University of California, Berkeley. Department of Genetics Collection 1911-1947

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University of California, Berkeley. Department of Genetics Collection 1911-1947

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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 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.

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Navashin, Mikhail S.

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Hutchinson, C. B.

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Miyabe, Knigo

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Muller, H. J. (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967

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International Congress of Genetics(7th: 1937 : Moscow)

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Levit, S. G.

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Muralov, A. and N. I. Vavilov

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Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945

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Shull, A. Franklin (Aaron Franklin), 1881-

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Sturtevant, Alfred H.

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Voorhies, E. C.

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Clausen, Roy Elwood 1891-1956

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Agar, W. E. (Wilfred Eade), 1882-1951

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Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927

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Biography Benjamin ide Wheeler, Greek scholar, philologist and president of the University of California, was born July 15, 1854 at Randolph, Massachusetts. He attended Thornton Academy and Colby Academy prior to entering Brown University. Upon his graduation in 1875, he taught in Providence High School for two years, then became a tutor at Brown from 1879 to 1881. He continued his studies in Germany, at Leipzig, Heidelberg, Jena and Berlin f...

Sturtevant, A.H. (Alfred Henry), 1891-1970

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Bateson, William, 1861-1926

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