William B. Provine Papers,1963-2008
Collection Number: 4734
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
Title:
William B. Provine papers, 1963-2008
Collection Number:
4734
Creator:
William B. Provine
Quantity:
0.2 cubic feet
Forms of Material:
Bound manuscripts, letters, loose manuscripts, ephemera.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
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.
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.
Names:
Provine, William B.
Provine, William B.
Wright, Sewall, 1889-1988.
Darwin, Charles, ‡d 1809-1882. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited
by H.M.S. Beagle.
Biological Society of Cornell University.
Subjects:
Population genetics.
Evolution (Biology)
Additional Names:
Theunissen, Bert, 1955-
Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.
Sanford, John C.
Cain, Arthur J. (Arthur James)
Rosenberg, Alexander, 1946-
Cite As:
William B. Provine Papers, #4734. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Related books formerly owned by William B. Provine (in the William B. Provine Collection on Evolution and Genetics) are cataloged
individually.
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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 and earlier (undated) | |
| Volume Bd. Ms. 1 |
Genetics and evolution, 1900-1959: notes
|
1976-1980 | |
| Volume Bd. Ms. 2 |
Sewall Wright biography notebook
|
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
|
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 | |