Adrian M. Srb papers, [ca.1947-1997]
Collection Number: 21-28-3159

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Adrian M. Srb papers, [ca.1947-1997]
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
21-28-3159
Abstract:
Professional papers of Adrian M. Srb, geneticist and professor of plant breeding at Cornell.
Creator:
Srb, Adrian M.
Quanitities:
7.3 cubic feet.
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.
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
Series VIII. Recommendations

Box 6

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

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

SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell University -- Faculty
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Department of Plant Breeding
Cornell University. Division of Biological Sciences
Subjects:
Neurospora.
Genetics.

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