MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1973-1979
Abstract:
This collection includes documents (correspondence, drafts of talks, personal data sheets, and transcripts) relating to the Conference on Evolutionary Synthesis, which met in Boston in May and October 1974, and was sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. There is background material on the organization of the conference, as well as correspondence, especially with William B. Provine, on the editing and publication of the proceedings (Mayr and Provine, eds., "The Evolutionary Synthesis..." 1980).
Call #:
Mss.B.M451
Extent:
3.25 Linear feet
Subjects:
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Boesiger, Ernest | Cleland, Ralph E. (Ralph Erskine), 1892-1971 | Darlington, C. D. (Cyril Dean), 1903-1981 | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Drafts (preliminary versions). | Evolution -- History -- 20th century. | Evolution. | Ford, E. B. (Edmund Briscoe), | Genetics. | Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 | Lerner, I. Michael (Isadore Michael), 1910-1977 | Lewontin, Richard C., 1929- | Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 | Metz, Charles William, 1889-1975 | Muller, H. J. (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | Paleontology. | Provine, William B. | Rensch, Bernhard | Science -- Societies, etc. | Science publishing. | Sinnott, Edmund W. (Edmund Ware), 1888-1958 | Society for the Study of Evolution | Stebbins, G. Ledyard (George Ledyard), 1906-2000 | Timofeev-Resovskiĭ, N. V. (Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich), 1900-1981 | Weinstien, Alexander, 1891-1947