Collection Summary
Information for Researchers
Scope and Content
Collection Summary
Collection Title: James Angus Jenkins Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1930-1965
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 996
Origination: Jenkins, James Angus, 1904-1965
Extent:
Number of containers: 19 cartons
Linear feet: 23.75
Repository: The
Bancroft Library.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Correspondence, lecture notes, class materials, reports, minutes of meetings, manuscripts and reprints of his papers, notebooks,
research notes, etc.
Relate to his teaching career at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Genetics and to his researches,
particularly on the origin and evolution of the tomato plant.
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library 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], James Angus Jenkins papers, BANC MSS C-B 996, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Scope and Content
James Angus Jenkins was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1904. He received both his B. Sc. and M. Sc. from the University
of Saskatchewan in biology in 1927 and 1929 respectively, and his Ph.D from the University of California in genetics in 1936.
With the exception of only a few years he taught genetics continuously on the Berkeley Campus from 1938 until his death in
1965. He was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 1945-1946.
His prime interest within the field of genetics was in plants and plant breeding, especially the tomato. His interest in the
tomato, its origin and evolution, took him on extended research forays to Central and South America, and he was primarily
responsible for the extensive tomato research plot on the Berkeley Campus of the University of California.
The collection, a gift of Mrs. Jenkins in 1965, remains largely as it was originally arranged by Jenkins. It contains correspondence,
files relating to his activities in the Department of Genetics, the College of Agriculture, and the University, his teaching
career, and his own research.