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Dates:
1930-1961
Abstract:
A modest Midwesterner who became one of the most influential geneticists of the first half of the 20th century, William E. Castle spent his career at Harvard and the University of California working on patterns of inheritance in mice, horses, and a variety of other mammalian taxa. An early proponent of Mendelian theory, Castle was director of the Bussey Institution at Harvard for almost thirty years, helping to train a number of important geneticists.
The Castle Papers contain one linear foot of correspondence dating primarily from the period after Castle's "retirement" to Berkeley in 1936 until his death in 1962, dealing almost exclusively with his research on horse breeding and the inheritance of coat coloration in horses. Castle's correspondence with his former student L. C. Dunn is an exception, focusing on mouse genetics and ranging to a variety of topics from the conduct of scientific research during the Second World War to Castle's interests in the early history of genetics.
Call #:
Mss.Ms.Coll.14
Extent:
1 Linear feet
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American Philosophical Society | Bell, Donald C. | Bibliographical matters -- Castle, William Ernest | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Castle, William Ernest | Castle, William E. (William Ernest), 1867-1962 | Dunn, L. C. (Leslie Clarence), 1893-1974 | Editorial matters | Editorial matters -- Genetics | Genetics | Genetics -- Cattle | Genetics -- Horses | Genetics -- Nomenclature | Genetics -- Pigs | Genetics -- Research -- United States | Genetics Society of America | Gregory, Paul Wallace, 1898- | Hair Samples -- Horses | Harvard University. Bussey Institution | Heredity | History of biology, especially genetics | Horses -- Breeding | Horses -- Genetics | Human genetics | International Congress of Genetics -- Tenth Congress | Mice -- Genetics | Mouse genetics | National Research Council | Odriozola, Miguel | Photographs | Photographs | Political issues -- Kilgore Bill | Ponies -- Genetics | Publication | Publication -- Genetics | Publication -- Journal of Heredity | Publication -- The California Horseman | Rabbit genetics | Rat genetics | Requests for reprints | Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory | Singleton, W. Ralph (Willard R | Singleton, Willard Ralph | Smith, Frank H. | Steele, Dewey George, 1898- | Teaching -- Harvard University | Travel -- Guatemala | University of Virginia. Blandy Experimental Farm | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Welsh Pony Society of America. | World War II -- Impact on science | Zoology -- Animal behavior
