Guide to the Gregory Bateson Papers MS.098
May 9, 1904 | Born in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, England. Third son of William Bateson (b. Aug. 8, 1861) and Caroline Beatrice Durham Bateson (b. 1870?). Brothers, John Bateson (b. April 22, 1898 - d. 1918) and Martin Bateson (b. 1899 - d. April 22, 1922). Grandson of William H. Bateson, Master of St. John's College, Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University and Anna Aitken Bateson. |
1913-1917 | Student, Warden House School, Upper Deal, Kent, England |
1917-1921 | Student, Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, England |
1918 | Death of brother, John Bateson |
April 22, 1922 | Suicide of brother, Martin Bateson |
January - September 1922 | Studies French & Botany at the University of Geneva and in Canton de Valais |
1922-1926 | Student, Cambridge University |
Foundation Scholar, 1924 | |
Entrance Scholar, St. John's College, 1922 | |
Anthropological Tripos, Pt.I, First class honors, 1926 | |
Natural Science Tripos, First Class Honors, 1924 | |
B.A., Natural Science, 1925 | |
December 1924 - June 1925 | Expedition to Galapagos, engaged in research on Geospizae for British Museum Bird Department and collection of pelagic Coelenterates under William Beebe, Arcturus Expedition |
1925-1926 | Anthropological Tripos, Pt.II under A.C. Haddon, Cambridge University; Classes in Social Psychology under F. C. Barlett and J. MacCurdy, Cambridge University |
February 8, 1926 | Death of father, William Bateson. |
1926-1928 | Anthony Wilkin Student, Cambridge University; Strathcoma Student, St. John's College, Cambridge |
September 1926 | Study in Germany |
January 1927 - January 1928 | Anthropological field work in New Britain among the Baining of the Gazelle Peninsula |
April - July 1928 | Teacher, Melanesian Linguistics, Sydney University |
October 1928 - January 1930 | Anthropological field work among the Sulka of the Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain and the Iatmul of New Guinea |
1930 | M.A., Anthropology, Cambridge University; Classes under Malinoski at London School of Economics |
1931-1937 | Research Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge |
January 1932 - Summer 1933 | Anthropological field work among the Iatmul of New Guinea |
1933-1935 | Worked on Naven at St. John's College, Cambridge |
In Ireland with Waddington | |
Visit to U.S., lecturing at Columbia University and the University of Chicago | |
Experimental Psychology under F. C. Bartlett | |
January 1936 - March 1938 | Anthropological field work with Margaret Mead in Bali |
March 1936 | Married Margaret Mead (b. December 1916 - d. November 1978) in Singapore |
December 1936 | Publication of Naven |
1937 | Elected William Wyse Scholar in Social Anthropology, Cambridge University (resigned 1945) |
April 1938 - February 1939 | Anthropological field work with wife, Margaret Mead among the Iatmul of New Guinea |
February - March 1939 | Anthropological field work with wife, Margaret Mead in Bali |
September 1939 - January 1940 | Voluntary work in England: analysis of radio broadcasts (Nazi) under Bartlett; and work with Mass Observation with T. Harrison, analyzing public opinion questionnaires |
December 8, 1939 | Birth of daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson |
January 1940-September 1942 | Analysis of Balinese and Iatmul material in collaboration with Margaret Mead, as guest of Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History |
October 1940-1942 | Secretary of the Committee for National Morale and the Council for Intercultural Relations (later Institute for Intercultural Studies) |
Secretary for the Council on Human Relations for first few months | |
Worked for the Committee for National Morale. | |
Secretary of the Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences | |
Member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences | |
May 1941 | Death of mother, Caroline Beatrice Durham Bateson |
May 1942 | Macy conference on Cerebral Inhibition |
September 1942 - June 1943 | Film Analyst, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York |
December 1942 | Publication of Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis with Margaret Mead |
January 1943 - January 1944 | Teacher of Melanesian Pidgin English, Naval School of Military Government & Administration, Columbia University |
July 1943 - November 1945 | Staff planner and Regional Specialist for Southeast Asia, U.S. Office of Strategic Services; overseas in Ceylon, India, Burma & China |
November 1945 - September 1946 | Research into Balinese culture conducted at the American Museum of Natural History |
March 1946 | First Macy Conference on Feedback Mechanisms and Circular Causal Systems in Biological and Social Sciences |
September 1946 - June 1947 | New York Academy of Sciences Conference on Teleological Mechanisms |
Guggenheim Fellow | |
Visiting Professor of Anthropology, New School for Social Research, NY | |
Meeting on Teleological Mechanisms in Society | |
1947-1948 | Associate in Columbia University Seminar in "Contents and Methods of the Social Sciences" |
Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusett | |
September 1948 - October 1949 | Research Associate with Dr. Jurgen Ruesch at the Langley Porter Clinic, University of California Medical School, San Francisco, CA |
November 1949 - 1963 | Ethnologist, Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, CA |
October 23, 1950 | Divorced from Margaret Mead |
1950 | Married Elizabeth Sumner |
1951 | Birth of son, John Bateson |
1951 - 1963 | Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University, CA |
Publication of Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry by Jurgen Ruesch, Gregory Bateson | |
1952-1954 | Director, Rockefeller Foundation grant research project on the Role of Paradoxes of Abstraction in Communication |
1954-1959 | Director, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation grant research project on Schizophrenic Communication |
1956 | Becomes naturalized U.S. citizen |
Begins work on The Natural History of an Interview project | |
1957 | Divorced from second wife, Elizabeth Sumner |
1958 | Navan re-issued with new preface and epilogue |
1959-1962 | Began work with octopus |
Publication of Perceval's Narrative | |
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Award for Research in Schizophrenia | |
Visiting Professor, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA | |
Principal Investigator, Research in Family Psychotherapy, funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry | |
1961 | Married third wife, Lois Cammack |
1963-1964 | Associate Director, Communication Research Institute, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands |
Career Development Award, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) | |
1965-1972 | Publication of Steps to an Ecology of Mind |
Associate Director, Oceanic Institute, Waimanalo, Hawaii | |
Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii | |
Professor & Director, International Honors Program, International School of America, traveling around the world | |
April 13, 1969 | Birth of daughter, Nora Bateson |
1972-1978 | Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz |
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | |
Appointed to Board of Regents of the University of California | |
November 15, 1978 | Death of Margaret Mead |
1978-1980 | Scholar in residence, Esalen Institute |
Worked on Where Angels Fear to Tread | |
Publication of Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity | |
July 4, 1980 | Dies at the Zen Center, San Francisco, CA. |
Scope and Content of Collection
- MS 113, Bateson Family Papers, ca. 1835-1942
- MS 206, Mark Engels Papers, ca. 1933-1987
- MS 297, David Lipset Papers, 1943-1982
- MS Coll 2, Bateson Family Papers, 1829-1940, American Philosophical Society, 105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386
- #03361 Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996 (bulk 1911-1978), Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Correspondence 1915-1980
Series Scope and Content Summary
A - Amsterdam Conference 1943-1979
Andelson, Jonathan - Atoms 1945-1980
Attneave, Fred - Bateson G. 1939-1980
Bateson, G. - Bersok, Cathy 1946-1980
Bibliographies - Brody, Mike 1946-1980
Broom, Leonard - Catholic University of America 1946-1980
College of Survival - Cypress Institute 1922-1980
D - East-West Center 1946-1980
Ecology Committee - Energy 1948-1978
Engel, Mark - Fein, Lou (Peace Gaming, Computer) 1946-1980
Ferber, Andrew - Giudicelli, Pierre 1946-1979
Glassman, Richard - Hall, Margaret I. undated, 1946-1979
Hamburg, David, M.D. - Higgs, Peter L. 1946-1979
Hillman, James - Institute for the Righteous Acts undated, 1946-1979
International Community College - Jay, Bob undated, 1947-1980
Jennings, Roger - Kealakekua Bay Trip 1947-1980
Keeney, Bradford P. - Laing, R. D. circa 1940-1980
Lambert, William W. - Lewin, Kurt 1947-1980
Licklider, J.C.R. - Lyons, Jeanne A. 1946-1979
M - May, Rollo n.d. 1946-1978
McAndrews, Bob - Metaphor and Metaphysics 1946-1980
Metraux, Rhoda - Mysbergh, James H. 1946-1979
N - Norris, Nancy Ellen 1946-1977
North, Robert C. - Olsen's Electronics 1950-1978
O'Malley, Patricia - Perry, John 1946-1980
Peters, Carl, M.D. - Pristas, P. J. 1946-1980
Prochaska, Sister Helen - Raxlen, Bernard, M.D. 1947-1980
Redler, Leon, M.D. - Regents V 1965-1980
Regents (Quasi-Regents) - Reynolds, Peter C. 1949-1980
RIAS [Radio in American Sector]-Berlin - Royaumont, October 10-13, 1975 1939-1978
Rubenstein, David - Scurlock, Jim 1946-1980
Seagel, Ernest M., Lee & Laurence - South Beach, March 3-4, 1977 1946-1979
Spain - Syz, Hans 1946-1980
T - Voss, Gilbert L. undated, 1946-1980
W - Wenner-Gren, "Cultural Frames", Aug-Sept 1977 1947-1980
Werner, Fred H. - Zurich 1946-1980
Burg Wartenstein 1968
Wenner-Gren Conference - Midtown Manhattan Conference 1968-1969
American Museum correspondence 1945
Correspondence to Caroline Beatrice Bateson 1929
Gregory Bateson to Caroline Beatrice Bateson and William Bateson post Galapagos 1925-1926
Gregory Bateson to Caroline Beatrice Bateson - New Britain 1927-1928
Caroline Beatrice Bateson copies of correspondence from Gregory Bateson from New Britain -- Baining 1927-1928
Gregory Bateson to Caroline Beatrice Bateson - Baining 1928-1930
Gregory Bateson to Caroline Beatrice Bateson 1932-1935
Gregory Bateson to Caroline Beatrice Bateson 1936-1939
Gregory Bateson to Caroline Beatrice Bateson 1936 March - 1938 April
Caroline Beatrice Bateson's business circa 1940
Correspondence to Caroline Beatrice Bateson circa 1940
Correspondence to Caroline Beatrice Bateson circa 1940
Correspondence to Caroline Beatrice Bateson from relatives and friends circa 1941
Correspondence to Gregory Bateson and Caroline Beatrice Bateson 1928-1937
Postcards from Caroline Beatrice Bateson to Gregory Bateson 1927
John Bateson to Gregory Bateson and Martin Bateson 1912-1916
William Bateson to Martin Bateson 1918 December 13
Gregory Bateson at St. Johns 1922-1924
Gregory Bateson from Galapagos 1925 January
Gregory Bateson misc correspondence 1926-1929
Caroline Beatrice Bateson to Gregory Bateson 1931-1933
Caroline Beatrice Bateson to Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead 1937-1941
Durhams to Gregory Bateson 1945-1948
Noel Porter ciruclar 1935
Caroline Beatrice Bateson to Nora Barlow 1915-1925
Caroline Beatrice Bateson to Nora Barlow 1926-1928
Nora Barlow re: Caroline Beatrice Bateson's effects circa 1946
Writings 1920-1986
Series Scope and Content Summary
Complete Article File [CAF] Subseries 2.1 1923-1986
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
A
B - Ch
Ch - Cre
Cu - D
E - Fo
Fro - Lea
Let - Mel
Mem - Met
Mi - Ob
Old - Pi
Pl - Ps
Rad - Rit
Rol - Soc
Som - St
Sui - Tow
Tr - Z & Minor publications
Book Manuscripts Subseries 2.2 circa 1950-1980
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
The Distribution of Mind, incomplete manuscript circa 1967
Typescript photocopies
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity circa 1979
Manuscript pages
Manuscript
Naven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe drawn from Three Points of View 1929-1930s
Iatmul - Initiation: Wail Mbuanggo notes circa 1930
Iatmul - Agrarian notes circa 1930s
Iatmul writings circa 1930s
Iatmul - Mindimbit field notes 1929
Iatmul writings circa 1930s
Naven manuscript pages circa 1930s
Naven manuscript pages circa 1930s
Iatmul Transcesticism: A Study in the Relations Between Social Structure, Function and Ethos manuscript circa 1930s
Steps to an Ecology of Mind circa 1972-1979
Title page and contents, French edition 1975
Preface, pg. 406-537, French edition 1975
Ballantine, pgs. 1-536, figures 1973
Where Angels Fear to Tread: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred circa 1978-1980
Manuscript
Oversize holograph pages
Typescripts, transcriptions of tapes
Typescripts, drafts
Typescripts, drafts, articles
Typescripts, drafts, correspondence
Design copy, manuscript with corrections
Octopus & Cetacean Observation materials Subseries 2.3 1925-1985
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Octopus Observations - Whaler's Cove Observations 1961-1965
Oceanic Institute Reprints - Observaions at Essex Cove 1965-1966
Observations of Training Tanks - Photos, Virgin Islands 1965-1966
Virgin Islands Dolphins - Observation Notebook 1964-1967
Notebooks Subseries 2.4 1920-1977
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
#0-10D 1943 - September 1949
#11-20 October 1949 - ca. 1954
#21-30 ca. 1954 - 1963
#31-41 1964 - 1969
#42-53 1969 - June 1974
#54-66 1974 - 1977
Pocket diary 1920-1921
Spiral notebooks circa 1948
Spiral notebooks circa 1947
Spiral notebooks circa 1947
Spiral notebooks circa 1948
Notebook 1925
Notebook undated
Film analysis notebooks undated
Film analysis notebooks undated
Film analysis notebooks undated
Bibliography of Published Articles & Files Subseries 2.5 1925-1985
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
1923-1947
1949-1959
1960-1974
1975-1986
Minor published articles 1975-1986
#5 "Music in New Guinea" - The Eagle, v.48:214 [pgs. 158-170] 1935
#6 "Culture Contact and Schismogenesis" [pgs. 178-183] Dec. 1935
#9 "Experiments in Thinking About Observed Ethnological Material" v.8:1 - Reprint from Philosophy of Science Jan. 1941
#11 "IV. The Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis and Culture" v.48:4 - Reprint from Psychological Review July 1941
#14 "Social Planning and the Concept of 'Deutero-Learning'" - Reprint from Science, Philosophy, and Religion, 2nd Symposium 1942
#18 "Chapter V, Morale and National Character" - From Society for Psychological Studies of Social Issues , pg. 71-91 1942
#20 "An Analysis of the Nazi Film Hitlerjunge Quex" undated
#26 "Section of Anthropology", Ser.II, v.6:4 - Reprinted from Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences Jan. 24, 1944
#30 "The Pattern of an Armaments Race; An Anthropological Approach", pt.1, v.2:5-8 - Reprint from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1946
#32 "Physical Thinking and Social Problems" - Reprint from Science v.103:2686 June 21, 1946
#33 "From One Social Scientist to Another", v.34:4 - Reprint from American Scientist 1946
#35 "Sex and Culture", v.47:Art 5 - Reprint from The Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences May 1947
#42 "Applied Metalinguistics and International Relations" by Henry Lee Smith, Jr., v.10:1 - Reprint from ETC.: A Review of General Semantics Autumn 1952
#43 "Changes in Human Relationships and Individual Psychology' - Typescript [pgs.1-27] undated
#45 "Metalogue: Why do Frenchmen?", v.10:2 - Reprint from ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 1953
#46 "Metalogue: About Games and Being Serious", [pgs. 213-217] - Reprint from ETC.: A Review of General Semantics undated
#48A "Why a Swan? - a Metalogue", [pgs. 23-26] - Reprint from Dance as Communication: Impulse 1954
#53 "Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia" - Reprint from Behavioral Science , v.1:4 October 1956
#55 "Editorial Notes - Languages and Psychotherapy - Frieda Fromm-Reichmann's Last Project" - Reprint from Psychiatry, v.21:1 Feb. 1958
#57 "Chapter 2 - Schizophrenic Distortions of Communications - Moderator: Gregory Bateson" - Photocopy from Sea Island Conference: Psychotherapy of Chronic Scizophrenic Patients undated
#61 "Cultural Problems Posed by a Study of Schizophrenic Process" - Reprint from Schizophrenia 1959
#62 "The New Conceptual Frames for Behavioral Research" - Reprint from Proceedings of the 6th Annual Psychiatric Institute Sept. 17, 1958
#63 "Minimal Requirements for a Therapy of Schizophrenia" - Reprint from A.M.A. Archives of General Psychiatry v.2 May 1960
#64 "Specific Approaches and Clinical Implications" - Reprint from Chronic Schizophrenia: Explorations 1960
#67 "Perceval's Narrative: a Patient's Account of His Psychosis, 1830-1832" 1961
#68 "Exchange of information about Patterns of Human Behavior" - Reprint from Information Storage and Neural Control 1963
#69 "Communication Theories in Relation to the Etiology of the Neuroses" - Reprint from The Etiology of the Neuroses 1966
#71A "A Social Scientist Views the Emotions" - Reprint from Expression of the Emotions in Man undated
#72 "Some Varieties of Pathogenic Organization", v.42 - typescript and reprint from Disorders of Communication 1964
#73 "The Role of Somatic Change in Evolution", v.17:4 - Reprint from Evolution Dec. 24, 1963
#75 "On the Logical Categories of Learning and Communication" undated
#76 "Some 19th Century Problems of Evolution" - typescript undated
#77 "Metalogue: What is an Instinct?" - typescript - Reprint from Approaches to Animal Communication undated
#78 "Cybernetic Explanation" - typescript undated
#82 "The Distribution of Mind", draft - Photocopy of typescript w/corrections undated
#83 "Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation" undated
Bali: The Value System of a Steady State - Reprint from Social Structure; Studies presented to A.R. Radcliffe-Brown 1949
Review of "The Theory of Human Culture", James Feibleman - Review in Political Science Quarterly , v.62:3 Sept. 1947
Review of "Primate Ethology", Desmond Morris - Reprint from American Anthropologist , v.70:5 October 1968
Exhibit II "The Cetacean Community in Whaler's Cove - Sea Life Park" - Excerpt from draft of report of work done under Career Development Award (K3-NH-21, 931) undated
Afterword - "Dear John, When you first suggested this volume and undertook to put it together..." undated
"Dear Cathy" 1969 1977
"Schizophrenic Communication: A Theoretical Discussion and a Proposal for Research" ca. 1954
"Problems in Cetacean & Other Mammalian Communication" - Reprints from Whales Dolphins and Porpoises, K. Norris n.d. 1966
"A Re-examination of 'Bateson's Rule'" - Reprint from Journal of Genetics , v.60:3 Sept. 1971
"Redundancy and Coding" - Reprint from Animal Communication undated
"Protecting the Future: Aiding the Work of Scientists is believed best Safeguard" - Letters to the Times, New York Times Dec. 8, 1946
"Prayer Breakfast" Jan.8, 1976
"Pidgin English and Cross-Cultural Communication" - Reprint from Transactions of the New York Academy of Science, Ser.II, v.6:4 Jan 24, 1944
"On Empty-Headness Among Biologists and State Boards of Education" - Photocopy from Steps to an Ecology of Mind, pg.343-345 undated
Discussion: The Science of Decency - Reprint from Philosophy of Science , v.10:2 April 1943
Discussion of "Approaches to Family Therapy" undated
"Epilogue: The Growth of Paradigms for Psychiatry" - Reprint from Communication and Social Interaction 1977
"Form, Substance and Difference" - Reprint from General Semantics Bulletin , no.37 1970
"Metalogue: Daddy, How Much do You Know?" - Reprint from ETC: A Review of General Semantics , v.10:4 Summer 1953
"Metalogues: Why Do Frenchmen?" - Reprint from ETC: A Review of General Semantics , v.10:2 Winter 1953
"The Message of Reinforcement" - Reprint from Language Behavior undated
"Experiments in Thinking About Observed Ethnological Material" - Reprint from Philosophy of Science, v.8:1 January 1941
"Communication in Occupational Therapy"- Reprint from American Journal of Occupational Therapy 1956
"The Cybernetics of 'Self': A Theory of Alcoholism" - Reprint from Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes February 1971
"Social Structure of the Iatmul People of the Sepik River" - Reprint from Oceania, v.2:3 March 1932
"Some Components of Socialization for Trance" - Reprint from Ethos, v.3:2 Summer 1975
"Structure and Process in Social Relations" - Reprint from Psychiatry: Journal for the Operational Statement of Interpersonal Relations , v.12:2 May 1949
"Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art" - Reprint from Primitive Art and Society undated
"Sex and Behavior" - Revised transcript of talk to 2nd Conference on Sex and Behavior, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, California June 1962
"Principles of Morale Building" - Journal of Educational Sociology , pgs. 206-220 Dec. 1941
"Towards a theory of Cultural Coherence: Comment" - Anthropological Quarterly , v.51:1, pgs. 77-78 Jan. 1978
"Influence of Atomic Bomb on Indirect Methods of Warfare" - Photocopy of letter to General Donovan Aug. 18, 1945
"Difference, Double Description and the Interactive Designation of Self" - Photocopy from Studies in Symbolism and Cultural Communications 1982
"Metalogue: Gregory Bateson, Paul Ryan" undated
"Statement on problems which will confront the proposed Office of Environmental Quality in Government and an Environmental Center at the University of Hawaii" 1970 photocopy - from
Related materials 1882-1980
Interview with Milton H. Erickson 1945
John Proctor transcripts & notes 1950
Dr. Bateson lecture notes July 1955
The Death of a Mongoose, a poem [G. Bateson?] undated
Our Own Metaphor, by M.C. Bateson, draft no. 15, typescript photocopy undated
Wenner-Gren Symposium on Restructuring the Ecology of a Great City Oct. 30, 1970
"OM" Conference on G. Spencer Brown, transcript photocopy, notes by Anne Dale March 1973
Princeton Conference I-IV, transcript Dec. 1969
"Living Systems" - examination for Bateson's course undated
Session with Jenny O'Connor, English psychic who channeled "The Nine", Esalen Institute, unedited transcript & notes Feb. 7, 1979
"Ecology of Mind" lecture course, Fall 1976, transcript 1976
Rockefeller Project papers - materials for a report and proposal to continue project begun 9/1952 ca. 1954
Bateson Project - "post-double-bind", David Lipset, notes, 4 pgs typescript, carbon ca. 1960-1980
Ruth Fulton Benedict: A Memorial, 1 copy Nov. 4, 1948
University of Hawaii Bulletin, Catalog 1970-71 1970-1971
Article & photos in "Balinese Character" from Popular Photography , v.78:2 Feb. 1976
International Committee on Urgent Anthropological Research in New Guinea: Bulletin no.1 ca. 1961
Sepik District Anthropological Bibliography, Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National Unniversity 1963
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory: 25th year commemorative edition - 25 years in Pictures 1977
G. Bateson's telephone & address books 1964-1980
Marginalia (Writings by Others - photocopies of pages from books which the family retained or were sold as part of the William Batson Library and four papers) 1946-1980
Articles and books about Gregory Bateson - an incomplete list 1946-1980
#1-38 1937-1983
#39-70 1937-1983
Notes and fragments ca. 1957-1980
"Teleological Mechanisms", by Frank, Hutchinson, Livingston, McCulloch, Wiener, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, v.50:4, pgs. 187-278, reprint 1948
Cards 1950-1972
References for books & articles ca. 1950
Addresses & phone numbers 1970
Library cards for 'traveling book collection' taken by Bateson around the world for use by students on International Honors Program Trip 1971-1972
Card file undated
W.S. Bristowe "A British Semi-marine Spider" 1923
G.L.R. Hancock "S. Ebudes" 1923
John W. Taylor and W. Denison Roebuck "Census of the Authenticated Distribution of British Land and Freshwater Mollusca" 1885
John W. Taylor "Helix Arbustorum" 1882
G. E. Hutchinson "South Ebudes" 1923
J. Stanley Gardiner "The Application of Science to the Fishing Industry" 1923
The Animal Ecology of King's College Chapel 1923
W.S. Bristowe "The Insects and Arachnids of Jan Mayen" 1922
Ivor G.S. Montagu "On Some Mammals from Jugoslaiva" 1923
J. Omer-Cooper "Janiropsis Parva: A New Species of Isopod from Fanning Island" 1921
Guide to the Mollusca 1923
Ivor G. Montagu "On a Further Collection of Mammals from the Inner Herbrides" 1922
David Sharp 1922
L.H. Matthews "Epibrachiella" 1923
Annual Report of the Peterborough Natural History, Scientific and Archaeological Society 1922
F. Balfour Brown "Key to the Orders of Insects" undated
E. J. Pearce "Haliplus" 1924
Michael Perkins "On Acanthophthirius etheldredae" 1925
Philip P. Calvert "The Composition and Ecological Relations of the Odonate Fauna of Mexico and Central America" 1909
J.F. Van Bemmelen "Heredity of Mental Faculties" 1926
N. Hanover; Feni Ins Arnir undated
William Wyse Studentship 1938-1939
Genealogies undated
Catalog of plants Bateson collected in New Guinea and New Britain circa 1931
Danube region lecture notes circa 1920s
Danube region lecture notes circa 1920s
Business and financial documents circa 1953-1955
Wenner-Gren Conference, July 1968 1967-1968
"Realities" Conference, January 1978 1977-1978
Source Book I
Source Book II
Source Book III
Photographs 1900-1980
Family photographs
Animal photographs taken by Bateson
Color snapshots of Bateson & family
Passenger aboard Orient Line circa 1927
Photograph undated
Black and white photographs circa 1970s
Family photographs undated
Photographs undated
Photographs circa 1969
Baining photographs circa 1930s
Photographs of material culture (Oceania paper) circa 1930s
Papua New Guinea photographs circa 1930s
Diaspositives of Balinese painitings undated
Papua New Guinea photographs undated
Tatuma Falls photograph undated
Maty Island photographs circa 1930s
Baining and Sepik photo album circa 1930s
Papua New Guinea lantern slides circa 1930s
Galapagos photographs 1924-1925
Microscope, lens and carrying case
Audio Visual Materials
Parts I and II, vol. 1-2
vol. 3-7
vol. 8-11
vol. 12-15
vol. 16-19