Guide to the Adrian M. Srb Papers,
[ca. 1947-1997]

Collection Number: 21-28-3159

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Date completed:
Jan. 2, 2002
EAD encoding:
J.M. Nicholas, July 2003
Date modified:
RMC Staff, October 2011

© 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Adrian M. Srb papers, [ca.1947-1997].
Collection Number:
21-28-3159.
Creator:
Adrian M. Srb.
Quantity:
7.3 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, minutes, articles, records, lecture notes, exams, manuscripts, research material.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Abstract:
Professional papers of Adrian M. Srb, geneticist and professor of plant breeding at Cornell.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Adrian Srb earned a bachelor's degree in English literature and a master's degree in agronomy from the University of Nebraska. He then earned a doctorate in biology in 1937 from Stanford University, where he taught until coming to Cornell in 1947 as an associate professor of plant breeding. He wrote numerous articles and papers on the genetics, physiology, and development of fungi, including the bread mold Neurospora and baker's yeast. At Cornell, he taught General Genetics, and authored the textbook General Genetics. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1941, and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1968. Born in 1917, Adrian Srb died in 1997.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Professional papers include correspondence with colleagues and students; class and course notes for general genetics and human genetics courses; research materials, including notes and charts relating to Neurospora; files relating to professional organizations, seminars, and conferences; files relating to activities at Cornell, particularly the creation of the Division of Biological Sciences; grant applications; and manuscripts for books.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Srb, Adrian M.
Cornell University. Faculty.
Cornell University. Division of Biological Sciences.
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Dept. of Plant Breeding.

Subjects:
Genetics.
Neurospora.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Adrian M. Srb papers, #21-28-3159. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
SERIES LIST

Series I. Correspondence Box 1, Box 6
Series II. Course Material Box 2, folders 1-18
Series III. Symposia, Seminars, Committee Material Box 2, folders 19-42; Box 3, folders 1-24
Series IV. Projects and Subject Files Box 3, folders 25-41; Box 4, folders 1-20, Box 7
Series V. Publications Box 4, folders 21-37
Series VI. Grant Material Box 4, folders 38-44
Series VII. Research Material Box 4, folders 45-53 and Box 5
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Series I. Correspondence
1956-1957
Anderson, William P. (recommendation)
 Box 1 Folder 1
1974-1985
Basl, Mary (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 2
1953-1969
Bowen, Sam (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 3
1972-1977
Byrne, Barbara (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 4
1952-1958
DeZeeuw, John (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 5
1972-1974
Drozdowicz, Bronislaw (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 6
"Fortschritte der Botanik"
 Box 1 Folder 7
1971-1978
Geng, Anna (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 8
1964-1967
Guterman, Sonia Kosow (correspondence)
Box 1 Folder 9
1949-1956
Hartman, Zlata Dayton (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 10
1959-1979
Infanger, Sister Ann Martin (correspondence)
Box 1 Folder 11
1963-1975
Jarolmen, Howard (correspondence)
Box 1 Folder 12
1959-1973
Johnson, Jane (correspondence)
Box 1 Folder 13
1973-1980
Johnson, Thomas (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 14
1979
Johnson, Tina (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 15
1974
Kasha, Ken (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 16
1974
Keim, Wayne (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 17
1954-1968
Latterell, Richard (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 18
1968-1975
Leary, Jack (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 19
1950-1964
Lederberg, Seymour (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 20
1950-1956
Levins, Richard (recommendation)
 Box 1 Folder 21
1962-1975
Magill, Clint (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 22
1963-1970
Magill, Jane Oates (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 23
1955-1979
Moat, A.G. (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 24
1953-1961
Muneta, Joan Leopold (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 25
1954-1968
Murray, Jay (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 26
1970-1985
Nasrallah, June (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 27
1965-1977
Novak, Dennis (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 28
1970-1973
Novak, Dennis (letters to editors)
 Box 1 Folder 29
1959-1986
Poppa, Kenneth (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 30
1965-1978
Phillips, Ronald (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 31
1963-1978
Pincheiro, Guido (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 32
1964-1979
Puhalla, John (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 33
1955-1968
Reissig, Jose (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 34
1978-1979
Sand, Seaward (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 35
1951-1957
Sandler, Laurence (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 36
1957-1967
Sanderson, Ken (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 37
1949-1980
Schlottfeldt, Carlos (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 38
1981
Shaw, Margery Wayne
 Box 1 Folder 39
1952-1964
Smith, Jimmie Bob (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 40
1972-1978
Springer, Warren (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 41
1967-1968
Steward, F.C.(correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 42
1976-1978
Thompson, Sharron L. (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 43
1970-1975
Topper, Violet M. (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 44
1969-1982
Wall, Doris (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 45
1980
White, B. Raynor (recommendation)
 Box 1 Folder 46
1971-1973
Williams, Antoinette (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 47
1972-1973
Wolfner, Mariana (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 48
1950-1958
Woodward, Val W. (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 49
1958-1975
Woodward, Val W. (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 50
1947-1969
General correspondence (research related)
 Box 1 Folder 51
1969-1985
General correspondence
Box 1 Folder 52
1947-1962
Correspondence- publications
 Box 1 Folder 53
1967-1982
General correspondence and materials
 Box 1 Folder 54
1961-1980
Neurospora Research (correspondence)
Box 1 Folder 55
1949-1972
Permissions for Publication (correspondence)
 Box 1 Folder 56
1964-1966
Pre-publication correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 57
1960
Prospective student- correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 58
General Genetics (textbook)- correspondence
Box 1 Folder 59
1954-1981
Correspondence
 Box 6 Folder 1
1960-1977
Correspondence
 Box 6 Folder 2
1968-1978
Correspondence
 Box 6 Folder 3
1969-1980
Correspondence-Confidential
 Box 6 Folder 4
Correspondence-Miscellaneous
 Box 6 Folder 5
1969
Correspondence-Personal Items
 Box 6 Folder 6
A.D. White Professors-at-Large: McClintock Correspondence
 Box 6 Folder 7
Basl, Mary: Correspondence
 Box 6 Folder 8
Basl, Mary: Laboratory Matters
 Box 6 Folder 9
Bonner, David M.
 Box 6 Folder 10
Brown, Robert E.
 Box 6 Folder 11
1951-1982
Department of H.E.W. Certificate
 Box 6 Folder 12
Ephrussi, Boris
 Box 6 Folder 13
General Genetics(by Srb and Owen)
Box 6 Folder 14
Genetics and Development-Correspondence and Memos
 Box 6 Folder 15
Keeton Chair
 Box 6 Folder 16
Littlewood, Roland
 Box 6 Folder 17
Russell, Peter
 Box 6 Folder 18
Steward, F.C.
 Box 6 Folder 19
University of Nebraska
 Box 6 Folder 20
Series II. Course Material
Human Genetics- lecture notes
 Box 2 Folder 1
1981-1983
Human Genetics 282
 Box 2 Folder 2
1948-1960
Plant Breeding 101 and 201 (exams)
 Box 2 Folder 3
Course Notes
 Box 2 Folder 4
Research Notes and Materials
 Box 2 Folder 5
1940's
Class Notes
 Box 2 Folder 6
Neurospora Research (random unsorted materials)
Box 2 Folder 7
Tetrad Analyses
 Box 2 Folder 8
Ascospore work from Srb's lab
 Box 2 Folder 9
Negatives for plates
 Box 2 Folder 10
Rollins/Adams/Emerson materials
 Box 2 Folder 11
Miscellaneous Charts and Materials
Box 2 Folder 12
Miscellaneous Notes
Box 2 Folder 13
1969-1979
Evolution of Manuscripts and Research Proposals
Box 2 Folder 14
1948-1959
Seminars and lectures
 Box 2 Folder 15
1950-1951
California Tech.
Box 2 Folder 16
1953-1954
Lecture for French Genetics Society
Box 2 Folder 17
1957
Lecture at Hamilton College
Box 2 Folder 18
Series III. Symposia, Seminars, Committee Material
1957-1958
Rockefeller Conference on Extra-Chromosomal Heredity (Gif-sur-Yvette)
Box 2 Folder 19
1959-1961
Sabbatical
 Box 2 Folder 20
1960-1967
Seminars and lectures
Box 2 Folder 21
Feb. 8, 1963
Symposium- SUNY Albany
 Box 2 Folder 22
1963-1965
Visiting Lectures
 Box 2 Folder 23
1966-1968
Sabbatical- University of Edinburgh
 Box 2 Folder 24
1967-1976
Seminars
 Box 2 Folder 25
Feb. 1972
La Jolla Conference in California
Box 2 Folder 26
1972-1973
Brookhaven Symposium
 Box 2 Folder 27
Seminars- Arginine Metabolism (Stanford University)
 Box 2 Folder 28
1947-1951
New York Academy of Sciences
 Box 2 Folder 29
1949-1957
American Society of Naturalists
 Box 2 Folder 30
1956-1957
Sigma Xi
Box 2 Folder 31
1958
National Poultry Breeders' Roundtable
 Box 2 Folder 32
1954-1969
Biology Visiting Committee- Brookhaven National Laboratory
 Box 2 Folder 33
1958-1959
Committee on Academic Work and Interest
Box 2 Folder 34
1961-1963
Presidential Screening Committee
 Box 2 Folder 35
1961-1962
Biological Sciences Coordinating Committee
 Box 2 Folder 36
1964
Cornell Council
 Box 2 Folder 37
1961-1966
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 Box 2 Folder 38
1962
Vicious Circle
 Box 2 Folder 39
1963-1964
Committee on Systematics, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Box 2 Folder 40
1963-1964
President's Committee on Biological Sciences
 Box 2 Folder 41
1964
Interim Executive Committee on Biology
Box 2 Folder 42
1964
Subcommittee on preliminary definitions of new positions to be created in biology
Box 3 Folder 1
1964-1965
Committee on Recruitment to the Division of Biology
 Box 3 Folder 2
1964-1967
Executive Committee- Division of Biological Sciences
 Box 3 Folder 3
1966-1967
Ultrastructure Search Committee
 Box 3 Folder 4
1966-1978
Ad Hoc Committees- Appointments and Tenure
 Box 3 Folder 5
1968-1969
Genetics Search Committee
 Box 3 Folder 6
Botanical Society of Edinburgh
 Box 3 Folder 7
1969-1970
Biology Colloquium
 Box 3 Folder 8
1970-1972
General Committee of the Graduate School
 Box 3 Folder 9
1970-1982
Developmental Biologist Search Committee
 Box 3 Folder 10
1969-1980
National Institutes of Health- Training Committee
 Box 3 Folder 11
Sept. 1971
Mycological Congress- University of Glasgow
Box 3 Folder 12
1971-1979
MSU/AEC Visiting Committee
Box 3 Folder 13
1973-1975
Professors-at-Large Selection Committee
 Box 3 Folder 14
1974
Search Committee for Director- Biological Sciences
 Box 3 Folder 15
1975
Ad Hoc Grievance Committee
 Box 3 Folder 16
1975-1983
Guggenheim Educational Advisory Board
 Box 3 Folder 17
1976-1977
Physiology Chairman- Search Committee
 Box 3 Folder 18
Feb. 1976- July 1977
Recombinant DNA Committee
 Box 3 Folder 19
Aug. 1976-1979
Recombinant DNA Committee
 Box 3 Folder 20
1976-1979
Jacob Gould Schurman Professorship
Box 3 Folder 21
1977-1978
"Criteria for Promotions" Committee
 Box 3 Folder 22
1978
Search Committee for Dean- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Box 3 Folder 23
1979
Boyce-Thompson Search Committee
 Box 3 Folder 24
Series IV. Projects and Subject Files
1966-1975
Guggenheim Application
 Box 3 Folder 25
1953-1963
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
 Box 3 Folder 26
1976-1977
Book Collection Contest (Arthur H. Dean and Mary Marden Dean)
Box 3 Folder 27
1943
Report to Nutrition Foundation
 Box 3 Folder 28
1957
White Memorial
 Box 3 Folder 29
1959-1964
Rockefeller Project- Article No. 17
 Box 3 Folder 30
1962-1965
National Science Foundation- Undergraduate Teaching Proposal
Box 3 Folder 31
1959-1962
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship- France
 Box 3 Folder 32
1966-1983
National Academy of Sciences
 Box 3 Folder 33
National Institutes of Health (Genetics Training Committee Award)
Box 3 Folder 34
1974
National Institutes of Health
 Box 3 Folder 35
National Institute of General Medical Sciences- National Institutes of Health
Box 3 Folder 36
Russian Genetics
 Box 3 Folder 37
1962-1966
Cornell University Press
 Box 3 Folder 38
1952-1956
Fulbright Act
 Box 3 Folder 39
1981
Edgerton Career Teaching Award
 Box 3 Folder 40
1983
Retirement
 Box 3 Folder 41
1960
Biology Center
 Box 4 Folder 1
1966-1967
Site visit- MSU/AEC Lab
 Box 4 Folder 2
1968-1970
University of Nebraska- Master's Program
 Box 4 Folder 3
1971-1975
Atomic Energy Commission
 Box 4 Folder 4
1970-1971
University of Western Ontario
 Box 4 Folder 5
1977
Liberty Hyde Bailey Professorships
Box 4 Folder 6
1977
Chile Trip
 Box 4 Folder 7
1982
75th Anniversary of the Department of Plant Breeding- synopsis, symposium, invitations
Box 4 Folder 8
1982
Biotechnology Institute
 Box 4 Folder 9
1963-1969
Genetics Study Session
 Box 4 Folder 10
1965-1968
Graduate Field Of Genetics
 Box 4 Folder 11
1974-1975
Graduate Field of Genetics
 Box 4 Folder 12
1965-1970
College of Arts and Sciences- membership
 Box 4 Folder 13
1965-1983
Section of Genetics, Development, and Physiology- correspondences
Box 4 Folder 14
1969-1973
Division Director- Biological Sciences
 Box 4 Folder 15
1963-1983
Division of Biological Sciences
 Box 4 Folder 16
1949-1956
Project Reports
 Box 4 Folder 17
College Research Reports
 Box 4 Folder 18
1950-1969
Progress Reports for Grants
Box 4 Folder 19
1985
Health Careers
 Box 4 Folder 20
A.D. White Professorship, Committee
 Box 7 Folder 1
Biography: Adrian M. Srb
 Box 7 Folder 2
1975
Biological Science 280
 Box 7 Folder 3
Biology Division Plans, etc.
 Box 7 Folder 4
Class Notes and Graduate Days at Stanford
 Box 7 Folder 5
College and University Fiscal Procedures
 Box 7 Folder 6
Developmental Biology-Search Committee
 Box 7 Folder 7
Early Research
 Box 7 Folder 8
Genes and the Chemistry of the Organism by G.w. Beadle
Box 7 Folder 9
Haman Genetics: Bibliographies
 Box 7 Folder 10
Mann Library Board, Committee
 Box 7 Folder 11
National Academy of Sciences, Nominating Committee
 Box 7 Folder 12
National Institues of Health on Graduate Training and Genetics Training
Box 7 Folder 13
National Science Foundation-Cali, Columbia Symposium
 Box 7 Folder 14
1963
Neurospora Newsletter
 Box 7 Folder 15
Newspaper Clippings-Human Heredity and Other Genetics Subjects
Box 7 Folder 16
Notes: Genetics and Human Welfare
 Box 7 Folder 17
Pre-doc and post-doc: Research Notes
 Box 7 Folder 18
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
 Box 7 Folder 19
1953-1954
Professor R.P. Murphy's File on A. Srb
 Box 7 Folder 20
Recombinant DNA, Correspondence
 Box 7 Folder 21
Round Spore Mutants at Neurosporo
 Box 7 Folder 22
Routine Questions
 Box 7 Folder 23
1960-1961
Sabbatical, Laboratory Matters
 Box 7 Folder 24
1964
Tenth International Botanical Congress
 Box 7 Folder 25
Treatise-Steward
 Box 7 Folder 26
Series V. Publications
1957-1968
Paper for Plant Physiology- implications of genetics for growth and development
Box 4 Folder 21
Dec. 1958
Health News article
 Box 4 Folder 22
1958-1960
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
 Box 4 Folder 23
1969-1970
"Genes and Metabolic Pathways" (paper)- Harper & Row, publishers
Box 4 Folder 24
1969-1970
"Genes and Metabolic Pathways" (paper)- Harper & Row, publishers
Box 4 Folder 24
1972-1976
Dictionary of American Biography (Rollins/Adams/Emerson)
Box 4 Folder 25
" . . . Canavanine Resistance in Yeast"
 Box 4 Folder 26
"Mutation and Selection in Fungi"- paper written by Srb
 Box 4 Folder 27
"The Urgency of Graduate Education"- lecture
 Box 4 Folder 28
Unpublished Srb and Basl paper
 Box 4 Folder 29
"Cytoplasmic Inheritance" & "Selection Models"-papers
 Box 4 Folder 30
1972-1973
Neurospora Newsletter #20- "Festschrift"
Box 4 Folder 31
1972
Review of Russell & Srb's paper
 Box 4 Folder 32
Random published articles written by Srb
 Box 4 Folder 33
Curriculum Vitae-Adrian Morris Srb
 Box 4 Folder 34
1973
Nasrallah and Srb (PNAS)
 Box 4 Folder 35
1980
Resolutions- Lowell F. Randolph's retirement and death
 Box 4 Folder 36
Miscellaneous Information (unsorted)
 Box 4 Folder 37
Series VI. Grant Material
Grant applications
 Box 4 Folder 38
Grant applications (continued)
 Box 4 Folder 39
Grant applications (continued)
 Box 4 Folder 40
Grant correspondence
 Box 4 Folder 41
Grant materials- unsorted
 Box 4 Folder 42
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences- unsorted correspondence
Box 4 Folder 43
1964-1966
Publication Purchases
 Box 4 Folder 44
Series VII. Research Material
Growth Decay folder
 Box 4 Folder 45
Cavenery folder
 Box 4 Folder 46
Peak Complementation folder
 Box 4 Folder 47
Book I
 Box 4 Folder 48
Book II
 Box 4 Folder 49
Book III
 Box 4 Folder 50
Book IV
 Box 4 Folder 51
Neurospora growth rates in tubes
Box 4 Folder 52
Miscellaneous notebooks of research
 Box 4 Folder 53
Bound binder of Neurospora research
Box 5 Folder 1
Binder V
 Box 5 Folder 2
Binder VI
 Box 5 Folder 3
Binder VII
 Box 5 Folder 4
Binder VIII
 Box 5 Folder 5
The rest of this box contains miscellaneous notebooks consisting of charts, graphs, diagrams and observations Srb made during his years of research.