in the collection. There is other material on: American Association 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. Principles of Human Genetics,

ArchivalResource: 21.0 Linear feet

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