Edwin Carleton MacDowell papers
Scope and content
Consists mainly of notes for and drafts of MacDowell's biographical essay on Charles B. Davenport, who was director of the Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, from 1898-1923, and director and founder of the Department of Experimental Evolution, Carnegie Institution of Washington, at Cold Spring Harbor from 1904-1930. Also includes biographical information on Davenport's father, Amzi Benedict Davenport; letters to MacDowell in reaction to his essay on Charles B. Davenport; photographs of Davenport, L.C. Dunn, Berwind P. Kaufmann, and others; and newspaper clippings about Selig Hecht and Berwind P. Kaufmann.
Dates
- 1945-1950.
Creator
Biographical / Historical
American geneticist.
Extent
.8 cubic feet. (.8 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- Carnegie Institution of Washington. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Davenport, A. B. (Amzi Benedict), 1817-
- Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944.
- Dunn, L. C. (Leslie Clarence), 1893-1974.
- Geneticists -- United States.
- Genetics -- History -- Sources.
- Hecht, Selig.
- Kaufmann, B. P. (Berwind Peterson), 1897-1975.
- MacDowell, E. Carleton (Edwin Carleton), 1887-1973.
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
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