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Gift. 1967
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[Item], Muller mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Geneticist and Nobel prize laureate. Muller was born and schooled in New York City,
receiving an A.B., M.A. and in 1915 his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His first
faculty appointment was at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He then accepted a
two-year appointment as instructor at Columbia hoping it would lead to a permanent
position. In 1920, however, Muller accepted an offer from the University of Texas. In
Austin his experiments on fruit flies (
Muller applied for and won a Guggenheim fellowship in 1932 and left the U.S. in
September to spend a year at the only
After leaving the Soviet Union in September 1937, Muller spent some weeks in Paris at Boris Ephrussi's laboratory before accepting an offer from F.A.E. Crew at the Institute of Animal Genetics in Edinburgh. Originally a temporary appointment, Muller was soon awarded a three-year Macauley Research Fellowship as well as some supplemental Rockefeller Foundation support to run his laboratory. It was during this period that he met a young German refugee named Dorothea Kantorowicz who had been appointed as a technician in the Institute's pregnancy laboratory. They were married in May 1939. The outbreak of war later that year greatly affected the working habits of the institute, and Crew initiated a determined effort to get Muller and his research placed in an American university. Despite failing to obtain any position offers the Mullers left for New York , via Lisbon, in September 1940. A month later Harold Plough offered Muller a temporary position at Amherst College in Massachusetts, an undergraduate liberal-arts college. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor Plough left Amherst for full-time service as bacteriologist with the U.S. Army and Muller was then given an indefinite appointment as a professor of biology; however that appointment was ultimately determined to end in June 1945. Following a visit to Bloomington, Indiana, and interviews with zoology department faculty and President Herman B Wells, Muller was offered an appointment as research professor, meaning that he would do as much graduate teaching as he desired but would not be expected to do any undergraduate teaching. Muller remained at Indiana University until his retirement in 1964.
A year after his arrival at Indiana Muller received the Nobel Prize. He received many more awards and tributes over the years, including the Bossom Award, the Kimber Genetics Award, and several honorary doctorates. His death in 1968 came just two months before he would have received Indiana's honorary degree voted him by the Faculty Council and approved by the Trustees the year before. Muller was active in numerous scientific organizations and was in contact both personally and professionally with the leading geneticists and biologists of the day. Some correspondents represented in the collection include: Edgar Altenburg, Charlotte Auerbach, Gert Bonnier, Herbert Brewer, Cyril Dean Darlington, Max Delbrück, Milislav Demerec, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Carl Gottfried Hartman, Lancelot Hogben, Alexander Hollaender, Sir Julian Huxley, Joshua Lederberg, Salvador Edward Luria, Otto Lous Mohr, Gregory Pincus, Guido Pontecorvo, Carl Sagan, Tracy Sonneborn, Alfred Henry Sturtevant, Leo Szilard, Nikolai Vladimirovich Timoféev-Resovskii, and Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov.
Consists of the papers of Hermann Joseph Muller, 1890-1967, including correspondence; writings and reprints; research and data from his work as well as from his students and colleagues; materials related to conferences and work with various professional organizations.
Elof Axel Carlson's biography of Muller,
Note on Indexing Term - "Education": Included are class notes from his courses on radiation genetics, evolution, mutation and the gene and lecture notebooks from his high school and Columbia University classes.
The collection is organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Writings by Muller and others; III. Conferences and Meetings; IV. Indiana University; V. Organizations; VI. Research and Education; VII. Subjects; VIII. Photographs; IX. Printed; X. Clippings; XI. Audio/Visual Materials; XII. Additional.
Some audio materials have been reformatted for use in the repository only.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
Arranged chronologically and alphabetically. A card index in the Library may be consulted for the location of individual letters in the chronological section and throughout the rest of the collection.
Organized into three sections. Muller's holograph and typescript Writings are arranged in chronological order, as are his Reprints. These are followed by Writings by Others, which is mostly holograph copies and typescripts, and is arranged alphabetically by author. Some printed materials follow this section. Inventories are available for all three sections. Items in the fragile file (Box 8) are restricted use.
Holograph and typescript copies of writings. Also includes lecture and speech typescripts, notes and related materials. Class lecture typescripts, notes and related materials may be found in the Research and Education section. D.I.S. (Drosophila Information Service) papers to which HJM contributed are listed at the end of the dated writings. Reprint numbers are given where known. Some writings may be enclosed in letters; check card index for titles.
(Photocopy of final draft - original is in fragile file)
(Photocopy - original pages in fragile file)
(Photocopy - original in fragile file)
(Photocopies of 2 drafts - original is in fragile file). Reprint 1
Reprint 4
(Photocopy - original in OVERSIZE)
(Photocopies - originals are in fragile file)
Photocopy - Originals are in fragile file)
[Preface?]
Reprint 13
[lecture?]
(Hybrid investigations with denucleated Amphibian eggs)
(University of Texas)
Reprint 43
Reprint 50
Reprint 120
Reprint 70 (Also a copy enclosed in Muller to Raymond Postgate,
Reprint 75
Reprint 72
Reprint 73 (original is in fragile file)
Fragments and drafts
Photocopy of version published as Appendix II in Loren R. Graham's
Notes, drafts, manuscript and German translation
Reprint 95 (original is in fragile file)
(original is in fragile file)
Includes list of possible titles,
(original in fragile file) Reprint 99
[draft]
[p. 18-20 - draft]
[photocopy - original in fragile file]
(photocopies - ms. and typed transcript in fragile file) Reprint 107
(see also: 1936, May 4. The social direction...)
(Photocopy - original in fragile file)
(typescript - original in fragile file).
Reprint 112
Reprint 111
Reprint 123
[aka: Social biology and population improvement]. Reprint 129
Reprint 127
Reprint 128
[fragment]
Reprint 135
Reprint 139
[unpublished?]
Reprint 136
Reprint 151
Reprint 148
Reprint 144
Reprint 145
Reprint 141
Reprint 150
Also includes notes for seminar give
Reprint 162
Reprint 156?
Reprint 158
[banquet speech]
[see also laboratory assistants papers], Reprint 165
[abstract] Reprint 159
Reprint 160
1) IU convocation address in celebration of the Nobel Prize, Jan. 23;
2) Abridged version given at Oak Ridge, Apr. 8
Reprint 170
Reprint 168
Lecture also given at Ohio State
Reprint172
Reprint 171
[lecture notes]
(see: Reprint 194)
Written for Schroeder Foundation, St. Louis
Reprint 173
Reprint 179
Reprint 178
Reprint 183
Text as delivered in speaking and as worded for printing
Talk given to Emeritus Club of Indiana University.
Also given at 8th International Congress of Genetics, Edinburgh,
Reprint 174
Given at Hunter College.
Presidential address, read before American Society of Human Genetics, New York.
Reprint 199
Proof only for publication in
Reprint 187
Reprint 190
Broadcast Radio Diffusion Francaise,
published in
French translation Reprint 208
1) broadcast Apr. 23 for Adventures in Science
2) The menace of radiation for
Reprint 181
re: Lysenko and Soviet science
Reprint 198
Address given to Legal Institute
Typescript and carbon. Proposed manuscript for 1st of Voice of America broadcast series.
[Lecture notes] Lecture at Stetson University, De Land, Florida
Reprint 202
Holograph Includes undated introduction of James F. Crow
Reprint 204
Includes other abstracts for The Genetics Society of America,
Reprint 207
For Voice of America.
Reprint 216
(The standard error of the frequency of mutants some of which are of common origin - abstract.)
Reprint 211
(distributed by U.S. Information Services as: Sterility of Soviet Science.)
Reprint 209
Reprint 221
1) Talk at science talent search banquet, Indianapolis, Apr. 5
2) Science - Man's hazardous adventure,
Will science continue? For
Reprint 214
Published as "Russia's shackled science."
Reprint 222
Includes:
Notes by Frank N. Young
CBS broadcast, Columbia University Bicentennial lecture series.
Reprint 242
Also includes correspondence concerning series
Given for Phi Kappa Phi, University of Honolulu.
Lecture notes, clippings
Abstract
Reprint 240
Chapter 8 of
Reprint 225
Chapter 7 of
Reprint 224
I. Translocations. Draft fragments, holograph and typescript copies
Reprint 232
Reprint 228
Reprint 247?
Reprint 246
Published as:
Reprint 249
Reprint 255
(aka: Artificial insemination as viewed in the perspective of biology)
Reprint 245
Acceptance speech as president of the American Humanist Association
Reprint 257
Reprint 272
Address delivered at the dedication of Jordan Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, June 9.
Reprint 261
(Revised as: Man and gene in the world picture)
Talk given at WHO meeting
Abridgement of: The world view of moderns.
Talk in Indianapolis, Oct. 27; given in revised form at Northwestern
University
Reprint 284A
(original title: An estimate of the mutational load...)
Reprint 266
Reprint 267
Reprint 258
(unpublished)
fragment - pp. 23-29
Talk before American Humanist Association, Cincinnati
Mimeo
Reprint 282
Reprint 280
Statement prepared for symposium "The next hundred years," held by the Seagram Company, New York City.
Reprint 273
Talk at Antioch College, Nov. 24
Also includes lecture notes for talk entitled: Our responsibility for our genetic heritage.
Published as Man's future birthright
Reprint 281
For "World of Mind" radio series.
Published as: Damage from point mutations in relation to...
Reprint 268
Originally: The need for caution in the use of x rays, presented at the
second workshop on preventive dentistry,
Reprint 270
Reprint 269
Reprint 271
Reprint 284
Reprint 285
Address before the Unitarian Fellowship of Bloomington, Indiana,
Given at the Aspen Institute of Human Studies,
presented at Urbana, Illinois,
talk to Rationalists, Wisconsin,
Reprint 312
For television
[debate]
Reprint 288
Reprint 298
Symposium, Springfield College
Address to Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers, Indianapolis.
Reprint 299
Prepared for conference on the genetic aspects of life shortening by radiation damage, Ames, Iowa, Dec. 13-14.
Reprint 280
Reprint 287
Reprint 295
Reprint 378
Reprint 289
Reprint 303
Reprint 311
Also given as talk at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Reprint 334
Reprint 310
Statement at hearings before the Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organization of the Committee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate
Reprint 313
Talk to Prof. Byrns group of students about to leave for Russia
Paper given before International Committee on radiological protection, Munich (ICRP/59/M-44)
Reprint 319
Based on Reprint 280
Talk before Unitarian Fellowship, Bloomington.
Also includes: Introduction of Chauncey D. Leake, at The Indianapolis
Unitarian,
Delivered at Seagram symposium on The Future of Man.
Reprint 302
Statement for "Social and cultural evolution" held by Panel V,
Includes notes for lecture given to biology teachers
Reprint 301b?
Talk before AAAS symposium.
Papers given: 1) National Association of Biology Teacher's luncheon,
Chicago meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science,
2) Oak Park High School, Chicago,
3) Macalester College, St. Paul, MN,
Reprint 327
Reprint 305
Reprint 304
Paper for the Darwin Centennial Celebration of the University of Chicago,
Reprint 301
Reprint 300
Talk at Symposium on Human Evolution: Past, Present and Future, Pennsylvania State University.
(unpublished)
Paper given at Philosophy of Education Society, Columbus, OH.
Reprint 314
Reprint 315
(with particular reference to the treatment of genetics and evolution)
Reprint 316
Abstract
Reprint 317
Address given at the Alumni Institute Round Table Discussions, Indiana University.
Published as: Genetic considerations.
Reprint 320
Talk at the Symposium on Human Genetics, San Francisco.
Talk given at dedication dinner, Yellow Springs, OH
Reprint 324
Reprint 328
Reprint 326
Reprint 323
address given at symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(see: Reprint 347)
Reprint 340
Lecture delivered before IBS, Aug. 28
Reprint 330
Speech given to IU Alumni Association, Bloomington.
Pub. REVIEW in 1963
Reprint 347
Addendum and references only
Reprint 334
Reprint 329
Reprint 321
A review of
Reprint 322
Reprint 325
Reprint 335
Reprint 333
Address given in the Great Issues Course, Dartmouth College.
Talk delivered at Colorado College.
Reprint 342
Paper presented at Symposium on "The Future of Man," CIBA Foundation, London.
Reprint 341
Reprint 339
Reprint 336
Reprint 337
address before American Humanist Association
Acceptance speech for Humanist of the Year.
Ohio Wesleyan University symposium paper.
Reprint 357
paper given at symposium on Man-His Environment and Health, New York Academy of Medicine.
Reprint 348
simplified account of paper, Genetics Society of America, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Reprint 344
Reprint 358
Address to American Humanist Association's annual meeting.
Reprint 349
Based on address given at symposium, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology,
(see: 1961, Apr.)
Reprint 354
Telephone talk arranged by Dr. Novak of Stephens College, Columbia, MO.
Also includes correspondence, schedule, and other related materials
Lectures delivered in a series on "The Prospects for Man," Swarthmore College, Apr. 5 and 12.
Reprint 363
Reprint 353
Reprint 350
Lecture given at 1) City of Hope
2) Salk Institute,
Mendel Centennial speech.
Also, notes for introductions to speeches by Curt Stern and Robert S. Edgar, notes for speech at Harvard Biology Department dinner, correspondence and other materials
Reprint 366
Reprint 369
Reprint 356
Reprint 367
Reprint 370
Reprint 372
Reprint 371
Article for WHO publication
Contains papers, research notes, abstracts, stock lists, directories by HJM, et al. for publication.
(see also: individual titles listed above)
Probably not inclusive
Mostly assembled by Thea Muller or Elof Carlson.
Mostly reprints, but also contains complete journals, abstracts, mimeographs, tear sheets, etc. If a copy does not exist in the collection, it is designated as "MISSING"
Arranged roughly in chronological order. Most of the numbers were assigned by Muller and are preserved.
Mimeograph
Published as abstract of: Some genetic aspects of sex, HJM for
(for original see: Writings 1911-1912)
Photocopy
(See: Lilly 7-6043)
MISSING
Mimeograph
Read before American Society of Naturalists, Chicago, Dec. 31: Title in
MISSING
Copied from the
Abstract
Read before Gen. Sec., AAAS, Toronto, Dec. 1921.
MISSING
Read at Carnegie Institute, Cold Springs Harbor, Aug. 1921, and deposited in the archives of the Institute.
Published in Russian, 1922 as: "Results of a decade of research on Drosophila."
Russian reprint only
Read before 2nd International Congress of Eugenics, New York City, Sept. 1921.
Published in
Reprint, mimeograph copies, and copy of
Read before American Society of Naturalists, Toronto, Dec. 1921; published in
Reprint and mimeographs
Read and demonstrated before the American Society of Zoologist, Toronto.
MISSING
Read before The Gen. Sec., Dec. 1922.
Abstract
Read before Gene. Sec., Dec. 1923.
Abstract
Abstract
Read before Gene. Sec, Dec. 1924.
Abstract
Exhibit before American Society of Zoologists.
Title only
Photocopy
Read before Gene. Sec., Dec. 1925.
Abstract
Mimeographed notes distributed privately.
Read before International Congress of Plant Sciences, Ithaca, Aug. 19, 1926, 1:897-921.
Revised edition in Russian in "Collected Works on Genetics." "Sel' khozgiz" Moscow-Leningrad, PP. 148-177, 1937
Read before American Society of Naturalists, Philadelphia, Dec. 1926.
Read before Fifth International Genetics Congress, Berlin, Sept. 1927.
Read before Gen. Sec., Nashville, Dec. 1927.
Awarded the annual prize of the AAAS.
Abstract and manuscript copy
Read before National Academy of Sciences, Washington, Apr. 1928
Read before Gene. Sec., New York, Dec. 1928.
Abstract
Research professorship lecture read at University of Texas, May, 1928.
Published
Reprinted in revised form under title:
Photocopy
Read before American Society of Naturalists, Jan. 1930.
Photocopy
Read before Gene. Sec., Dec. 1930.
Abstract
Read before Gene. Sec., New Orleans,
Abstract
Read before Gene. Sec., New Orleans, Dec. 1931.
Abstract
Read before American Society of Naturalist, New Orleans, Dec. 1931.
Photocopy
Review of Gaskell's "What is Life?" and Kraft's "Can Science Explain Life?"
Journal of Heredity, 23:80-86
Read before 3rd International Congress of Eugenics, New York, Aug. 1932.
Abstract
Spanish translation in
A review of Bauer, Fischer and Lenz's "Human Heredity."
Photocopy
Abstract
Abstract
Photocopy
Read before Medico-Genetics Conference, Moscow, May 1, 1934.
Photocopy
Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, N.S., 4:74-83 in Russian and English.
Reprinted in enlarged and revised form under title: The individual gene in relation to the chromomere and the chromosome,
Photocopy
MISSING
Read before the 15th International Physiological Congress, Leningrad, Aug. 16, 1935. Institute of Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow
Abstract
(see: Lilly 7-6069)
Read at De Vries Memorial Meeting, Leningrad, Nov. 1935.
Mimeograph copies
Photocopy
Photocopy
Photocopy
Proc. Med. Genet. Inst., 4:213-236 in Russian with English summary
MISSING
Letter to the editor.
Tear sheet
Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR. (Otd. mat.-est., Ser. biol.):1469-1492 (Russian with English summary)
Read before Society for Experimental biology, London, Dec. 21, 1937.
Read before 8th Réunion Internationale de Physique-Chimie-Biologie, Paris, Oct. 1937.
Review of T.H. Morgan's "Scientific Basis of Evolution."
Book and Proletarian Revolution, No. 8:128-134 in Russian.
Abstract
Abstract
Read before the Genetical Society, London, Dec. 1, 1938.
Abstract
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, l32 pp.
3 copies
7th International Congress of Genetics.
Tear sheet
Medical Research Council Special Report Series, No. 236:14-15
16th Annual Report, British Empire Cancer Campaign: pp.226-231
Galley, tear sheet, print
Read before 7th International Congress on Genetics, Edinburgh, Sept. 1939.
also under title: Social biology and population improvement.
Proceedings of the 7th International Genetical Congress, 1939
Abstract
The New Systematics, ed by J. Huxley (Clarendon:Oxford), pp. 185-268
Reprint and galley
Photocopy
Abstract
Read before National Academy of Sciences,
Abstract
Abstract
National Academy of Sciences.
Abstract
Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, 52:42-43
Read before the Genetics Society of America, Cold Spring Harbor, Aug. 29, 1941.
Abstract
Read before the Genetics Society of America, Dallas,
Abstract
Paper read before American Society of Zoologists, Dallas,
Photocopy
Abstract
Abstract
Abstract
Messenger lectures at Cornell University, Nov. 1945.
(See: Genetics, Medicine and Man. Lilly QH431 .M958g 1947)
Pilgrim Trust Lecture, read before Royal Society of London,
Abstract
Abstract
Abstract
Review of Schrodinger's "What is Life."
Nobel Prize lecture read before the Caroline Institute, Stockholm,
Sweden,
Speech given at the Nobel banquet, Stockholm,
Abstract
Read before New York Academy of Medicine Conference on Problems of Public Health.
Abstract
Encyclopedia Britannica, 10:100-101.
1950. Photocopy
MISSING
Abstract
Manuscript
Photocopy
Abstract
Abstract
Publ. under editor's title: It still isn't science: a reply to George Bernard Shaw.
Includes Shaw's: The Lysenko muddle.
Abstract
Abstract
Abstract
Abstract
Review of "Death of a Science in Russia," by C. Zirkle.
The Harvey Lectures, Series XLIII, 1947-1948.
Lecture delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine, Feb. 19, 1948 (Chas. C. Thomas: Springfield, Ill.), pp. 165-229
Sigma Xi Lecture read
Reprinted in German in
Rev. edition:
Abstract under title "Radiation damage of genetic origin,"
Oak Ridge Symposium on Radiation Genetics,
A discussion following the paper by Sewall Wright.
Oak Ridge Symposium on Radiation Genetics,
Mimeograph copy
Address delivered at the panel on "Science and Totalitarianism" of the
Congress for Cultural Freedom, Berlin,
Tear sheet, mimeograph copy.
Presidential address read before American Society of Human Genetics, New
York,
Excerpts published under title: "The growing backlog of genetic defect,"
Presented at Columbus, Ohio,
Genetics in the 20th Century, Chap. V, pp. 77-99 (New York: Macmillan Co., 1951).
Mimeograph copy
Indian Congress for Cultural Freedom.
Mimeograph copy
Abstract
Symposium on Radiobiology,
Chap. 17, pp. 296-332 (New York: John Wiley & Sons).
Tear sheet
MISSING
4th (pp. 123-124), 5th (p. 153) and 6th (p. 119) annual reports to the American Cancer Society, Division of Medical Science, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.
Abstract
Abstract
Abstract
Address delivered for the annual talent search, Junior Scientists'
Assembly, Indianapolis,
Review of Charles Galton Darwin's
Published as: Back to Malthus: A dubious document of doom for the human race.
Tear sheet
MISSING
A.I.B.S. Bulletin, 3:4
MISSING
Letter to editor of
Mimeograph copy
Published as "Russia's shackled science."
Tear sheet and mimeograph copy
Abstract
Condensed from a chapter of the book,
Excerpts from article in
Mimeograph copy
Mimeograph copy
MISSING
Abstract
Abstract
Abstract
Shorter version in "Man's Right to Knowledge" 2nd Series: pp. 19-33.
9th Annual Report of the American Cancer Society, 1953-1954, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., pp. 113-114
Abstract
Published as: Radiation and human mutation.
Read at 5th Annual meeting of Nobel Prize winners, Lindau, Germany,
Interview with Dr. H.J. Muller.
Brookhaven Symposia in Biology, 8:126-147
Proceedings of the Military-Industrial Conference
under title: "Race poisoning by radiation,"
revised edition entitled "After effects of nuclear radiation,"
Acceptance speech as president of the American Humanist Association.
Abstract
Abstract
Address delivered at the dedication of Jordan Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington (Revised as: Man and gene in the world picture).
I.U. Publications, 15pp.
Tear sheet and abstract
Mimeograph copy
Published as: Damage from point mutations in relation to radiation dose and biological conditions.
Based on address before I.H.E.U., London,
Broadcast in diverse languages,
Published under editor’s title, “The immediate biological future” in the
Statement prepared for symposium "The next hundred years," held by the Seagram Company, New York City.
(Basis of address at Centennary of the Seagram Co.,
Published in abridged form, as delivered, in
and
Abstract
reprinted in
An address at the University of New Hampshire,
University of New Hampshire, 24 pp.
Spanish edition of
Letter to the editor of
Tear sheet
University of Illinois 50th Anniversary Lecture Series separate, 29 pp.
abridged version entitled: "Science for Humanity,"
Ch. 6 of
Read at Symposium on Possible uses of earth satellites for life-sciences
experiments, Washington, D.,
abridged version, mimeograph copy
Abstract
Paper for the Darwin Centennial Celebration of the University of Chicago,
in
summary in
excerpts in
Two statements for "Social and cultural evolution" held by Panel V,
Delivered at symposium, "The Future of Man," Seagram Anniversary, New
York,
Mimeograph copy
under title: The prospects of genetic progress, World Academy of Art and Science, 1:59-75
Abstract
Abstracts
Abstract
Abstract
Abstract
Abstract
Immediate and Low Level Effects of Ionizing Radiations Conference, Venice, June 1959.
Statement at Hearings before the Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organization of the Committee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate, 86th Congress, 1st session, in report on “The U.S. Government and the Future of International Medical Research
International Health Study, Pt. 1” pp. 126-134. U.S. Gov’t Printing Office, Washington.
Mimeograph copy
Abstract
Abstract
3rd Conference on Research in Emphysema, Aspen, Colorado, June 10-12, pp. 55-56, Abstract
Paper given before International Committee on radiological protection, Munich (ICRP/59/M-44.
Published as: Genetic considerations.
Mimeograph copy
A review of
Abstract
Médecine et Hygiène, No. 674, p. 139-140
Letter to the Editor,
Incl. Previously unpublished treatment, "Principles of heredity," 1912, pp. 6-18. 618 pp. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press.
Tear sheet
Abstract
In
Based on address, Alumni Institute,
Abstract
MISSING
Acceptance speech for Humanist of the Year award,
Mimeograph copy
Address at M.I.T. Centennial,
Address to American Humanist Association's annual meeting, 1963.
abridged version with title: Human genetic betterment, address before
American Humanist Association annual meeting,
Abstract
Letter in reply to David H. Elsyn's criticism of gene primacy concept.
Mimeograph copy
Mimeograph copy
Abstract
MISSING
Polish translation,
abridged version by Saturday Review editor, under title "Uses of tolerance,"
Address before Symposium on Prospects for the Experimental Control of
Human Heredity and Evolution, Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio,
Proceedings of the XI International Congress of Genetics, Leiden, 1963.
MISSING
Reply to Mirsky's and Dobzhansky's polemics against Huxley (letter originally sent to
Letter to editor under editor’s title.
MISSING
Lecture delivered in a series on "The Prospects for Man," Swarthmore
College Centennial,
abridged version titled: Integrated whole,
MISSING
as reprinted by Johnson Reprint Corporation, N.Y. pp. ix-xxxciii.
Letter in reply to Lucy Eisenberg's "Genetics and the Survival of the Unfit,"
Tear sheet
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of America (1965)
Tear sheet
abridged version by Elof Carlson,
Holographs and typescripts arranged alphabetically by author.
[Russian]
(excerpt)
[Russian]
[speech]
(abstract)
(Pravda,
(corrected proofs)
(fiction)
(abstract)
(incomplete)
Draft copy
2nd draft
Reprints, clippings and other printed articles follow this section and are arranged alphabetically by author. (See also: PRINTED (series IX))
(OVERSIZE)
Arranged chronologically by the date of the conference or meeting. Contents of the folders may contain earlier or later materials than the date given, reflecting plans to attend or publication of resulting paper, for example.
Contains correspondence, conference proceedings, member lists, circular letters, and other related materials. There are also materials on meetings and conferences filed with particular organizations. Arranged in chronological order. The date(s) reflect when the conference or meeting was held or lecture given. Actual contents of the folders will often span earlier or later dates in preparation or conclusion of event.
(see also: Oversize)
Includes: photograph of participants.
Muller's Nobel Prize was announced at this meeting
Program only: Address by HM
Includes photostat copy of Muller's "Partial Dominance in Relation to the Need for Studying Induced Mutations Individually (A discussion following the paper by Sewall Wright)"
Muller was president.
Includes: "The Mutational Potentialities of Some Individual Loci in Drosophila" by Muller and J.I. Valencia
Celebrating 100th anniversary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Includes papers by Tracy Sonneborn, Curt Stern and David Bonner
Includes Panel IV paper "Radiation Mutations" by Muller
"The Effect of Radiation and Other Present-day Influences Upon the Human Genetic Constitution" by Muller
Includes materials from the 1955 conference, apparently not attended by Muller
Includes correspondence on publication of working papers
Includes contribution by Muller
Contains lists of Russian geneticists to be invited, including a list and statement from Ake Gustafsson concerning his trip to Russia and the scientists
Sponsored by the Committee for the Study of Mankind, University of Chicago
Includes: "The Integrational Role of the Evolutionary Approach Throughout Education," an address by Muller
Includes copy of paper given by Norwood Russell Hanson.
Conference B - Dynamics and Direction of Social Evolution
Conference C - Evolution and the Individual
Includes correspondence with Excerpta Medica Foundation which published abstracts of papers
The Chester Beatty Research, Institute of Cancer Research: Royal Cancer Hospital
Includes photograph of conferees; Leiden
Includes a "Message to the Conference [by] Dr. Hermann J. Muller..."
Includes notes for speeches to: Civil Defense Conference, called Radiation damage effects
the annual meeting of Medical Health Group, called Protecting our genetic heritage (or Radiation damage effects); untitled speech to the Food and Drug Administration
Materials concerning organizing committee.
Includes: "A Humanist's View of the Encyclical on Peace" by Muller
Brno, Czechoslovakia (Aug. 4-7); Prague, Czechoslovakia (Aug. 9-11)
Contains materials concerning Indiana University when Muller was a faculty member. This includes various miscellaneous administrative files, materials concerning grants administered by the University, and personnel files of his student assistants, kitchen help and secretaries.
Miscellaneous letters, memos, notes, etc. concerning the following subjects:
Bulletins, other materials, mostly printed
Lists of Ph.D. committee members for various students, related materials
concerning graduate students,
Rosters of graduate students,
Correspondence and other materials
Building plans and correspondence concerning maintenance
Correspondence, advertisements, expenses, etc.
Ph.D. discussion-
Contains correspondence, applications, budgets, expenditures, memos, progress reports for the following grants administered through Indiana University.
Contains correspondence, letters of recommendation, appointment forms, etc. for Muller's research assistants, kitchen staff and secretaries. There may be other correspondence with these individuals in the Correspondence section. Check the card index for specific names. Lists of some personnel begin this section.
Arranged alphabetically by title of the organization, committee, council, congress, institute, or society of which Muller was a member. Includes correspondence, newsletters, bulletins and related printed materials. See also materials filed under CONFERENCES/MEETINGS.
Organizations, committees, councils, congresses, institutes, and societies in which Muller was a member. Includes correspondence, newsletters, bulletins and related printed materials. Where Muller participated in particular meetings and conferences, these materials are filed under CONFERENCES/MEETINGS...
Abstracts of Papers to be presented at the 33rd session of AAA, [attended by Muller?]
(see also: International Humanist and Ethical Union):
high school course materials
memorandums, nos. 55-142 (Lacks 68, 99); printed
(see also: Grants section)
(see: American Institute of Biological Sciences)
Includes acceptance speech at the 7th Annual Salute to Medical Research,
including proceedings of the Seminar on Science and Mankind at the
University of Chicago,
Contains papers for the Committee on Science and Freedom, and the American
Committee on Cultural Freedom meeting in India in
Includes: Report No. 1: Background Material for the Development of Radiation Protection Standards
including papers for the Scientists' Committee on Loyalty Problems,
(see also: Recommendations)
(see also: Circulars)
(see also: American Humanist Association)
Includes statements by Muller and others before Committee
Thought by Muller to be fraudulent. Correspondence concerns invitation to
Muller to be on Board of Directors and Board of Governors and his subsequent
refusal,
Includes papers concerning annual meeting held in Bloomington in 1959
(Pilgrim Trust Lecture papers, see: The Royal Society)
Muller was a member and sometime chairman. In 1955 the National Academy of Sciences established a committee with six subcommittees to study the biological effects of atomic radiation. The subjects of the subcommittees were: genetic effects, pathologic effects, meteorological aspects, effects on agriculture and food supplies, disposal and dispersal of radioactive wastes, and oceanography and fisheries. The papers include correspondence, draft and summary reports, and related materials. In addition, there are other materials related to the effects of atomic radiation, mostly printed. (See also: NCRP for more publications). Known dates and places of Subcommittee meetings:
In addition, there are other materials related to the effects of atomic radiation, mostly printed, such as: summary of medical aspects, by Shields Warren and James P. Cooney, Apr. 1, 1949; Stevenson-Kefauver Campaign Committee, regarding stopping of H-bomb tests, 1956; United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation reports, 1956-1957; other misc. articles and publications.
A number of panels were established by North American Aviation, Inc. to recommend experiments for early lunar exploratory missions. It was called LESA, Lunar Exploration Systems for Apollo. Muller was on the panel on Life Sciences and Biology.
Includes papers and draft of talk by Muller for the Conference on Genetics,
Paleontology, and Evolution held
Named for the location of 1st conference held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia,
Canada in
including papers on Pilgrim Trust Lecture given by Muller,
Muller received the Nobel Prize for Physiology for 1946. Materials here concern Muller's matriculation as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Papers .
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Statement
on Race. Papers,
Arranged chronologically. The early files cover Muller's education, from Morris High School to his college years and includes entrance exams, class notes, and experiments. Later files include lecture notes for classes he taught, as well as speeches and talks he gave elsewhere, and data and notes for both his and his students experiments. Also included are notes taken by Muller from lectures given by others. Lectures and speeches, including transcripts, notes and related materials given outside his classes may also be found in the Writings section.
Mimeographed exams, June l4, l902 & June l904, verso of p.1 has HJM note.
Contain class experiments and demonstrations.
Includes Xerox copy "Symbols from Muller's own shorthand" lp., prepared by T.M.
(Mimeographed sheets with HJM annotations; high school class)
[published? in Morris High School annual, 1907] (original belongs to Thea Muller).
[part of Writings: Revelations of Biology and their Significance?]
1 vol.
Education; Educational biology; Physiology; Cellular Embryology (Wilson's cell course); Experimental Zoology (Morgan); Experimental Embryology (Morgan).
1 vol. and loose sheets
[original belongs to Thea Muller]
1 vol.
Autograph, lacks p. 1 and final page(s).
Contains HJM changes and annotations to the quotations
1 vol.
Unpublished.
1 vol.
1 vol.
1 vol.
1 vol.
includes: The linkage relations as shown by a study of many factors simultaneously - unpublished
Contains lecture notes on Wilson's Cytology course, Mar.-Apr. and on Calkin's Protozoa course.
1 vol.
Loose sheets inserted
[loose sheets]
Photocopy
(Includes two ms. writings: A qualitative study of mutation in the x-chromosome of Drosophila, by Edgar Altenburg and The nature of the gene and the possible physical significance of synapsis, by H.J. Muller).
includes drafts of Altenburg & Muller article: "Rate of change of heredity factors in Drosophila."
Woods Hole (partially in Edgar Altenburg's hand).
[pp. 4-12 of a letter to HJM]
Lecture insert on "genetic change in Drosophila"
[mimeo]
Drafts
Also contains other data, poems, shorthand exercises
Lecture notes and tests
(mimeo)
1 vol. [Nobel Prize experiment]
1 vol. [Nobel Prize experiment]
1 vol. & loose sheets
The Worcester R. Warner Memorial Lecture in Science under the auspices of The Cleveland Engineering Society. Commemorative folder with announcement of lecture and clippings
Includes notes, fragments, supply orders; two address books; American Express bank book; Russian daily record book for 1934 (blank); and miscellaneous printed items
(typescript carbon)
Plan of research at the Medical-Biological Institute where HJM was consultant
Two experimental data worksheets in Russian
manuscript and mimeo copies
Notes, drawings, reprint (LOW 97)
Also on Kosikoff; Appendix to Report on Dissertation of H. Emme
Outline
(typescript)
[notes]
Academy of Sciences of USSR Press. Printed with numerous holograph corrections and notations. Smuggled out of USSR to Spain. Later printed in Edinburgh.
See also: Writings.
Title from envelope
[Spain?]
[Work plans]
incl. printed material, 1935-36; draft of a paper?; notes on transfusions; pamphlet by Duran-Jorda, The Service of Blood Transfusion at the Front organization - Apparatus; Bethune's Canadian Blood Unit.
numerous loose sheets laid in, incl. radiation dosage data; some sheets removed but filed in folder with volume.
(material for a paper?)
incl. sheets of miscellaneous data, etc.
3p. [found in 1938 data notebook]
[student paper? prepared for HJM's L489 Genetics course at University of Edinburgh] 11p.
[for Rockefeller Foundation]. 12p
3 copies
[typescript accompanied by autograph notebook sheets of data and illustrations.]
Includes three of MacKenzie's data books and notes, Oct. 1939-May 1940; drafts and notes for article; typescript of article with numerous autograph changes in HJM's hand
Lecture given at Amherst Science Club.
Table
Notes for lecture given at Smith College
Given to Poultry Breeders' School, Mass. State College. Also contains program for 1940 school which Muller may have attended, but did not speak; and, notes for Nov. 17, 1943 lecture to Poultry men patterned after this lecture
Marked for printer.
[i.e., cancer studies]. [appeal to National Cancer Council for research funds]
Notes
Miscellaneous materials concerning stay at Amherst College
experiment plan; data notebooks and loose sheets
Notes for lecture given to Amherst pre-meds.
Notes for lecture in anthropology
("exp. with M. Kohn")
notes
Notes for biology seminar lecture
(Rockefeller grant - Amherst) Also contains correspondence with Rockefeller Foundation
(including correspondence with suppliers)
Notes for seminar lecture
notes
Notes for seminar lecture
Notes
Record book 3 (series 46...) 1 vol.; loose sheets for exp. data series 1-18 and 19-45, removed from Record Book 3
Acted as consultant, work done in Rochester, NY
Notes for lecture given at Woods Hole
Notes for "Coll. conf. lecture"
Notes for lecture given at Westfield
Notes for lecture
[program for one session of meetings celebrating the 50th anniversary of discovery of X-rays] London.
Notes, draft of pp. 33-50, typescript of pp. 49-73
Notes, drawings
Reprint and related materials
Lecture summaries, 84p. and exam.
Notes
Lecture notes
[see also Laboratory assistants papers]
Includes papers by A.M. Hannah, R. Marie Valencia, J. Valencia.
Talk given at Clinton Laboratories. Notes
Lecture notes
Lecture at Jewish Hospital, Brooklyn, NY. Notes
Notes
(has some as early as 1925, other data on IU stationery). Title from HJM folder label.
[a curriculum vitae]
Lecture to MD's
Mostly correspondence and several program schedules
Experiment to demonstrate relative mutation rate as affected by the presence of the scute YL chromosome.
Lecture by Edmondson?
Telfer's notes?
Negatives and illustrations
A progress report for HJM.
Experiment reports
Telfer's data
Lecture given at DeLand, Florida to БББ honorary biology fraternity
Talk give at Freedom House. Notes
Lecture notes and 1951 mid-term exam
final exam for Evolution Z465 given June 5, 1951
Notes by Frank N. Young, with special lectures by the following: A.C. Kinsey, R.E. Cleland, and Julian Huxley
Notes
Lecture and notes
data and notes
list of names (of possible lecturers?)
Lecture notes
Progress report
Correspondence, data and report
Correspondence, data and report
Correspondence, data, reports, etc.
Lecture notes and mid-term exam
"...probably gave this lecture in Muller's course when M. was away to a meeting" [note by TM]
"These outlines and data from experiments were unassorted [sic] in a large box, probably transferred there for moving. I left most papers in the order - disorder - in which they were, but bundled together those that were near each other...April 13. 81 Thea Muller"
Notes for lecture given at the University of Chicago
Notes for genetics seminar, University of Missouri
Notes for lecture given at I.U. Men's Quad
Lecture notes
Abstract, notes, data
Lecture notes
(see Reprint 304)
Notes for lecture?
Notes only
Notes for speech given to I.U. theologians and a group of scientists from Eli Lilly
Notes for speech given to Phi Kappa Psi. (also given at Drake University, Oct. 17, 1962)
Notes for speech given to Military Conference personnel, Indianapolis
Notes
(see LOW 306)
Lecture notes and exam
Notes
Notes for talk given to high school science students (see also: Writings: 1953)
Notes for talk given to RESA of Monsanto, St. Louis
Notes for talk given at Cal. Tech.
Notes on speech given to Steelworkers' Institute at I.U.
Notes for lecture for Harvard seminar
Notes for lecture
Correspondence and other materials pertaining to Muller's role as consultant
Notes for telephone talk given to Stephen's College
Notes
Lecture notes, exams, "Tree of Life," "Probable Interrelations of Selected List of Multicellular Animals," clippings
(see also: Audiotapes of lectures)
(see also: Oversize)
Includes drawings and data on Drosophila
Mutated colony developing from a single irradiated and appearance of a normal colony; typical giant developing from x-irradiation of normal cells of human skin and typical giant developing from x-irradiation of normal cells from Chinese hamster lung; bone marrow cell from a human female showing 46 pairs of chromosomes
(Model was patented)
Materials may include correspondence, certificates, and printed items. Arranged alphabetically by various subjects, including: 1. Awards; 2. Biographical materials, including personal and family-related items; 3. Drosophila stock lists and requests; 4. Evolution. Mostly concerning debate held in 1966 in Arkansas; 5. Germinal choice; 6. Lysenkoism; 7. Radiation; 8. Reprint requests and lists; 9. Savitsky case.
Includes certificates, diplomas and plaques, some with related correspondence and other materials.
[Photocopies, originals belongs to Muller family]
telegram informing HJM of award; souvenirs--programs, menus, calling cards; subsequent honors related to Nobel prize; photograph of Alfred Nobel; miscellaneous
certificate designating HJM as "a delegate of the United States to the Eighth International Congress of Genetics, to be held at Stockholm, Sweden, July 7-14
[see: Oversize for diploma]
(see also: Plaques)
(see: Oversize for diploma)
Program only (see: Oversize for diploma)
National Institute of Sciences of India, honorary fellow certificate
Mostly photocopied correspondence Biographical sketches - mostly for biographical sources and press releases
Various sketches and mechanical drawings
- mostly correspondence of parents, grandparents, etc. and genealogical information
- includes bank statements, papers concerning insurance, homes, automobiles, taxes, and Charles Lyons (Muller's uncle who left money to Muller and his sister Ada).
- Including: script for 1959 Halftime Show #4 "Dr. Hermann J. Muller, for IURTS; correspondence pertaining to various appearances in documentaries
- Passports-
- Age 65, 1955, program only; Age 70, 1960
See also: Festschrift for 70th birthday. (Oversize bound volume)
- Certificate, program of dinner to honor retiring faculty, poem by Tracy Sonneborn
- Includes many published tributes following HJM's death, Apr. 1967
Not indexed
Most of the materials concern a statement drafted by H.J. Muller which was
sent to eminent scientists across the U.S. attesting to the validity of
evolution. The statement was prompted by a debate entitled "Is the theory of
evolution scientifically established?" held at the Memorial Auditorium of
Little Rock, Arkansas on
Materials include: drafts and final copies of the statement, including a
reprint of the statement from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists,
Brochure and newsletters
(First person to suggest germinal choice which he called eutelegenesis) Articles, clippings, photocopied letters by HJM and Julian Huxley
Letters from general public concerning support for or opposition to germinal choice
Contains Abridged Record of Family Traits form, partially filled in by HJM and other printed materials
Vol. 24, no. 2 (July 1932); Vol. 25, no. l (Apr. 1933); Vol. 57, no. 3 (Sept. 1965); tear sheet containing HJM's letter to editors of The Scientific American, Apr. 12, 1965
Circular letters; donors file; minutes; Prospectus; reply forms - blank and completed (alphabetical by name); misc. - includes: Proposed North American charter members, List of correspondents
Articles
Brochures, articles, etc. concerning voluntary sterilization
Form and related clipping
Articles and reprints
Statement,
Mostly reprints and advertisements
Includes tentative questionnaire,
(see: Clippings:
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, geneticist, was president of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He discounted Mendelian theories of genetics in favor of Communist party line theories, i.e., that genetic characteristics could be altered by simply changing the environment. Debate in Russia became impossible when Lysenko announced that this theory was officially endorsed by the Central Committee. Muller denounced him as a charlatan and resigned from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
The papers, mostly
Various materials on radiation, including: correspondence,
Requests. Correspondence,
Correspondence,
Arranged chronologically. Mostly contains photographs of Muller, his family, friends and colleagues.
Copies, original is in the Oversize section
[Oversize]
Photographic postcard
Photographic postcard
H.J. Muller, Schrader, A.H. Sturtevant, Otto Mohr, Calvin B. Bridges, E. Anderson, Huettner, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Alexander Weinstein, the "Caveman"
Includes, Hogben, J.S. Huxley, Sanders, stock, Edgar Altenburg and Garstrag
[Oversize]
[Oversize]
including Hermann J. Muller, Thea Muller, Frances Albert Eley Crew, Charlotte Auerbach, Guido Pontecorvo, and Peo Koller, Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh
including Hermann J. Muller, Otto Mohr, Sinks, Winge, and Harland
The Kitchen staff; group photo; two female assistants; Muller with two female assistants
[Oversize]
[Oversize]
Thea Muller and HJM; H. Bentley Glass, Thea and Helen Muller; Edgar Altenburg and H. Bentley Glass; HJM, Cecile and Clarence P. Oliver; Irwin Oster (See: Festschrift volume, pp. 27a - 27c)
Judge Bryan, Urey, Pres. Kintz, Hermann J. Muller, Dean Palfrey and Lamb. Taken at reception preceding Alexander Hamilton awards at Columbia University
[Oversize]
[Oversize]
Arranged chronologically. Mostly contains printed articles or magazines containing
articles about Muller. Also included is a folder of Spanish Civil War materials
collected by Muller in
(tear sheet)
(Oversize)
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Student newspaper HJM helped to distribute and edit. He had to resign from the University of Texas or face a hearing
Tear sheets of articles; Life in Other Worlds, Mar. 1, 1961, proceedings of a symposium sponsored by Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Samuel Bronfman Foundation
Arranged chronologically. A few subjects have been kept together and filed within
the chronological arrangement, such as: Cartoons by Low, collected by Muller's
wife Thea,
(Consult Curator of Manuscripts for access.)
- 66 discs mostly correspondence and some lectures
- 2 copies of Muller's talk "Genes: The core of our being" for Harcourt Brace Record "The biologist speaks"
- unidentified
- The Scientists Speak
- 6 slides of age experiment tables (charts) on blackboard,
- 2 unidentified marked "HJ?"
Also includes typescripts and correspondence with Thea Muller concerning the tapes