Register of the Herbert McLean Evans Papers, 1943-1966
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Register of the Herbert McLean Evans Papers, 1943-1966
Collection number: MSS 75-11
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Herbert McLean Evans Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1943-1966
Collection number: MSS 75-11
Creator: Evans, Herbert McLean, 1882-1971
Extent: 2 cartons, 1 box (os)
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections.
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
Bulk of collection received from John Howell, Books, August 15, 1975; addenda: one folder
of correspondence received from Chauncey D. Leake, PhD., autographed reprint from Leslie
L. Bennett, MD; for major collection, see Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Herbert McLean Evans Papers, MSS 75-11, Archives & Special
Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Abstract
Collection includes medical sketches (by HME), correspondence, photographs, minutes of
History of Science Dinner Club, lecture notes, brief reference to research at San Quentin
prison, motion pictures.
Controlled Access
History of Science Dinner Club (Berkeley, California)
Medical illustration--Examples
California State Prison at San Quentin
Evans, Herbert McLean, d. 1882-1971
[Medical films: HME rat experiments]
Biography
Herbert McLean Evans was born on September 23, 1882 in Modesto, California, the son,
grandson and nephew of prominent physicians. In 1904 he received a B.S. degree from the
University of California, Berkeley. After spending one year at the University of
California School of Medicine, he completed his medical education at Johns Hopkins, where
he studied with such distinguished individuals as Franklin P. Mall and William Stewart
Halsted. Evans published papers as a student (including major contributions to Mall and
Keibel's Manual of Human Embryology) and over a period of sixty-two years he authored, or
co-authored, over six hundred papers. Following his graduation in 1908, Dr. Evans joined
the staff of Dr. Mall's department.
In 1915 he was appointed chairman of the Department of Anatomy at the University of
California. Here he embarked on experimental studies that gained for him and his
associates worldwide recognition. In 1921 he and Joseph A. Long described the estrous
cycle of the female rat, which eventually led to an interest in the influence of vitamins
on fecundity and the discovery in 1926 of vitamin E. Also in collaboration with Dr. Long,
he confirmed the pituitary gland's role in growth. In 1930 he was appointed Director of
the Institute of Experimental Biology on the Berkeley campus. In 1939 he and co-workers
separated the growth hormone from the total secretion of the anterior pituitary; in 1944
he and Drs. Cho Hao Li and M. E. Simpson crystallized a pure form. Later, with Drs. Li
and Simpson, he separated and purified the pituitary's interstitial-cell-stimulating
hormone. Following his retirement in 1952, Dr. Evans taught the histology course for
medical students on the Berkeley campus.
Dr. Evans received numerous international honors, including horary doctoral degrees from
leading educational institutions in Europe, South American and the United States. A
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Evans was also a member of the
National Academy of Sciences, the Kaiserliche Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutche Akademie
der Naturforscher, Societas Regia Medicorum Budapestinensis, American Physiological
Society and the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. He was also past president
of the American Association of Anatomists and an honorary member of many foreign medical
and scientific societies. Dr. Evans was one of the founders of the History of Science
Society, and as a lifelong bibliophile he amassed what was described in 1961 as "one of
the world's great collections of scientific first editions." Dr. Evans died on March 5,
1971.
Carton Carton 1, Folder 1.
Folder 2.
HME bibliography, 1904-1955, CV
Folder 4.
Correspondence with Chauncey D. Leake, PhD, 1943-65
Folder 5.
Pan American Congress of Endocrinology certificates
Folder 6.
Bookplate samples and dies
SERIES II. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Folder 6.
Reference works in the history of science (HME library)
Folder 7.
Lecture outline, Aspects of the History of Biology, 1962
Folder 8.
History of sciences book reviews (typescripts)
Folder 9.
History of Science Dinner Club (HSDC) minutes, rough draft
Folder 11.
HSDC correspondence, 1966
Folder 12.
Lecture, Pioneer history of vitamin E; drawings by K. Hyde
Folder 13.
William Harvey bibliography (typescript)
Folder 14.
Great books of science exhibit, Stanford Library Bull. 1954
Folder 15.
Marcello Malpighi, Life and works (chapter outline for a book?)
SERIES III. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Folder 16.
Lecture announcements [OS Box]
Folder 17.
Letter (offset) re location of UCLA medical school
Folder 18.
Welcome, 1st year medical class, Oct. 3, 1966
Folder 20a.
Reprint: HME and Werner Schulemann: "Action of vital stains belonging to the benzidine group": autographed at luncheon at
Millberry Union, 1/7/65. Signed by Evans and Schulemann, CD Leake, SL Ussig, Ted Hayaluda, J de Groot, IW Monie, WO Reinhardt,
KF Meyer, and Leslie L. Bennett. (Gift of LL Bennett).
SERIES V. SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS
Folder 23.
Drawings by HME(?), Louise Strong, MP Delprat
Folder 24.
Sketches by HME and unknown artists
Folder 26.
Drawings from Johns Hopkins, ca 1905-18 (18 signed)
Folder 27.
Drawings and sketches (116, mostly fetal studies)
SERIES VI. PHOTOGRAPHS AND MOTION PICTURES
Folder 29.
Photographs of experiments (dogs, etc.) [OS box]
Folder 30.
Personal photographs [OS box]
Folder 31.
Photographs of William Harvey exhibit
Folder 32.
3 films (in cans): a) B/W rat experiments (?) 10" reels; b) color anniversary volume (7" reel, two copies)