William B. Provine papers, 1963-2008.
Collection Number: 14-17-4330
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
William B. Provine papers, 1963-2008.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-17-4330
Abstract:
Collection consists mainly of research notes, including notes for Provine's books
on American geneticist Sewall Wright and on population genetics, and plans for further
publications. Also, a diary that Provine kept for a few months in 1963; letters to
him from friends and colleagues, including Carl Sagan, Bert Theunissen, and John C.
Sanford; an essay by philosopher of science Alex[ander] Rosenberg, "Evolution, Drift
and Subjective Probability," with marginal notes and comments by Provine; and notes
by evolutionary biologist A.J. Cain, including two drafts of a book review. Also included
are ephemera: a program of the lectures to be given to the Biological Society of Cornell
University, 1904-1905; a pamphlet issued by the publisher Heritage Club, advertising
its edition of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle; and two anti-evolution pamphlets.
Creator:
Provine, William B.
Theunissen, Bert, 1955-
Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.
Sanford, John C.
Cain, Arthur J. (Arthur James)
Rosenberg, Alexander, 1946-
Hunter, A., active 1914-1915.
Givens, M. H.
Simpson, Sutherland, 1863-1926.
Kingsbury, B. F. (Benjamin Freeman), 1872-1946.
Blaisdell, Muriel L. (Muriel Louise.) (Title of work: Darwinism and its data..)
Dubinin, Nikolaĭ Petrovich, 1907-1998. (Title of work: Experimental investigation
of the integration of hereditary systems in the processes of evolution of populations..)
Quanitities:
1.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
William B. Provine is an emeritus professor of the history of biology in the Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. He holds a B.S. in mathematics
and an M.A. and Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of Chicago. He
has published extensively on topics in the history of genetics and evolutionary biology,
and has received numerous awards for his research.
Collection consists mainly of research notes, including notes for Provine's books
on American geneticist Sewall Wright and on population genetics, and plans for further
publications. Also, a diary that Provine kept for a few months in 1963; letters to
him from friends and colleagues, including Carl Sagan, Bert Theunissen, and John C.
Sanford; an essay by philosopher of science Alex[ander] Rosenberg, "Evolution, Drift
and Subjective Probability," with marginal notes and comments by Provine; and notes
by evolutionary biologist A.J. Cain, including two drafts of a book review. Also included
are ephemera: a program of the lectures to be given to the Biological Society of Cornell
University, 1904-1905; a pamphlet issued by the publisher Heritage Club, advertising
its edition of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle; and two anti-evolution pamphlets.
Related books formerly owned by William B. Provine (in the William B. Provine Collection
on Evolution and Genetics) are cataloged individually.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
William B. Provine Papers, #14-17-4330. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Provine, William B.
Wright, Sewall, 1889-1988.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. (Title of work: Journal of researches into the geology
and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle..)
Biological Society of Cornell University
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Subjects:
Evolution (Biology)
Population genetics.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 |
Letters, loose manuscripts, ephemera
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1986-1991, earlier (undated) | |
| Volume Bd. Ms. 1 |
Genetics and evolution, 1900-1959: notes
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1976-1980 | |
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"At the end of this notebook, there are many pages on geneticists and race."
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| Volume Bd. Ms. 2 |
Sewall Wright biography notebook
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1981-1986 | |
| Volume Bd. Ms. 3 |
Notebook for Origins of Population Genetics
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1968? | |
| Volume Bd. Ms. 4 |
Notes for a book on population genetics and other research
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1996 | |
| Volume Bd. Ms. 5++ |
Diary
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November-December 1963 | |
| Volume Bd. Ms. 6 tiny |
Notes by A.J. Cain
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undated | |
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Mainly lists of early editions of individual works by Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace,
Thomas Henry Huxley, and Charles Lyell
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