Thomas Harper Goodspeed

Inventory of the Correspondence Relating to Research on Tobacco. 1926-1950

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Thomas Harper Goodspeed

Inventory of the Correspondence Relating to Research on Tobacco. 1926-1950

Collection number: BANC MSS 80/138 c

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu

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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Thomas Harper Goodspeed: Correspondence Relating to Research on Tobacco,

Date (inclusive): 1926-1950

Collection Number: BANC MSS 80/138 c

Creator: Goodspeed, Thomas Harper, 1887-

Extent: Number of containers: 3 boxes Linear feet: 1.25

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract: Primarily copies of letters written by Goodspeed and his associate, Helen-Mar Wheeler, to various botanists, museums, botanical gardens, government agencies; and replies, exchanging information on tobacco, plant specimens, and viable seed. Some comment on response of tobacco to X-rays.

Appended to some letters: plant specimens, photographs, lists of queries and specimens sent, with specific information on genetic, morphological and taxonomic characteristics.

Languages Represented: English

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Collection is open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Thomas Harper Goodspeed. Correspondence relating to research on tobacco, BANC MSS 80/138 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Biography

Thomas Harper Goodspeed, botanist and cytologist, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1887. In 1909, he received the A.B. degree from Brown University, and in 1912, was awarded the Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.He joined the faculty of the Botany Department at Berkeley in 1912, and in 1928 became a full professor. From 1926 to 1934, Goodspeed was curator of the Botanical Gardens, and served as its director from 1934 until his retirement from the University in 1957.

Goodspeed devoted the bulk of his professional career to a study of the cytology and taxonomy of the genus Nicotiana (tobacco), its interspecific hybridization, its distribution in western South America and the Australian sub-continent, and its response to high frequency radiation such as x-rays.

Scope and Content

These papers, donated by Professor Lincoln Constance in April, 1980, consist essentially of copies of letters written by Goodspeed and his associate, Helen-Mar Wheeler, to various botanists, museums, botanical gardens, government agencies, etc., and replies, exchanging information on tobacco, plant specimens and viable seed. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization with incoming and outgoing letters interfiled chronologically thereunder. Plant specimens, photographs, lists of queries and of specimens sent with specific information on genetic, morphological and taxonomic characteristics, habitat, and range are appended to some letters. A partial list of correspondents follows herein. Unlisted letters follow those listed, for each letter of the alphabet.

Box 1

Correspondence, A-D

Box 2

Correspondence, E-P

Box 3

Correspondence, R-Z and Miscellaneous items

Archer, William Andrew

4 letters, 1939-1940

Avery, George S., Jr., 1903-

13 letters, 1934-1935

Backeburg, Curt

Letter, Apr. 24, 1932

Bateson, Gregory, 1904-

Letter, n.d.

Baur, Erwin, 1875-1933

Letter, Feb. 10, 1931

Beaglehole, Ernest, 1906-

Letter, July 17, 1935

Black, John McConnell, 1855-1951

14 letters, 1932-1939

Brieger, Friedrich Gustav, 1900-

2 letters, 1926-1935

Brooks, Jerome Edmund

7 letters, 1929-1942

Bryan, Edwin Horace, 1898-

Letter, Jan. 10, 1940

Buchtien, Otto

3 letters, 1931-1932

Buck, Peter (Te Rangi Hiroa), 1880-1951

4 letters, 1940-1942

Burkholder, Paul Rufus, 1903-

Letter, Jan. 7, 1941

Cabrera, Angel L., 1879-

Letter, March 31, 1932

Cadwalader, Charles M. B.

Letter, Sept., 1934

Carter, Walter, 1879-

2 letters, 1940

Castellanos, Alberto

Letter, Nov. 2, 1936

Castetter, Edward Franklin, 1896-

9 letters, 1937-1942

Cheel, Edmund

7 letters, 1933-1934

Clausen, Roy Elwood, 1891-1956

3 letters, 1936-1937

Clayton, Edward Eastman, 1895-

42 letters, 1934-1943

Cleland, John Burton

4 letters, 1931-1939

Collins, Julius Lloyd, 1889-

Letter, Jan. 2, 1941

Darnell-Smith, George Percy

3 letters, 1931-1933

Descole, Horacio Raoul, 1910-

2 letters, 1937-1940

Docters Van Leewen, Wilhelm Marius, 1880-

Letter, June 15, 1929

Ducke, Adolf

Letter, May 28, 1933

East, Edward Murray, 1878-1938

14 letters, 1935-1938

Fries, Robert E., 1876-

Letter, Dec. 11, 1929

Gardner, Max William, 1890-1979

Letter, Sept. 14, 1935

Giddings, Nahum James, 1883-

Letter, Sept. 20, 1941

Granger, Walter, 1872-1941

Letter, Jan. 27, 1934

Gregg, Clifford Cilley, 1895-

Letter, June 15, 1939

Herrera, A. L., 1868-1942

Letter, June 21, 1929

Hill, Arthur, 1875-1941

6 letters, 1926-1927

Honing, Jan Antoine

2 letters, 1928-1931

Horton, Ethel Sue, 1882-

Letter, Sept. 24, 1931

Hosseus, Carl Curt, 1878-

Letter, Feb. 18, 1931

Howell, John Thomas

2 letters, 1932-1933

Hull, Fred Harold, 1898-

2 letters, 1941-1944

Jones, Volney Hunt, 1903-

3 letters, 1941

Killip, Ellsworth Paine, 1890-

3 letters, 1931-1939

Kincaid, Randall Rich, 1903-

2 letters, 1935-1936

Knoche, Walter, 1881-

Letter, Aug. 17, 1931

Kostoff, Dontcho

5 letters, 1935-1937

Kraus, E. J., 1885-

2 letters, 1936-1937

Lam, H. J.

Letter, Dec. 4, 1948

Lewis, Ralph William, 1911-

Letter, Aug. 18, 1941

Looser, Gaulterio

2 letters, 1931

Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957

Letter, Dec. 8, 1942

Macindoe, S. L.

2 letters, 1940

McMurtrey, James Edward, 1893-

3 letters, 1935-1936

Martinez, Maximino, 1888-

Letter, March 24, 1931

Merrill, Elmer Drew, 1876-1956

Letter, March 31, 1937

Mexia, Ynez

Letter, March 4, 1932

Moldenke, Harold N., 1909-

5 letters, 1940-1946

Morrison, Benjamin Yoe, 1891-

Letter, March 2, 1936

Morton, C. Vernon, 1905-1972

Letter, Apr. 10, 1941

Navashim, Michael S, 1896-

Letter, Feb. 7, 1931

Neal, Marie Catherine, 1889-

3 letters, 1937-1944

Neubauer, Ferdinand John, 1886-

Letter, Apr. 15, 1928

Nicholls, William Henry, 1885-1951

Letter, July 1, 1937

Nolla, José Antonio Bernabé, 1902-

2 letters, 1937-1938

Olmo, Harold Paul, 1909-

Letter, Oct. 14, 1937

Parks, Harold Ernest, 1880-

Letter, Feb. 12, 1934

Fennell, Francis Whittier, 1886-

Letter, Nov. 9, 1934

Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald, 1881-1955

Letter, July 26, 1929

Rehder, Alfred, 1863-1949

2 letters, 1931-1933

Rivett, Alfred Cherbury David, 1885-

2 letters, March, 1934

Roark, Ruric Creegan, 1887-

3 letters, 1941-1942

St. John, Harold, 1892-

Letter, Dec. 20, 1939

Sakimura, Kanjyo, 1903-

3 letters, 1938

Schreiter, Rodolfo, 1885-

2 letters, 1932-1934

Simms, Stephen Chapman, 1864-

3 letters, 1931-1934

Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-

Letter, March 18, 1934

Skottsberg, Carl Johan Fredrik, 1880-

3 letters, 1931-1937

Smith, Harold Hill, 1910-

5 letters, 1936-1940

Thornber, John James, 1872-

2 letters, 1941-1942

Wagner, Rudolf

Letter, Nov. 1, 1937

Weberbauer, August, 1871-

4 letters, 1931-1933

Weier, Thomas Elliot, 1903-

2 letters, 1934

Wenholz, H

19 letters, 1934-1940

Went, Fritz Warmold, 1903-

Letter, March 3, 1937

Wheeler, Helen-Mar, 1907-

7 letters, 1934-1945. Copies of letters written by her, to Professor Goodspeed's correspondents, on his behalf, as his associate, appear in the correspondents' folders.

White, Cyril Tenison

2 letters, 1931-1936

Wittrock, Gustav Ludwig, 1895-

2 letters, 1939-1940