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Collection Overview

Creator:
Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952
Collector:
Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Title:
Edwin Grant Conklin Papers
Repository:
Manuscripts Division
Permanent URL:
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x920fw888
Dates:
1897-1952
Size:
98 boxes and 2 items
Storage Note:
This is stored in multiple locations. ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-62 Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-25
Language:
English

Abstract

An ardent evolutionist, Edwin Grant Conklin specialized in embryology and cytology and was Chairman of the biology department at Princeton from 1908-1933. His collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, documents, manuscripts and notes of articles, lectures, and speeches, many of which reflect his life-long interest in three organisms, crepidula, cynthia (styla), and amphioxus, as well as Darwinism, and heredity and environment.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Description:

The collection consists of works, correspondence, documents, and other material of Conklin. Included are manuscripts and notes of articles, lectures, and speeches, many of which reflect his life-long interest in three organisms, crepidula, cynthia (styla), and amphioxus, as well as Darwinism, and heredity and environment; correspondence regarding scientific, academic, and personal matters; material relating to professional (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research) and academic (Phi Beta Kappa and The American Scholar, and various groups at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton) interests; and papers regarding organizations in which Conklin was involved, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Association of University Professors, the American Philosophical Society, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Carnegie Institution, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council, and the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. The collection also contains many slides used by Conklin to illustrate his lectures.

Collection Creator Biography:

Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952

American biologist and educator, Edwin Grant Conklin specialized in embryology and cytology and was an ardent evolutionist. He was one of the leading proponents of the importance of cytoplasmic localization and segregation during development. Chairman of the biology department at Princeton (1908-1933), he published the widely-read Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men (1915).

Collection History

Acquisition:

Gift of Isabel Conklin. Additions transferred from the Princeton University archives.

Custodial History

The collection was formed as a result of a departmental practice of combining into one collection manuscript material of various accessions relating to a particular author.

Appraisal

No appraisal information is available.

Access & Use

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing Use

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Credit this material:

Edwin Grant Conklin Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Permanent URL:
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x920fw888
Location:
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(609) 258-3184
Storage Note:
This is stored in multiple locations. ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-62 Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-25