Container List

American Philosophical Society 1935

Re: appointment to nominating committee, reply on back [1 item]

Beadle, George W. 1935-1937

Sponsoring letter from THM for Rockefeller Fellowship; also acceptance of appointment at Caltech [4 items]

See also: Minnesota, University of

Bonner, James 1934-1935

His stay in Holland; one-year position offered by THM for physiological work [5 items]

B misc.

Baker, W. L. 1934

Re: her son Leon's death; he is the man who saved THM's life after an auto accident [1 item]

Banta, A. M. 1935 (with honors)

Bartsch, Paul (Smithsonian Institution) 1935 [1 item]

Bateson, W. 1924-1925

Congratulatory note to THM upon receiving the Darwin Medal; discussing the pending purchase of Darwin's house [2 items]

Belling, John L. 1932 (to L. Morgan) [1 item]

Blakeslee, A. F. 1935 [3 items]

Borsook, Henry 1933 [1 item]

re: Gaddern, Matthews and Brown

Campbell, W. W.

See: National Academy of Sciences

Carnegie Institution 1920-1935 (includes Merriam, Woodward, Wirtz, Gilbert)

Re: research grants, budget proposal, salaries, estimates [55 items]

Carnegie Institution, Drosophila exhibit 1934-1935

Columbia University (President Butler) 1927

THM's resignation from Columbia to accept the organization of the Department of Biology at Caltech [3 items]

Columbia University Press (Proffitt, Rostand) 1934

Re: publication and French translation of Embryology and Genetics [7 items]

Conklin, Edwin G. 1904-1946

Re: THM's marriage plans, birth of his son in 1906; Conklin to L. Morgan expression of sympathy and his recollections of THM [23 items]

C misc.

Cleveland, L. R.(Harvard Medical School) 1934 [1 item]

Crane, M. B. 1934 [1 item]

Darwin Medal of the Royal Society (W. B. Hardy) 1924-1925

Announcement of the award; also letter of gratitude from A. Shipley of Christ's College Marine Biology Lab for £100 THM turned over to them [4 items]

Darwin Memorial (W. B. Hardy, A. Flexner) 1925-1928

Re: purchase of Down (Darwin's house) and turning it into a historical monument; also THM to H. Osborn of American Museum of Natural History to raise funds for the Darwin Memorial [7 items]

DeVries, Hugo 1918

[This photocopied letter and accompanying documents were added to the collection in 1987.]

D misc.

Dahlgren, K. V. C. (Uppsala University) 1934 [1 item]

Fleming, Arthur H. 1927-1928

Re: THM's coming to Caltech and building of Kerckhoff, equipment and plans [39 items]

Flexner, Abraham 1943

Re: Dr. Gilman and his influence on THM and Johns Hopkins University [4 items]

F misc.

Fischer, W. K. (Hopkins Marine Station) 1934 [1 item]

Fowler, H. G. 1935 [1 item, reply on back]

Gager, C. Stuart 1935

Re: G. H. Shull and publication of Genetics magazine [5 items]

Goodrich, H. B. (Wesleyan University) 1935

Re: spending his sabbatical at Caltech [2 items]

G misc.

Germantown Trust Co. 1934

See: Section II, Financial matters

Granick, Sam (Michigan University) 1935 [2 items]

Gustafson, F. G. (Michigan University) 1935 [2 items]

Hale, George Ellery 1927-1928

Re: Rockefeller grant to establish Biology Division at Caltech with THM as head; building of Kerckhoff, salaries, etc. [52 items]

H misc.

Hardy, W. B. 1924-1925

See: Darwin Medal

Harrison, Ross G. (Yale University) 1934 [2 items]

Haselden, Reginald B. (Huntington Library) 1935 [2 items]

Hoagland, Hudson (Clark University) 1934 [2 items]

Holmgren, Gustav (Karolinska Inst.) 1934

See: Section II, Nobel Prize

Hopkins County Assessor 1929

See: Section II, Financial matters

Huettner, A. F. (New York University) 1934 [3 items]

Hugentobler, Louise 1935

THM's secretary at Columbia, her death and settling of her estate [5 items]

Hurst, C. C. 1925 [1 item]

J misc.

Jaffe, Bernard (from THM) 1934 [2 items]

Re: biography to be published in Outposts of Science

Jones, D. F. (Genetics magazine) 1934-1935 [7 items]

Re: Bridges' manuscript of salivary chromosome and Painter's letter of outburst regarding editorial practices

Knoefl, D. K. (Vanderbilt University) 1935

Re: his coming to Caltech, correspondence with Hal Davis of Harvard Medical School regarding Knoefl's abilities [4 items]

K misc.

Kernof [sp?], J. 1937

L misc.

Lambert, W. V. (Iowa State College) 1935

Invitation to THM to lecture [1 item]

Lawton, G. L. (Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology) 1934 re: publication of article by THM [2 items]

Li, J. C. (Yenching University) 1934-1935

Re: Li's visit to Caltech, fellowship from the China Foundation [3 items]

Liljestrand, C. 1934

See: Section II, Nobel Prize

Luck, J. M. (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1935, invitation to address the meeting of the Pacific Division [1 item, reply on back]

Millikan, Robert A. 1927-1930

Invitation to come to Caltech, salary, capital to start Biology library; letter to Max Mason asking the General Education Board to raise $4 million [14 items]

Minnesota, University of (Dean Johnston) 1934

Re: the abilities of Beadle and Rhoades [3 items]

M misc.

Mason, Max 1930

See: Millikan and Rockefeller files

Merriam, J. C. 1927

See: Carnegie Institution

Myers, Earl (Scripps Institute) 1935 [1 item]

National Academy of Sciences (W. W. Campbell, president) 1934-1935

Declining to become chairman to Committee of Nominations; nominations of new members [8 items]

National Research Council 1935 [1 item]

Nobel Nominating Committee 1934-1935

Nobel Prize

See: Section II

Noyes, Arthur A. 1927-1928

Re: THM's coming to Caltech, car for Morgan, etc. [17 items]

N misc.

Nachtsheim, H. 1935 [1 item, reply on Back] re: translation of Scientific Basis of Evolution

Norton, W. W.

See: Nachtsheim, H

Osborn, H. F. 1928

See: Darwin Medal

O misc.

Osterhout, W. J. 1934 (Rockefeller Foundation) [2 items]

Pincus, G. (Harvard University) 1934 [4 items]

P misc.

Peter, A. M. (Kentucky Academy of Science) 1934 [2 items]

Proffitt, Charles G.

See: Columbia University Press

Protti, G. (International Society of Radiobiology, Venice) [7 items] re: formation of national groups and sections of radiobiology

Recommendation letters, misc.

Rhodes Scholarship Trust (Frank Aydelotte) 1934

G. Eastman visiting professorship at Oxford for THM, 1935-1936 [9 items]

Rockefeller Foundation (Max Mason, Warren Weaver) 1933-1936

Re: funds for development of Division of Biology at Caltech [54 items]

Rowan, William (University of Alberta) 1934-1935

Re: the homing instinct of pigeons and his visit to Caltech [9 items]

Royal Society Publications (A. V. Hill) 1935

Re: papers by Borsook and Keighley [1 item]

R misc.

Rasmussen, J. (Mendelska Sallskapet) 1934

Invitation to lecture at the Mendelian Society of Lund [1 item]

Redfield, Alfred C. (editor of Biological Bulletin) 1935 re: publication of some papers of THM [2 items]

(See also: Thimann, Kenneth)

Robinson, Victor (Encyclopedia sexualis) 1934

Re: article on Mendelism and genetics [5 items]

Rostand, J.

See: Columbia University Press

Roth, H. D. de

Re: Morgan's visit to Stockholm [1 item]

S misc.

Shipley, A. S.

See: Darwin Medal

Skinker, C. F.

See: American Philosophical Society

Strong, Leonell 1934-1935

Re: job possibilities [4 items]

Summer, F. B. 1935 [2 items]

T misc.

Taliaferro, W. H. (University of Chicago) 1935

Re: Dr. Lillie's portrait [2 items]

Tan, C. C. 1934 re: Rockefeller Fellowship

Thimann, Kenneth (Caltech) 1935

Invitation to lecture at Harvard from A. C. Redfield [1 item]

V misc.

Van Harreveld, A. 1934

Van Overbeek, J. 1934

Vaughan, T. Wayland 1935

Vavilov, N. 1935

Went, F. A. F. C. and F. W. 1931-1934

Wiersma, C. A. G. 1934

W misc.

Wodsedalek, J. E. 1935

Wilson, E. B. 1927

Yale University Press 1928

Agreement for the publication of The Theory of the Gene [1 item]

Articles

Biographical notes and material

Family correspondence and miscellaneous

Financial matters 1928-1934

Honors, misc.

Nobel Prize 1933-1934

Obituary notice, French Academy of Science 1946

Photographs

Reviews of books and articles by THM

Talks and speeches 1886-1938

General material

Auditor's report on Caltech 1934

Executive Council meetings 1928-1935

Division of Biology

Kerckhoff Biology Laboratory, building of (Mayers, Murray, Philip, Architects), sketches and correspondence 1927

Proposed budgets, expenses, balance sheets 1930-1935

Correspondence, memos re: salaries, travel expenses, appointments, positions (E. C. Barrett) 1933-1943

Equipment, furnishings 1934-1935

Project reports 1934-1935

Research proposals ca 1930s

Expense Day Book 1932-1935

Biology I laboratory texts. n.d.

Notebooks 1886-1941

Chemistry lab manual, Johns Hopkins 1886

Notebook 1920

"Heat on Spermatozoa," Woods Hole, 1925

"References, Chromosomes, Inheritance acquired characters, Darwinism, Genetics" 1925

Drosophila experiments and drawings by Miss Wallace 1925

Mariposa Lilies 1928-1929

Drosophila 1929

Drosophila under different conditions 1930, 1932, 1934

"Flies in CO 2," 1933, and misc.

Lecture notes

Experimental Zoology 1913-1914; printed "Critique of The Theory of Evolution" 1916

Experimental Zoology 1916-1917, 1918

Experimental Embryology 1920-1921; 1921 class list

Tropism 1922

Genetics and misc. 1922-1928

Genetics 1923, 1924, 1926

Instincts 1925

Experimental Embryology 1927, with notes in another hand, possibly one of THM's daughters; offprint from Science by Frank Lillie, 1927

Notes on Drosophila mutant 1930-1934

Lecture notes and notes on C. Darwin, n.d.

Miscellaneous

Commentaries on papers by Conklin, by THM's students Plunkett, Linton, Schultz 1924

Photocopies of lecture and lab notes 1916-1926 [8 folders]

Photocopies of Morgan manuscripts from the E. G. Conklin papers, Princeton University Library; photocopies of Morgan papers from the American Philosophical Society Library

Experimental data and manuscripts on Ciona, Styela, Chaetoperus, Cuningia and Drosophila 1930-1945 [4 boxes]