Series: Subjects  

Scope Note: Materials may include correspondence, certificates, and printed items. Arranged alphabetically by various subjects, including: 1. Awards; 2. Biographical materials, including personal and family-related items; 3. Drosophila stock lists and requests; 4. Evolution. Mostly concerning debate held in 1966 in Arkansas; 5. Germinal choice; 6. Lysenkoism; 7. Radiation; 8. Reprint requests and lists; 9. Savitsky case.

Subseries: Awards  

Scope Note: Includes certificates, diplomas and plaques, some with related correspondence and other materials.

1910  Columbia University A.B. degree. Program, photocopies of congratulatory letters, etc.

1927  Bossom Award: recommendation file; clippings, etc. re: award and supporting documentation

[Photocopies, originals belongs to Muller family]

(2 folders)

1928  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 5th annual prize  

1933, Feb. 2  Photocopy of diploma to Academy of Sciences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics  

1940  University of Edinburgh. Program for graduation ceremonial, doctorate of science  

1946  Nobel Prize:

telegram informing HJM of award; souvenirs--programs, menus, calling cards; subsequent honors related to Nobel prize; photograph of Alfred Nobel; miscellaneous

(4 folders)

1948  Department of State,

certificate designating HJM as "a delegate of the United States to the Eighth International Congress of Genetics, to be held at Stockholm, Sweden, July 7-14

1949  Columbia University, Honorary Doctorate of Science

[see: Oversize for diploma]

1951  1954-1955 American Cancer Society grant-in-aid certificates  

1955  Kimber Genetics Award

(see also: Plaques)

1958  Linnean Society of London, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace Commemorative Silver Medal  

1959  Leopoldina, Darwin Award  

1959  University of Chicago, Honorary Doctorate of Science  

1960  Japan Academy honorary membership  

1960  Morris High School Annual Alumni Award  

1961 Columbia University, Alexander Hamilton Award  

1963  Jefferson Medical College, Honorary Doctorate of Medicine

(see: Oversize for diploma)

1964  Swarthmore College, Honorary Doctorate of Science.

Program only (see: Oversize for diploma)

Certificates, diplomas, etc. from the following institutions:

1928  Pi Gamma Mu honorary membership certificate and enrollment card  

1931, Apr. 29  National Academy of Sciences diploma  

1943, Dec. 14  Phi Beta Kappa Associates diploma  

1946, May 22  Regia Academia Scientiarum Suecica  

1947  Lynceum Academy, Rome  

1948, Apr. 2  Societas Regia Scientiarum Haumiensis certificate  

1948, Sept. 21  Phi Beta Pi honorary membership certificate  

1949  Columbia University, Doctorate of Science diploma  

1949  Societas Regia Edinensis  

1953 Praeses Concilium et Sodales Regalis Societatis Londini Pro Scientia Naturali Promovenda  

1957, Apr. 6  Alpha Epsilon Delta National Premedical honor society certificate of membership  

1957, Apr. 26  Academia Scientiarvm et Litterarvm Mogvntina  

1960, Oct. 25  Kaiserlich Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher certificate  

1962, Feb. 26  La Academia de Artes y Ciencias de Puerto Rico diploma  

1963  Jefferson Medical College honorary doctorate of Medicine diploma  

1964, Dec. 30  National Association of Biology Teachers honorary membership certificate  

1964.  Swarthmore College, Honorary Doctorate of Science diploma undated.

National Institute of Sciences of India, honorary fellow certificate

Plaques and Framed items (on a separate shelf):

1955  Kimber Genetics Award (framed certificate)  

1956  Rudolf Virchow Medical Society in the City of New York, Virchow Medal  

1960, Sept. 22  United States Civil Defense Council, Pfizer Award of Merit  

1963  Humanist of the Year  

1964, Nov. 1  City of Hope National Medical Center... citation...on the occasion of the seventh Annual Salute to Medical Research  

Subseries: Biographical  

Autobiographical notes

Awards, honors, jobs, 1907-1918  .

Mostly photocopied correspondence Biographical sketches - mostly for biographical sources and press releases

(9 folders)

Curriculum vitae  

Drawings (Oversize).

Various sketches and mechanical drawings

Family

- mostly correspondence of parents, grandparents, etc. and genealogical information

(3 folders)

Financial

- includes bank statements, papers concerning insurance, homes, automobiles, taxes, and Charles Lyons (Muller's uncle who left money to Muller and his sister Ada).

(5 folders)

Medical reports  

Muller, Thea - visa application and immigration details  

Scientific contributions. Lists  

Television and radio appearances

- Including: script for 1959 Halftime Show #4 "Dr. Hermann J. Muller, for IURTS; correspondence pertaining to various appearances in documentaries

Travel

- Passports-1945, 1950, 1955, 1959, schedules, packing lists and related correspondence, 1945-1964 More travel information may be found filed with specific conferences and meetings Muller attended.

(5 folders)

Tributes and memorials:  

Birthday tributes

- Age 65, 1955, program only; Age 70, 1960

See also: Festschrift for 70th birthday. (Oversize bound volume)

(3 folders)

Indiana University retirement

- Certificate, program of dinner to honor retiring faculty, poem by Tracy Sonneborn

Memorials

- Includes many published tributes following HJM's death, Apr. 1967

(5 folders)

Miscellaneous   (2 folders)

Subseries: Drosophila Stock  

1939-1964  Lists. (14 folders)

1951-1964  Requests. Correspondence,

Not indexed

(16 folders)

Subseries: Evolution

Scope Note: Most of the materials concern a statement drafted by H.J. Muller which was sent to eminent scientists across the U.S. attesting to the validity of evolution. The statement was prompted by a debate entitled "Is the theory of evolution scientifically established?" held at the Memorial Auditorium of Little Rock, Arkansas on June 29, 1966 ; (Pro) Professor R.C. Lewontin, geneticist from the University of Chicago and Dr. Thomas K. Shotwell, biology teacher at the Allen Academy, Bryan, Texas; and (Con) Professors J.C. Bales and Jack Sears, both of Harding College, Searcy, Arkansas. Materials include: drafts and final copies of the statement, including a reprint of the statement from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Feb. 1967 ; lists of names of signers and signed forms; related manuscript and printed items. (3 folders) (See also: Correspondence in the chronological and alphabetical files, mostly dating between February and November of 1966; Printed; Audio/Visual Materials)

Subseries: Germinal Choice  

American Eugenics Party

Brochure and newsletters

Brewer, Herbert

(First person to suggest germinal choice which he called eutelegenesis) Articles, clippings, photocopied letters by HJM and Julian Huxley

Crank letters

Letters from general public concerning support for or opposition to germinal choice

Eugenics Records Office

Contains Abridged Record of Family Traits form, partially filled in by HJM and other printed materials

Eugenics Review

Vol. 24, no. 2 (July 1932); Vol. 25, no. l (Apr. 1933); Vol. 57, no. 3 (Sept. 1965); tear sheet containing HJM's letter to editors of The Scientific American, Apr. 12, 1965

Foundation For Germinal Choice:

Circular letters; donors file; minutes; Prospectus; reply forms - blank and completed (alphabetical by name); misc. - includes: Proposed North American charter members, List of correspondents

(7 folders)

Genetic Code

Articles

Human Betterment Association of America, Inc.

Brochures, articles, etc. concerning voluntary sterilization

Institute for Personality & Ability Testing

Form and related clipping

Lists of writings by HJM and others  

Religious and legal aspects of germinal choice

Articles and reprints

Script of Canadian television program on germinal choice. Feb. 11, 1960   

Sperm bank.

Statement, June 5, 1963 and notes by HJM; articles and clippings; controversy, 1980

(4 folders)

Sperm freezing and storage

Mostly reprints and advertisements

(2 folders)

Standard Donor Data Sheet, Case A

Includes tentative questionnaire, 2/10/66 and some correspondence

Wisconsin Student Dating Form  

Miscellaneous germinal choice materials  

Newspaper clippings

(see: Clippings: 1962, Sperm Banks; 1963-1966, Germinal Choice)

Subseries: Lysenkoism

Scope Note: Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, geneticist, was president of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He discounted Mendelian theories of genetics in favor of Communist party line theories, i.e., that genetic characteristics could be altered by simply changing the environment. Debate in Russia became impossible when Lysenko announced that this theory was officially endorsed by the Central Committee. Muller denounced him as a charlatan and resigned from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The papers, mostly 1948-1949, include correspondence, Muller's resignation, various writings on the subject, reprints and printed articles. Also included is a folder concerning Voice of America which contains mostly correspondence about Muller's participation in broadcasts concerning Lysenkoism, 1949-1956. (9 folders) (see also: Clippings: 1948-1963, Lysenkoism)

Subseries: Radiation

Scope Note: Various materials on radiation, including: correspondence, 1947-1955, concerning radiation injuries and advice; reports, 1945, submitted to the British Ministry of Labour Panel for Advisory Matters connected with Industrial Radiology, including one by HJM entitled Genetic Dangers of High Energy Radiation; research and notes; reprints; and clippings (5 folders) (See also: National Academy of Sciences, Subcommittee on Genetic Effects of Atomic Radiation)

Subseries: Reprints

Scope Note: Requests. Correspondence, 1948-1967. Not indexed (16 folders) Followed by two files of outdated lists of reprints. See: List of Reprints for corrected version

Subseries: Savitsky Case

Scope Note: Correspondence, 1946-1948, concerning bringing Viacheslav, Helen and other members of the Savitsky family to the U.S. from Russia. (4 folders)