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G.B. Upton items

Collection — manuscript box: 4 - folder 1

Identifier: 629m

Scope and content

Typescript draft and printed reprint of "An algebra of Mendelism and its application to a mixed hybrid population," co-authored by Upton and A.W. Gilbert, published in Proceedings, American Breeders Association, 1912. Manuscript annotations on the draft indicate that (although Gilbert's name is listed first on the printed article) Upton wrote all but the last paragraph. With the draft of the article are about 6 leaves of notes.

Dates

1912.

Creator

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

A professor of mechanical engineering at Cornell University, Upton was also the author of a paper on plant breeding, interested in ornithology, a collector of reptiles, and a member of a transcontinental entomology expedition in 1917 and a cross-country botanical expedition in 1920.