Box 1-38
Writings, manuscripts, editorial work
1926-1996
Scope and Content
This series contains reprints of Thimann's writings and publication files containing
manuscripts, notes, figures, illustrations, and correspondence related to his articles,
books, and other publications. Also included are manuscripts of others' writings and
related correspondence that document Thimann's editorial role in a variety of journals
and professional organizations, such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences.
Processing information
Some publication titles are abbreviated.
Box 1-10
Reprints of writings by Thimann
1926-1989
Scope and Content
Includes reprints of Thimann's writings, and a small amount of correspondence,
article drafts, figures, photographs, and notes relating to specific publications.
Box 1-3
Collected papers
1926-1988
Container Summary: 5
bound volumes
Scope and Content
Includes published journal articles by Thimann bound together into volumes.
Box 3-7
Chronological reprint files
1934-1989
Container Summary: 42
folders
Box 7
The Effect of Electric Currents Upon
Gelatin
1927
Historical note
Thimann's Ph.D. dissertation for Imperial College, University of London.
Box 7
Investigations on Gelatin
1927
Box 7
The Effects of Salts on Ionisation of
Gelatin
1930
Box 7
Chemical Change in Gelatin...
1930
Box 7
Studies on the Excystment of Colpoda
Cucullus
1934
Box 7
Chemical Nature of The Root-Forming Hormone of
Plants
1935
Box 7
Effects of Salts on Emergence from the Cyst in
Protozoa
1937
Box 7
The Metabolism of the Water-Mold, Leptomitus
Lacteus
1940
Box 7
Review:
Lectures on the Inorganic Nutrition of
Plants
Hoagland
circa
1946
Box 7
The Chemical Control of Conjugation in
Zygosaccharomyces
1943
Box 7
Crop Production and Environment
1946
Box 7
Review:
Spuren von Stoffen...
Abderhalden
1946
Box 7
Review:
Annual Review of
Microbiology
1947-1948
Box 7
Foreword:
Vernalization and
Photoperiodism
1948
Box 7
Use of 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid
Herbicides...
1948
Box 7
Studies of Development in Long Shoots and Short
Shoots of Ginkgo Biloba
1949
Box 7
The Biogenesis of the
Anthocyanins
1949
Box 7
The Effect of Onion Juice on the Growth Response to
Auxin
1949
Box 7
Dedication of the Earhart Plant Research
Laboratory...
1949
Box 7
Application of Herbicides to Cut
Stumps...
1949
Box 7
Vernalisation und
Photoperiodismus
1949
Box 7
Metabolism of Stem Tissue During Growth and Its
Inhibition
1950
Box 7
Brush Control in Cuba
1950
Box 7
Translocation of 2,4,5-T in Cuban
Marabu
1953
Box 7
Conference on Fungicides
1953
Box 7
The Nature of Auxin-Induced Water
Uptake...
1953
Box 7
Studies on the Growth and Inhibition of Isolated
Plant Parts
1954
Box 7
Dehydrogenase Activity and
Respiration
1954
Box 7
Plant Physiology at the International Botanical
Congress
1955
Box 7
The Biochemistry of Growth and Inhibition in
Isolated Plant Parts
1950
Box 7
Correlations of Growth by Humoral
Influences
1954
Box 7
Interference in Salkowski Assay of Indoleacetic
Acid
1956
Box 7
Solar Energy Utilization by Higher
Plants
1955
Box 8
On the Uptake of Carbon Dioxide and
Bicarbonate...
1957
Box 8
The Biological Action of Growth
Substances
1958
Box 8
Effect of Light on the CO2 Absorption and
Evolution...
1958
Box 8
Evolution of the Phytotron
1958
Box 8
Beneficiation of Soils Contaminated by
Strontium-90
1959
Box 8
Review:
Methoden zur
Bestimmung...
1959
Box 8
Experiments on the Physiology of Apical
Dominance
1957
Box 8
Plastids of the Avena Coleoptile
1960
Box 8
Phototropism; Nature of
Photoreceptor...
1961
Box 8
How the Other Half Lives: General and Botanical
Observations on the USSR...
1961
Box 8
The Effects of Auxins and Kinetin on
Xylem...
1962
Box 8
Some Characteristics of Movement of Indoleacetic
Acid in Coleoptiles of Avena
1962
Box 8
Activity of Gibberellin 'D' on the Germination of
Photosensitive Lettuce Seeds
1963
Box 8
Formation of Anthocyanin in Leaves of Kalanchoe
Blossfeldiana
1963
Box 8
Effect of Light on Uptake and Transport of
Indoleacetic Acid...
1963
Box 8
Biogenesis of Anthocyanins
1963
Box 8
Biological Utilization of Solar
Energy
1951
Box 8-9
Miscellaneous reprints
1935-1995
Container Summary: 9
folders
Box 9
Miscellaneous reprints (late publications)
1989-1994
Box 9
Miscellaneous reprints (senescence and related)
1974-1989
Box 10
Reprint lists
1950-1986
Scope and Content
Includes lists of Thimann's publications.
Box 10
Reprint mailing lists
1984
Box 10
Reprint address file
undated
Container Summary: 2
small boxes
Box 11-26
Publication files
1951-1996
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence, reviews, drafts, proofs, reprints, figures, illustrations,
photographs, negatives, and research notes related to publications authored and
coauthored by Thimann.
Box 11, Folder 1
Towards a Unified Theory of Plant
Tropisms
1959
Box 11, Folder 2
Osmosis, Osmotic Pressure and Suction
Pressure
1960
Box 11, Folder 3
Fundamental Aspects of Normal and Malignant
Growth
1960
Box 11, Folder 4
Photosensitive Site in Lettuce
Seeds
1959
Box 11, Folder 5
Lateral Transport of Indoleacetic
Acid-C14...
1960
Box 11, Folder 6
Growth Promoting Activity of Caffeic
Acid
1961
Box 11, Folder 7
Conversion of C14 Glucose to
Ethylene...
1961
Box 11, Folder 8
Effect of Light on Auxin Uptake and
Transport...
1962
Box 11, Folder 9
Some Characteristics of Movement of Indoleacetic
Acid...Basipetal Translocation
1962
Box 11, Folder 10
The Plastids of the Avena
Coleoptile
1960
Box 11, Folder 12
The Development of Anthocyanin in Leaves of
Kalanchoe Blossfeldiana
1962-1963
Box 11, Folder 13
The Use of 2,4-D on Some Woody Tropical
Plants
1947
Box 11, Folder 14
The Effects of Auxins and Kinetin on Xylem
Differentiation
1961-1962
Box 11, Folder 15
The Action of Gibberellic Acid on Lettuce...
(Gibberellin "D")
1962
Box 11, Folder 16
Transport and Distribution of
Auxin...
1962
Box 11, Folder 17
Action of Kinetin on Photosensitive Germination of
Lettuce Seed...
1962-1963
Box 11, Folder 18
Evidence for a Requirement for Protein
Synthesis...
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
1963
Box 11, Folder 19
The Transport and Distribution of Auxin During
Tropistic Response
1962-1963
Box 11, Folder 20
Uptake of IAA & IAN by Avena Coleoptile
Sections
1962-1963
Box 11, Folder 21
The Effects of Temperature on Photosensitive Lettuce
Seed Germination
1963
Box 11, Folder 22
Release of Lateral Buds from Apical
Dominance
1964-1963
Box 11, Folder 23
Plant Growth Substances; Past, Present and
Future
1963-1965
Box 12, Folder 1
On a Crystal Containing Body in Cells of the Oat
Coleoptile
1963-1964
Box 12, Folder 2
The Effect of Ribonuclease on Anthocyanin Formation
in Spirodela Oligorrhiza
1962-1963
Box 12, Folder 3
Plant Hormones and Their Role in
Agriculture
1963-1965
Box 12, Folder 4
The Biogenesis of Anthocyanins
1964-1966
Box 12, Folder 5-6
Nitrilase, parts 1 & 2
1963-1964
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 12, Folder 7
Interactions Between Daylength and Light
Intensity...
1966
Box 12, Folder 8
The Histological Basis for Inhibition of Axillary
Buds in Pisum Sativum...
1964
Box 12, Folder 9
Control of Development in
Acetabularia
1964-1965
Box 12, Folder 10
Laurentian Hormone Conference
Toward and
Endocrinology of Higher Plants
1963-1965
Box 12, Folder 11
Molecular Requirements for Auxin Action,
part 1
1964
Box 12, Folder 12
Studies on the Germination of the Light-inhibited
Seed of Phacelia Tanacetifolia
1964-1966
Box 12, Folder 13
Pesticides and the President's Science Advisory Committee
(PSAC)
1964
Box 12, Folder 14
The Senescence of Leaves, What's New in
Plant Physiology
1975-1979
Box 12, Folder 15
Phototropism, National Academy of
Sciences
1963-1964
Box 12, Folder 16
Analysis of the Germination Process of Lettuce
Seed...
1964
Box 12, Folder 17
Biogenesis of Anthocyanins, X
1951-1964
Box 13, Folder 1
The Preparation of Higher Plant
Protoplasts
1966
Box 13, Folder 2
Histological Studies II
1965-1968
Box 13, Folder 3
Protoplasts From the Avena
Coleoptile
1965
Box 13, Folder 4
Spirodela Polyrhiza, Furuya & Thimann
undated
Box 13, Folder 5
Terminal Respiration of Vegetative Cells and
Zygospores...
1965-1966
Box 13, Folder 6
Geotropic Response of Wheat Coleoptiles in Absence
of Amyloplast Starch
1965-1966
Box 13, Folder 7-9
The Metabolism of Oat Leaves During
Senescence
, parts 1-3
1972-1975
Container Summary: 3
folders
Box 13, Folder 10
The Metabolism of Oat Leaves During
Senescence
negatives of figures
circa
1970s
Box 13, Folder 11
Phototropism (chapter in
Comprehensive Biochemistry)
1966-1967
Box 13, Folder 12
Interactions of Phenolic Acids, Metallic Ions and
Chelating Agents...
1966
Box 13, Folder 13
Action Inhibitors of RNA and Protein Synthesis on
Cell Enlargement
1965-1966
Box 14, Folder 1
Biosynthesis of Plant Sterols Conversion of
Cholesterol...
1966
Box 14, Folder 2
Histological Studies I & II
1964-1965
Box 14, Folder 3
Tropisms in Plants
1966-1967
Box 14, Folder 4
Role of Seed Coats in Germination of Photosensitive
Lettuce Seeds
1963
Box 14, Folder 5
Transport and Distribution of Auxin During
Tropistic...
1963-1964
Box 14, Folder 6
Effects of Red and Blue Light in the Growth of
Morphogenesis...
1964-1965
Box 14, Folder 7
Bound Indoleacetic Acid in Avena
Coleoptiles
1965
Box 14, Folder 8
Inhibition of Protein
Synthesis...
1964-1965
Box 14, Folder 9
Action of Inhibitors of RNA...
1965
Box 14, Folder 10
Role of Auxins and Cytokinins in Release of Buds
from Dominance
1966-1983
Box 14, Folder 11
The Role of Tryptophan and Tryptamine as IAA
Precursors
1967-1968
Box 14, Folder 12
Bedeutung des Lichtes fur Wachstum, Pigmentierung und
Bewegungsphanomene...
1966
Box 14, Folder 13
Transient Effects of Light in Auxin
Transport...
1966
Box 14, Folder 14
On the Nature of Seed Dormancy in Phacelia
Tanacetifolia
1966
Box 14, Folder 15
Interactions of Phenolic Acids, Metallic
Ions...
1966
Box 14, Folder 16
Intracellular Fibers in Oat Coleoptile
Cells...Streaming
1966
Box 14, Folder 17
Role of Cytokinins in the "Fascination"
Disease...
1965-1966
Box 14, Folder 18
National Academy of Sciences 1971 symposium: Photosynthesis
1970-1972
Box 15, Folder 1
Polymyxa, Sorkin
1958-1962
Box 15, Folder 2
Hormonal Regulation in Plant Growth
Development
, NATO Institute: Izmir, Turkey
1971-1972
Box 15, Folder 3
Apical Dominance in Coleus
1970-1971
Box 15, Folder 4
The Physiology of Plant Growth and
Development
(The Auxins for Wilkins)
1968
Box 15, Folder 5
Second Positive Phototropism...
1968-1969
Box 15, Folder 6
Encyclopedia Universalis
1972-1973
Box 15, Folder 7
On Integration in Plants by Rudolf
Dostal
1966-1967
Box 15, Folder 8
Martin & Thimann, part I & II (
The Role of
Protein Synthesis in the Senescence of Leaves
)
1972-1974
Box 15, Folder 9
The Senescence of Isolated Chloroplasts,
part 3
1974
Box 15, Folder 10
Antagonisms Between Kinetin and Amino
Acids
1969-1970
Box 15, Folder 11
The Effect of Hadacidin on Bud
Development...
1970-1973
Box 15, Folder 12-13
Book reviews
1939-1985
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 15, Folder 14
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) part 2, figures
only
1979
Box 16, Folder 1
Thimann and Tetley, part 5
1972-1976
Box 16, Folder 2
Martin & Thimann & Canberra, part 2
1972-1974
Box 16, Folder 3
Anthocyanin, part 12
1964
Box 16, Folder 4
Seed germination book (
The Physiology and
Biochemistry of Seed Dormancy and Germination
)
1976-1977
Box 16, Folder 5
The Retention of Photosynthetic Activity by
Senescing Chloroplasts
1976-1977
Box 16, Folder 6
Chelators, part 3
1972-1975
Box 16, Folder 7
Choe & Thimann:
Retention of Photosynthetic
Activity by Senescing Chloroplasts of Oat
1975-1977
Box 16, Folder 8
12 MIR paper (
Stomatal Aperture and the Senescence
of Leaves
)
1978-1979
Box 16, Folder 9
Metabolism of Oat Leaves During Senescence,
part 5. Senescence in Light
1976-1977
Box 16, Folder 10
Ethylene and Senescence of Oat
Leaves
1980-1981
Box 16, Folder 12
Plant Hormones: CRM Books
1970
Box 16, Folder 13
Changes in ATP Levels During
Senescence
1979-1980
Box 16, Folder 14
Krebs on Warburg
1979-1980
Box 16, Folder 15
Senescence review, Botanical Magazine
1977-1982
Box 17, Folder 1
Madison & Colombus
1978-1982
Scope and Content
Includes photographs for a publication in Proceedings in Life Sciences.
Box 17, Folder 2-3
Ethylene, CO2 (
The Effects of Carbon Dioxide and
Light on the Production of Ethylene by Leaves
)
1983-1986,
undated
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 17, Folder 4-8
Plich, Henry (
Respiration and Ethylene Production in
Apple...
)
circa
1985-1990
Container Summary: 5
folders
Scope and Content
Includes research notebook.
Box 17, Folder 9
The Promise and Future of Plant Science,
Asians in Science
undated
Box 17, Folder 10-11
Veierskov, Bjarke (
Metabolism of Oat Leaves During
Senescence
, part 8)
1982-1985
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 18, Folder 1
Veierskov, Bjarke (Role of Hormones and Light in Leaf Senescence - NATO
grant)
1983-1986
Box 18, Folder 2
Veierskov, Bjarke (
The Control of Protein Breakdown
and Systhesis...
)
1984-1986
Box 18, Folder 3
The Balance Between Auxin and Kinetin...,
Mathur & Thimann
undated
Box 18, Folder 4
Hormone Action in the Whole Life of
Plants
1975-1981
Box 18, Folder 5
Phytohormones: correspondence on
figures
1936-1967
Box 18, Folder 6
Giridhar, G. (
Is the Effect of Wounding on
Leaf...
)
1986-1988
Box 18, Folder 7-9
The Interaction of Senescence and Wounding in Oat
Leaves
1984-1988
Container Summary: 3
folders
Box 18, Folder 10
Singapore (
The Senescence of Leaves: A brief review
and a proposed mechanism
)
circa
1986
Box 18, Folder 11
Dicots (
The Senescence of Detached Leaves of
Tropaeolum
)
circa
1985
Box 18, Folder 12
Senescence in nitrogen and the accompanying
changes...
1982
Box 19, Folder 1-2, Box 18, Folder 13
Experiments on the system forming ethylene from
ACC...
Bousquet & Thimann
1983-1984
Container Summary: 3
folders
Box 19, Folder 3
The Multiple Actions of Abscisic Acid in the
Senescence of Oat Leaves
1987-1988
Box 19, Folder 4
The Role of Serine and of Proteases in the
Senescence of Oat Leaves
1983
Box 19, Folder 5
A History of the Knowledge of Auxin (SPB
Academic Publishing Prague)
circa
1988
Box 19, Folder 6
Nooden & Leopold forward (
Senescence and Aging
in Plants
)
1984-1987
Box 19, Folder 9
The Influence of Aliphatic Alcohols on Leaf
Senescence
1979-1980
Box 19, Folder 10
The Relation Between Nitrogen Deficiency and Leaf
Senescence
1983-1984
Box 19, Folder 11
National Institute on Aging (NIA) manuscript (
A
Glance at Senescence in Plants
)
1977-1980
Box 19, Folder 12
T. Platt book review (
Physiological bases of
phytoplankton ecology
)
1982
Box 19, Folder 13
Effects of Methyl Jasmonate on Leaf
Senescence
1981
Box 20, Folder 1-2, Box 19, Folder 14
On the Relation Between Respiration and Senescence
in Oat Leaves
1982-1985
Container Summary: 3
folders
Box 20, Folder 3
Wightman & Thimann (
Hormonal factors controlling
the initiation and development of lateral roots
)
1978-1979
Box 20, Folder 4-5
Exudation of Solutes During Senescence of Oat
Leaves
1982-1983
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 20, Folder 6
Kurt Albin Mothes biographical memoir
1983-1985
Box 20, Folder 7
Abscisic Acid (ABA) papers
1974-1980
Box 20, Folder 8
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) meeting, Parma, Italy
1979-1981
Box 20, Folder 9-10
The Proteases of Senescing Oat Leaves, parts
1-2
1976-1977
Container Summary: 2
folders
Botany: Plant Biology and Its Relation to Human
Affairs
1963-1992
Container Summary: 34
folders
Scope and Content
Includes manuscripts, figures, photographs, negatives, reprints, and research
materials related to the textbook
Botany: Plant Biology and
Its Relation to Human Affairs
(1982), which Thimann co-authored with Jean
H. Langenheim. Also included are teaching materials related to the course, Plants
and Human Affairs, which Thimann co-taught with Langenheim at the University of
California Santa Cruz. This course served as the foundation for the resulting
textbook.
Processing Information
Chapter numbers described here may not correspond to published chapters.
Box 20, Folder 11
Chapter II: Origin of Life
1963-1977
Box 20, Folder 12
World agriculture
1980-1984
Box 21, Folder 1
Chapter III & IV: World Food
1974-1989
Box 21, Folder 2
Chapter IV: Anatomy
1969-1975
Box 21, Folder 3-4
Chapter V: Photosynthesis
1971-1988
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 21, Folder 5
Water and minerals papers
1967-1982
Box 21, Folder 6-7
Chapter VIII: Nitrogen Metabolism
1975-1989
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 21, Folder 8-9
Chapter X: Growth and development
1988,
undated
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 21, Folder 10
Chapter XV: Soils
1980-1982
Box 21, Folder 11
Chapter XVI: Cereals
1969-1988
Box 21, Folder 12
Chapter XVIII: Sugars
1970-1976
Box 21, Folder 13
Chapter XVIII: Fruits
1977-1988
Box 21, Folder 14
Chapter XIX: Fiber
1973-1976
Box 21, Folder 15
Chapter XX: Roots and Tubers
1983,
undated
Box 21, Folder 16
Chapter XX: Fermentation
1978,
undated
Box 22, Folder 1
Chapter XXIII: Legumes & Nitrogen Cycle
1977-1986
Box 22, Folder 2
Chapter XXVI: Caffeine "with possible additions"
1974
Box 22, Folder 5
Chapter XXVI: Phenols
1972-1981
Box 22, Folder 6
Chapter XXI: Fiber & Fiber Plants; chapter XXII: Wood, Bark &
Forests
1983,
undated
Box 22, Folder 7
Chapter XII: Organizing Diversity; chapter XIV: Plants in
Communities
undated
Box 22, Folder 8
Chapter XXI: Caffeine Beverages; chapter XXVI: Plant Phenols
undated
Box 22, Folder 9
Chapter XXVII: Terpenoids; chapter XXVIII: Vegetables, Fats, Oils &
Waxes
1971-1989
Box 22, Folder 10
Chapter XXIX: Global Impact of Plant Diseases and Pests
undated
Box 22, Folder 11
Chapter XXXII: Ecosystems
1966-1986
Box 22, Folder 12
Lecture transcripts, notes
1974
Box 22, Folder 13
Figures, rough notes
1986,
undated
Box 22, Folder 14
John Wiley & Sons Publishers, Inc. correspondence
1982-1984
Box 22, Folder 15
John Wiley & Sons reviews
1978-1980
Box 22, Folder 16
Notes and clippings
1988-1992
Processing information
These materials were originally enclosed in a copy of
Botany: Plant Biology and Its Relation to Human Affairs.
Box 23, Folder 1
Actin and coleoptile elongation
circa
1990s
Box 23, Folder 2
Papers on plant senescence
circa
1992-1994
Box 23, Folder 3-8
Actin and the Elongation of Plant
Cells
1992-1996
Container Summary: 6
folders
Box 24, Folder 1, Box 23, Folder 9-11
Actin and the Elongation of Plant Cells
(Kelly Reese)
1989-1993
Container Summary: 4
folders
Box 24, Folder 2
The Control of Branching in
Plants
1984
Box 24, Folder 3
Why do green plants not make Vitamin B2?,
and other projects
1994
Box 24, Folder 4
Nitrile Metabolism: Diversity and
Versatility
1995
Box 24, Folder 5
Stomatal Cycling in CAM Plants
1982
Box 24, Folder 6
Senescence and Stomatal Aperture as Affected by
Antibiotics in Darkness and Light
1986-1989
Box 24, Folder 7
Senescence in Plants
correspondence
1978-1985
Box 24, Folder 8
The Second Messenger in Apical Dominance Controlled
by Auxin
1988-1989
Box 24, Folder 9
Old Age, or "Senescence" in
Leaves
undated
Box 24, Folder 10
Unidentified manuscript on senescence
undated
Box 24, Folder 12
Miscellaneous manuscripts correspondence
1966-1980
Box 25, Folder 1
Lysenko: could he be right?
1949
Box 25, Folder 2-5
Vitamins and Hormones: Advances in Research and
Applications
1943-1985
Container Summary: 4
folders
Box 25, Folder 6
The Effect of Light on the Production of
Ethylene
1979-1980
Box 25, Folder 7
Contributions to encyclopedias
1965-1986
Box 25, Folder 8-9
Frits Warmolt Went biographical memoir
1978,
1988-1995
Container Summary: 2
folders
Scope and Content
Includes photographic reprints of Went's father, Friedrich August Ferdinand
Christian Went, and his laboratory in Pasadena.
Box 25, Folder 10
Paul Mangelsdorf biographical essay
1989-1990
Scope and Content
Includes photographs of Mangelsdorf.
Box 26, Folder 1
Alfred Romer biographical essay
1973-1974,
1982
Scope and Content
Included photograph of Romer.
Box 26, Folder 2
John Gordon Torrey Memorial Minute
1992-1995
Box 26-32
Figures and illustration mockups
1940-1980
Scope and Content
Includes originals and copies of figures and illustrations used in Thimann's
publications. Formats include photographs, film and glass plate negatives, various
types of transparencies and enlargements, and paper charts and diagrams. Figures and
illustrations can also be found in the Publication files subseries.
Box 26, Folder 3
International Conference on Plant Growth Substances, Lausanne
circa
1975
Box 26, Folder 4
Hormone Action in the Whole Life of
Plants
1947,
1961-1976
Box 26, Folder 6-8
Botany: Plant Biology and Its Relation to Human
Affairs:
originals, Langenheim chapters 1-3
circa
1970-1980
Container Summary: 3
folders
Box 27-28, 31-32
The Life of Bacteria: Their Growth, Metabolism, and
Relationships
circa
1950s-1968
Container Summary: 9
folders
Box 31, Folder 2, Box 27, Folder 4
The Effect of Onion Juice on the Growth Response to
Auxin
circa
1949
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 27, 29-32
Unidentified figures
circa
1940-1980s
Container Summary: 10
folders
Box 27, 33-38
Editorial work
1930-1996
Scope and Content
Includes reprints, manuscript drafts, figures and illustrations, and correspondence
related to editorial work Thimann performed for various journals and authors. See the
Professional Activity and Correspondence series for more materials related to
Thimann's editorial work.
Box 33, Folder 1-2
Chailakhyan (
Sexuality in Plants and its Hormonal
Regulation
)
1983-1989
Container Summary: 2
folders
Scope and Content
Includes photographs of figures and illustrations.
Box 33, Folder 3
Joe Cherry & D. James Morre manuscript
1972
Box 33, Folder 4
Gershon, David (
Identification of Intracellular
Degradation...
)
1985
Box 33, Folder 5
Goldschmidt, Eliezer E. (
Chlorophyll Catabolism in
Senescing...
)
1986-1988
Box 33, Folder 6
Geoff, Lynda J. (
The Transfer of Nuclei from a
Parasite to Its Host
)
1983
Box 33, Folder 7
Ballio and Adducio (
Reconstitution of a
Proton-translocating System...
)
1988
Box 33, Folder 8
Goldsmith and Martin (
Mathematical Analysis of
Chemiosmotic...
)
1980
Box 33, Folder 9
Ludwig, Robert A. (
Rhizobium Free-living
Nitrogen...
)
1983
Box 33, Folder 10
Matile, Philippe (
Catabolites of
Chlorophyll...
)
1983
Box 33, Folder 11
Mattoo, Autar K. (
Identification of a Unique
Isoform...
)
1988
Box 33, Folder 12
Pickard, Barbara G. (
Voltage Transients
Elicited...
)
1983
Box 33, Folder 13
Poovaiah, B.W. (
Molecular Cloning and
Sequencing...
)
1988-1989
Box 33, Folder 14
Sung, Z. Renee (
Developmental Regulation of
Embryogenic...
)
1986-1988
Box 34, Folder 1
Talamantes, Frank (
Detection of Two Growth
Hormone...
)
1988
Box 34, Folder 2
Sato & Theologis (
Isolation of a cDNA
Encoding...
)
1989
Box 34, Folder 3
American Association of Scientific Workers 1940 Peace
Resolution
1939-1950,
1979-1980
Historical Note
Thimann and others resigned from the American Association of Scientific Workers,
citing Communist influence in the passage of the 1940 Peace Resolution.
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence relating to a 1979 paper about the American Association of
Scientific Workers 1940 Peace Manifesto by Elizabeth Hodes, as well as original
correspondence, clippings, and other material related to the drafting, passage, and
controversy surrounding the Peace Resolution.
Box 34, Folder 4
Snow, R. manuscript (
On the Nature of Correlative
Inhibition
)
1937
Box 34, Folder 5
Dolk, Herman Elisa (
Geotropism and the Growth
Substance
)
1936
Historical note
Translation by Mrs. Frans Dolk-Hoek and Kennetth V. Thimann, May 1933.
Box 34, Folder 6
Spallanzani unidentified manuscript (
New Study of
the Arguments of Needman..
.)
circa
1930s-1950s
Box 34, Folder 7
Very, Anne-Alienor (
Formation of channel-like
structures...
)
1996
Box 34, Folder 8
Pickard, Barbara G. (
Mechanosensory Calcium Channels
in Plant Cells
)
undated
Box 34, Folder 9
Carr, Dennis J. (
Plant Growth
Substances...
)
1971
Box 34, Folder 10
Waterman-Storer and Holzbauer (
p150Glued interacts
with...
)
1994
Box 34, Folder 11
Kobayashi (
Occurrence of Novel
Enzymes...
)
1993-1995
Box 34, Folder 12
Leopold, Carl (
The Cholodny/Went
Theory
)
1991
Box 34, Folder 13
A Possible Role for Actin in Cell
Elongation
undated
Scope and Content
Includes photographs of figures.
Box 34, Folder 14
CRC Press correspondence
1976-1991
Box 35, Folder 1-4
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) manuscripts, figures,
correspondence
1953-1966,
1990-1995
Container Summary: 4
folders
Box 35, Folder 6
Wye College Plant-Growth Substances conference gallies
1955
Box 35, Folder 7
Manuscript evaluations
1966-1988
Box 35, Folder 8
Editorials, permissions
1957-1978
Box 27, Folder 8-9, Box 36-37
Miscellaneous reprints of writings by others
1956-1994
Container Summary: 19
folders
Scope and Content
Includes reprints of articles by various authors with which Thimann was associated
professionally, including Annette W. Coleman, Daneil J. Cosgrove and Zhen-Chang Li,
Harold J. Evans, P.K. Helper, Erasmo Marre, B.W. Poovaiah and A.N.S. Reddy, Tsvi
Sachs, John G. Torrey, Bernhard Witkop, and others.
Box 37, Folder 6
Miscellaneous reprints: "root growth"
1965-1989
Box 37, Folder 7
Miscellaneous reprints: "plant papers"
1973-1993
Box 38, Folder 1
Miscellaneous reprints: "tropisms"
1981-1989
Box 38, Folder 2
Miscellaneous reprints: "exudation"
1973-1980
Box 38-115, 134
Professional activity subject files
1930-1996
1960-1990
Scope and Content
This series primarily contains files on Thimann's activities within various national
and international foundations, societies, associations, and other professional
organizations, as well as campus committees and other groups at both Harvard and the
University of California Santa Cruz. Materials include meeting minutes and agendas,
bylaws, topical and financial reports, conference programs and proceedings, member
lists, newsletters, press releases, memos, correspondence, grant applications,
photographs, and other materials related to Thimann's professional involvement with
these groups. Also included in this series are correspondence and other materials
related to Thimann's editorial work for scientific journals and other publications, his
consulting work for companies and institutions, international travel, and some materials
related to his teaching career and lectures he gave at various institutions.
Additionally, Thimann kept a small number of subject files on various research topics,
which generally include correspondence, clippings, and other research materials.
Box 38, Folder 3
Academic Press, Inc.
1968-1984,
1989
Box 38, Folder 4
Académie d'Agriculture de France
1980-1988,
1995
Box 38, Folder 5
Académie des Sciences (Institute de France)
1978-1988,
1994
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 38, Folder 6
Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei
1967-1991
Box 38, Folder 8
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant
1974
Box 38, Folder 9-10, Box 39, Folder 1-6
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1964-1989,
1995-1996
Container Summary: 8
folders
Box 40, Folder 1-5, Box 39, Folder 7-8
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1970-1978
Container Summary: 7
folders
Biographical Note
Thimann served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science from 1968-1971.
Box 40, Folder 6
AAAS, San Francisco Meeting
1974
Box 40, Folder 7-8, Box 41, Folder 1-2
AAAS, Committee on Public Understanding of Science
1972-1976
Container Summary: 4
folders
Box 41, Folder 3
AAAS, Committee on Governance
1970-1971
Box 41, Folder 4
American Association of University Professors
1970-1980
Box 41, Folder 5
American Chemical Products
1964
Box 41, Folder 6
American Chemical Society
1967
Box 41, Folder 7
American Chemical Society, Chemical Abstracts
1930-1956
Box 41, Folder 8
American Chlorophyll, Inc.
1932
Box 41, Folder 9
American Council on Science and Health
1980-1981
Box 41, Folder 10
American Horticultural Society Congress, Seattle
1972
American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)
1966-1987
Container Summary: 9
folders
Box 41, Folder 11
First National Biological Congress
1970
Box 41, Folder 12
Second National Biological Congress
1969-1971
Box 41, Folder 13
Western Regional Council
1966-1967
Box 41, Folder 14
Committee on Reorganization
1968-1973
Box 41, Folder 15
American Tables Committee transcript, Naples
1967-1971
Box 41, Folder 16
Meeting of Society of Presidents
1973
Box 41, Folder 17
25th Anniversary Meeting
1966-1973
Box 42, Folder 1-2
Bioscience
1966-1987
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 42, Folder 3
American Journal of Botany
1953-1966
Box 43, Folder 1-4, Box 42, Folder 4-8
American Philosophical Society
1961-1995
Container Summary: 9
folders
Box 43, Folder 5
American Society of Biological Chemists
1967-1988
Box 43, Folder 6
American Society for Microbiology
1984
Box 43, Folder 7
American Society for Photobiology
1972-1973
Box 43-44, Box 134, Folder 1
American Society of Plant Physiologists (ASPP)
1949,
1963-1990
Container Summary: 12
folders
Scope and Content
Includes group photograph of Symposium on Plant Growth attendees, University of
Wisconsin, 1949.
Box 44, Folder 8
American Society of Plant Physiologists, Northeast section
1963-1965
Box 44, Folder 9
American Society of Plant Physiologists, Riverside Meeting
1974
Box 44, Folder 10
Annali Di Botanica, Rome
1984
Box 44, Folder 11
Annual Review of Plant Physiology
1962-1985
Box 45, Folder 1
Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
1958-1969
Box 45, Folder 2
Argonne National Laboratory
1957-1975
Box 45, Folder 4
Association for Tropical Biology
1963-1981
Box 45, Folder 5
Association of Plant Physiologists of SAARC Countries
1991
Box 45, Folder 6
Atomic Energy Agency (International)
1962-1971
Box 45, Folder 7
Australian National University
1985
Box 45, Folder 8
Energy Research and Development Administration Plant Research Laboratory
(AEC)
1976
Box 45, Folder 9-11
Balzan Foundation correspondence
1982-1994
Container Summary: 3
folders
Box 45, Folder 12
Balzan award acceptance photographs
circa
1982-1983
Biographical note
Thimann was awarded a Balzan Prize for Pure and Applied Botany in 1982.
Box 45, Folder 13
Balzan award press clippings, UCSC tribute
1982-1984
Box 46, Folder 1
Balzan award publications
1982
Box 46, Folder 2
Bangalore Conference, August 1985 (International Council on Scientific
Unions)
1984-1985
Box 46, Folder 3
Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company (Bioscience interview)
1979-1987
Box 46, Folder 4
Bibliography on the Gibberellins and related topics
circa 1956
Box 46, Folder 5
Biochemical Sciences
1941-1972
Box 46, Folder 6
Biochemical Society
1973-1984
Box 46, Folder 7
Biological Abstracts
1965-1983
Box 46, Folder 8
Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations (Advisory Committee)
1975
Box 46, Folder 9
Biological Mechanisms in Aging conference
1980-1985,
1995
Box 46, Folder 10
BioScience interview
1986
Box 46-48
Biosciences Information Service (BIOSIS)
1970-1989
Container Summary: 9
folders
Biographical note
Thimann served on the board of trustees of the Biosciences Information Service in the
1970s.
Box 48, Folder 2
Biosciences Information Service 50th Anniversary
1975-1977
Box 48, Folder 3-6
Biotron National Advisory Committee 1971-1973
1971-1982
Container Summary: 4
folders
Box 48, Folder 7
Pre-Biotron December 1959 conference
1959
Box 48, Folder 9
Botanical Gazette
1977-1981
Box 48, Folder 10-11
Botanical Society of America
1960-1988
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 48, Folder 12
British Plant Growth Regulator Group
1983
Box 49, Folder 1, Box 48, Folder 13
Brno, Czechoslovakia 1985 symposium (University of Agriculture)
1982-1988
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 49, Folder 2
Brookhaven National Laboratory
1948-1966
Box 49, Folder 3
Brookhaven visiting committee
1964-1968
Box 49, Folder 4
Brown University honorary degree
1989
Box 49, Folder 5
Brown University seminar
1982-1987
Box 49, Folder 6
Bulgaria (Symposium on Plant Grown Regulators)
1981-1986
Box 49, Folder 7
Cabot Foundation (
Physiology of Forest
Trees
)
1957
Box 49, Folder 8
Calgary meeting, Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists (CSPP)/International
Association of Plant Physiologists (IAPP)
1980
Box 49, Folder 9
California Botanical Society
1977
Box 49, Folder 10
California Horticulture Society
1977
Box 49, Folder 11-12
California Legislature (Science and Technology Advisory Council)
1969-1970
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 49, Folder 13
California Native Plant Society
1975-1987
Box 49, Folder 14
Canadian Journal of Botany and Forest Research
1964-1975
Box 49, Folder 15
Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists
1958-1980
Scope and Content
Includes group photograph of conference attendees at the 9th Annual Research
Conference in Plant Physiology in Saskatoon, 1958.
Box 49, Folder 16
Carleton University, Ottawa (International Conference on Plant Growth
Substances)
1967-1969
Box 49, Folder 17
Carleton University visit
1969
Box 50, Folder 1
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford University
1972-1983
Box 50, Folder 2
Chemicals (purchasing correspondence)
1956-1982
Box 50, Folder 3
University of Chicago lecture
1970-1971
Box 50, Folder 4
China (trips, lectures)
1972-1990
Box 50, Folder 5
CIBA-Geigy Corporation
1975
Box 50, Folder 6
Coconut Symposium (International Symposium on Coconut Research and
Development)
1975-1976
Box 50, Folder 7
Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)
1975
Box 50, Folder 8
Commonwealth Club of California
1969-1974
Box 50, Folder 9
Comprehensive Biochemistry (Elsevier
Publishing Company)
1960-1979
Box 50, Folder 11
Cornell University visits (seminars)
1961-1979
Box 50, Folder 12
CRM Books (publishers)
1970-1975
Box 50, Folder 13
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
1975
Box 50, Folder 14
Commission on Undergraduate Education in the Biological Sciences
(CUEBS)
1965-1969
Box 50, Folder 15
Culture Media, etc.
undated
Box 50, Folder 16
Culture requests
1969-1971
Box 50, Folder 17
Cytokin Metabolism and Molecular Activities
1980
Box 50, Folder 18
Death Valley field trip
1969
Box 50, Folder 19, Box 51, Folder 1-5
DDT
1949-1975
Container Summary: 6
folders
Scope and Content
Includes photocopied articles, reports, and correspondence related to the study of
the environmental effects of DDT.
Box 51, Folder 6
Department of Defense
1974
Box 51, Folder 7
Delta-T (Degagon Devices)
1986
Box 51, Folder 8
Desert Research Institute
1978-1981
Box 51, Folder 9, Box 52, Folder 1
Dolk, Herman
1930
Container Summary: 2
folders
Biographical note
Herman Dolk was a plant physiologist with whom Thimann worked while at the California
Institute of Technology in the early 1930s. Their work related to the isolation of the
growth hormone auxin. Dolk died in an auto accident in 1933.
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence and research notes sent to and produced by Herman Dolk.
Materials relate to the planning and construction of a biological laboratory at
Caltech, the purchase of books and laboratory supplies and equipment, and a
publication in the American Journal of Botany.
Box 52, Folder 2
Drugs and their effects
1971-1972
Box 52, Folder 3
Duke University talk
1965
Box 52, Folder 5
Elsevier Publishing Company
1966-1973
Box 52, Folder 6
Electron microscope
1972-1977
Box oversize
Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund trust document (photostat)
1958
Box 52, Folder 7
Endocrinology group (University of California)
1973-1987
Box 52, Folder 9
Environmental and Experimental
Botany
1979
Box 52, Folder 10
Environmental Studies
1976
Box 52, Folder 11
Equipment & Natural Sciences building (UCSC)
1982-1988
Box 52, Folder 15
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
1963-1984
Box 52, Folder 16
Federation of American Scientists
1975
Box 52, Folder 17
Federation of Asian and Oceanic Biochemists congress, Singapore
1985-1987
Box 52, Folder 18
Federation of Atomic Scientists
1948-1973
Box 53, Folder 1
Florida State University
1978
Box 54, Folder 1-2, Box 53, Folder 3-8
Forest History Society
1968-1977
Container Summary: 8
folders
Biographical Note
Thimann served on the board of the Forest History Society in the early 1970s, and was
the chair of the Plant and Properties Committee during this time.
Box 54, Folder 3-4
Forest maintenance and forestry (UCSC)
1969-1985
Container Summary: 2
folders
Scope and Content
Includes forest maintenance maps of the University of California Santa Cruz
campus.
Box 54-57
Foundation for Microbiology
1951-1991
Container Summary: 21
folders
Biographical Note
Thimann served on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Foundation for
Microbiology in the late 1950s through the early 1960s, and on the Board of Trustees
from the late 1960s through the 1980s.
Box 57, Folder 4
Foundation of the Higher Council for Scientific Research
1964
Box 57, Folder 6
Fundacion de Investigaciones Medicas, Cuba
1953
Box 57, Folder 7
GAF Corporation v. Amchem Products
1979
Box 57, Folder 9
Garden Magazine
1977-1978
Box 57, Folder 10
Gibberellic Acid
1956-1974
Box 57, Folder 11
Gif-sur-Yvette conference (Centre National de la Rechereche
Scientifique)
1963
Scope and Content
Includes photographs of conference.
Box 57, Folder 12
Gordon Research Conference on Plant Senescence
1984-1988
Scope and Content
Includes group photographs of conference attendees.
Box 57, Folder 13
Greenhouse, growth chambers
1961-1987
Box 58, Folder 1
Guggenheim fellowships
1988
Box 58, Folder 2
Guillotine requests
1962-1969
Box 58, Folder 3
Hall of Fame of Great Americans
1976-1977
Box 58, Folder 4
Harcourt, Brace and Company (publishers)
1952-1957
Box 58, Folder 5
Harvard University Archives
1976-1989
Related Archival Materials
Harvard University Archives maintains a collection of Thimann's papers: Papers of
Kenneth V. Thimann, 1929-1988.
Box 58-62, Box 134, Folder 3
Herbicides (2,4-D)
1950-1987
1974-1987
Container Summary: 27
folders
Biographical Note
Thimann served as a consultant and expert witness for Dow Chemical Company, Stauffer
Chemical, and other companies for several cases involving the public health effects of
the herbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, both of which were used in the herbicide Agent
Orange.
Scope and Content
These files primarily include articles, clippings, newsletters, press releases,
reports, and other research material on the public health effects of the herbicides
2,4-D and 2,4,5-T. Also included is correspondence with Dow Chemical and its legal
representatives, and legal documents such as briefs, memorandums, witness lists,
direct testimonies, and trial transcripts relating to one or more cases between the
Environmental Protection Agency and the Dow Chemical Company.
Some files contain correspondence with Ronald L. Napier and other law firms about
several cases involving these herbicides, including Dupree vs. Woodbury, et al.,
Bryant Dupree vs. Southern Mill Creek et al., and Jack Lee Smith vs. Naples Fruit
& Vegetables. There is also correspondence relating to a 1981 California State
Water Board hearing on the use of 2,4-D, as well as correspondence with Thimann's
colleagues in the scientific community about the agricultural application of 2,4,5-T
and other herbicides, their use during the Vietnam War, and resulting public health
concerns.
Box 62, Folder 5
Herman Frasch Foundation
1961-1966
Box 62, Folder 6
Hermann Éditeurs Des Sciences Et Des Arts
1983
Box 62, Folder 9
Hopkins Marine Station C. B. van Niel Memorial Lecture group
photograph
1986
Box 62, Folder 10
IAA-C14 indoleacetic acid
1960-1963
Box 62, Folder 11
University of Illinois lecture
1984-1985
Box 62, Folder 12
India: "matters arising & general"
1957-1978
Biographical note
Thimann was a visiting professor for several universities in India in the summer of
1957 under the U.S. Department of State International Educational Exchange
Service.
Scope and Content
Includes photograph of Kenneth and Jane Thimann at the University of Poona
(Savitribai Phule Pune University), in Pune, India.
Box 62, Folder 13
Indian Agricultural Research Institute
1983
Box 62, Folder 14
Indian Society for Plant Physiology
1959-1982
Box 63, Folder 1-2
Indian Ph.D. exams
1954-1989
Container Summary: 2
folders
Biographical Note
Thimann served as an examiner of several Ph.D. theses for students in India.
Box 63, Folder 3
Indiana University lecture
1972-1973
Box 63, Folder 4
Indole Biochemistry and Gibberellin
1933-1973
Box 63, Folder 5
Institut International
1983
Box 63, Folder 6
Institute for Education Management report on UCSC
1963
Box 63, Folder 7
Institute of Biology
1972
Box 63, Folder 8-10
Institute of Experimental Botany international symposiums,
Liblice
1984,
1987-1991
Container Summary: 3
folders
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 64, Folder 1
Institute of Medical Research
1981-1982
Box 64, Folder 2-4
International Association for Plant Physiology
1955-1987
Container Summary: 3
folders
Box 64, Folder 5-8
International Biological Program (National Research Council)
1972-1976
Container Summary: 4
folders
International Botanical Congress (IBC) files
1950-1988
Container Summary: 52
folders
Box 65, Folder 1
9th IBC, Montreal
1957-1959
Box 65, Folder 2
10th IBC, Edinburgh
1953-1964
11th IBC, Seattle
1963-1970
Container Summary: 44
folders
Biographical note
Thimann served as President of the XIth International Botanical Congress in
1969.
Box 65, Folder 3
11th IBC National Committee group photograph
1969
Box 107, Folder 20
Foreign attendees
1968-1969
Box 108, Folder 1
Chailakhian (Russian attendee)
1968-1969
Box 108, Folder 3
Executive Committee
1968-1969
Box 108, Folder 4
Finance Committee
1967-1969
Box 108, Folder 5
Committee on Future Congresses
1969
Box 108, Folder 9
Invitations to Thimann
1969
Box 108, Folder 10
Journal publications
1967-1968
Box 108, Folder 12-13
General
1963-1969
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 108, Folder 14
National Committee
1968-1969
Box 108, Folder 15
Resolutions Committee
1969
Box 108, Folder 16
"Multi-Matters"
1968-1969
Box 109, Folder 7
Pre-congress meetings
1968-1969
Box 109, Folder 10
Publication sales
1968-1969
Box 109, Folder 11
Minutes (various committees)
1968-1969
Box 110, Folder 1
Commemorative stamps
1968-1969
Box 110, Folder 3
Trip schedule and reservations
1968-1969
Box 110, Folder 4-5
Vice Presidents
1968-1969
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 65, Folder 4-5
12th IBC, Russia
1970-1974
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 65, Folder 6
13th IBC, Sydney
1974-1981
Box 65, Folder 7
14th IBC, West Berlin
1987-1988
Box 65, Folder 8
Committee on Future Congresses
1959-1973
Box 65, Folder 9
International Congress of Biochemistry, USSR
1960-1962
Box 65, Folder 10
International congresses, general
1949-1971
Box 66, Folder 1-2, Box 65, Box 11-12
International Photobiology Congress
1957-1968
Container Summary: 4
folders
Box 66, Folder 3
International Plant Growth Conference (Boyce Thompson)
1959-1961
Scope and Content
Includes group photograph of conference attendees.
Box 66, Folder 4
International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA)
1970-1975
International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) conference
files
1970-1988
Container Summary: 9
folders
Box 66, Folder 5-8
IPGSA 1973 Conference, Tokyo
1970-1974
Container Summary: 4
folders
Box 66, Folder 9
IPGSA 9th Conference, Lausanne
1974-1978
Box 67, Folder 1
IPGSA 10th Conference, Madison
1978-1981
Box 67, Folder 2
IPGSA 11th Conference, Aberystwyth
1981-1983
Box 67, Folder 3
IPGSA 12th Conference, Heidelberg
1985-1986
Box 67, Folder 4
IPGSA 13th Conference, Calgary
1987-1988
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 67, Folder 5
International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) history
1988
Box 67, Folder 6
International Plant Propagators Society Banquet, St. Paul
1970
Box 67, Folder 7
International Review of Cytology
1976
Box 67, Folder 8
International Textbook Company
1970
Box 68, Folder 1, Box 67, Folder 9-12
International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS)
1950-1984
Container Summary: 5
folders
Box 68, Folder 2-3
International Union of Biological Sciences: XVII General Assembly
1970
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 68, Folder 4
International Union of Biological Sciences: 1976 Meeting,
Bangalore
1974-1977
Box 68, Folder 5
Invitations, various
1965-1972
Box 68, Folder 6
Iowa State University Loomis Lecture
1983-1984
Box 68, Folder 7-8
Isotopes, chemicals, equipment
1952-1988
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 69, Folder 1
Izmir, Turkey (NATO Advanced Study Institute on Plant Regulation)
1978-1983
Box 69, Folder 2
Japan trip & Japan miscellaneous
1972-1973
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 69, Folder 3
Japan-U.S. Cooperative Science Program
1964-1974
Box 69, Folder 4
John Innes Institute
1977
Box 69, Folder 5
Johns Hopkins University McCollum-Pratt Institute Symposium
1960
Box 69, Folder 6
Journals (sale, donations)
1974-1988
Box 69, Folder 8
Kettering Research Laboratory
1983
Box 69, Folder 9
Kirkland & Ellis
1980-1983
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence and testimony drafts for Dow Chemical federal hearings before
the Environmental Protection Agency about the use of the herbicide 2,4,5-T. See
Herbicides files in the Professional activity subject files series for related
material.
Box 69, Folder 10
Lalor Foundation
1951-1962
Box 69, Folder 11
Lambada Institute (Porometer)
1977-1983
Box 69, Folder 13
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
1977-1984
Box 70, Folder 2
Library: UCSC & Crown College
1979-1989
Box 70, Folder 3
Life Lab Science Program, Green Acres
1983-1988
Box 70, Folder 4
"Lighter material" (humor)
1940-1965
Box 70, Folder 5
Little, Arthur D.
1952-1963
Box 70, Folder 6
U.S. National Commission Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB)
1973
Box 70, Folder 7
Macmillan Publishers
1950-1972
Box 70, Folder 8
Macmillan Publishers (
The Life of Bacteria and
Biology of Bacteria)
1952-1966
Box 70, Folder 9
Magazine subscriptions
1968-1971
Box 70, Folder 10
Mark Twain Society
1977-1980
Box 70, Folder 11
Marquette University Wehr Science Center Dedication
1967
Box 70, Folder 12
McGill University lecture
1968
Box 70, Folder 13
McKnight Foundation
1982-1989
Box 70, Folder 14
Mercury and Better Times Roses (case and experiments)
1957-1958
Box 70, Folder 15-16
Michigan State University Advisory Board: Plant Research Lab
1965-1970
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 70, Folder 17
Michigan State University lab dedication symposium
1966-1967
Box 71, Folder 1
Michigan State University symposium
1977-1978
Box 71, Folder 2
Monochromators (Bausch & Lomb)
1964-1979
Box 71-82, 110-112
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
1962-1995
Container Summary: 91
folders
Biographical note
Thimann served on several committees for the National Academy of Sciences. Below is a
listing of known committee memberships and positions:
- Chairman, Botany Section (1963-1965)
- U.S. Committee for the International Biological Committee (1965)
- Class II Membership Committee (1966)
- Chairman, Class II Membership Committee (1967)
- Council (1968-1972)
- Nominating Committee for President and Vice President (1972)
- Executive Committee, Assembly of Life Sciences (1973-1976)
Processing information
Thimann's National Academy of Science files, while originally arranged in rough
chronological order, were arranged alphabetically for ease of use.
Box 71, Folder 3-4
Annual meetings
1968, 1970
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 72, Folder 1-6, Box 71, Folder 5-8
Assembly of Life Sciences (ALS): general files
1973-1985
Container Summary: 10
folders
Box 72, Folder 7
Assembly of Life Sciences: budget and authorization request
1975
Box 72, Folder 8
Assembly of Life Sciences: Division of Biological Sciences
1975
Box 72, Folder 9
Assembly of Life Sciences: Executive Committee meeting minutes
1975
Box 72, Folder 10
Assembly of Life Sciences: National Research Council agendas and
meetings
1975
Box 73, Folder 1
Biographical memoir: David R. Goddard
1985-1991
Box 73, Folder 2
Board of Trustees of the Charles Doolittle Walcott Fund
1971-1976
Box 73, Folder 3
Committee on Jojoba Utilization report
1974-1975
Box 73, Folder 4-5
Committee on Photobiology
1962-1965
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 73, Folder 6-9
Committee on Plant Science Planning
1962-1966
Container Summary: 4
folders
Box 74, Folder 1
Committee on Report Reviews
1970
Box 74, Folder 2-7
Committee on Research Advisory to the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA)
1969-1973
Container Summary: 6
folders
Box 75, Folder 1-2
Committee on Research Advisory to USDA: Subcommittee to Evaluate Research
in Biochemical Sciences in Agriculture
1970-1971
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 75, Folder 3
Committee on Research Advisory to USDA: USDA regional laboratory site visit
(Albany, California)
1970
Box 75, Folder 4-7
Committee on Scholarly Communications with Mainland China
1969-1971,
1975
Container Summary: 4
folders
Box 75, Folder 8
Committee on Science and Public Policy
1962-1969
Box 75, Folder 9
Committee on Science and Public Policy: Plant Sciences Report
1965-1977
Box 75, Folder 10, Box 76, Folder 1-4
Council
1968-1972
Container Summary: 5
folders
Box 76, Folder 5-6
Class II Committee
1973-1974
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 76, Folder 7
Division of Biology and Agriculture
1953-1966
Scope and Content
Includes group photograph of participants in the Conference on Mitogenesis and
Morphogenesis, 1953.
Box 76-80
NAS general files
1963-1995
Container Summary: 31
folders
Scope and Content
Includes programs, correspondence, memos, meeting minutes and agendas, reports,
manuscript drafts, nomination files, and other materials related to Thimann's
involvement with the National Academy of Sciences.
Box 80, Folder 6
Nominating Committee
1974-1975
Box 80, Folder 7, Box 81, Folder 1-4
Nominations
1972-1978, 1984,
1994
Container Summary: 5
folders
Box 81, Folder 5-7
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences
1973,
1976-1977
Container Summary: 3
folders
Space Science Board
1962-1973
Biographical note
Thimann chaired the Conference on Space Biology in the summer of 1969 at UCSC's
Crown College in his capacity as a member of the Space Biology Board of the National
Academy of Sciences.
Related materials
For more materials related to the Space Science Board, see Thimann's files on the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Box 110, Folder 8
Study on Space Science and applications priorities
1970
Box 110, Folder 9
Summer Space Study declined invitations
1969
Box 111, Folder 1-2
Space Biology summer study report
1969
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 111, Folder 3
Summer Space Study lists and miscellaneous
1969
Box 111, Folder 4-5
Space Science Board meeting
1970
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 111, Folder 6
Biosatellite II report
1967-1968
Box 112, Folder 1
NASA Life Sciences Program, Woods Hole
1970
Box 112, Folder 2-6
NASA report (Summer Space Study)
1969-1973
Container Summary: 5
folders
Box 82, Folder 2
Strategic Defense Initiative "Star Wars" newspaper clippings
1985
Box 82, Folder 3
Vietnam Herbicides
1974-1976
Box 82, Folder 4-10
Naples station (Stazione Zoologica)
1961-1983
Container Summary: 7
folders
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
1965-1984
Related materials
For more materials related to NASA and the Space Science Board, see Thimann's files
on the Space Science Board in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) subseries.
Box 82, Folder 11
Space biology/Space Science Program
1970-1984
Box 83, Folder 2
Symposium on the Biosatellite II Experiments, Washington D.C.
1968
Box 83, Folder 3-4
NASA General
1965-1973
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 83, Folder 5
National Institute on Aging
1972-1980
Box 83, Folder 6
National Institutes of Health
1977-1986
National Science Foundation (NSF)
1959-1990
Container Summary: 20
folders
Box 83, Folder 7
UCSC contracts and grants memos
1982-1988
Box 83, Folder 8
National Science Board
1965-1972
Box 83-85
NSF grant files
1965-1982
Container Summary: 8
folders
Scope and Content
Thimann's National Science Foundation grant files include grant proposals, reports,
memos, correspondence, and other materials related to a series of grants Thimann
secured to support his laboratory and research at the University of California Santa
Cruz.
Box 85, Folder 2-3
NSF grant renewal
1983-1988
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 85, Folder 4
NSF grant orders
1976-1979
Box 85, Folder 5
NSF grant statements
1976-1988
Box 86, Folder 1, Box 85, Folder 6-7
NSF general files
1962-1990
Container Summary: 3
folders
Box 86, Folder 2
Division of Biological and Medica Science
1959-1965
Box 86, Folder 3
Proposals (evaluations)
1972-1976
Box 86, Folder 4
Conference on Neotropical Botany, Trinidad
1962
Box 86, Folder 5
National Symposia on Progress in Hormonal Research (School of Life Sciences,
Indore, India)
1994-1995
Box 86, Folder 6
New Root Formation in Plants & Cuttings
(Jackson)
1983-1985
Box 86, Folder 7
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Study
Institute
1971
Box 86, Folder 8
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Study Institute,
Parma
1977-1983
Box 86, Folder 9
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) grant
1983-1986
Box 87, Folder 1, Box 86, Folder 10
North Carolina State University Botany Department report
1976-1978
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 87, Folder 2
Northern California Freedom From Hunger Committee
1966
Box 87, Folder 5
Oberlin College seminar
1965-1966
Box 87, Folder 6
Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress)
1984-1985
Box 87, Folder 7
Ohio State University: Waller lecture, etc.
1977-1978
Box 87, Folder 8
Operations Research Group (U.S. Navy)
1945
Box 87, Folder 9
Oregon State University Department of Botany and Plant Biology
report
1969
Box 87, Folder 10
Organization for Tropical Studies, Inc.
1974-1977
Box 87, Folder 12
Pacific Horticultural Foundation
1980-1981
Box 87, Folder 13
Pacific Science Association
1975
Box 87, Folder 14
Paris-Sorbonne University visit
1972
Box 88, Folder 1, Box 87, Folder 15-17
Patents
1934-1947,
1980-1992
Container Summary: 4
folders
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence, patent claims, affidavits, pleadings, and other materials
related to Thimann's consultation in several patent cases involving weed-killing
agents and plant growth hormones. Thimann consulted in Sherwin Williams vs. American
Chemical Paint Company, Merck & Co. et al. vs. Pennsylvania Chemical Corporation,
GAF Corporation vs. Amchem Products, Inc., and other cases. Also includes
correspondence, notes, and records of invention for a patent on an oxygen-measuring
device Thimann pursued while at the University of California Santa Cruz in the 1980s,
as well as a 1949 patent for green camouflage paint.
Box 88, Folder 3
Phycological Society of America
1987-1988
Box 88, Folder 4
Physiologia Plantarum
1988
Box 88, Folder 5
Plant actin project grant (University of Pennsylvania)
1990-1991
Box 88, Folder 6-8
Plant Genetics, Inc.
1981-1989
Container Summary: 3
folders
Box 88, Folder 9
Plant Growth Regulation (journal)
1981
Box 88, Folder 10
Plant Growth Regulator Society of America annual meetings
1982-1988
Box 88, Folder 11
Plant Growth Regulator Working Group bulletins
1973-1984
Box 89, Folder 1
Plant Physiology journal reviews
1977-1983
Box 89, Folder 2
Plant Population Ecology
undated
Box 89, Folder 3
Plant Science Monographs and World Crops
1973
Box 89, Folder 4
Plenum Publishing Corporation
1967-1970
Box 89, Folder 5
President's Committee on the National Medal of Science
1962-1988
Box 89, Folder 6
President's Food and Nutrition Study
1974
Box 89, Folder 7
Princeton University Advisory Council of the Department of
Biology
1950-1951
Box 89, Folder 8, Box 155
Princeton University Bicentennial Conference on Chemistry and Physiology of
Growth
1946
Scope and Content
Includes group photograph and list of conference attendees.
Box 89, Folder 9
Princeton University Cytoplasmic Streaming symposium
1963
Box 89, Folder 11
Radcliffe College East House
1961-1963
Scope and Content
Includes Executive Committee meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, and
brochures. Includes a thank you note from Eleanor Roosevelt.
Box 89, Folder 12
Recommendations to universities
1967-1972
Box 89, Folder 13
Recorder (photographs)
undated
Box 89, Folder 14-15
Redwood Institute Research Program (UCSC)
1978-1986
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 90, Folder 2
Romania Academy Exchange visit
1968-1971
Box 90, Folder 3
Roussel Scientific Institute
1984-1985
Box 90, Folder 4-6
Royal Society (England)
1968-1996
Container Summary: 3
folders
Box 90, Folder 7
Royal Society of Edinburgh
1964
Box 90, Folder 8
Royal Society of Chemistry
1988
Box 90, Folder 9
Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) lecture
series
1980-1991
Box 90, Folder 10
Saint Louis visit (Monsanto)
1981-1982
Box 90, Folder 11
Salinas seminar (U.S. Agricultural Research Station)
1982
Box 90, Folder 12
Santa Cruz High School
1982
Box 90, Folder 13
Santa Cruz Organization for Progress and Euthenics (SCOPE)
1978
Box 90, Folder 14
Saratoga Horticultural Foundation
1971
Box 90, Folder 15
Schools (correspondence with grade school students)
1980-1985,
undated
Box 91, Folder 1
Science (journal)
1963-1985
Box 91, Folder 2
Science Writing Program (UCSC)
1978-1988
Box 91, Folder 3
Scientific American
1950-1980
Box 91, Folder 4
Scientists for Orlov and Shcharansky
1979-1980
Box 91, Folder 6
Senescence and aging
1983-1988
Box 91, Folder 7
Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology visit
1985
Box 91, Folder 8
Smithsonian Institution (general)
1968-1986
Box 91, Folder 9
Society for Developmental Biology
1947-1979
Box 91, Folder 10
Society for the Study of Growth and Development
1946
Box 91, Folder 11
Society of American Bacteriologists
1953-1961
Box 91, Folder 12
Society of General Physiologists
1989
Box 91, Folder 13
Society of General Physiologists meeting, Storrs Connecticut
1956
Box 92, Folder 1-3
Society of Sigma XI (Harvard University)
1948-1967
Container Summary: 3
folders
Box 92, Folder 4
Sorbonne University
1954-1955
Box 92, Folder 5
South Africa visit (South African Association of Botanists)
1975-1976
Box 92, Folder 8
Springer-Verlag Publishers
1969-1987
Box 92, Folder 9
Stanford Research Institute (consulting)
1968-1970
Box 92, Folder 10
Stock (inventory of chemicals, UCSC)
1982
Box 92, Folder 12, Box 93, Folder 1-2
Undergraduate student theses
1939-1952
Container Summary: 3
folders
Scope and Content
Includes the theses of David Kaufman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Wiley
F. Barker, Joel Rothschild, Ruth Reichart, and Kevin J. Fenton (Harvard
University).
Box 162
Course reports (Harvard)
1950-1954
Access
Student records, including student work, are restricted 75 years after the date of
creation. This folder is restricted until 2029.
Box 162
Course reports and undergraduate thesis (UCSC)
1971-1983
Access
Student records, including student work, are restricted 75 years after the date of
creation. This folder is restricted until 2058.
Box 93, Folder 3
Symposium on roots (Institute on Experimental Biology and
Ecology)
1979
Box 93, Folder 4
Syracuse University visit (evaluation of Botany Department)
1970
Box 93, Folder 5
Table Ronde Roussel ("Plant Growth Regulators")
1971-1972
Scope and Content
Includes conference photographs.
Box 93, Folder 8
Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin
1959-1976
Box 93, Folder 11
Union of Concerned Scientists
1982
University of California (UC)
1966-1989
Box 94, Folder 1
UC Agricultural Task Force
1973-1976
Box 94, Folder 2
UC Berkeley History of Science (courses)
1978-1979
Box 94, Folder 3
UC Committee on Academic Freedom
1979
Box 94, Folder 4
UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara
1966-1983
Box 94, Folder 7
UC President's Visiting Committee (Campus Advisory Committee)
1979-1981
Box 94, Folder 8
UC Riverside Annual Symposium on Plant Physiology
1979-1989
Box 95, Folder 1
UC/Southern University Joint Program
1984
University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
1961-1994
Container Summary: 11
boxes
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence, memos, newspaper clippings, reports, photographs, and other
materials related to his role as provost of Crown College and professor of Biology,
and his participation in a variety of campus committees and groups, most notably the
UCSC Arboretum Affiliates and the Crown Chamber Players.
Box 95, Folder 3
Accounting student scores
1986
Box 95, Folder 4
Admissions newspaper clippings
1978-1982
Box 162
Ad Hoc Committees
1969-1981
Access
Personnel records are restricted 75 years after the date of creation. This folder
is restricted until 2056.
Scope and Content
Includes personnel records related to faculty appointments and reviews.
Box 95, Folder 5
Advance calendar
1980-1983
Box 95, Folder 7
UCSC Affiliates
1978-1983
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs and negatives.
Box 95, Folder 8
Affirmative Action
1978-1980
Box 95, Folder 9
Affirmative Action Cooperative Extension Program report
1980
Box 95, Folder 10
Affirmative Action Personnel Program
1976-1983
UCSC Arboretum
1961-1994
Container Summary: 27
folders
Scope and Content
Thimann's Arboretum files include correspondence, memos, meeting minutes and
agendas of the Arboretum Associates and other Arboretum committees, press releases,
newsletters, newspaper and magazine clippings, blueprints, slides, and other
material related to the planning, development, and funding of the UCSC
Arboretum.
Box 96, Folder 3
Arboretum/Gardeners of Monterey Bay Area
1975-1986
Box 96, Folder 5-7
Arboretum and Plantations Committee (Arboretum Advisory
Committee)
1967-1986
Container Summary: 3
folders
Box 97, Folder 1
Training fellowships
1976-1989
Box 97, Folder 3
William Libby "At Home and Abroad" lecture slides
circa
1981
Box 98, Folder 1-5, Box 97, Folder 4-8
Arboretum general files
1961-1984
Container Summary: 10
folders
Box 99, Folder 1-6, Box 98, Folder 6-7
Arboretum general/Arboretum Associates
1984-1994
Container Summary: 8
folders
Box 99, Folder 7
Art, murals (clippings, photographs)
1976-1980
Box 99, Folder 9
Asian American Studies
1978,
1982
Box 99, Folder 10
Athletics upgrading
1979-1985
Box 100, Folder 2
Audits (general)
1979-1982
Box 100, Folder 3
Career Services student employment
1986
Box 100, Folder 4
Chancellor search committee
1974
Box 100, Folder 5
Committee for reviewing research projects/Faculty Research Lecture
Committee
1982-1986
Box 100, Folder 6-7
Committee on Academic Freedom
1976-1979
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 100, Folder 8
Committee on Arts and Lectures
1977-1981
Box 100, Folder 9
Committee on Committees
1984-1985
Box 100, Folder 10
Committee on the 18th Year/20-Year Plan
1977-1985
Box 101, Folder 1-8, Box 102, Folder 1-6
Crown Chamber Players
1967-1996
Container Summary: 14
folders
Biographical note
Thimann founded the UCSC Crown Chamber Players with his wife Mary Ann Bateman
Thimann in 1966 while serving as Provost of Crown College.
Scope and Content
Includes programs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, financial statements, and
other material related to the development, funding, and management of the UCSC Crown
Chamber Players.
Box 102, Folder 7-8
Environmental Field Program
1978-1981
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 103, Folder 1
Environmental Studies Internship Program
1978-1982
Box 103, Folder 4
Kenneth and Anne Thimann Scholarship
1984-1994
Box 103, Folder 5
Landscape Design Master's degree proposal
1979-1980
Box 162
Natural Sciences Dean search committee
1980
Access
This folder is restricted until 2040.
Scope and Content
Includes personnel records.
Box 103, Folder 7
Network for Excellence in Education
1984-1986
Box 103, Folder 9
Open House
1979
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs and negatives.
Box 103, Folder 12
Re-entry Program
1978,1986
Box 103, Folder 13
Regents investments/Special Committee on Social Responsibility in
Investment
1978,
1983
Box 103, Folder 14
Regional History Project
1987,
1990
Historical note
The UCSC Regional History Office conduced an oral history of Thimann in 1987
entitled
Kenneth V. Thimann: Early UCSC History and the
Founding of Crown College
. Available via UCSC Library Search and
eScholarship.
Box 103, Folder 15
Research Opportunity Fund
1983-1989
Box 103, Folder 16
Retirement benefits
1985-1986
Box 104, Folder 1, Box 103, Folder 17
Seminars and talks
1967-1985
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 104, Folder 4
Social Research Unit
1980
Box 104, Folder 5
Southeast Asian Studies
1980-1982
Box 104, Folder 6
Thursday Lunch Group (UCSC campus planning)
1986-1988
Box 104-106
UCSC General files
1964-1989
Container Summary: 14
folders
Scope and Content
Thimann's general UCSC files primarily include memos, correspondence, and reports
circulated to the university administration, the academic senate, faculty, and the
general campus on a variety of topics related to the planning, growth, organization,
and governance of UCSC. Topics covered in most files include administrative and
faculty appointments, narrative evaluations and the grade option, enrollment,
affirmative action, student services, employee benefits, sexual harassment, parking,
housing, campus planning, campus reorganization, campus facilities,
community-university relations, the Research and Development Center, and the Long
Range Development Plan.
Box 106, Folder 3-4
Late UCSC-related correspondence and clippings
1990-1996
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 106, Folder 5
University of Kentucky seminar
1978-1979
Box 106, Folder 6
University of Madras international symposium
1980-1981
Box 106, Folder 7
University of Missouri biological sciences panel
1967
Box 106, Folder 8
University of Nebraska visit
1973, 1980
Box 106, Folder 9
University of Rochester
1976
Box 106, Folder 10
University of Santa Clara Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research
Conference
1980
Box 106, Folder 11
University of Saskatchewan visit
1963-1965
Box 106, Folder 12
University of Singapore group photograph
1976
Box 106, Folder 13
University of Wisconsin lecture
1980
Box 106, Folder 14
University of Wisconsin symposium (Pathogenesis and Metabolism in
Plants)
1964-1965
Box 106, Folder 15
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1971-1987
Box 107, Folder 1
USSR (scientists in Soviet Union)
1959-1973
Box 107, Folder 2
United Nations (Americans for the Universality of UNESCO)
1984-1986
Box 107, Folder 3
Vanderbilt University visit
1968-1972
Box 107, Folder 4
Vanilla (reprints)
1919-1959
Box 107, Folder 5
Wake Forest University tutorial program
1988-1989
Box 107, Folder 6
Weizmann Centenary Celebration
1974
Box 107, Folder 7
What's New in Plant Physiology
1980-1986
Box 107, Folder 8
Wolf Foundation
1987-1988
Box 107, Folder 9
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship selection committee (Tufts
University)
1964-1965,
1973
Box 107, Folder 11
Yale University (Kline Biology Tower)
1968
Box 107, Folder 12
Zenk, Meinhart H. biographical material
undated
Box 134, Folder 4
Zesde Internationaal Botanisch Congres attendees, Amsterdam
1935
Box 107, Folder 13
Zoecon Corporation
1973-1974
Box 107, Folder 15
Miscellaneous unidentified lab photographs, Harvard
circa
1930s-1950s
Box 113
Department of Education San Diego Specialized Teacher Project
circa 1960s
Container Summary: 3
reels
Scope and Content
Possible recording of a meeting, conference, or talk.
Physical characteristics
16mm film.
Box 114
Property of the American Chemical Society #105 audio tape
circa 1960s
Container Summary: 1
reel
Scope and Content
Possible recording of a meeting, conference, or talk of the American Chemical
Society.
Physical characteristics
1/4 inch audio tape.
Box 114
Stenorette and Scotch brand magnetic audio recording tapes (unknown
contents)
circa 1960s
Container Summary: 5
reels
Physical characteristics
1/4 inch audio tape.
Box 115
Ampex brand film reel (unknown contents)
circa 1960s
Container Summary: 1
reel
Physical characteristics
16mm film.
Box 116-130
Correspondence
1936-1995
Scope and Content
This series contains a group of correspondence files that Thimann arranged
alphabetically by name, as well as several thematic correspondence files related to his
work at the University of California Santa Cruz, his late career, and other topics.
Personal correspondence is also included.
Box 116-128
Professional correspondence: alphabetical files
1936-1995
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with and about various colleagues, students, and associates
of Thimann, as well as related materials such as reprints, student theses, and grant
applications. Includes editorial commentary on articles authored by Thimann and
others, recommendations for students and colleagues for fellowships, grants, awards,
memberships and other positions, reprint requests, thank you notes, correspondence
related to research projects and grants, and other professional correspondence.
Separated Materials
Student records containing personally identifiable information were separated from
the collection.
Access
Some files contain personnel records or student work, which is restricted for 75
years after the date of creation. Materials are restricted by the folder.
Box 116
Ball, Ernest A.
1986-1993
Box 116
Beevers, Harry
1961-1986,
1990
Box 116
Bonner, James
1977-1989,
1993
Box 116
Bonner, Walter D.
1947-1981
Box 116
Bousquet, Jean-Francois
1981-1986
Box 116
Burg, Stanley P.
1960-1984
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 116
Burke, Patricia
1969-1973
Box 117
Chen, Shepley S. C.
1962-1973
Box 117
Choe, Hyung T.
1972-1988
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 117
Chouard, Pierre
1952-1976
Box 117
Chouard, Robert E.
1959-1988
Box 162
Collett, Raymond T.
1974-1987
Scope and Content
Includes personnel records.
Access restrictions
Personnel records are restricted for 75 years after the date of creation. This
folder is restricted until 2062.
Box 117
Dhindsa, Rajinder S.
1987
Box 162
Doyle, William
1971-1973
Scope and Content
Includes personnel records.
Access restrictions
Personnel records are restricted for 75 years after the date of creation. This
folder is restricted until 2048.
Box 117
Drivdahl, Rolf H.
1975-1982
Box 117
Edmondson, Yvette H.
1961-1989
Box 117
Everett, Marylee
1966-1976
Box 117
Feinleib, Mary Ella
1961-1973
Box 162
Farkas, Louis Gregory
1988-1989
Container Summary: 4
folders
Scope and Content
Includes senior thesis.
Access restrictions
Student records, including student work, are restricted for 75 years after the date
of creation. These folders are restricted until 2064.
Box 117
French, C. Stacy
1952-1973
Box 117
Frey-Wyssling, Albert
1953-1988
Box 118
Galston, Arthur W.
1974-1989
Box 118
Gautheret, Roger J.
1961-1988
Box 118
Gepstein, Shimon
1977-1985
Box 118
Ginzburg, Margaret
1956-1986
Box 118
Giridhar, Girish
1983-1993
Container Summary: 2
folders
Scope and Content
Includes photographs and negatives.
Box 118
Goldsmith, Mary Helen
1955-1982
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 118
Goring, Dr. Horst
1981-1985
Box 162
Gruen, Hans
1953
Scope and Content
Includes student work.
Access restrictions
Student records, including student work, are restricted for 75 years after the date
of creation. These folders are restricted until 2028.
Box 118
Gruen, Hans
1973-1987,
1993
Box 119
Heyn, Anton N. J.
1976-1982
Box 119
Iino, Moritoshi
1981-1985
Box 119
Jacobs, William P.
1947-1988
Box 119
Kessler, Dr. Bezalel
1959-1970
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 120
Konings, Hendrik
1963-1986
Box 120
Laloraya, M. M.
1957-1968
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 120
Lona, Fausto
1947-1983
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 120
Mahadevan, Sundararaman
1959-1979
Box 120-121
Malik, Nasir S. A.
1977-1988
Container Summary: 4
folders
Box 121
Marsden, Margery
1972-1985
Box 121
Mathur, Shashank N.
1959-1984
Box 121
Mei, Hui-Sheng
1982-1989
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 121
Metraux, Jean-Pierre
1975-1981
Box 121
Misra, Gadadhar
1960-1988
Box 162
Murphy, Terence M.
1980-1981
Scope and Content
Includes personnel records.
Access restrictions
Personnel records are restricted for 75 years after the date of creation. This
folder is restricted until 2056.
Box 122
Nachmias, Vivianne and Jack
1959-1981
Box 122
Neyland, Marjorie
1952-1968
Box 122
Nitsch, Colette and Jean
1948-1982
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 122
Nooden, Larry D.
1959-1988
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 122
O'Brien, Terry
1962-1987
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 123
Overbeek, Johannes Van
1938-1979
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 123
Palmer, John H.
1955-1986
Box 123
Park, Jonathon
1987-1989,
1993
Box 162
Park, Jonathon
1988
Scope and Content
Includes senior thesis.
Access restrictions
Student records, including student work, are restricted for 75 years after the date
of creation. These folders are restricted until 2063.
Box 123
Pickard, Barbara
1959-1986
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 123
Pilet, Paul Emile
1978-1989
Box 123
Plich, Dr. Henryk
1982-1987
Box 123
Poole, Ronald J
1960-1964
Box 123
Porter, William L.
1958-1964
Box 124
Radner, Babette
1944-1969
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 124
Ray, Peter
1960-1982
Container Summary: 2
folders
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 124
Romer, Karen T.
1978-1987
Box 124
Ruesink, Albert
1970-1981
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 124
Russell, William H.
1987-1988
Box 162
Sachs, Tsvi
1961-1983
Scope and Content
Includes personnel records.
Access restrictions
Personnel records are restricted for 75 years after the date of creation. This
folder is restricted until 2045.
Box 124
Saffo, Mary Beth
1965-1986
Box 124
Satler, Sergio O.
1977-1989
Box 124
Schneider, Charles and Ruby
1968-1974
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 124
Schneiderman, Howard
1953-1975
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 124
Sehgal, Prem P.
1958-1960
Box 124
Shelton, Tom
1977-1978
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 125
Shibaoka, Hiroh
1965-1985
Box 162
Shnoeur, Elie A.
1965-1977
Scope and Content
Includes personnel records.
Access restrictions
Personnel records are restricted for 75 years after the date of creation. This
folder is restricted until 2040.
Box 125
Skoog, Folke
1936-1989
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 125
Sorokin, Helen P.
1958-1968
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 125
Spiess, Luretta and Eliot
1953-1983
Box 125
Srivastava, Lalit M.
1964-1981
Box 125
Stafford, Helen A.
1962-1966
Box 125
Steeves, Taylor A.
1957-1964
Box 125
Stubblebine, William
1974-1978
Box 125
Symington, Janey
1953-1984
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 125
Takahashi, Noriko
1953-1984
Box 126
Terborgh, John
1957-1984
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 126
Tetley, Richard M
1972-1988
Box 126
Thornton, Robert
1966-1972
Box 126
Tomaszewski, Miroslaw M.
1960-1984
Box 126
de Torok, Denes G.
1958-1972
Box 126
Torrey, John G.
1947-1986
Box 126
Trippi, Victorio S.
1980-1989
Box 126
Troyer, James R.
1986-1991
Box 127
Veierskov, Bjarke
1980-1990
Box 127
Van Niel, Cornelis Bernardus
1962-1987
Box 127
Walton, Jonathon
1975-1988
Box 127
Wardlaw, Ian F.
1961-1978
Box 127
Went, Frits W
1936-1988
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 127
Wetmore, Ralph H.
1951-1983
Box 127
Wightman, Frank
1964-1988
Box 127
Wilkins, Malcolm B.
1960-1986
Box 127
Yocum, Conrad S.
1951-1985
Box 128
Zimmerman, Martin H.
1965-1983
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 128, Folder 3
"Historical career"
1944-1962,
1968
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence of a personal nature relating to events in Thimann's career,
including his transition from Harvard University to the University of California.
Box 128, Folder 4
Harvard University
1962-1965
Box 128, Folder 5-7
UCSC appointment and early campus planning
1964-1965
Container Summary: 3
folders
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence primarily with Dean McHenry (but also with Page Smith, Byron
Stookey, Clark Kerr and others) about Thimann's appointment to Provost of UCSC's
College III (Crown College), his transition from Harvard to UCSC, appointments to the
Science and South Pacific Studies faculty, initial planning of a biology curriculum,
the construction of College III and Science II buildings, graduate student enrollment,
student housing, laboratory equipment and chemicals, and campus planning. Also
included are floor plans of the Natural Sciences building, and some biographical
material on Thimann.
Box 128, Folder 8-10
UCSC general/personal
1966-1979
Container Summary: 3
folders
Scope and Content
Includes event invitations, thank you letters, notifications of awards and
memberships on boards and committees, letters to the editor, editorial commentary on
the writings of others, correspondence with Santa Cruz city officials about freeway
planning, Thimann's retirement as Crown College provost and continuation as professor
of Biological Sciences, his service as a visiting professor, biographical material
related to Thimann's bio bibliography and encyclopedia entries on him, and magazine
clippings about UCSC. In general, this correspondence is characterized by personal
topics, but is addressed to Thimann in his professional capacity as professor and
provost of Crown College at UCSC.
Box 129, Folder 1
UCSC retirement congratulations
1972
Box 129, Folder 2
"Trips and honors"
1954-1976
Scope and Content
Includes reprints, correspondence, photographs, and other materials related to
various professional trips, including a 1972 trip to Japan.
Box 129, Folder 3
Lectures and talks
1966-1970,
1986
Box 129, Folder 4
Late career: "academic"
1978-1995
Scope and Content
Includes invitations, thank you and congratulatory letters, notifications of awards
and memberships, requests for biographical information, letters to the editor,
correspondence concerning the sale and donation of Thimann's collections of journals,
and general correspondence with Thimann's colleagues in the scientific community. In
general, this correspondence is characterized by personal topics, but is addressed to
and sent from Thimann in his professional capacity as an academic.
Box 129, Folder 5
Late career: UCSC
1989-1994
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence concerning the move of Thimann's office at UCSC, activities
at Crown College, the Crown Fellows, the UCSC Emeritus Group, the effects of the 1989
earthquake on UCSC science buildings, membership and award nominations, donations to
UCSC, the academic senate, the Santa Cruz Foundation Annual Report, and general
correspondence concerning the planning and development of the campus. Includes
correspondence with Chancellor Robert Stevens, Assistant Chancellor Daniel Aldrich,
and others.
Box 129, Folder 6
Late career: Dean McHenry (UCSC)
1989-1995
Box 129, Folder 7-8
Late career: requests for manuscript evaluations, reviews, and
recommendations
1987-1994
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 129, Folder 9, Box 130, Folder 1
Late career: University of Pennsylvania and other research
projects
1990-1995
Container Summary: 2
folders
Scope and Content
Includes miscellaneous correspondence, publication reviews, and related materials
that were produced through Thimann's research collaboration with his daughter,
Professor Vivianne Nachmias, at the University of Pennsylvania. Also included are
materials related to other research projects and professional activities Thimann
pursued at this time.
Box 130, Folder 2
Students and postdocs
1989-1995
Box 130, Folder 3
60th birthday cards and letters
1964
Box 130, Folder 4-6
Personal correspondence
1942,
1962-1995
Container Summary: 3
folders
Scope and Content
Includes letters to and from Thimann's children, friends, and professional colleagues
of a generally personal nature.
Box 130-147
Research materials
1921-1995
Scope and Content
This series contains correspondence, notes, diagrams, lab books, and other materials
related to Thimann's research. These materials generally reflect Thimann's laboratory
research activity in the 1940s-1960s, during his tenure at Harvard University. Also
included are some teaching materials, and correspondence and manuscripts related to
publications and editorial activity.
Box 130-134
Research files
1935-1995
Scope and Content
Includes thematic research files on various topics that primarily document Thimann's
research activity in the 1940s-1960s, during his tenure at Harvard University.
Materials include correspondence, notes, diagrams, illustrations, and reprints. Also
included are some teaching materials, manuscripts of Thimann's publications, and
correspondence related to his publishing and editorial activities.
Box 130, Folder 7
Auxin structure and activity
1978-1987
Box 130, Folder 11-13
Senescence notes
circa
1974-1985
Container Summary: 3
folders
Box 131, Folder 1
Notes and reprints on senescence
1962-1984
Box 131, Folder 2
Notes and reprints on stomata
1982-1990
Box 131, Folder 5
Sulfhydryl & Other Inhibitors
1964
Box 131, Folder 6
Tryptamine experiments
1957
Box 131, Folder 9
Herbicides & insecticides
undated
Box 131, Folder 10
Bacteria papers
1963-1983
Box 131, Folder 11
Tissue culture notes
circa
1980s
Box 131, Folder 12
Photosynthesis notes
circa
1980s
Box 131, Folder 13
Ethylene (c2h4) evolution; Broadband Access Multiplexer (BAM)
1983
Box 131, Folder 14
Psychotria & sesbania notes
undated
Box 131, Folder 17
Pigment
circa
1940s-1950s
Box 131, Folder 18
Pigment reports
1941-1958
Scope and Content
Includes a secrecy order from the U.S. Patent office and other materials related to
Thimann's 1949 patent for green camouflage paint.
Box 131, Folder 19
Cellulose and cell wall
1963
Box 131, Folder 20
Christiansen- Data & Graph; Bonner- Organic Acids of
Coleoptiles
circa
1945-1955
Box 131, Folder 22
Fluoride and Fluoroceptate
circa
1940s-1950s
Box 131, Folder 23
Fluoride and Fluoroacetate notes
circa
1940s-1950s
Box 131, Folder 25
Hydroxyindole Acetates
1951,
1969
Box 131, Folder 26
Inhibitor experiments
circa
1940s-1950s
Box 131, Folder 27
Indole Acetonitrile (IAN)
1954-1955
Box 131, Folder 28
L.J. Kunz data
circa
1945-1955
Box 131, Folder 29
Leopold, A. Carl and manuscript
1947-1951
Box 132, Folder 1
Antibiotics (Penicillin)
1944-1945
Box 132, Folder 2
Plant physiology seminars, data
1955-1965
Box 132, Folder 3
Cell Division-Prisim
circa
1940s
Box 132, Folder 4
Chlorophyll (chlorophyll pigment)
1942
Box 132, Folder 5
Commercial auxins and anti-auxin
1950-1953
Box 134, Folder 5
Biology 210 (Harvard)
1961-1965
Box 132, Folder 6
Biology 210 papers
1956-1957
Access
Student records, including student work, are restricted 75 years after the date of
creation. This folder is restricted until 2032.
Box 132, Folder 7
Biology 118 (Bailey's lectures on cambium, cell walls)
1941
Box 132, Folder 8
Castle's Biology 31
1935-1936
Box 132, Folder 10
Chlorophyll paint draft report
1941-1946
Box 132, Folder 11
Cell length determinations
circa
1940s
Box 132, Folder 15
Ortho-substitution paper data and correspondence
1951-1952
Scope and content
Includes photographs.
Box 132, Folder 16
Irradiation, light, x-rays
undated
Box 132, Folder 17
The Extraction of Auxin from Plant Tissues
(Thimann, Skoog, Byer)
circa
1939-1940
Box 132, Folder 19
Electron micrographs and teaching photographs
1950-1965
Box 132, Folder 20
Marabu experiments (2,4-D)
1948-1953
Scope and content
Includes photographs.
Box 132, Folder 21
Metabolic processes and CO2
1949
Box 132, Folder 22
Nitrophenols correspondence
1951
Box 132, Folder 23
Osmotic inhibitors
circa
1940s-1950s
Box 132, Folder 24
Organic acids
circa
1940s-1950s
Box 132, Folder 25
Triiodobenzoic Acid (Tiba)
1947
Scope and content
Includes photographs.
Box 133, Folder 1
Auxin and pea test data and T2O expts
1941
Box 133, Folder 3
Notes on
Wuchsstoff und wachstum (F W
Went)
undated
Processing information
This material was originally enclosed in a copy of
Wuchsstoff und wachstum.
Box 133, Folder 4
Sugar and respiration measurements- Holding of Pinus Strobus and reading
notes
1940-1944
Scope and Content
Includes copies of two reports by Thimann:
Experiments on
the Vegetative Propagation of Hemlock
, and
Notes on
the Physiology of Root Formation in Woody Cuttings,
and related diagrams,
notes, and figures.
Box 133, Folder 5-6
Laboratory manuals
1952-1974
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 133, Folder 7-8
Hoya carnosa
1986-1992
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 133, Folder 10
Clippings on growth hormones, weed killers, and other topics
1937-1966
Box 133, Folder 11
Miscellaneous notes and reprints
1963-1989
Processing information
This material was originally enclosed in a copy of
The Life
of Bacteria: Their Growth, Metabolism, and Relationships.
Box 133, Folder 12
Miscellaneous late career research and reprints
1984-1995
Box 135-146
Lab notebooks
1939-1992
Access
Materials that are the result of graduate student course work are restricted for 75
years after the date of creation.
Scope and Content
Includes laboratory notebooks that document laboratory research performed by Thimann,
his collaborators, and his graduate students at the Harvard University Biological
Laboratories and the University of California Natural Sciences Laboratories. Many
notebooks include indexes of their contents.
Box 135
Harvard Laboratory of Plant Physiology guest book
1946-1989
Box 135
Karl A. Grossenbacher book 6
1939-1940
Box 135
Thimann-Cabot rooting book 7
1940-1941
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 135
Thimann-Cabot rooting book 8
1941-1943
Box 136
Thimann-Cabot rooting book 9
1943-1948
Box 136
Thimann-Cabot rooting book 10
1948-1949
Box 136
Walter Bonner Avena book I
1946-1947
Box 136
Walter Bonner Avena comb tests book II
1947
Box 136
Walter Bonner Avena straight growth curve book II
1948-1949
Box 136
Walter Bonner Avena straight growth tests book III
1947-1948
Box 137
Walter Bonner Avena straight growth tests book IV
1948-1949
Box 137
Walter Bonner Avena straight growth tests book V
1949-1951
Box 137
Walter Bonner pea tests curvature straight growth book I
1948-1950
Box 137-138
Pea tests books 2-5
1950-1955
Box 138
Thimann book VI
1955-1957
Scope and Content
Includes photographs.
Box 138
Thimann book VII
1957-1958
Box 139
Thimann book VIII
1958-1960
Box 139
Thimann book IX
1960-1961
Box 139
Thimann book XI
1964-1965,
1977-1986
Box 140
Stewart A. Laidlaw book I
1978-1979
Box 141
Stewart A. Laidlaw book II
1979-1981
Box 141
Stewart A. Laidlaw book III
1979-1981
Box 142
Stewart A. Laidlaw book IV
1981-1982
Box 142
Stewart A. Laidlaw book V
1982
Box 142-143
Teva C. Rothwell books 1-2
1981-1983
Box 143
E.T. David gel electrophoresis book 1
1981-1983
Box 143
E.T. David book 2
1981-1982
Box 144
E.T. David books 3-4
1983
Box 145
Wolfgang book III (yeast)
1983
Box 146
Isotopes log book
1972-1983
Box 162
Claire Killam Riggs Anthocyanin book 1
1952-1954
Access
Student records, including student work, are restricted 75 years after the date of
creation. This notebook is restricted until 2029.
Box 162
Gui Loos Research 300 books 3-4
1953-1954
Container Summary: 2
folders
Access
Student records, including student work, are restricted 75 years after the date of
creation. This notebook is restricted until 2029.
Box 146
Unidentified lab book (gel test results)
undated
Box 146
Unidentified late career lab notebook
1991-1992
Box 146-147
Research and college notebooks
1921-circa
1980s
Box 146
General Chemistry (Imperial College)
1921-1922
Box 146
Practical Chemistry (Imperial College)
1923-1924
Box 146
Physical Chemistry (Imperial College)
1923-1924
Box 147, Folder 1
University of London chemistry exam questions and notes
1923-1924
Box 147, Folder 2
Experiments in Micro-Analysis (University of Graz)
circa
1929-1930
Box 147, Folder 3
Smith lectures book II
circa
1930s
Box 147, Folder 4
Chem. of Biogenic Amines by A. J. Haagen-Smit
1937
Box 147, Folder 6
Shop work
circa
1954-1959
Box 147, Folder 7
Lab de Physiologie Végétale (University of Paris)
1955
Box 147, Folder 8
Unidentified research notebooks
circa
1980s
Scope and Content
Includes 4 small notebooks.
Box 147-149
Personal/Biographical
circa
1929-1997
Scope and Content
This series contains biographical abstracts, lists of publications and courses by
Thimann, and newspaper clippings about Thimann. Also included are personal photographs,
several daily pocket diaries, and Thimann's British and United States passports. For
correspondence with Thimann's family members, see the Correspondence series.
Box 147, Folder 9
Biographical material
1967-1995
Related archival materials
See UCSC general/personal files in the Correspondence series for more biographical
information.
Scope and Content
Includes biographical summaries of Thimann's life and career for The Royal Society,
Harvard University,
Marquis Who's Who, and other
purposes, as well as supplements to Thimann's bio bibliography at the University of
California Santa Cruz. Also includes partial lists of Thimann's graduate students.
Box 147, Folder 10-12
Clippings
1947,
1959-1997
Container Summary: 3
folders
Language of Material: Most newspaper articles are
in English, but German and Czech are also included.
Scope and Content
Includes newspaper and newsletter clippings of articles about Thimann, including his
acceptance of the position of Provost of Crown College at the University of California
Santa Cruz and general press about UCSC.
Box 148, Folder 1
Photographs and negatives of Thimann
1973-1997
Box 148, Folder 2
Miscellaneous photographs, biographical material (UCSC)
circa
1970s-1990s
Scope and Content
Includes press release announcing Thimann's death produced by the UCSC Public
Information Office, snapshots of Thimann and his colleagues at UCSC, and photographs
of the UCSC campus and Lick Observatory.
Box 148, Folder 3
Ann Thimann
1951, 1967-1973,
1987-1993
Biographical note
Ann Mary Bateman Thimann was a skilled weaver. She died in 1987.
Scope and Content
Includes personal correspondence addressed to Ann Thimann, invoices and
correspondence related to weaving equipment purchases, and other material related to
Thimann's wife.
Box 148, Folder 4
Old Caterhamians' Association
1979-1994
Historical note
The Old Caterhamians' Association is an association for alumni of the Caterham School
in in United Kingdom.
Box 148, Folder 6
Quadrangle
Mon Oncle Jules
1994-1995
Box 148, Folder 7
Richard Painter Chinese garden landscape design
undated
Box 148, Folder 8
KVT's Christmas list
1984
Box 148, Folder 9
Miscellaneous collected historic photographs of great scientists
circa
1929-1949
Scope and Content
Includes portraits of Fritz Pregl, Peter Boysen Jensen, A.N. Bach, Artturi Ilmari
Virtanen, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Cornelius Bernardus Van Niel, Stephen Hales, Eiichi
Kurosawa, and others. Also includes photographs (reprints) of Charles Sprague Sargent
and Charles Edward Faxon, Herman Dolk, Hugo Marie de Vries and his "club of ten" in
1904, a group of Botanists of Manchester, England in 1986.
Box 148, Folder 10
Collected postcards, unidentified photographs
circa
1940-1960
Scope and Content
Includes photograph of unidentified child, "Lorraine."
Box 148, Folder 11
Condolence letters to Vivianne Nachmias (daughter)
1997
Scope and Content
Includes material related to Thimann's obituary in several newspapers.
Box 149
Diaries
1938-1990
Container Summary: 16
diaries
Box 149
British and United States passports
1926-1985
Container Summary: 4
passports
Box 149
U.S. Navy Certificate of Identification
1944
Box 149
Inventory of household furnishings and personal property
circa
1965-1970s
Box 114
Family photographs
1930s
Container Summary: 2
reels
Physical characteristics
Super 8mm film.
Box 162
"Conversations With Scientists"
1982
Scope and Content
Includes chapter on Thimann.
Access
Student records, including student work, are restricted 75 years after the date of
creation. These folders are restricted until 2057.
Box 150-154, 158
Negatives and slides
circa
1922-1998
Box 150-151, 158, Box 153, Bin 6
Negatives
circa
1922-1980s
Processing information
Filing titles are devised from Thimann's handwriting, and may be inaccurate.
Scope and Content
Includes 35mm and medium to large format negatives of charts, diagrams, and
illustrations from both published and unpublished sources that Thimann used in his
teaching, lectures, publications, and general research. Topics include senescence,
auxins, photosynthesis, apical dominance, and more. Includes some glass plate
negatives, positive images, and contact sheets. For more negatives of figures and
illustrations in Thimann's publications, see the Writings, manuscripts, editorial work
series.
Box 150, Envelope 1
Protein Synthesis in Potato Discs
undated
Box 150, Envelope 2
Pea Stem Metabolism
undated
Box 150, Envelope 3
Growth Curves in Cell Division
undated
Box 150, Envelope 8
Dr. Thimann (unidentified)
undated
Box 150, Envelope 9
Gustafson Parthenocarpy
undated
Box 150, Envelope 10
Books and Lecture negatives, Pasteur and Butyl originals
undated
Box 150, Envelope 11
Antibiotic Adaptor
undated
Box 150, Envelope 12
Respiration of Pears
undated
Box 150, Envelope 14
Radio Accumulation
undated
Box 150, Envelope 15
Auxins and Tropisms
undated
Box 150, Envelope 17
Actinomycetes and Viruses
undated
Box 150, Envelope 18
Chloroplast, Electron
undated
Box 150, Envelope 21
Puromycin, Etc. (Noodén)
undated
Box 150, Envelope 22
Arginine AAS and Arsenite
undated
Box 150, Envelope 23
Figures for chapter 3: The Hormones
1948
Box 150, Envelope 27
Miscellaneous negatives
undated
Box 150, Envelope 28
Miscellaneous negatives
undated
Box 150, Envelope 29
Geo + Phototropism
1962-1963
Box 150, Envelope 31
Unprinted Negatives
undated
Box 150, Envelope 34
Photograph as Temp
undated
Box 150, Envelope 39
Organic Acid Talks for HIBS Meeting
1948
Box 150, Envelope 42
Ax, Orgacids, Mercurials
undated
Box 150, Envelope 45
Phycomyces, Growth of Col
undated
Box 150, Envelope 53
O2 + Water Uptake (Potato)
undated
Box 150, Envelope 55
Anthocyan Formulae
undated
Box 150, Envelope 56
Long Term Effects of Seerosen Spirodela
undated
Box 150, Envelope 57
Cypripedium Autlios
undated
Box 150, Envelope 60
Anthocyanin, Ethionine, Methionine
undated
Box 150, Envelope 65
Pea stems, sugars and amides
undated
Box 150, Envelope 68
Dr. Bonner, on avena
undated
Box 150, Envelope 71
Protoplast Streaming
1957
Box 150, Envelope 74
Weed Killing Negatives
1952
Box 150, Envelope 78
Leptomitus negatives
undated
Box 150, Envelope 80
Thimann and Schneider
undated
Box 150, Envelope 81
Emerson and Arnold
undated
Box 150, Envelope 85
Spore Germination
undated
Box 150, Envelope 88
Bacteria Cell Walls and Phage
undated
Box 150, Envelope 89
Bacteria Lag phase
undated
Box 150, Envelope 90
Iron Bacteria and Immunology
undated
Box 150, Envelope 91
Anthocyanin Action
undated
Box 150, Envelope 93
Figs From Wickson Theses
undated
Box 150, Envelope 96
Muhlethaler and Weiss
undated
Box 150, Envelope 97
Formula Based on Rosalind Franklin
1960
Box 150, Envelope 99
Chloroplasts and Bluegreen Algae
undated
Box 150, Envelope 101
Hertz Chloroplasts
undated
Box 151, Envelope 9
Negatives of Figures for Fluoride Paper
1949
Box 151, Envelope 10
Nodule Auxin Negatives
undated
Box 151, Envelope 11
Negatives of Stamer
undated
Box 151, Envelope 15
Potato Respiration and Artichoke Negatives
undated
Box 151, Envelope 19
Chapter 2: Hormone book
undated
Box 151, Envelope 20
Nutrition and Nodules Frank and Wagner
undated
Box 151, Envelope 23
Kalanchoe Curves and Apparatus Photos
undated
Box 151, Envelope 26
Micro Respirometer
undated
Box 151, Envelope 27
Peas, Orgacids, Execdate
undated
Box 151, Envelope 30
Photosynthesis after being anaerobic
undated
Box 151, Envelope 32
Bacteria book revision Chapter III
undated
Box 151, Envelope 34
Price and Thimann
undated
Box 151, Envelope 35
American Journal of Botany review figures
undated
Box 151, Envelope 36
Phytohormones after effects
circa
1922
Box 151, Envelope 37
Phytohormones after effects
circa
1922
Box 151, Envelope 38
Streaming water uptake and other mode of action
undated
Box 151, Envelope 39
Chapter 3 negatives: hormone book
undated
Box 151, Envelope 40
Chapter 3 negatives: hormone book
undated
Box 151, Envelope 41
Chapter 3 negatives: hormone book
undated
Box 151, Envelope 42
Negatives: Electron microscope
undated
Box 151, Envelope 43
Unidentified negative (figure)
undated
Box 151, Envelope 44
White Pine seedlings
1940
Box 151, Envelope 46
Dr. Thimann (unidentified)
undated
Box 151, Envelope 51
Unidentified negatives
1941
Box 151, Envelope 53
Pinus Strobus - Freezing
1941
Box 151, Envelope 55
Grossenbacher book 7 Pinus Strobus - Rooted cuts
undated
Box 151, Envelope 57
White Pine seedlings in soil and sand
1940
Box 151, Envelope 58-59
Miscellaneous photographs
circa
1939
Box 151, Envelope 60
Unidentified negatives
undated
Box 158, Folder 1
Miscellaneous negatives
circa
1960s-1980s
Box 158, Folder 2
Miscellaneous negatives
circa
1960s-1980s
Box 158, Folder 3
Miscellaneous negatives
circa
1960s-1980s
Box 158, Folder 4
Miscellaneous negatives
circa
1960s-1980s
Box 152-153
Slides
1948-1998
Container Summary: 2
boxes
Processing information
These slides are described by topical keywords. The number of slides in each topic
has not been counted.
Scope and Content
Includes approximately 1,400 slides of charts, diagrams, images, and other
illustrations of Thimann's research results that he used for the purposes of teaching,
research, and publication.
Box 152, Bin 1
Antibiotics, Anthocyanin graphs and tables
1957
Box 152, Bin 1
Anthocyanin Field Pictures
1957
Box 152, Bin 1
Apical Dominance Tables and Graphs
1952
Box 152, Bin 1
Coleoptile, Corn, Cotton, Couroupita, Crystal Body
undated
Box 152, Bin 2
EDTA, Etiolation, Eugenia, Evolution, Experiment Stations
undated
Box 152, Bin 2
Differentiation, Disease, Egypt, Elongation Analysis, Embryos,
Ethylene
undated
Box 152, Bin 2
Potato Protein, Potato H2O
undated
Box 152, Bin 2
Cambium- Streaming
undated
Box 152, Bin 2
Bamboo, Bluegreens
undated
Box 152, Bin 2
Apical Dominance Photos
undated
Box 152, Bin 3
Apical Dominance, Apical Dominance Phenols, Apices
undated
Box 152, Bin 3
Auxin- Concentration Curves
undated
Box 152, Bin 3
Auxin- Mode of Action, Plant Part
undated
Box 152, Bin 3
Protease, Protein Synthesis
undated
Box 152, Bin 3
Respiration of Coleoptiles
undated
Box 152, Bin 3
Root Formation, Rubber
undated
Box 152, Bin 3
Auxin-Mode of Action
1973
Box 152, Bin 4
Fertilization, Fungi
undated
Box 152, Bin 4
Senescence, Seeds and Seedlings
undated
Box 152, Bin 4
Historical, Greening
undated
Box 152, Bin 4
Ph, Plagiotropism, Plastids, Polar Transport
undated
Box 152, Bin 5
Phototropism Avena and Zea, miscellaneous unidentified slides
undated
Box 152, Bin 5
Phototropism Avena and Zea, miscellaneous unidentified slides
undated
Box 152, Bin 5
Phototropism, Photosyn
undated
Box 152, Bin 5
Phototropism General
1974
Box 152, Bin 5
Phototropism- C4, Fungi
undated
Box 152, Bin 5
Pea Test - General, Peanut
undated
Box 152, Bin 5
IODO Concentration Curves
1953
Box 152, Bin 5
Kalanchoe - CO2, Kapok
undated
Box 152, Bin 5
Senescence: DNP and sugar
undated
Box 152, Bin 5
Senescence and ATP
undated
Box 152, Bin 6
Senescence: CO2 and HO2, KCN, etc.
undated
Box 152, Bin 6
Kinetin, Microbio, STR-Activity
undated
Box 152, Bin 6
Microscopy Miscellaneous
undated
Box 152, Bin 6
Legumes, Tropisms
undated
Box 153, Bin 1
Auxin, Mode of Auxin Action
1966,
1972
Box 153, Bin 1
M-RNA and related
undated
Box 153, Bin 1
Senescence general
undated
Box 153, Bin 1
Abscission not AGA
undated
Box 153, Bin 1
Senescence general and flowers
undated
Box 153, Bin 2
Class Growth and Hormone Lecture, varied hormones
undated
Box 153, Bin 2
2nd Messenger: Apple
undated
Box 153, Bin 3
Development Lecture
undated
Box 153, Bin 3
Stress, Aba, Proline
1972
Box 153, Bin 3
Unidentified slides
undated
Box 153, Bin 4
Russel and Ethylene 2nd messenger, Root growth
undated
Box 153, Bin 4
Senescence Seminar
undated
Box 153, Bin 4
Riverside, Apical dominance
undated
Box 153, Bin 4
Apical dominance, Flowering
undated
Box 153, Bin 5
H + Extrusion, etc.
undated
Box 153, Bin 5
Senescence Sugars
undated
Box 153, Bin 5
NH2 Acids and Purines
undated
Box 153, Bin 5
Senescence seminar
undated
Box 153, Bin 5
Unidentified slides
undated
Box 153, Bin 5
Metabolism general
undated
Box 154
Microscope glass slides
undated
Box 155-161
Awards, diplomas, realia
1839,
1924-1989
Box 155
Imperial College doctoral diploma
1928
Box 155
University of London doctoral diploma
1928
Box 155
University of London bachelor's diploma
1924
Box 155
Université Clermont-Ferrand honorary doctorate degree
1960
Box 155
University of Basel honorary doctorate degree
undated
Box 155
Royal Society of London award
1969
Box 155
American Philosophical Society fellowship award
undated
Box 155
Wellesley College award
undated
Box 156
Balzan Foundation prize award
1982
Box 157
Student appreciation poster (Harvard)
1949
Box 157
Universidad Central de Venezuela award
1963
Box 157
Université de Paris functions of Auxins lecture series posters
1954-1955
Box 158, Folder 5
American Cancer Society Grant-in-Aid award
1956-1957
Box 158, Folder 6
Office of Scientific Research and Development certificate of
merit
1945
Box 158, Folder 7
American Society of Plant Physiologists Stephen Hales prize
1936
Box 158, Folder 8
American Society of Plant Physiologists life membership award
1966
Box 158, Folder 9
Brown University honorary doctorate degree
1989
Box 158, Folder 10
University of California, Santa Cruz distinguished achievement
award
1972
Box 159
American Institute of Biological Sciences presidential award
1969
Box 159
Olympogenarian of 1984 award
1984
Box 159
Academia Reipublicae Popularis Dacoromanae Honorary Fellow award
undated
Box 159
University of Basel
undated
Box 159
National Academy of Sciences Centennial
1963
Box 159
Princeton University Bicentennial
1946
Box 159
Unidentified Soviet Union medallion
1935
Box 159
Third International Congress for Microbiology, New York
1939
Box 159
Japanese brass paperweight medallion (Kokyo Bunchin)
circa
1972
Box 159
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
1977
Box 159
Tables Rondes Roussel 10th anniversary
1979
Box 159
The W.H. Medal for the Encouragement of Industry, Courtesy and
Integrity
1839
Box 160
Printing blocks of scientific illustrations
1959-1960s
Box 161
U.S. Research and Development Board (RDB) identification
undated
Box 161
NASA Bio-Satellite Launch badge
1967
Box 161
Miscellaneous realia
undated
Scope and Content
Includes portions of a microscope, a Kodak microscope camera, blank plexiglass and
glass slides, dental tools, seeds, rocks, novelty button, Kenneth V. Thimann
University of California address stamp, nameplate, and unidentified brass fixture.
