You Searched for:
Teaching in subject [X]
Committee activities in subject [X]
Field Museum of Natural History in subject [X]
Results:  1 Item   Page: 1

Subject

Committee activities
Field Museum of Natural History

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1918-1984
Abstract:  

One of the seminal figures in the emergence of the Modern or Neo-Darwinian Synthesis during the mid-twentieth century, George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984) helped define the unique contribution made by vertebrate paleontology to the life sciences. A specialist in Mesozoic and early Cenozoic mammals, Simpson's contributions to the fusion of Darwinian natural selection and Mendelian genetics were both empirical and theoretical, culminating in his major works Tempo and Mode in Evolution and The Meaning of Evolution. From his posts at the American Museum of Natural History (1927-1959), Columbia University (1945-1959), Harvard (1959-1967), and the University of Arizona (1967-1984), Simpson became one of the most influential paleontologists of the century, helped in part by his ability to write successfully for both a technical, professional audience and a popular audience. The Simpson Papers include a comprehensive assemblage of professional and personal correspondence, reflecting nealy all phases of Simpson's career. Written with charm, wit, and a sense of literary style, the correspondence touches on all aspects of modern paleontology, providing an important perspective on the emergence of contemporary evolutionary theory, biogeography, systematic theory and methodology, the relationship of science and religion, and creationism, as well as more general issues in scientific epistemology and social and political issues. The collection also includes autobiographical data and writings, lectures, class notes and papers, research data, material on his scientific expeditions (diaries in carbon form, photos, notes, etc.), publication material (he was author of some 800 publications), extensive photographic material, diplomas, and medals.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.31
Extent:
74.5 Linear feet
Subjects:  

American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Humanist Association | American Museum of Natural History | American Museum of Natural History -- Darwin exhibit | American Philosophical Society | American Society of Mammalogists | American Society of Zoologists | Anthropology | Arambourg, C. (Camille), 1885-1969 | Ayala, Francisco J. | Ayala, Francisco Jose, 1934- | Barbour, Thomas, 1884-1946 | Bebe, William, 1877-1962 | Beck, William Samson, 1923-2003 | Behavior evolution | Behavioral genetics, IQ | Bennett, Wendell Clark, 1905-1953 | Bibliographical matters | Bibliographical matters -- Greenwood, Peter Humphrey | Bibliographical matters -- Jenkins, Farish A. | Bibliographical matters -- Levi, Herbert Walter | Bibliographical matters -- Williams, Ernest Edward | Biogeography. | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Greenwood, Peter Humphrey | Biographical and personal data -- Jenkins, Farish A. | Biographical and personal data -- Levi, Herbert Walter | Biographical and personal data -- Williams, Ernest Edward | Biology -- Classification | Bohr, Niels | Bordas, Alejandro F. | Boucot, A. J. (Arthur James), 1924-2017 | British Museum | Business | Cabrera, Angel, 1879-1960 | Clark, Wilfrid E. Le Gros (Wilfrid Edward Le Gros), 1895-1971 | Cloud, Preston, 1912- | Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 | Colbert, Edwin A. | Colbert, Edwin Harris, 1905- | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Columbia University | Columbia University -- Faculty. | Committee activities | Conferences and symposia | Conferences and symposia -- Darwin Centennial | Conferences and symposia -- History of Evolutionary Synthesis | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Dobzhansky, Theodosius. 70th birthday | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- National Academy of Sciences | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- National Medal of Science | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Presidential Science Award | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Royal Society (Great Britain) | Coon, Carleton S. | Couturier, Marcel A. J., 1897- | Cracraft, Joel | Creationism. | Crompton, Alfred W., 1927- | Darwin, Charles | De Beer, Gavin, Sir, 1899-1972 | De Camp, L. Sprague (Lyon Spra | Diplomas. | Displaced German scholars | Dobzhansky, Theodosius | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Drosophila genetics | Dunbar, Carl O. (Carl Owen), 1891-1979 | Dunn, Leslie Clarence | Edinger, Tilly, 1897- | Editorial matters | Educational matters | Educational matters -- Biology textbooks | Educational matters -- Netherlands | Elias, Maxim K. (Maxim Konrado | Epling, Carl, 1894- | Evolution | Evolution (Biology) | Evolution -- Horses | Evolution -- Plants | Evolution -- Religious aspects | Evolution -- Reptiles | Evolution -- Teeth | Evolutionary synthesis. | Extinction (Biology) | Fellowships, assistantships | Field Museum of Natural History | Field notes. | Ford, E. B. (Edmund Briscoe), | Freeman, Derek | Gazin, Charles Lewis, 1904- | Genetics | Genetics -- Horses | Genetics Society of America -- Golden Jubilee | Genetics of plants | Geological Society of America. | Gidley, James W. | Gingerich, Philip D. | Gould, Stephen Jay | Gould, Stephen Jay, 1941-2002 | Graduate study | Graduate study -- Yale University | Grant, Verne | Gregory, Joseph Tracy, 1914- | Gregory, William K. (William K | Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymo | Harvard University | Harvard University -- Museum of Comparative Zoology | Harvard University--Faculty | Heberer, Gerhardt, 1901-1973 | Hibbard, Claude William, 1905- | History of biology, especially genetics | Hoffstetter, Robert | Honors | Honors -- Darwin medal | Honors -- Elliot Medal | Hooijer, Dirk Albert | Hooijer, Dirk Albert | Hopwood, Arthur Tindell, 1897- | Horses -- Evolution | Human evolution, physical anthropology | Human genetics | Human genetics -- Race | Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 | International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature | International Congress of Zoology -- Seventeenth Congress | International Congress of Zoology -- Thirteenth Congress | Invitations | Jenkins, Farish A., 1940- | Jepsen, Glenn Lowell, 1904- | Kellogg, Remington, 1893- | Kermack, K. A. (Kenneth A.) | Kuhn-Schnyder, Emil | Kurtén, BjC6rn | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Laporte, Léo F. | Lattimore, Owen, 1900- | Lavocat, René | Leakey, L. S. B. (Louis Seymour Bazett), 1903-1972 | Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures, public speaking -- Dobzhansky memorial | Lerner, Isadore Michael | Lewontin, Richard C., 1929- | Lillegraven, Jason A., 1938- | Lull, Richard Swann, 1867-1957 | Lyell, Charles, Sir | Mammals -- Evolution | Mammals, Fossil | Marshall, Larry G. | Matthew, William Diller, 1871- | Mayr, Ernst | Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 | McGrew, Paul Orman, 1909- | McKenna, Malcolm C. | Medals | Molecular genetics | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | Morgan, Arthur Ernest, 1878-19 | Muller, H. J. (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales, Argentina | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Buenos Aires | Museo de la Plata, Argentina | National Academy of Sciences | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) | National Research Council | National Research Council -- Committee activities | National Science Foundation | Natural selection | Nelson, Gareth J. | Newell, Norman Dennis, 1909-2005 | Olsen, Stanley John, 1919- | Olson, Everett Claire, 1910- | Osborn, Henry Fairfield | Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857- | Ostrom, John H. | Oxford University | Paleontology | Paleontology -- Africa | Paleontology -- Argentina -- Patagonia | Paleontology -- Nomenclature | Paleontology -- Venezuela | Paleoscatology | Pascual, Rosendo | Pascual, Rosendo | Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) -- Description and travel | Patterson, Bryan | Patterson, Bryan, 1909- | Phelps, William Henry | Philosophy of science -- Language of science | Photographs | Photographs | Photonegatives | Physiology | Poetry and literature | Political issues | Political issues -- Animal welfare | Political issues -- Argentina | Political issues -- England | Political issues -- Environment | Population genetics | Population, demography | Provine, William B. | Publication | Publication -- American Journal of Science | Publication -- American Mesozoic Mammalia | Publication -- American Naturalist | Publication -- American Scientist | Publication -- Animal Species and their Evolution | Publication -- Attending Marvels | Publication -- Evolution | Publication -- George Gaylord Simpson Biography | Publication -- Life - An Introduction to Biology | Publication -- Meaning of Evolution | Publication -- Principles of Classification | Publication -- Quantitative Zoology | Publication -- Quarterly Review of Biology | Publication -- Science | Recommendations | Recommendations -- Gregory, Joseph T. | Recommendations -- Kurten, Bjorn | Recommendations -- Simpson, George Gaylord | Recommendations -- Williams, Ernest Edward | Referee's report | Reig, Osvaldo | Religion and science -- 20th century | Rensch, Bernhard | Requests for aid in finding positions | Requests for reprints | Research support | Reviews | Reynolds, Thomas Emmett, 1892- | Riggs, Elmer Samuel, 1869- | Roe, Anne, 1904- | Romer, Alfred Sherwood, 1894-1973 | Russell, Loris Shano, 1904- | Russian politics and science | Sagan, Carl | Scaglia, Galileo J. | Schaeffer, Bobb | Schuchert, Charles, 1858-1942 | Scientific expeditions | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Zoological Society of London | Scott, William Berryman, 1858-1947 | Simons, Elwyn L. | Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 | Slides. | Society for the Study of Evolution | Society for the Study of Evolution | Society for the Study of Evolution -- Committee activities | Society of Systematic Zoology (U.S.) | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Stebbins, G. Ledyard | Stebbins, G. Ledyard (George Ledyard), 1906-2000 | Stirtin, Ruben Arthur, 1901-19 | Stirton, Ruben Arthur | Teaching | Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre | Tieje, Arthur Jerrold, 1889- | Travel -- Algeria | Travel -- Antarctica | Travel -- Argentina | Travel -- England | Travel -- France | Travel -- India | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- North Africa | Travel -- South America | U.S. Geological Survey | University of Arizona--Faculty | University of California, Berkeley | University of Chicago | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Van Valen, Leigh | Venezuela -- Description and travel | Westoll, T. Stanley | Wilson, Edward Osborne, 1929- | Wood, Albert Elmer, 1910- | Wood, Horace | Wood, Horace | Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1 | World War II -- England | World War II -- Impact on science | World War, 1939-1945 | Yale University -- Peabody Museum of Natural History | Zoology | Zoology -- Africa | Zoology -- Animal behavior | Zoology -- Classification | Zoology -- Insects | Zoology -- Nomenclature | Zoology -- Snakes | ongratulations, greetings, thanks -- Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 70th birthday