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Guide to the Alfred H. Sturtevant Papers, 1849-1969 Processed by Carolyn Kopp Harding; machine-readable finding aid created by Xiuzhi Zhou Archives California Institute of Technology 1200 East California Blvd. Mail Code 015A-74 Pasadena, CA 91125 Phone: (626) 395-2704 Fax: (626) 793-8756 Email: [email protected] URL: http://archives.caltech.edu © 1999 California Institute of Technology. All rights reserved.

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Guide to the Alfred H. Sturtevant Papers, 1849-1969 Archives California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California Contact Information: Archives California Institute of Technology 1200 East California Blvd. Mail Code 015A-74 Pasadena, CA 91125 Phone: (626) 395-2704 Fax: (626) 793-8756 Email: [email protected] URL: http://archives.caltech.edu Processed by: Carolyn Kopp Harding Date Completed: March 1978 Updated: June 1999 Encoded by: Xiuzhi Zhou © 1999 California Institute of Technology. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary Title: Alfred H. Sturtevant Papers, Date (inclusive): 1849-1969 Creator: Sturtevant, Alfred H. Extent: 22 linear feet Repository: California Institute of Technology. Archives. Pasadena, California 91125 Language: English. Access Collection is open for research. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to the California Institute of Technology Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the California Institute of Technology Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Preferred Citation [Identification of item, Box and file number], Alfred H. Sturtevant Papers, Archives, California Institute of Technology. Introduction The papers of Alfred Henry Sturtevant at the Archives of the California Institute of Technology are a rich source for the study of both the social and intellectual history of genetics. The papers, presented to the Archives in 1970 as a gift from his widow, Mrs. Phoebe Sturtevant, total fifty boxes: six boxes of correspondence, four of personal material, four of material (including correspondence) pertaining to the genetic effects of radiation, ten boxes of manuscripts, nineteen boxes of laboratory notebooks, and seven boxes of miscellany.

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The correspondence is primarily post-1940, in spite of the fact that Sturtevant's professional career dates from the 1910s. Sturtevant's disinclination to preserve correspondence may be explained in part by his reservations about the historical value of letters: Letters [he wrote in 1969] are often casual and may not represent the considered opinion of the author. Their content also depends on who they are written to. A man's influence on his subject is surely best understood through his published work, and if he has been a teacher, through the work of his students and the opinions of his close colleagues. In short ... I feel that excessive use of letters and manuscripts may be both unfair and misleading. 1 Researchers should thus be prepared to find that the correspondence files, while often containing items of great interest, are generally disappointingly slim (Sturtevant's taxonomic correspondence is one notable exception). With this caveat in mind, correspondence files containing material of both scientific and general interest include those of George Beadle (1946-1969), Kenneth Cooper (1943-1962), M. Demerec (1944-1959), H. J. Muller (1957-1966), Edward and Esther Novitski (1945-1966), Herschel Roman (1961-1968), Franz Schrader (1946-1962), and Curt Stern (1945-1968). Correspondence files primarily scientific in nature include those of James Crow (1955-1967), R. B. Goldschmidt (1949), J. T. Patterson (1938-1946), L. F. Randolph (1944-1950), W. P. Spencer (1938-1944), Harrison Stalker (1942-1962), and M. R. Wheeler (1950-1964). Although the collection contains no extant correspondence from the early days of the so-called "Morgan School" of geneticists, the Thomas Hunt Morgan file contains Sturtevant's correspondence about Morgan and the early history of genetics. Of particular interest in this respect is the correspondence with Fernandus Payne (1947), Alexander Weinstein (1957), H. J. Muller (1964), and Tracy M. Sonneborn (1967). Other useful material in the Morgan file includes transcripts of talks given at the Morgan Centennial Symposium in 1966, Sturtevant's notes on Morgan's genealogy, and miscellaneous biographical sketches of Morgan by Sturtevant and others. For useful information about another famous Morgan student, Calvin Bridges, see Sturtevant's correspondence regarding Bridges's biographical memoir (1966-1968) and an interesting letter from Jack Schultz (1966). The Morgan materials are complemented by Sturtevant's remarkable collection of photographs, particularly the three albums entitled "New York," "Woods Hole," and "Biologists." There are photographs of Morgan, the "Fly Room" (with the omnipresent bunch of bananas that fed both the flies and Morgan's colleague E. B. Wilson), and numerous pictures of the many young biologists who worked at Columbia and Woods Hole in the 1910s and 1920s. Scholars interested in the social history of genetics will find material on a number of social and political issues. The best documented subject is the debate during the 1950s over the biological, and particularly genetic, effects of radiation. 2 In 1954, Sturtevant attracted public attention when he warned of the genetic hazard from atmospheric testing of atomic and hydrogen bombs and criticized several statements made on the subject by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. Particularly informative are his correspondence (1954-1961) and the files from his tenure on the Genetics Committee of the National Academy of Sciences' study of the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation (1955-1962). Material directly or tangentially related to the issue of Lysenkoism can be found scattered in several correspondence files: M. Demerec (1959), T. Dobzhansky (1945), Genetics Society of America - Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 165 (1952), R. B. Goldschmidt (1949), and Ralph Spitzer (1949). Anti-Semitism and the case of Hans Bauer is discussed in the Franz Schrader file (1946). Material on political issues and anti-communism can be found in the files of David Tyler (1947) and L. J. Stadler (1949). Two other files touching on social and political issues are the American Association for Scientific Workers (1940), whose isolationist position Sturtevant publicly criticized in a "Peace Counter Statement," and UNESCO (1952), regarding its "Statement on Race." As a scientist, Sturtevant is best known for his contributions to the genetics and taxonomy of Drosophila; scholars are directed to the excellent review of his work by his student and colleague, E. B. Lewis. 3 The collection includes many of Sturtevant's laboratory notebooks (dating from 1911), and some of his manuscripts (for which he held the same reservations that he did for letters). Particularly interesting are several early items: Sturtevant's diagrams (ca. 1911 or 1912) of crossing over, used in his classic paper on chromosome mapping; 4 an unpublished manuscript (ca. 1910s), "Radium Experiment with 'Big Smooth Black' Fruit Flies;" 5 and a manuscript (ca. 1920), "A Lethal in Drosophila that is perhaps a Deficiency," with a note added by Sturtevant in 1964, in which he commented, "This MS was prepared for publication, but was - fortunately - never submitted to a journal." 6 The collection also documents Sturtevant's work on the genetics of forms other than Drosophila, especially horses (whose pedigrees he studied as a young boy), and iris. There are even notes for a study on the genetics of tongue-rolling, including data which Sturtevant apparently collected by polling colleagues, friends, and relatives. 7 Sturtevant was interested in the history of genetics, and the collection includes the manuscript of his book, A History of Genetics, published in 1965. A distinctive feature of the book is Sturtevant's diagrammatic representation of the "intellectual pedigrees" of many European and American geneticists (Appendix B). Among Sturtevant's manuscripts are the

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notes he used to chart the pedigrees. Not surprisingly, Sturtevant was an authority on his own "pedigree;" notable among the four boxes of personal material are eighteen folders of genealogical papers, primarily family letters (1849-1969), notes, and tables. The collection is open to qualified scholars. Reproduced by permission from the Mendel Newsletter (No. 15, March 1978), a publication of the American Philosophical Society Library. The text and notes by Carolyn Kopp Harding have been slightly revised to reflect the current state of the collection (1999) and to reference the author's 1979 publication (note 2 below). Footnotes: 1Holograph, 1969. The Papers of Alfred H. Sturtevant, Box 4.5. 2Carolyn Kopp, "The Origins of the American Scientific Debate over Fallout Hazards," Social Studies of Science 9 (1979):403-422. 3E. B. Lewis, "Alfred Henry Sturtevant," Dictionary of Scientific Biography 13:133-138 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976). 4The diagrams appear on p. 54 of the laboratory notebook entitled "Sexual Selection, Gametic Coupling," Box 27.1. We are grateful to Elof Carlson for his discovery and identification of the diagrams. 5Undated holograph, Box 16.1. 6Undated typescript, Box 21.6. 7Holographic notes, ca. 1940, Box 21.9. Related Collections Genealogy prepared by A. H. Sturtevant (microfilm) Historical File on A. H. Sturtevant Genealogy prepared by A. H. Sturtevant (microfilm) Historical File on A. H. Sturtevant Lectures by A. H. Sturtevant on audio tape: "History of Genetics" 1962 April 12 "Mendel's Paper and the Period 1866-1900" 1962 May 3 "Life of Mendel" 1962 May 10 "T. H. Morgan" 1967 October 17 Medals of A. H. Sturtevant Kimber Genetics Award John J. Carty Medal for the Advancement of Science Memorial Service for A. H. Sturtevant 1970 April 17 (audio cassette) Oral History of A. H. Sturtevant with Garland Allen 1965 July 24 Photos of A. H. Sturtevant (A. H. Sturtevant papers and Photo Archives; overview at Archives' web site: http://www.caltech.edu/~archives) 

    Box Box 1, Folder 1.1

SECTION I: CORRESPONDENCE   American Association for the Advancement of Science 1952-1955

Folder 1.2 Folder 1.3

American Association of Scientific Workers 1940 American Cancer Society 1960

Folder 1.4 Folder 1.5 Folder 1.6 Folder 1.7  

American Entomological Society 1953 American Iris Society 1943-1957 A miscellaneous Babcock, E. B. 1931-1932 Bateson, William See: C miscellaneous, Coleman, William 1964

Folder 1.8 Folder 1.9

Beadle, George W. 1946-1969 Bender, Harvey 1966-1968

Folder 1.10

Book reviews (misc.) 1963-1964

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Folder 1.11 Folder 1.12   Folder 1.13 Folder 1.14 Folder 1.15   Folder 1.16 Folder 1.17 Box Box 2, Folder 2.1

Bridges, Calvin B. 1966-1968 B miscellaneous California Institute of Technology Biology Division 1941-1966 Research proposals 1944-1946 Biology library ca. 1945 Faculty and committee meeting minutes 1944 1945 Miscellaneous correspondence 1944-1967

Folder 2.2 Folder 2.3 Folder 2.4 Folder 2.5 Folder 2.6 Folder 2.7 Folder 2.8 Folder 2.9 Folder 2.10 Folder 2.11 Folder 2.12 Folder 2.13 Folder 2.14 Folder 2.15 Folder 2.16 Folder 2.17   Folder 2.18 Folder 2.19   Folder 2.20 Folder 2.21 Folder 2.22 Folder 2.23 Folder 2.24 Folder 2.25 Folder 2.26 Folder 2.27 Box Box 3, Folder 3.1

California, University of, Davis 1961 California, University of, Santa Cruz 1966 Calkins, Gary N. 1943 Carnegie Museum 1953-1954 Childress, Dinah 1966-1968 Clarkson College 1964-1965 Conference invitations (misc.) 1947-1969 Cook, Edwin F. 1952-1953 Cooper, Kenneth 1943-1962 Crow, James F. 1955-1967 C miscellaneous Demerec, M. 1944-1959 Dobzhansky, Theodosius 1945-1969 D miscellaneous E miscellaneous F miscellaneous Genetics 1934-1953 1954-1967 Genetics Society of America General 1944-1968 Mendel Centennial Committee 1962-1965 Public Affairs pamphlet no. 165 1952 Genetics Society of Great Britain 1948-1969 Genetics Society of Japan 1956-1967 Goldschmidt, Richard 1949 Green, Mel 1956-1962 G miscellaneous Hinton, Claude 1950-1967

Folder 3.2 Folder 3.3 Folder 3.4

Hovanitz, William 1956-1957 H miscellaneous International Conference on Replication and Recombination of Genetic Material, Canberra 1967

Folder 3.5 Folder 3.6 Folder 3.7 Folder 3.8

International Conference on Genetics, Montreal 1958 Invitations 1946-1965 Iris, misc. corrrespondence re 1947-1967 J miscellaneous

Folder 3.9 Folder 3.10 Folder 3.11 Folder 3.12 Folder 3.13 Folder 3.14   Folder 3.15

K miscellaneous Lewis, Edward B. and Pamela 1945-1966 Lindsley, D. L. [undated] L miscellaneous Mendel, Gregor 1957; 1965; n.d. Miscellaneous [unidentified] Morgan, Thomas Hunt Bibliography n.d.

 

Centennial symposium, Lexington 1966

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Folder 3.16 Folder 3.17 Folder 3.18 Folder 3.19 Folder 3.20 Folder 3.21 Folder 3.22 Folder 3.23 Box Box 4, Folder 4.1

Miscellaneous Talks Correspondence re T. H. Morgan 1945-1969 Genealogy 1956; undated Memoirs, reminiscences, biographical 1945-1967; undated Talks and memoirs by A. H. Sturtevant 1965-1970 Morgan, Thomas Hunt and Isabel 1934, n.d. Muller, Hermann J. 1957-1966 M miscellaneous

  Folder 4.2 Folder 4.3 Folder 4.4

National Academy of Sciences 1930-1969 Kimber Award Committee 1955-1960 National Research Council: Conference for the Maintenance of Pure Genetic Strains 1940

Folder 4.5 Folder 4.6 Folder 4.7 Folder 4.8 Folder 4.9 Folder 4.10 Folder 4.11   Folder 4.12 Folder 4.13 Folder 4.14 Folder 4.15   Folder 4.16 Folder 4.17 Folder 4.18 Folder 4.19   Box Box 5, Folder 5.1

National Science Foundation: research proposals and evaluations 1956-1969 Novitski, Edward and Esther 1945-1966 N miscellaneous Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1953-1967 Office of Scientific Research and Development 1945 Owen, Ray D. 1944-1945 O miscellaneous Patterson, J. T. 1938-1941 1942-1946 Penrose, L. S. 1959 Princeton University 1946-1964 Publications A History of Genetics1963-1967 An Introduction to Genetics (with George Beadle) 1938-1968 Misc. correspondence 1941-1969 P miscellaneous Randolph, L. F. 1944-1947

Folder 5.2 Folder 5.3 Folder 5.4 Folder 5.5 Folder 5.6 Folder 5.7

1949-1950 Recommendation, letters of 1944-1968 Remington, Charles 1957-1963 Reprint requests 1947-1966 Reviews of manuscripts 1939-1968 Rockefeller Foundation 1935-1945

Folder 5.8 Folder 5.9 Folder 5.10 Folder 5.11 Folder 5.12 Folder 5.13 Folder 5.14 Folder 5.15

Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory 1956-1965 Roe, Ann 1947-1965 Roman, Herschel 1961-1968 R miscellaneous Schrader, Franz 1946-1962 Schultz, Jack 1966 Science magazine 1945-1961 Society of Color Blind American Geneticists (SOCBAG) 1967

Folder 5.16 Box Box 6, Folder 6.1

Spencer, W. P. 1938-1944 Spitzer, Ralph 1949

Folder 6.2 Folder 6.3 Folder 6.4 Folder 6.5 Folder 6.6

Stadtler, L. J. 1940-1949 Stalker, Harrison 1942-1962 Stern, Curt 1945-1968 Sugar Research Foundation 1944 S miscellaneous

Folder 6.7

Texas, University of 1961-1968

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Folder 6.8 Folder 6.9 Folder 6.10

Tyler, David 1947 T miscellaneous United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): "Statement on Race" 1952

Folder 6.11 Folder 6.12 Folder 6.13

U miscellaneous Washington, University of 1960-1962 Weiss, Paul 1945

Folder 6.14   Folder 6.15

Western Washington College of Education 1959 Wheeler, M. R. 1950-1951

Folder 6.16 Folder 6.17 Folder 6.18 Folder 6.19 Folder 6.20

1952-1953 1954-1964 Wirth, Willis W. 1952-1964 W miscellaneous Y miscellaneous

Folder 6.21     Box Box 7, Folder 7.1

Unsorted envelopes SECTION II: PERSONAL   Bibliography 1970; undated

Folder 7.2 Folder 7.3 Folder 7.4 Folder 7.5   Folder 7.6 Folder 7.7   Folder 7.8   Folder 7.9 Folder 7.10 Folder 7.11 Folder 7.12 Folder 7.13 Folder 7.14 Folder 7.15 Folder 7.16 Folder 7.17 Folder 7.18 Folder 7.19

Biographical notes [undated] 70th birthday congratulations 1961 Clippings, etc 1957; 1959; 1965; undated Condolences 1970 Correspondence Family letters 1908-1968 Misc. letters, cards 1966 Genealogy "The Ancestry of Harriet Morse Sturtevant," compiled by A. H. Sturtevant 1955 Family letters 1849-1881 1893 1894 Jan-Jun 1894 Jul-Dec 1898; 1900 1903 1906-1907 1908-1909 1920 1948-1969 Notebook: "Genealogical Table of Alfred Henry Sturtevant Junior" ca. 1910

  Folder 7.20   Folder 7.21 Folder 7.22-7.25    

Booklets The John Rogers Families in Plymouth and Vicinity 1895 The Rogers Family of Georgtownca. 1895 Miscellaneous notes and tables Tables 1-4 Honors Honorary doctorates Princeton University 1947

Box Box 8, Folder 8.1 Folder 8.2 Folder 8.3   Folder 8.4 Folder 8.5 Folder 8.6-8.7 Folder 8.8

Yale University 1951 University of Pennsylvania 1949 National Academy of Sciences Carty Medal 1964-1965 Kimber Genetics Medal 1957 National Medal of Science 1968 [certificate in oversize file 15.1] Interview: Garland Allen 1965

Folder 8.9

Memoir of A. H. Sturtevant by George Beadle 1970

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Folder 8.10 Folder 8.11 Folder 8.12 Box Box 9, Folder 9.1

Miscellaneous Obituaries 1970 Official papers Photographs: misc.

  Folder 9.2

Photograph albums Presented on the occasion of the Sixth Drosophila Research Conference in Madison, Wisconsin 1964 Apr 1-3

Folder 9.3 Folder 9.4 Box Box 10, Folder 10.1

William G. Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory, Corona del Mar ca. 1930 Woods Hole 1916-1919 New York 1913-1920

Folder 10.2

Europe 1922

Folder 10.3       Box Box 11, Folder 11.1 Folder 11.2 Folder 11.3 Folder 11.4 Folder 11.5 Folder 11.6       Folder 11.7 Folder 11.8 Folder 11.9 Folder 11.10 Folder 11.11 Folder 11.12 Folder 11.13 Folder 11.14 Folder 11.15 Folder 11.16 Box Box 12, Folder 12.1   Folder 12.2 Folder 12.3 Folder 12.4 Folder 12.5 Folder 12.6   Folder 12.7 Folder 12.8 Folder 13.1-13.2 Box Box 13, Folder 13.3   Folder 13.4 Folder 13.5 Folder 13.6 Folder 13.7 Folder 13.8 Folder 13.9

Biologists 1912-1920 SECTION III: RADIATION   Correspondence 1954 Jun-Dec 1955 Jan-Feb 1955 Mar-Jul 1956-1961 Reprint requests 1954 Crank letters 1954-1955 National Academy of Sciences, Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation Study (BEAR) Genetics Committee Correspondence 1955 Dec-1956 Jan 1956 Feb 1956 Mar 1956 Apr 1956 May-Jun 1956 Jul-Aug 1956 Oct-Dec 1957 1958-1959 1960-1962 Estimates of genetic damage 1955; undated Minutes 1955-1956 1956 Feb 5-6 Miscellaneous Report drafts 1956; undated Summary reports 1956; 1960 Newspaper and magazine clippings 1954 1955 1956 1957 Printed matter and reports Demographic studies 1957-1958 Genetic effects 1955-1958; 1960 H-bomb test ban 1956 Medical issues 1955-1958 Miscellaneous Protection against radiation 1955; 1959

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Folder 13.10-13.11 Folder 13.12 Folder 13.13 Folder 13.14 Box Box 14, Folder 14.1

Radiological data 1956-1957 Somatic effects: misc. Somatic effects of Strontium 90 and leukemia 1957; undated Speeches, statements, etc. 1955; 1959; undated United Nations: "Report of the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation" 1958

  Folder 14.2

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission "Conference on Genetics Held at Argonne National Laboratory, November 19-20, 1954"

Folder 14.3 Folder 14.4     Folder 14.5 Folder 14.6

Releases 1955-1957 Reports 1947; 1959 U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy Hearings on fallout 1957 The Nature of Radioactive Fallout and Its Effects on Man, Part 11957 [publication]

Folder 14.7

Misc. publications 1955-1960

Box Box 15, Oversize [oversize]                   Box Box 16, Folder 16.1

Scrapbooks, photos, misc. items Scrapbook: "McCallum Summer Fellows" 1951 Photo album: Campbell Plant Research Laboratory 1960 Honorary degree: Yale 1951 Publications Iconographica Mendeliana1965 Fortune1932 Jul The Princeton Herald1947 Jun 20 SECTION IV: MANUSCRIPTS

  "Radium Experiment with 'Big Smooth Black' Fruit Flies" n.d. [early MS]

Folder 16.2 Folder 16.3 Folder 16.4 Folder 16.5 Folder 16.6 Folder 16.7 Folder 16.8 Folder 16.9 Folder 16.10     Box Box 17, Folder 17.1

"Tables of Probable Errors of Mendelian Ratios" n.d. [early MS] Misc. MS notes and data on Drosophila [includes 3x5 notecards] ca. 1910-1920s MS notes on the mating habits of the Diptera ca. 1913-1915 "Greenhouse (9-770)" 1913-1915 Composition book: notes on thoroughbred horses ca. 1915 Field notes on horse color 1915 Misc. summary sheets ca. 1920s Drosophilia research notes and drawings ca. 1920s Notecards [undated, 3x5] Dorsocentral crossing and selection experiments "American thoroughbreds," data on pedigrees and coat colors

Folder 17.2 Folder 17.3 Folder 17.4

"An Hypothesis Concerning the Nature of Mammalian Tumors" ca. late 1930s "An Introduction to Genetics," first draft ca. 1938 "Maintenance of a Drosophila Stock Center," by T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant ca. 1930s "Genetic Data on Drosophila Affinis, with a Discussion of the Relationships in the Subgenus Sophophora" 1940

Folder 17.5

Research on horse color and breeds 1930s

Folder 17.6 Folder 17.7 Folder 17.8 Folder 17.9 Folder 17.10

MS notes on Iris, General Genetics Program ca. 1940s "Chromosome Groups of Higher Diptera, Excluding Drosophila" ca. 1940s MS notes on reproductive physiology of Drosophila and Diptera ca. 1940s Misc. summary sheets 1942-1943 "On the Language and History of Drosophila," a spoof by A. H. Sturtevant, S. Emerson, and J. Schultz for T. H. Morgan's 70th birthday 1940s

Folder 17.11 Box Box 18, Folder 18.1

Misc. summary sheets on Drosophila ca. 1940-1945 "Can Specific Mutations be Induced by Serological Methods?" 1944

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Folder 18.2 Folder 18.3 Folder 18.4   Folder 18.5-18.6 Folder 18.7 Folder 18.8 Box Box 19, Folder 19.1-19.2

Misc. stock sheets and notes on Drosophila 1944-1945 Misc. MS notes ca. 1940s-1950s "Heredity" ca. 1945 Identification notes on fly collections (Wheeler) 1950s 1951-1955 1950s-1960s Misc. charts, data, etc. on Drosophila ca. 1930-1938

Folder 19.3

Notes and data sheets on "The Bristle Pattern in Drosophila and Higher Diptera" undated

Folder 19.4 Folder 19.5

Notes and data on "Drosophila, Diptera and Other Flies" ca. 1950-1958 Notes and data on "Effects of Salt on Wild-Type Strains of Drosophila Melanogaster" 1952 "Systematic Position of the Drosophilidae," rough draft including notes data, drawings, census records, correspondence 1937-1945; undated

Folder 19.6 Folder 19.7 Folder 19.8 Folder 19.9 Folder 19.10 Folder 19.11 Box Box 20, Folder 20.1

Bristles: summary sheets and data 1962 Misc. notes and data sheets 1963 "Chromosome?" 1964 [unpublished] "On the Fly Room" [published 1965] "On the Choice of Material for Genetic Studies," talk at Columbia 1969 May 10 Misc. data, notes, summary sheets ca. 1920s-1930s

Folder 20.2

"The Distribution of Bristles in Hybrids and in Certain Mutant Types," rough draft including notes and data 1930s "Factors Influencing Viability of Super Females," rough draft including notes and data ca. late 1930s

Folder 20.3 Folder 20.4 Folder 20.5 Folder 20.6 Folder 20.7 Box Box 21, Folder 21.1

"The Salivary Gland Chromosomes of Drosophila Robusta" ca. 1940s Misc. notes and data on Drosophila varieties and rabbits ca. 1940s Notes and data on Virilis and Robusta 1942 Notes on the Kansas University collection n.d. Bibliographies, notecards, misc. [undated]

Folder 21.2 Folder 21.3 Folder 21.4 Folder 21.5 Folder 21.6 Folder 21.7 Folder 21.8 Folder 21.9

Insect photographs 1960-1961 Labels for pinned insect collections "Observations on Variations in Nature in Oenothera" n.d. "The Comparative Genetics of the Species of Drosophila" n.d. "A Lethal in Drosophila that is Perhaps a Deficiency" n.d. "Studies on the Bristle Pattern of Drosophila and Higher Diptera" n.d. "History of III Sequences in Pseudoobscura" n.d. "Tongue Rolling," data and correspondence 1940

Folder 21.10 Folder 21.11

Articles for Encyclopedia Britannica: "Heredity" and "Genetics" [undated] Notes and data for "The Homologies of the Chromosome Elements in the Genus Drosophila," by A. H. Sturtevant and E. Novitski [undated]

Folder 21.12-21.13 Folder 21.14 Folder 21.15 Folder 21.16 Folder 21.17

Notes on flies [undated] Data for historical papers [undated] Notes on taxonomy (kelp flies) [undated] "A Fossil Periscelid (Diptera) from the Amber of Chiapos, Mexico" n.d.

Folder 21.18 Folder 21.19 Folder 21.20 Folder 21.21     Box Box 22, Folder 22.1

Flowers: newspaper and magazine clippings [undated] "An Effect of Light on the Blooming of the Bearded Iris" n.d. Chromosomes: drawings and notes [undated] Summary sheets on the X-chromosomes and inversions [undated] Manuscripts by others Miranda notebooks by R. H. MacKnight No. 1 1936 Oct

Notes and data sheets on "The Bristle Pattern in Drosophila and Higher Diptera" [undated]

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Folder 22.2 Folder 22.3 Folder 22.4

No. 2 1937 No. 3 n.d. "The Synapsis of the Sex Chromosomes of Drosophila Miranda in Relation to Their Directed Segregation," by R. H. MacKnight n.d. "Walter S. Sutton and the Physical Basis of Mendelism," by Victor A. McHusick 1960 "Some Oddities in the Delayed Discovery of Mendelian Heredity," by Conway Zirkle 1963 "Vinegar Flies, T. H. Morgan, and the Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity," by Chandler Fulton 1967 "Concordance and Discordance of Taxonomic Characters in Drosophila Classification," by Lynn H. Throckmorton 1966 [includes correspondence and data]

Folder 22.5 Folder 22.6 Folder 22.7 Folder 22.8 Folder 22.9 Folder 22.10 Folder 22.11

"Selection and the Sex Ratio," by J. Crow? n.d. Report on an experiment on Drosophila Melanogaster by F. N. Duncan n.d. Reports on the Anaximandrian Society, and a paper presented, "Goethe and Biology," by Klaus Mampell 1943-1945 "Cytological Basis of 'Sex Ratio' in Drosophila Pseudoobscura," by E. Novitski, W. J. Peacock and J. Engel ca. 1965 "Suggested Literature for Students in Plant Genetics," by H. K. Hayes and C. R. Burnham n.d. "How Much Negro Ancestry have the Florida Seminole?," by William C. Sturtevant 1952-1953 [includes correspondence and notes]

Folder 22.12 Folder 22.13 Folder 22.14 Box Box 23    

Iris breeding notebooks 1949-1964 [15, unnumbered] Iris 3x5 catalogue cards, sections 1-7

Box Box 24, Folder 24.1-24.3

"History of Genetics," incomplete draft with notes [undated]

  Box Box 25, Folder 25.1-25.3

"History of Genetics" Notes and misc. [undated]

Iris of Oenothera seeds [envelopes found in desk drawer by W. Sturtevant, 1970 Apr 10]

Folder 25.4 Folder 25.5 Folder 25.6     Box Box 26, Folder 26.1

Handwritten draft, chapters 1-14 Draft and notes: all chapters Bibliography n.d. [3x5 notecards] SECTION V: LECTURE NOTES   Biology I 1942

Folder 26.2 Folder 26.3 Folder 26.4 Folder 26.5 Folder 26.6 Folder 26.7 Folder 26.8

Biology II 1942; undated Birmingham and Newcastle 1932-1933 Entomology 1943 Entomology, genetics, etc. 1950s Entomology, various insects 1952 Genetics 1956; 1962 Geology lectures 1955

Folder 26.9 Folder 26.10 Folder 26.11 Folder 26.12 Folder 26.13 Folder 26.14 Folder 26.15 Folder 26.16

Graduate genetics 1937; 1939; 1941 Graduate genetics on trypanosomes 1939 Harvard lecture series 1940 Insects 1949 Lecture on T. H. Morgan n.d. Miscellaneous 1936-1937; 1940-1942; 1950s; undated Princeton 1963; University of California, Santa Cruz 1966 "Terminology of Alleles" n.d.

Folder 26.17     Box Box 27, Folder 27.1

Tumors, cancer 1938 SECTION VI: LABORATORY DAYBOOKS, NOTEBOOKS   Sexual selection, gametic coupling, Columbia 1911-1912

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SECTION VI: LABORATORY DAYBOOKS, NOTEBOOKS

Folder 27.2 Folder 27.3 Folder 27.4 Folder 27.5 Box Box 28 Box Box 29, Folder 29.1

General notebook: coupling, curved sexual selection 1912 Cytology lab notebook 1912-1913 Woods Hole 1913 Iris notebook 1965-1968 Miscellaneous untitled daybooks [6, unnumbered] Rapleta, no. 583-3180 1914-1917

Folder 29.2 Folder 29.3 Folder 29.4 Folder 29.5 Folder 29.6   Box Box 30, Folder 30.1

Untitled notebook 1915-1918 "C II X," no. 2912-4298 1917 C III," no. 3190-4176 1917 D selection, F4 and later from Plus X Minus, Woods Hole 1917 Tube counts, no. 3189a-4681 1917 May-1918 Jan Miscellaneous Nos. 1600-4394, 4400-4749 [undated]

Folder 30.2 Folder 30.3 Box Box 31, Folder 31.1

Nos. 4751-4998, 5001-5199 1918 Nos. 5201-5398, 5400-5549 1918-1919 Daybook: 522N-813A 1914-1915

Folder 31.2 Folder 31.3 Folder 31.4   Folder 31.5 Folder 31.6 Folder 31.7 Box Box 32, Folder 32.1

II (not entered) 1915-1916 III, no. 820-2416 1915-1916; Summaries III 1915-1916 III G, no. 2568a-3170 1917 Miscellaneous Nos. 7201-7400, 7401-7598 1919-1920 Nos. 7600-7797, 7800-7999 1919-1920 Nos. 8001-8200, 8201-8400 1920 Nos. 5550-5799, 5800-5997 1919

Folder 32.2 Folder 32.3 Folder 32.4 Folder 32.5         Box Box 33 Box Box 34 Box Box 35

Nos. 6000-6198, 6200-6398 1919 Nos. 6400-6596, 6600-6798 1919 Nos. 6800-6998, 7001-7200 1919 Notebooks [4] Boston Museum of Natural History 1919 US National Museum; British Museum; Lund, Amsterdam 1920 Amsterdam; British Museum 1922 Cambridge, Boston; Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1922 Laboratory daybooks [53] 1920 Jan-1922 Nov Laboratory daybooks [28] 1922 Dec-1924 Jun Laboratory daybooks [33] 1924 May-1926 Apr

Box Box Box Box Box Box Box Box Box Box Box Box Box Box Box Box

Laboratory daybooks [27] 1926 Mar-1928 Aug Laboratory daybooks [33] 1928 Jul-1931 Aug Laboratory daybooks [34] 1929 May-1935 Feb Laboratory daybooks [39] 1931 Jul-1934 Dec Misc. daybooks [13] 1926-1935 Laboratory daybooks [16] 1934 Jan-1938 Oct Laboratory daybooks on Pseudoobscura and Affinis [17] 1938-1939 Laboratory daybooks [26] 1934-1944

36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43

Box Box 44

Laboratory daybooks [15] 1944-1949

    Box Box 45          

SECTION VII: BOOKS   An Introduction to Genetics, by A. H. Sturtevant and George Beadle, 1939 Sex-Linked Inheritance in Drosophila, by T. H. Morgan and C. B. Bridges, 1916 The Genetics of Drosophila, by T. H. Morgan, C. B. Bridges, and A. H. Sturtevant, 1925 A History of Genetics, by A. H. Sturtevant, 1965 The American Naturalist, July 1899 Synopses of the Nearctic Ephydridae, by A. H. Sturtevant and M. R. Wheeler, Separatum from the Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 1954

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SECTION VII: BOOKS

            Box Box 46, Folder 46.1

The North American Species of Drosophila, by A. H. Sturtevant, 1921 [2 copies] The Mutants of Drosophila Melanogaster, by C. B. Bridges and Katherine Brehme, 1944 Outposts of Science, by Bernard Jaffe, 1965 [with inscription] SECTION VIII: MISCELLANEOUS   Drawings [undated] Various types of Drosophila

Folder 46.2 Folder 46.3 Folder 46.4   Box Box 47, Folder 47.1

Oenothera Drosophila: ovipositor plates Drosophila [for publications] Drawings by Edith M. Wallace Drosophila 1925; 1930; 1933; 1937; undated

Folder 47.2

Misc. notes and drawings 1926; 1932; undated

Folder 47.3 Folder 47.4 Folder 47.5 Folder 47.6 Folder 47.7 Folder 47.8 Folder 47.9 Folder 47.10 Box Box 48     Box Box 49, Folder 49.1

Drosophila [for T. H. Morgan] 1919-1922; 1924 Misc. notes [undated] Drosophila wing 1933 Drosophila parts 1931-1932 Verbena flowers 1923-1927 Misc. book reviews 1951; 1963; 1966; n.d. Brochures: Smithsonian Conference Center, The Gardens of Hillwood Magazines: Collecting and Breeding 1970; The Heredity1970 [both in Japanese] Last set of working implements and slide rule SECTION IX: REPRINTS (1910-1965)   A. H. Sturtevant reprints 1910-1916

             

"On the Inheritance of Color in the American Harness Horse" 1910 "Another Sex-Limited Character in Fowls" 1911 "A Critical Examination of Recent Studies on Colour Inheritance in Horses" 1912 "An Experiment Dealing with Sex-Linkage in Fowls" 1912 "Is There Association between the Yellow and Agouti Factors in Mice?" 1912 "Federley's Breeding Experiments with the Moth Pygaera" 1912 "The Himalayan Rabbit Case, with Some Considerations on Multiple Allelomorphs" 1913

       

"A Third Group of Linked Genes in Drosophila Ampelophila" 1913 "The Reduplication Hypothesis as Applied to Drosophila" 1914 "Linkage in the Silkworm Moth" 1914 "The Behavior of the Chromosomes as Studied through Linkage" 1914

       

"Castle and Wright on Crossing Over in Rats" 1915 "A Sex-Linked Character in Drosophila Repleta" 1915 "No Crossing Over in the Female of the Silkworm Moth" 1915 "Notes on North American Drosophilidae with Descriptions of Twenty-Three New Species" 1916

Folder 49.2                    

A. H. Sturtevant reprints 1917-1921 "Crossing Over without Chiasmatype?" 1917 "Acalypterae (Diptera) Collected in Mobile County, Alabama" 1918 "Genetic Factors Affecting the Strength of Linkage in Drosophila" 1917 "A Parallel Mutation in Drosophila Funebris" 1918 "An Analysis of the Effects of Selection" 1918 "Flies of the Genus Drosophila as Possible Disease Carriers" 1918 "A Synopsis of the Nearctic Species of the Genus Drosophila (Sensu Lato)" 1918 "A New Species Closely Resembling Drosophila Melanogaster" 1919 "The Dipterous Genus Zygothrica of Wiedemann" 1920 "Genetic Studies on Drosophila Simulans. I. Introduction. Hybrids with Drosophila Melanogaster" 1920

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SECTION IX: REPRINTS (1910-1965)

        Folder 49.3                    

"The Vermilion Gene and Gynandromorphism" 1920 "Intersexes in Drosophila Simulans" 1920 "Genetic Studies on Drosophila Simulans. II. Sex-Linked Group of Genes" 1921 [2 copies] "Genetic Studies on Drosophila Simulans. III. Autosomal Genes. General Discussion" 1921 A. H. Sturtevant reprints 1921-1934 "Linkage Variation and Chromosome Maps" 1921 "A Case of Rearrangement of Genes in Drosophila" 1921 "The Probable Occurrence of Parthenogenesis in Ochthiphila Polystigma. (Diptera)" 1923 "New Species and Notes on Synonymy and Distribution of Muscidae Acalypteratae (Diptera)" 1923 "Inheritance of Direction of Coiling in Limnaea" 1923 [2 copies] "An Interpretation of Orthogenesis" 1924 "Notes on the Ant Fauna of Oak Galls in the Woods Hole Region" 1925 "Renner's Studies on the Genetics of Oenothera" 1926 "The Seminal Receptacles and Accessory Glands of the Diptera with Special Reference to the Acalypterae" 1926 "A Crossover Reducer in Drosophila Melanogaster Due to Inversion of a Section of the Third Chromosome" 1926

             

"The Social Parasitism of the Ant Harpagoxenus American" 1927 "Philippine and Other Oriental Drosophilidae" 1927 "The Effects of the Bar Gene of Drosophila in Mosaic Eyes" 1927 "A Further Study of the So-Called Mutation at the Bar Locus of Drosophila" 1928 "The Genetics of Drosophila Simulans" 1929 "A Peculiar Sex-Ratio in Drosophila Obscura," The Collecting Net 1930 "Generic and Cytological Studies on Oenothera. I. Nobska, Oakesiana, Ostreae, Shulliana, and the Inheritance of Old-Gold Flower Color" 1931

     

"Ants Collected on Cape Cod, Massachusetts," Psyche1931 "The Use of Mosaics in the Study of the Developmental Effect of Genes" 1932 "Preferential Segregation of the Fourth Chromosomes in Drosophila Melanogaster" 1934

Folder 49.4      

A. H. Sturtevant reprints 1936-1969 "Problèmes Gènètiques" 1936 [in French] "Preferential Segregation in Triplo-IV Females of Drosophila Melanogaster" 1936 "An Effect of the Y-Chromosome on the Sex-Ratio of Interracial Hybrids of Drosophila Pseudoobscura" 1937

     

"Autosomal Lethals in Wild Populations of Drosophila Pseudoobscura" 1937 "Essays on Evolution I. On the Effects of Selection on Mutation Rate" 1937 "Essays on Evolution II. On the Effects of Selection on Social Insects" 1938

       

"Essays on Evolution III. On the Origin of Interspecific Sterility" 1938 "On the Subdivision of the Genus Drosophila" 1939 "High Mutation Frequency Induced by Hybridization" 1939 "Genetic Data on Drosophila Affinis, with a Discussion of the Relationships in the Subgenus Sophophora" 1940 [2 copies]

     

"A New Inherited Character in Man" 1940 "Physiological Aspects of Genetics" 1941

         

"Can Specific Mutations be Induced by Serological Methods?" 1944 "Drosophila Pseudoobscura" 1944 "A Gene in Drosophila Melanogaster that Transforms Females into Males" 1945 "On the Dot Chromosomes of Drosophila Repleta and D. Hydei" 1946 "Intersexes Dependent on a Maternal Effect in Hybrids between Drosphila Repleta and D. Neorepleta" 1946

 

"White-eyed Mutants of Diptera," Nature 1947

 

"The Evolution and Function of Genes" 1949 [2 copies]

"The Classification of the Genus Drosophila, with Descriptions of Nine New Species," The University of Texas Publication1942

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SECTION IX: REPRINTS (1910-1965)

     

"The Bearded Minute Combination and Sex-Determination in Drosophila" 1949 "Genes, Environment and the Individual," Eugenical News1950 "A Map of the Fourth Chromosome of Drosophila Melanogaster, Based in Crossing Over in Triploid Females" 1951

   

"The Relation of Genes and Chromosomes" 1951 "Nearctic Flies of the Family Periscelidae (Diptera) and Certain Anthomyzidae Referred to the Family" 1954

     

"Social Implications of the Genetics of Man" 1954 "Evaluation of Recombination Theory" 1955 "The Genetic Effects of High Energy Irradiation of Human Populations" 1955 [3 copies] "A Highly Specific Complementary Lethal System in Drosophila Melanogaster" 1956

            Folder 49.5                                    

 

"A Fossil Periscelid (Diptera) from the Amber of Chiapas, Mexico" 1963 "The Fly Room" 1965 [3 copies] "The Early Mendelians" 1965 "Mendel and the Gene Theory" 1967 "Studies on the Bristle Pattern of Drosophila" 1969 Reprints with others "A New Gene in the Second Chromosome of Drosophila and Some Considerations of Differential Viability," by C. B. Bridges and A. H. Sturtevant 1914 "The Spatial Relations of Genes," by C. B. Bridges, T. H. Morgan, and A. H. Sturtevant 1919 "A Semi-Lethal in Drosophila Funebris that Causes an Excess of Males," by O. L. Mohr and A. H. Sturtevant 1919 "The Evidence for the Linear Order of the Genes," by C. B. Bridges, T. H. Morgan, and A. H. Sturtevant 1920 "Laboratory Directions for an Elementary Course in Genetics," by C. B. Bridges, T. H. Morgan, H. J. Muller, and A. H. Sturtevant 1923 "A Note on the Theory of Sex Determination," by F. Schrader and A. H. Sturtevant 1923 "The Constitution of the Germ-Material in Relation to Heredity," by C. B. Bridges, T. H. Morgan, and A. H. Sturtevant 1924; 1925-1926; 1926-1927 [3 reprints] "Sequence of Corresponding Third-Chromosome Genes in Drosophila Melanogaster and D. Simulans," by C. R. Plunkett and A. H. Sturtevant 1926 "The Constitution of the Germinal Material in Relation to Heredity," by C. B. Bridges, T. H. Morgan, A. H. Sturtevant 1929 "Reciprocal Translocations in Drosophila and Their Bearing on Oenothera Cytology and Genetics," by T. Dobzhansky and A. H. Sturtevant 1930 "Generic and Cytological Studies on Oenothera. III. The Translocation Interpretation," by Sterling Emerson and A. H. Sturtevant 1931 "The Inadequacy of the Sub-Gene Hypothesis of the Nature of the Scute Allelomorphs of Drosophila," by Jack Schultz and A. H. Sturtevant 1931 "The Linkage Relations of Certain Genes in Oenothera," by Sterling Emerson and A. H. Sturtevant 1932 "X Chromosome Inversions and Meiosis in Drosophila Melanogaster," by G. W. Beadle and A. H. Sturtevant 1935 "The Relations of Inversions in the X Chromosome of Drosophila Melanogaster to Crossing Over and Disjunction," by G. W. Beadle and A. H. Sturtevant 1936 "Observations on the Species Related to Drosophila Affinis, with Descriptions of Seven New Forms," by T. Dobzhansky and A. H. Sturtevant 1936 "Geographical Distribution and Cytology of 'Sex Ratio' in Drosophila Pseudoobscura and Related Species," by T. Dobzhansky and A. H. Sturtevant 1936 "Inversions in the Third Chromosome of Wild Races of Drosophila Pseudoobscura, and Their Use in the Study of the History of the Species," by T. Dobzhansky and A. H. Sturtevant 1936 "The Comparative Genetics of Drosophila Pseudoobscura and D. Melanogaster," by C. C. Tan and A. H. Sturtevant 1937

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SECTION IX: REPRINTS (1910-1965)

       

"Inversions in the Chromosomes of Drosophila Pseudoobscura," by T. Dobzhansky and A. H. Sturtevant 1938 "The Interrelations of Inversions, Heterosis and Recombination," by K. Mather and A. H. Sturtevant 1938 "Sterility in Crosses of Geographical Races of Drosophila Micromelanica," by E. Novitski and A. H. Sturtevant 1941 "The Homologies of the Chromosome Elements in the Genus Drosophila," by E. Novitski and A. H. Sturtevant 1941

 

"Maintenance of a Drosophila Stock Center, in Connection with Investigations on the Constitution of the Germinal Material in Relation to Heredity," by T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant 1944

 

"Iris Genetics," by L. F. Randolph and A. H. Sturtevant 1945

  Folder 49.6      

"Synopses of Nearctic Ephydridae," by M. R. Wheeler and A. H. Sturtevant 1954 Reprints by others "Fauna of Penikese Island," edited by R. E. Coker 1923 "Edgar Howard Sturtevant," by E. A. Hahn 1952 "Fifty Years of Drosophila," by C. D. Darlington 1963

Folder 49.7

List of publications of A. H. Sturtevant, n. d.

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