Farm boy to evolutionist : oral history transcript / Herman Theodore Spieth; tape-recorded interview conducted by Marvin Brienes in 1978. University of California, Davis, Oral History Office : Davis, Calif., 1978.

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Farm boy to evolutionist : oral history transcript / Herman Theodore Spieth; tape-recorded interview conducted by Marvin Brienes in 1978. University of California, Davis, Oral History Office : Davis, Calif., 1978.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214937083

Covers his family and educational background in rural Indiana; development of interest in zoology; graduate study at the University of Indiana, and influence of Alfred C. Kinsey in stimulating his interest in evolutionary studies; research and teaching, City College of New York, especially studies of mayflies and Drosophila; move to the University of California, Riverside, with comments on the growth of the campus, his chancellorship and university-community relations; chairmanship of the zoology department of the University of California, Davis; and changes in university teaching and universities in general over the past 50 years.

[3], XII, 294 leaves : 28 cm.

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