Physical description 4 volumes.
Provenance
Presented by John A. Moore and accessioned, 12/10/1970 (1970 2048-51ms).
Physiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics Note
Edmund B. Wilson was a highly prolific biologist and a central figure within the network of scientists (among them Flexner, Morgan, Whitman, Lillie, and Loeb) who built up American biology at the turn of the century. His scientific career, first at Bryn Mawr College and then at Columbia University, evolved through three major research phases; these developments mirrored some of the wider trends in American biology as it moved from descriptive to experimental modes of inquiry. The first period, 1879-1891, was concerned with descriptive embryology, morphology, and cell lineage. The second phase, 1891-1903, focused on experimental embryology, differentiation, and artificial parthenogenesis. Between 1903 and 1938, Wilson (with frequent interactions with Morgan's Drosophila group nearby) directed his energies to problems of the cellular basis of heredity. His grand synthesis, The Cell in Inheritance and Development (1900, 1925), and the many students he trained shaped the course of experimental biology. Wilson's papers do not seem to have been preserved, with the exception of these fragments of records from his graduate courses at Columbia. The materials include a private journal (1903-1928), a ledger containing administrative information on Columbia's department of zoology, and records of graduate students (among them A. Franklin Shull, Jack Schultz, Hermann J. Muller, Calvin B. Bridges, Alfred H. Sturtevant, Rebecca Lancefield, and Curt Stern). The various details on course enrollments, requirements, exams, and assistants, combined with Wilson's two notebooks (with observations and drawings) form a vivid record of the early period of academic biology in America.
Author Format Date Language Wilson, Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher), 1856-1939. Laboratory notebooks (Three lab notebooks for the period of Wilson's study at the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University: Systematic work A , 7 January 1875 (approximately 120 pages); Anatomic work A , 18 September 1876 (approximately 175 pages, including sketches); and Anatomic work B , 17 September 1876 (approximately 150 pages, with sketches).)
Notebooks (3 volumes) 1875-1876 English Wilson, Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher), 1856-1939. Private journal (Kept during his tenure at Columbia University. Materials include a private journal (1903-1928), a ledger containing administrative information on Columbia's department of zoology, and records of graduate students (among them A. Franklin Shull, Jack Schultz, Hermann J. Muller, Calvin B. Bridges, Alfred H. Sturtevant, Rebecca Lancefield, and Curt Stern). The various details on course enrollments, requirements, exams, and assistants, combined with Wilson's three notebooks (with observations and drawings) form a vivid record of the early period of academic biology in America. ) Notebooks (1 volume) 1903-1928 English
Genetics Note
This collection contains materials which relate to the history of genetics.