| | Author: | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Benedict Davenport Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1874-1946 | | | | Abstract: | Founded by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in 1890, the Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., was little more than a languishing outpost until the arrival of Charles B. Davenport in 1898. Over the course of two decades, the ambitious young biologist used his extraordinary administrative skills to transform the institution into the premier center of eugenical study and, as its director, to position himself as the leading spokesman for eugenical research in North America. The Davenport Papers (ca. 43 lin. feet) is a large and nearly comprehensive body of correspondence, lectures, diaries (1878-1942, mostly brief entries of an uneven character), student notebooks and family correspondence pertaining to Charles Davenport and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The collection is divided into two series, the Charles Davenport Papers, which provides valuable documentation of the development of American biology, animal and plant genetics, and eugenics during the period 1898-1942, with some perspective on the international eugenics movement. Series II, the Cold Spring Harbor Records (ca.20 lin. feet), consists largely of administrative correspondence relating to the laboratory, including Davenport's correspondence with Carnegie administrators (esp. Robert Woodward and John Merriam), accounts and reports concerning financial matters, publications, salaries, material relative to the early history of Cold Spring Harbor labs, and records relative to the numerous professional assistants who worked under Davenport. Among the major correspondents are the American Breeders Association, Committee on Eugenics; American Eugenics Society; American Society of Naturalists; Committee on a Study of the American Negro; Galton Society (see also the extensive correspondence with William K. Gregory); Eugenics Education Society (see Mrs. S. Gotto correspondence); International Congresses of Eugenics; International Federation of Eugenic Organizations, Committee on Race Crossing; National Committee on Mental Hygiene; National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor; and the Pan-American Conference on Eugenics and Homiculture. There are correspondence and papers relating to the Station for Experimental Evolution, the Eugenics Record Office, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and a substantial series relating to a long-range study of children carried out at Letchworth Village, Thiles, New York.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D27 | | | | Extent: | 63 Linear Feet | | | | Subjects: | Academic freedom | Afro-Americans | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Eugenics Society | American Museum of Natural History | American Philosophical Society | Anthropology | Appointment books, diaries, notebooks | Baur, Erwin | Behavioral genetics, IQ | Belling, John | Bermuda Biological Station | Bermuda Biological Station | Bibliographical matters | Bibliographical matters -- Abstracts | Biochemistry and organic chemistry | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Belling, John | Biographical and personal data -- Bridges, Calvin B. | Biographical and personal data -- Clausen, Roy Elwood | Biographical and personal data -- Davenport, Charles Benedict | Biographical and personal data -- Goodspeed, Thomas Harper | Biographical and personal data -- Vries, Hugo de | Biographical and personal data -- Zeleny, Charles | Biological Farm Project | Biologists. | Biology | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Birds | Blacks. | Blakeslee, Albert Francis | Botany and plant genetics | Brooklyn Botanical Garden | Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute | Burbank, Luther | Business | Cancer, chemotherapy | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Carnegie Institution of Washington -- Burbank, Luther | Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Genetics | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Agol, I. J. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Levit, Solomon G. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Offerman, Carlos | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Property | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. | Committee activities | Committee activities -- Executive committee | Committee activities -- Sterilization | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- 75th birthday | Cytogenetics | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Demerec, Milislav | Displaced German scholars | Drosophila genetics | Drosophila genetics -- Mutation rates | Ecology | Editorial matters | Editorial matters -- Genetics | Educational matters | Educational matters -- Dartmouth College | Embryology, developmental genetics | Ethical issues | Eugenics | Eugenics Record Association | Eugenics Record Office | Eugenics Record Office -- Bylaws | Eugenics Record Office -- Fieldworkers | Eugenics Record Office -- History | Eugenics Record Office -- Psychology | Eugenics Record Office -- Reports | Eugenics Record Office -- Summer courses | Eugenics Research Association | Eugenics Research Association | Evolution | Fellowships, assistantships | Genetics | Genetics -- Dogs | Genetics -- Horses | Genetics -- Lymantria | Genetics -- Sciara | Genetics -- Sheep | Genetics of plants | Genetics of plants -- Bursa | Genetics of plants -- Crepis | Genetics of plants -- Datura | Genetics of plants -- Mucor | Genetics of plants -- Oenothera | Genetics, Animal | Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict | Graduate study | Graduate study -- Harvard University | Harriman, Mrs. | Harriman, Mrs. E. H. | Harris, J. A. | Harvard University | History of biology, especially genetics | History of biology, especially genetics -- Darwin, Charles | History of biology, especially genetics -- Mendel, Gregor | Honors | Human Betterment Foundation | Human evolution, physical anthropology | Human evolution, physical anthropology -- Jamaicans | Human genetics | Human genetics -- Epilepsy | Human genetics -- Musical capacity | Human genetics -- Twins | International Congress of Eugenics | International Congress of Eugenics -- Exhibits | International Congress of Eugenics -- First Congress | International Congress of Eugenics -- Second Congress | International Congress of Eugenics -- Third Congress | International Congress of Genetics | International Congress of Genetics -- Fifth Congress | International Congress of Genetics -- Sixth Congress | International Congress of Zoology | International Congress of Zoology -- Eighth Congress | International Congress of Zoology -- First Congress | International Congress of Zoology -- Second Congress | International Congress of Zoology -- Seventh Congress | Invitations | Jennings, Herbert Spencer | Johns Hopkins University | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Laughlin, Harry Hamilton | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures, public speaking -- Experimental evolution | Letchworth Village | Letchworth Village | Long Island Biological Association | Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole | Merriam, John C. (John Campbell), 1869-1945 | Metz, Charles W. | Mohr, Otto Louis | Morgan, Thomas Hunt | Mount Holyoke College | Mount Hope Farm | Mouse genetics | Nassau County Association. | National Academy of Sciences | National Academy of Sciences -- Committee activities | National Research Council | National Research Council -- Committee activities | Ohio State University | Pellagra | Philosophy of science | Physiology | Political issues | Political issues -- Germany | Political issues -- Immigration | Political issues -- Pollution | Political issues -- Sterilization | Poultry genetics | Psychology | Publication | Publication -- Eugenical News | Publication -- Genetics | Punnett, Reginald Crundall | Rabbit genetics | Race Betterment Foundation | Race crossing | Race, race relations, racism | Radiation genetics | Rafinesque, Constantine | Rat genetics | Recommendations | Recommendations -- Bernstein, Felix | Recommendations -- Blakeslee, Albert Francis | Recommendations -- Burbank, Luther | Recommendations -- Harris, Reginald | Recommendations -- MacDowell, E. Carleton | Recommendations -- Morgan, Thomas Hunt | Recommendations -- Nobel Prize | Recommendations -- Satina, Sophie | Recommendations -- Steggerda, Morris | Recommendations -- Wright, Sewall | Referee's report | Regeneration | Requests for aid in finding positions | Requests for reprints | Research support | Reviews | Reviews -- Books | Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory | Russian politics and science | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- American Breeders' Association | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- International Federation of Eugenics Organizations | Scientific refugees | Shull, George Harrison | Solicitations for support or contribution | Station for Experimental Evolution -- Annual reports | Station for Experimental Evolution -- Beginnings | Station for Experimental Evolution -- Five-year plan (1920) | Station for Experimental Evolution -- History | Station for Experimental Evolution -- Library | Station for Experimental Evolution -- Plans | Station for Experimental Evolution -- Staff | Statistics, biostatistics, biometrics | Steggerda, Morris | Teaching | Teaching -- Dartmouth College | Teaching -- Harvard University | Teaching -- Princeton University | Teaching -- Smith College | Teaching -- University of Minnesota | Tower, William L. | Travel -- Germany | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | University of Chicago | University of Michigan | University of Pittsburgh | University of Texas | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Whitman, Charles Otis | Woodward, Robert | World War I -- Impact on science | World War II -- Impact on science | Zea (maize) genetics | Zoology | Zoology -- Gorillas | | | | | |
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| | Author: | Demerec, M. (Milislav), 1895-1966 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Milislav Demerec Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1919-1966 | | | | Abstract: | The geneticist Milislav Demerec emigrated from Yugloslavia in 1919, spending nearly his entire career in the Department of Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Working initially on the genetics of maize and later on Drosophila virilis, his research interests included radiation and chemical mutagenesis, and during the Second World War, penicillin and the genetics of antibiotic resistance. Demerec served as head of the laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor from 1941 until 1960. The Demerec collection contains the extant professional papers of Milislav Demerec, dating primarily from the time of his arrival at Cold Spring Harbor until his retirement. In addition to his correspondence with colleagues, the collection includes interesting material on the administration of Cold Spring Harbor laboratory during the 1940s and 1950s, data and research notes, material relating to professional organizations (e.g. Genetics Society of America, American Society of Naturalists), a lengthy series of lectures given by Demerec, and a large number of photographs pertaining to Demerec's research, but also to his colleagues and Cold Spring Harbor itself. There is also a Register of visitors to the laboratory (1927-1945) and a Milislav Demerec reprint list.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D394 | | | | Extent: | 14.25 Linear Feet | | | | Subjects: | Academic freedom | American Society of Naturalists | Antibiotics | Atomic Energy Commission | Babcock, E. B. (Ernest Brown) (b. 1877 ) | Bacterial genetics | Bacterial genetics -- Nomenclature | Bacteriophage and viral genetics | Bateson , Beatrice | Bibliographical matters | Biochemistry and organic chemistry | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Belling, John | Biographical and personal data -- Blakeslee, Albert Francis | Biographical and personal data -- Bridges, Calvin B. | Biographical and personal data -- Demerec, Milislav | Biographical and personal data -- Demerec, Rada | Biographical and personal data -- Muller, Hermann Joseph | Biographical and personal data -- Sutton, Eileen | Blakeslee, Albert Francis,1874 | Bridges, Calvin B. | Bridges, Calvin B. (Calvin Blackman), 1889-1938 | Bronk, Detlev W. (Detlev Wulf), 1897-1975 | Business | Business -- Grant proposals | Business -- Reports | C. W. Post College | California Institute of Technology | Cancer, chemotherapy | Cancer, chemotherapy -- Chemical mutagens | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Caspari, Ernst W. | Castle, William E. (William Ernest), 1867-1962 | Certificates. | Chemical mutagenesis. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Department of Genetics | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. | Columbia University | Committee activities | Committee activities -- Reports | Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974 | Conferences and symposia | Conferences and symposia -- Bacterial genetics | Conferences and symposia -- Bacteriophage and viral genetics | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Cytogenetics | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Demerec, M. (Milislav), 1895-1966 | Diplomas. | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Drosophila -- Genetics | Drosophila Information Service | Drosophila genetics | Editorial matters | Editorial matters -- Journal of Heredity | Educational matters | Emerson, Rollins Adams | Emerson, Rollins Adams, 1873-1947 | Ephrussi, Boris, 1901-1979 | Evolution | Fellowships, assistantships | Fellowships, assistantships -- Buck, John B. | Fellowships, assistantships -- Delbruck, Max | Fellowships, assistantships -- Gustafsson, Ake | Fellowships, assistantships -- Hoecker, Frank E. | Fellowships, assistantships -- Slizynski, B. M. | Fellowships, assistantships -- Westergaard, Morgens | Genetics | Genetics -- Mutable genes | Genetics -- Mutation rates | Genetics -- Neurospora | Genetics -- Penicillium | Genetics -- Research | Genetics -- Variegation | Genetics -- Yeast | Genetics Society of America | Genetics of plants | Genetics of plants -- Barley | Genetics of plants -- Crepis | Genetics of plants -- Delphinium | Goldschmidt, Richard B. (Richard Benedict), 1878-1958 | Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict | Graduate study | Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon | Hollaender, Alexander | Hollaender, Alexander, 1898-1986 | Honors | Honors -- American Philosophical Society | Human evolution, physical anthropology | Human genetics | International Congress of Genetics | International Congress of Genetics -- Eighth Congress | International Congress of Genetics -- Ninth Congress | International Congress of Genetics -- Tenth Congress | Invitations | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Lectures | Lectures, public speaking | Long Island Biological Association | Maize -- Genetics | Mangelsdorf, Paul C. | Medical research | Metz, Charles William, 1889-1975 | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | Mouse genetics | Muller, H. J. (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | Muller, Hermann Joseph | Mutagens | Mutation (Biology) | National Academy of Sciences | National Academy of Sciences -- Committee on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation - Genetics Panel | National Research Council | National Science Foundation | Notebooks | Penicillin | Photographs | Plant genetics | Political issues | Political issues -- Yugoslavia | Population genetics | Publication | Publication -- Advances in Genetics | Publication -- American Naturalist | Publication -- Genetics | Radiation genetics | Radiogenetics | Recommendations | Recommendations -- Brink, R. Alex | Recommendations -- Carlson, Elof Axel | Recommendations -- Fano, Ugo | Recommendations -- Harnley, Morris H. | Recommendations -- Huskins, C. Leonard | Recommendations -- Slizynski, B. M. | Recommendations -- Spencer, Warren P. | Recommendations -- Waddington, Conrad Hal | Referee's report | Referee's report -- American Naturalist | Research support | Reviews | Rockefeller Foundation | Russian politics and science | Russian politics and science -- Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific refugees | Sonneborn, T.M. (Tracy Morton), 1905-1981 | Timofeev-Resovskiĭ, N. V. (Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich), 1900-1981 | Travel -- Australia | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- Yugoslavia | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981 | Weaver, Warren | World War II -- Impact on science | World War II -- Yugoslavia | Zea (maize) genetics | Zoology -- Nomenclature. | | | | | |
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| | Author: | Dunn, L. C. , (Leslie Clarence), 1893-1974 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | L. C. Dunn Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1911-1974 | | | | Abstract: | L.C. Dunn was one of the most significant figures in the emerging field of developmental genetics in the 20th century. His T-locus work with the mouse established a number of important genetic principles, including ideas of gene interaction, the distribution of alleles in wild populations, and the factors that influence fertility. He wrote an important textbook of genetics, Principles of Genetics (1925), in collaboration with Sinnott (and later Dobzhansky); other significant books authored or co-authored by him include Heredity, Race and Society (1946), and A Short History of Genetics (1965). He worked in poultry genetics for eight years at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Storrs, CT, from 1920-1928. The remainder of his career was spent at Columbia University, where he worked with rats, mice, and fruit flies, and proved himself to be an inspiring teacher as well. His interest in international scientific collaboration led him to establish ties to Soviet scientists, and to help relocate refugee scientists during World War II. He remained active in his profession to the end of his life. This collection includes correspondence, reports, notebooks, lectures, and photographs. It is a rich collection, documenting the development of American genetics as well as Dunn's interests in humanitarian efforts and international affairs. There is significant material relating to American-U.S.S.R. contacts, particularly in the files on the American-Soviet Friendship Council and the American-Soviet Science Society. There is much, as well, on the impact of the Lysenko controversy in the U. S. Dunn's interest in European scientists can also be seen in the sizable amount of material on the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars. Material relating to the Kilgore and Magnusson bills for the support of science (predecessors to the NSF) are also in the collection. Of note are data on the following: National Research Council Committee on Experimental Animals and Plants; research on the population study of the Jewish community in Rome; and Columbia University. There is much in the correspondence concerning Drosophila, poultry genetics, and other such topics; Walter Landauer is Dunn's major correspondent.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D917 | | | | Extent: | 15.5 Linear Feet | | | | Subjects: | American-Soviet Friendship Council | American-Soviet Science Society. | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Bjerknes, Kristian Bonnevie, 1901- | Blakeslee, Albert Francis,1874-1954. | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bonnevie, Kristine | Bridges, Calvin B. (Calvin Blackman), 1889-1938 | Carrel, Alexis, 1873-1944 | Caspari, Ernst W. | Castle, William E., (William Ernest), 1867-1962 | Cohn, Alfred E., (Alfred Einstein), 1879-1957 | Columbia University. | Corner, George Washington, 1889-1981 | Dahlberg, Gunnar, 1893-1956 | Danforth, Charles H. (Charles Haskell) | David, Paul R. | Demerec, M., (Milislav), 1895-1966 | Developmental genetics | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Drosophila -- Genetics | Dunn, L. C. , (Leslie Clarence), 1893-1974 | Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars | Ephrussi, Boris, 1901-1979 | Eugenics | Evolution (Biology) | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, Sir, 1890-1962 | Geneticists | Genetics | Genetics -- Soviet Union | Geyer-Duszynska, Irene, 1924- | Goldschmidt, Richard | Gumbel, Emil J. | Heredity | Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 | Iltis, Hugo | Italy -- Population studies | Ivanyi, Pavol | Jennings, H. S., (Herbert Spencer), 1868-1947 | Jews -- Population studies | Jews -- Rome | Jollas, Victor | Landauer , Walter | Landsteiner, Karl, 1868-1943 | Lectures | Lewontin, Richard Charles | Mice -- Genetics | Mohr, Otto Louis, 1886- | Mohr, Tove | Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945 | Muller, H. J., (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | National Research Council. Committee on Experimental Animals and Plants | Notebooks | Photoprints | Political refugees -- United States | Popuation biology | Poultry -- Genetics | Primatology | Race, race relations, racism | Science and politics | Stern, Curt, 1902-1981 | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964 | | | | | |
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