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Note Biological and Medical Sciences --Biological Sciences --GeneticsBiological and Medical Sciences --Biological Sciences --Animal BiologyHistory --History, University of California --History, UC BerkeleyGeographical (by Place) --University of California --University of California Berkeley Guide to the Richard Benedict BANC MSS 72/241 z 1 Goldschmidt Papers, (bulk 1900-1956) Guide to the Richard Benedict Goldschmidt Papers, (bulk 1900-1956) Collection number: BANC MSS 72/241 z The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California Contact Information: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, 94720-6000 Phone: (510) 642-6481 Fax: (510) 642-7589 Email: [email protected] URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu Processed by: The Bancroft Library staff Date Completed: ca. 1972 Encoded by: Xiuzhi Zhou © 1996 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Collection Summary Collection Title: Richard Benedict Goldschmidt Papers, Date (bulk): (bulk 1900-1956) Collection Number: BANC MSS 72/241 z Creator: Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict, 1878-1958 Extent: Number of containers: 5 boxes and 4 cartonsLinear feet: 7 Repository: The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California 94720-6000 Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Abstract: Letters written to him by colleagues and friends, some relating to his scientific work in Germany; copies of letters written by him; manuscripts of his writings; speeches and course lectures; notebooks; bibliography; publications about him, including eulogies and biographical material; clippings; genetic data sheets; drawings for publications. Included also: letters written to and by his colleague Professor Curt Stern about Goldschmidt. Languages Represented: English Access Collection is open for research. Publication Rights Guide to the Richard Benedict BANC MSS 72/241 z 2 Goldschmidt Papers, (bulk 1900-1956) Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Richard Benedict Goldschmidt papers, BANC MSS 72/241 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Biography Richard B. Goldschmidt was born on April 12, 1878 in Frankfurt am Main. He studied in Heidelberg and Munich, 1896-1902, under Otto Bütschli and Richard Hertwig, receiving his PhD in 1902 from Heidelberg. From 1903 to 1913 he worked under Hertwig at the Zoological Institute in Munich and in 1914 was offered a position at the new Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology. In 1921 he became the Institute's second director, and continued the association until 1936, when Nazi persecution made life in Germany untenable for him. Goldschmidt had already spent some time abroad, having been in the U.S. during World War I and in Japan, as professor of zoology at the University of Tokyo, 1924-1926. In 1936 Goldschmidt accepted a professorship in the Department of Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught until his retirement in 1948. Goldschmidt wrote over 250 scientific papers and seventeen books, including two for laymen, Ascaris and Understanding Heredity, and two autobiographical works, Portraits from Memory and In and Out of the Ivory Tower. He received three honorary degrees, was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a foreign or honorary member in eighteen foreign academies and learned societies. In 1953 he served as President of the 9th International Congress of Genetics in Bellagio. He died in Berkeley on April 24, 1958. Scope and Content The larger part of this collection of Papers, which are housed in five boxes and four cartons, was donated by Professor Goldschmidt to the University of California in 1940, with some additions thereafter, both by him and by his colleague, Professor Curt Stern. Although a great many of his papers were left behind in Germany, most of the correspondence represented here covers the period from 1900 to 1936 with some letters also from the later years. The rest of the collection -primarily manuscripts of his writings, speeches and lectures, genetic data sheets and analyses, and notebooks -relate, for the most part, to his work in the U.S., with some earlier material as well. Papers donated by Professor Stern include letters written to him after Goldschmidt's death, eulogies and biographical material he prepared, and related material. The Key to Arrangement which follows describes this material in greater detail. Boxes 1-5 Letters written to Goldschmidt. Scope and Content Note Letters from colleagues and friends; primarily written in German. Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization. A partial list of correspondents follows the Key to Arrangement. Letters not listed have been put in alphabetical miscellanies preceding each letter of the alphabet. Box 5 Letters by Goldschmidt (1941-1956, n.d.) Scope and Content Note Carbon copies, transcripts, and photocopies, arranged chronologically. Notes by Goldschmidt on his collection. Scope and Content Note Including a history and a description of the collection, in which he ranks correspondents by importance and classifies them by fields of endeavor. Letters written to Professor Curt Stern, mainly by colleagues after Goldschmidt's death. Scope and Content Note A partial list of correspondents follows the Key to Arrangement. Guide to the Richard Benedict BANC MSS 72/241 z 3 Goldschmidt Papers, (bulk 1900-1956) Key to Arrangement Letters written by Curt Stern to colleagues after Goldschmidt`s death. Scope and Content Note Arranged chronologically. Letter to L. K. Piternick re. Goldschmidt after his death. Additional Note From Seiji Matsumura. Ctn. 1 Autobiographical writings: My Work (typescript); Autobiographical data compiled by request of the National Academy (typescripts); Fini, an account of Goldschmidt's years in Berkeley (holograph) Publications about Goldschmidt. Scope and Content Note Including newspaper clippings and Festschriften Memorial tributes and obituaries Eulogies and biographies of Goldschmidt by Curt Stern. Additional Note (in English and in German; typescript and holograph) Lists of publications by Goldschmidt Photocopies of pages from guest books, Berlin and Berkeley Speeches, 1919-1951. Scope and Content Note On scientific subjects, before professional and lay audiences. Include radio talks, guest lectures (University of Paris, 1932, and Yale, 1939), talks at symposia, before the Berkeley Club and other organizations etc. In German, English and French. Arranged chronologically. Course lectures, given at Berkeley, Stanford and the University of Washington, 1937-1952. Scope and Content Note Arranged chronologically. Undated lectures and speeches Physical Description: (5 folders) Drawings and illustrations: Scope and Content Note Copulatory organs of the lymantria species (by A.B. DuBois), lymantria gonads (by Goldschmidt), and miscellaneous book illustrations. Ctn. 2 Manuscripts of his writings. Physical Description: (holograph, unless otherwise noted) Additional data on phenocopies and genic action Ancient Chinese knowledge of human heredity Ascarsis (English version) The Beaded-minute intersexes in drosophila melanogaster. Scope and Content Note Also notes and illustrations. A chapter from kitchen zoology (typescript) Chromosomes and genes (typescript) Guide to the Richard Benedict BANC MSS 72/241 z 4 Goldschmidt Papers, (bulk 1900-1956) Key to Arrangement A critical review of some recent work in sex-determination Cynips and lymantria Discussion of Landauer's paper (typescript) A discussion of some facts pertinent to the theory of the gene Does the quantity of chromatic produce dramatic effects? An empirical evolutionary generalization. ... Gen und Ausseneigenschaft Gene and Character The genetic background of chemically induced phenocopies in Drosophila. II. Physical Description: (holograph and typescript) Genetics and Development Genic Conversion in Oenåthera Physical Description: (typescript) Geographische Variation und Artbildung A gynandromorph in Drosophila produced by double fertilization Additional Note (also in German, typescript and holograph) Heterochromatic Heredity Physical Description: (typescript) Lymantria A Lymantria-like case of intersexuality in plants Lysenko, T.D., Heredity and its variability Material Basis of Evolution Additional Note (also illustration copy) Mimetic Polymorphism Additional Note (with original drawings) Multiple sex-genes in Drosophila?... A mutant of Drosophila melanogaster resembling the so-called unstable genes of Drosophila virilis A note concerning the adaptation of geographical races of Lymantria... A note on the action of Bar series in Drosophila On some