Edwin Grant Conklin Papers, 1897-1952

Includes (unorganized) printed matter (booklets, magazines, clippings, etc.), correspondence, financial and organizational papers, drawings, photographs, and blueprints.

Arranged by genre of material.

Photographs and drawings, undated

1 box

Booklets, pamphlets, magazines, dates not examined

1 box

Newspaper clippings, magazines, dates not examined

1 box

Unorganized correspondence, documents, financial and organizational papers, etc., dates not examined

1 box

Unorganized drawings, photos, blueprints, etc., dates not examined

3 boxes

Series 6: Microscopic Slides, dates not examined

18 boxes

Description:

Consists of many unorganized glass microscopic slides.

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

Microscopic slides, dates not examined

18 boxes

Scope and Contents

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

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).

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.

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Collection is open for research use.

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This is stored in multiple locations.
ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-62
Firestone Library (scamss): Box 63-87

Subject Terms:: Amphioxus.
Biologists -- United States. -- 20th century
Biology -- Study and teaching -- United States. -- 20th century
Crepidula.
Cynthia (insects)
Evolution.
Princeton University -- Faculty. -- 20th century
Genre Terms:: Correspondence
Lectures.
Microscope slides.
Names:: Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching
Carnegie Institution of Washington.
American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
American association of university professors
American philosophical society
Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.
Woods Hole oceanographic institution
Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
National Academy of Sciences U.S.
Marine biological laboratory Woods Hole, Mass.
National Research Council U.S.
Princeton University. Dept. of Biology.
Scopes, John Thomas (1900-1970)

Series 1: Professional Papers, 1803-1948

Topical files: subjects of special interest, some speeches, "crank" correspondence, misc. files on vivesection, the Scopes trial, U.S./Soviet Relations, race relation, evolution, etc., 1803-1948 July 7

Scopes Trial, dates not examined

Evolution Controversy, 1922-1924

Religion, dates not examined

Philosophy and Theology, dates not examined

US - Soviet Relations, dates not examined

MSS of How Much Truth Is There in Darwin, for the Christian Century, 1948 July 7 issue, 1948 July 7

Crank manuscripts and correspondence, dates not examined

T.H. Morgan Obituary, dates not examined

MSS notes on Joseph Priestly and the American Philosophical Society - A Generally Overlooked Paper by Joseph Priestly on Spontaneous Generation, 1803

Conklin's 1937 Address to AAAS. Presidential Address, Science and Ethics, 1937

Scientific information, books, reprints, newspapers, writings and publications of various kinds, 1925

Memorium to Ralph S. Lillie, and some reprints of Ralph S. Lillie, dates not examined

Special Reading List on Evolution, 1925

Box consists almost totally of folders containing requests for reprints and acknowledgements. Requests for speaking engagements included, dates not examined

Committee work, departmental business, greater University matters, recommendations for students, job offers, requests for publications, dates not examined

Scientific information, notes, reprints, 1916 June 27-1922

The Revolt Against Darwinism, Lowell Institute Lectures, 1922 December

Remainder of Box consists of folders containing requests and acknowledgements as in Box #2 above, dates not examined

In a folder labeled Scientific Information there is a letter to H.C.R. Norriss in which Conklin discusses chromosome number variation in human races. This was dated, 1916 June 27

Manuscript copies of works, 1906-1943

MSS Development of Centrifuged Eggs of Ascidians, catalogues of slides, notes as well, dates not examined

1 folder giving 6 pages of additions (list) for revision of Heredity and Environment, dates not examined

MSS Heredity and Environment, dates not examined

MSS The Embryology of Amphioxus, dates not examined

MSS for Biology Seminar on Effects of Cold on Cytoplasmic Localization in Cells, 1934

MSS Disorientations of Development in Crepidula Plana, dates not examined

MSS for proceedings of American Philosophical Society, By Means of Low Temperatures, 1938 April 21

MSS Orientation, Differentiation, and Cleavage in the Early Development of the Egg (Crepidula), 1933

Abstract of Some Fundamental Structures and Functions of Cells, 1928

MSS What Is Man? Observations and Reflections on Human Nature, Development, Destiny, 1943 Final Title : Man: Real and Ideal; These notes are from three lectures given at Rice Institute, 1941 May 7-9 The Rice Institute Pamphlet, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4, 1941 October, 1943, 1941 May 7-9

MSS The Organization and Cell-Lineage of the Ascidian Egg (pre - circa 1906) In a box labeled Does Half an Ascidian Egg Give Rise to a Whole Larva?, circa 1906

MSS Body Size and Cell Size, 1912

MSS Cellular Differentiation, 1924 U. of Chicago Press, 1924

MSS The Size of Organisms and Their Constituent Parts in Relation to Longevity, Senescense, and Rejuvenescense, Popular Science Monthly, circa 1912

Manuscript copies of works, galleys, 1896-1941 October

MSS First draft Experimental Studies on Nuclear and Cell Division, dates not examined

MSS What Is Man? - Returned from printer, Lakeside Press, Chicago for Rice Institute Pamphlet, 1941 October

MSS Effects of Centrifugal Force on Pulmonate Eggs, dates not examined

Memoir on "Professor Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr.", Science, 1912

MSS The Embryology of Amphioxus, copy approved for printing by the Journal of Morphology, 1932

MSS Heredity and Environment, dates not examined

MSS Mitosis and Amitosis, post - 1916 for Biological Bulletin, 1916

MSS Cell Size and Nuclear Size, dates not examined

1 folder (thin) with bibliography of C.O. Whitman and a short review of Whitman's work, dates not examined

MSS Effects of Centrifugal Force on the Structure and Development of Eggs of Crepidula, dates not examined

MSS The Share of Egg and Sperm in Heredity, 1916 - included in this folder is a letter from W.E. Castle, 1916 January 15 concerning cytoplasmic inheritance-maternal inheritance, 1916

Authors Galley of MSS Cell Size and Nuclear Size, 1911

Original copy of the Doctoral Thesis of E.G. Conklin, circa 1896 The Embryology of Credipula, MSS of plates illustrating PhD Thesis, circa 1896

MSS The Development of Isolated and Partially Separated Blastomeres of Amphioxus, Journal of Experimental Zoology, 1932

Plates for The Development of Centrifugal Egg of Ascidians, J. Exp. Zoo., 1931

Authors Galley of Paths and Possibilities of Human Evolution, 1931 December 1

Publications containing Conklin's articles, dates not examined

Printed works, articles, pamphlets, reprints, dates not examined

Printed works, articles, pamphlets, reprints, dates not examined

"Organization and Cell Lineage of the Ascidian Egg", dates not examined

Books - hard cover, cloth bound, 1914-1943

Heredity and Environment, Annotated, pre, 1929

Heredity and Environment, 1939 revised ed. Of 1929 6th ed., 1939, 1929

Man: Real and Ideal, 1943 (three copies), 1943

The Direction of Human Evolution, 1921, 1922 New ed., 1934, 1921, 1922, 1934

Problems of Organic Adaptation, 1921

The Mechanism of Evolution - from the Hale Lectures of 1917, reprinted in Scientific Monthly, 1919 December

Principles and Possibilities of the Human Evolution - from the William Potter Memorial Lecture, 1930

Facts and Factors of Development, 1914 - from the Harris Lectures, 1914 reprinted from the Popular Science Monthly, 1914, 1914

General Morphology of Animals, 1927 Princeton University Press, 1927

Cellular Differentiation - from Section IX in General Cytology, 1924 University of Chicago Press, 1924

Embryology of Crepidula, dates not examined

Embryology of Amphioxus, dates not examined

Scientific Publications (not Conklin), dates not examined

Lectures, speeches, 1894-1948

Lectures and Notes, 1894-1943

Heredity and Environment - N.W. Harris Lectures at Northwestern University 1914 (six folders), 1914

The Direction of Human Evolution - McNair Lectures at University of North Carolina, 1920

Paths and Possibilities of Human Evolution, dates not examined

Evolution and Democracy, dates not examined

Evolution and Religion, dates not examined

The Mechanism of Evolution in the Light of Heredity and Development- W.E. Hale Lectures before National Academy of Sciences, 1917

Problems of Organic Development - three lectures given at Rice Institute, 1921 includes Mechanism, Vitalism and Teleology, 1921