John Belling Collection 1928-1933

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John Belling Collection 1928-1933

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The cytogeneticist John Belling (1866-1933) developed the iron-acetocarmine staining technique, which facilitated detailed study of chromosomal structures. In his work with Arthur F. Blakeslee at Cold Spring Harbor on (1920-1927) and at the University of California, Berkeley (1928-1933) on lilies, hyacinths, and other plants, Belling made accurate estimates of chromosomal numbers, helped to demonstrate the interchange of segments between non-homologous chromosomes, and proposed that the chromomeres (small condensations of stain that appeared along the length of chromosomes) represented individual, physical genes. Although he was a gifted technician and insightful cytologist, his career was hampered by mental instability and curtailed by frequent hospitalizations before his sudden death in 1933. The Belling Collection consists of four photograph albums, 38 glass slides and approximately 75 glass negatives and positive prints of chromosome preparations made by Belling, primarily during the years at Berkeley, along with an annotated bibliographic card file. The images in the albums are fully identified, but most of the glass slides are not. Datura

1.5 Linear feet; 4 vols., 4 boxes

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John Belling was a botanist at the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station in the early twentieth century. From the guide to the John Belling Papers, 1910-1916, (Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) John Belling was a botanist at the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station in the early part of the twentieth century. From the description of Papers, 1910-1916. (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 2352469...

Blakeslee, Albert Francis, 1874-1954

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Albert Francis Blakeslee was a geneticist and botanist and was director of Smith College Genetics Experiment Station (1943-1954). From the description of Papers, 1904-1954. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 154298036 American botanist educated at Wesleyan (A.B. 1896) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1900). Instructor in Botany at Harvard 1906-1907; Professor of Botany at Connecticut Agricultural College, 1907-1914, Professor of Botany and Genetics, 1...