Series: Correspondence1910-1972   

Scope Note: Arranged chronologically and alphabetically. A card index in the Library may be consulted for the location of individual letters in the chronological section and throughout the rest of the collection.

Subseries: Chronological files  

1910-1940 

1941 - 1946, Oct. 

1946, Nov. - 1948, Aug. 

1948, Sept. - 1950, July 

1950, Aug. - 1953, Aug. 

1953, Sept. - 1955, Nov. 

1955, Dec. - 1957, June 

1957, July - 1958, Nov. 

1958, Dec. - 1959 

1960 - 1961, Feb. 

1961, Mar. - 1962, Apr. 

1962, May - 1963, July 

1963, Aug. - 1964, Oct. 15 

1964, Oct. 16 - 1965 

1966 - 1972 undated and unidentified; "nuts"

Subseries: Alphabetical files

Altenburg, Edgar 1912-1967   

Appleyard, Raymond K. 1952-1958   

Auerbach, Charlotte 1938-1967   

Baudevin, Helene 1957-1958   

Bonnier, Gert 1946-1959   

Brewer, Herbert 1954-1964   

Cook, Robert C. 1933-1965   

Crew, F.A.E. 1937-1963   

Crow, James F. 1943-1967   

Darlington, Cyril Dean 1937-1955 ,1961-1967   

Delbrück, Max 1939-1951   

Demerec, Milislav 1936-1961   

Dobzhansky, Theodosius 1928-1963   

Dunn, L.C. 1929-1965   

Fabergé, A.C. 1938-1960   

Fact 1939   

Glass, H. Bentley 1933-1966   

Goldschmidt, Richard 1939-1948   

Graham, Robert 1963-1971   

Haldane, J.B.S. and Charlotte 1934-1964   

Hartman, Carl 1925-1967   

Henle, James 1936-1953   

Herskowitz, Irwin H. 1941-1965   

Hogben, Lancelot 1938-1964   

Hollaender, Alexander 1939-1964   

Hook, Sidney 1949-1958   

Hsu, T.C. 1951-1956   

Huxley, Julian S. 1916-1967   

Ilse, Dora 1937-1952   

I.U. Press 1951-1967   

Kaplan, William D. 1965-1966   

Kline, Calvin W. 1958-1964   

Koller, Peo C. 1939-1966   

Lee, William R. 1957-1966   

Li, C.C. 1951-1966   

Luria, Salvatore Edward 1940-1966   

Medvedev, Nikolai Nikolayevich and Tatiana Gregorevna 1937-1966   

Mohr, Otto Lous and Tove, 1922-1961 , 1966   

Nachtsheim, Hans 1948-1963   

Novitski, Edward 1948-1966   

Offermann, Carlos and Jessie 1937-1964 , 1967   

Oster, Irwin I. 1953-1967   

Pauling, Linus 1947-1962 ,1966   

Payne, Fernandus 1921-1947   

Pincus, Gregory and father J.W. Pincus 1936-1967   

Plough, Harold Henry 1938-1958 ,1962   

Pollack, Jack Harrison 1961-1962   

Pontecorvo, Guido 1939-1964   

Popovsky, Mark 1965-1967   

Prabhu, S.S. 1938-1966   

Price, Bronson 1934-1965   

Puck, Theodore 1949-1967   

Ray-Chaudhuri, S.P. 1939-1967   

Robson, J.M. and Sarah 1939-1945   

Sagan, Carl and Lynn 1952-1966   

Saturday Review. 1948 , 1949 , 1955-1959   

Science. Science, the Newsweekly for Scientists, The Scientific Monthly, the literary magazine of science and, later, Science magazine, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.1945-1966   

Scientific American 1947-1965 (originally: The Sciences)  

Sherman, Jerome K. 1961-1965   

Smith, Paul E. 1960-1965   

Snyder, Laurence 1926 , 1938-1964   

Sonneborn, Tracy M. 1945-1966   

Sonnenblick, Benjamin P. 1941-1966   

Stadler, Lewis John 1938-1949   

Stern, Curt 1926-1965   

Sturtevant, Alfred Henry 1942-1965   

Szilard, Leo 1948-1965   

Timofeef-Ressovsky, N.W. 1927-1947   

Traut, Horst 1959-1965   

Trout, William E., III 1959-1967   

Vavilov, Nicolai Ivanovich 1938-1939   

Vogt, Marguerite (Maggie) 1932-1965   

Vogt, Marthe 1937-1953   

Vogt, Oscar & Cecile 1937-1962   

Waddington, C.H. 1938-1948   

Weinstein, Alexander 1928-1947   

Wells, Herman B 1945-1967   

Zimmerman, A.W. 1947-1949   

Series: Writings  

Scope Note: Organized into three sections. Muller's holograph and typescript Writings are arranged in chronological order, as are his Reprints. These are followed by Writings by Others, which is mostly holograph copies and typescripts, and is arranged alphabetically by author. Some printed materials follow this section. Inventories are available for all three sections. Items in the fragile file (Box 8) are restricted use.

Subseries: Writings by Muller  

Scope Note: Holograph and typescript copies of writings. Also includes lecture and speech typescripts, notes and related materials. Class lecture typescripts, notes and related materials may be found in the Research and Education section. D.I.S. (Drosophila Information Service) papers to which HJM contributed are listed at the end of the dated writings. Reprint numbers are given where known. Some writings may be enclosed in letters; check card index for titles.

1910, Mar. 24  Revelations of biology and their significance. An address read to the Peithologian Society of Columbia University. Contains HJM's earliest idea on eugenics.

(Photocopy of final draft - original is in fragile file)

1910  Revelations of biology (fragment of early draft). p.19-24.

(Photocopy - original pages in fragile file)

1910  Revelations of biology. Preliminary draft fragments.

(Photocopy - original in fragile file)

1911-1912  Erroneous assumptions regarding genes.

(Photocopies of 2 drafts - original is in fragile file). Reprint 1

1914  A factor for the fourth chromosome of Drosophila Pub. Science 39:906.

Reprint 4

1916  Applications and prospects. Discussion of eugenic views and human evolution

(Photocopy - original in OVERSIZE)

ca. 1916  The recent findings in heredity. Unpub.  

ca. 1916  Some recent work in heredity. Rice Institute lecture.  

ca. 1916  Some recent work in heredity. Draft/notes for Rice Institute lecture  

1916?  [Lectures on heredity for course at Rice?]

(Photocopies - originals are in fragile file)

1916-1918  The newer biology. Lecture at Rice Institute.

Photocopy - Originals are in fragile file)

ca. 1917-1918  The essential facts of heredity.

[Preface?]

1920  The genetic basis of truncate wing--an inconstant and modifiable character in Drosophila (analysis)

Reprint 13

1921  Elimination of the X-chromosome from the egg of D[rosophila] m[elanogaster] by x-rays

[lecture?]

1923  Abstract or summary of Hertwig, Paula. Bastardierungsversuche mit erkernten Amphibieneiren.

(Hybrid investigations with denucleated Amphibian eggs)

1924  Flies into Russia looking for flies  

1924?  Lecture on evolution and its genetic basis  

ca. 1925  Chromosome deformation as proof of the theories of linear gene arrangement and crossing over

(University of Texas)

1927  The problems of genic modification [abstract].

Reprint 43

ca. 1927  Lecture, re: a general survey of the gene.  

ca. 1928-1931  "Baur ms."   (8 folders)

1929  The cytological expression of changes in gene alignment produced by x-rays in Drosophila

Reprint 50

1930?  Bibliography on the genetics of Drosophila. Typescript; 2p. of holograph bibliographic citations.

Reprint 120

1932  The dominance of economics over eugenics (includes typescript of ms.; mimeo with autograph changes; mimeo with pencil­ corrections; mimeo copies for distribution; mimeo copies of the abstract)  (4 folders)

Reprint 70 (Also a copy enclosed in Muller to Raymond Postgate, Feb. 26, 1939. Alphabetical correspondence--FACT, 1939)

ca. 1932  Chromosome abnormalities (intra-chromosomal)  

ca. 1932  Genetic methods  

ca. 1932  Moving model of mitosis  

ca. 1932-1933  Address to Institute for Brain Research in Berlin (German). English translation   (2 folders)

1933, Nov. 4  Genetics and evolution  

1933  Report on Sixth International Genetics Congress

Reprint 75

1933  The effects of Roentgen rays upon the hereditary material

Reprint 72

1933  Haldane on evolution

Reprint 73 (original is in fragile file)

ca. 1933  "Old literature on radiation" or "Early x-ray literature (before 1926)"  

1934, Nov.-Dec  Muller and D. Raffel. Inverted synopsis of genes as evidence for the periodic character of their mechanism of attraction  

ca. 1934  Darwin and Marxism

Fragments and drafts

ca. 1934  Genetics and Marxism  

1934  Lenin's doctrines in relation to genetics

Photocopy of version published as Appendix II in Loren R. Graham's Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union. Reprint 80/2

1934?  Nazi apologetics and German science

Notes, drafts, manuscript and German translation

(5 folders)

1935, Aug.  The position effect as evidence of the localization of the immediate products of gene activity.

Reprint 95 (original is in fragile file)

ca. 1935  Data on two new mutations to bar eye in Drosophila, by Muller and K.V. Kossikov

(original is in fragile file)

1935?  The determination of the relation between the dosage of the irradiation and the frequency of induced mutations.  

1935  Muller: OUT OF THE NIGHT

Includes list of possible titles, 1934; and, German translation. Reprint 98

(4 folders)

1935  The present status of the mutation theory

(original in fragile file) Reprint 99

ca. 1935  Status of the Problem

[draft]

ca. 1935  Summary. 1. Two new cases of origination of allelomorphs...

[p. 18-20 - draft]

1936, Apr.  Why continue with fundamental science? Address to have been given at laying of cornerstone of new building of the Institute of Genetics.

[photocopy - original in fragile file]

1936, May 4  The social direction of human biological evolution.  

1936, Aug.  [lecture notes] Cold Spring Harbor  

1936, Dec. 23  Basis of the theory of the gene: The experimental evidence concerning the properties of the gene.

(photocopies - ms. and typed transcript in fragile file) Reprint 107

1936  "As a scientist with confidence..." [letter to Stalin] Thermofax copy and typed transcript

(see also: 1936, May 4. The social direction...)

1936  Autobiographical notes [prepared for Vavilov]

(Photocopy - original in fragile file)

1936?  The doctrine of the gene. Written for PRAVDA?

(typescript - original in fragile file).

1936?  Evolution as viewed by Morgan

Reprint 112

1936?  New evidence concerning the nature of bar mutation, by Muller, A.A. Prokofyeva-Belgovskaya and K.V. Kossikov  

1937, Oct.  The biological effects of radiation, with especial reference to mutation. Summary "given out at Congress in Paris. Oct. 1937."

Reprint 111

1937?  Can simple breaks occur?  

1937?  The effect of a long established duplication on the frequency of detectible (sic) mutations.  

1937?  Minute rearrangement in the chromocentral region simulating simple chromosome breakage, by Muller, A.A. Prokofyeva-Belgovskaya, and M. Belgovsky.  

1938, July 25  Report on the study of the production of mutations by x-rays and other means in relation to problems of cancer research.  

1938  Does smoking lengthen life?  

1938  The remaking of chromosomes (excerpt).  

1939, Apr. 13  How heredity works [broadcast BBC, Apr. 13, 1939 for "The Listener"].

Reprint 123

1939, July 20  Foreword for Drosophila Bibliography  

1939, Aug.-Sept.  The geneticists manifesto.

[aka: Social biology and population improvement]. Reprint 129

1939  How Genetic systems come about, review of C.D. Darlington's The Evolution of Genetic Systems

Reprint 127

1939  The mechanism of structural change in chromosomes of Drosophilia

Reprint 128

1939?  Production of mutations by x-rays

[fragment]

1940, July 8  Recombinants between Drosophila species ( melanogaster and stimulans) whose F1 hybrids are sterile, by Muller & Pontecorvo. 3p.

Reprint 135

1940, Oct.  The artificial mixing of incomplete germ plasms in Drosophila [abstract], by Muller and G. Pontecorvo.  

[1940]  The lethality of dicentric chromosomes in Drosophila, by Muller and G. Pontecorvo.

Reprint 139

(2 folders)

1940  Mutation effects of ultra-violet light in Drosophila by Muller and K. Mackenzie.  

1940?  Partial hybrids between Drosophila melanogaster and stimulans and their bearing on the mechanism of speciation, by Muller and G. Pontecorvo.

[unpublished?]

[1940]  Position effect and gene divisibility considered in connection with three strikingly similar scute mutations by Muller and D. Raffel.

Reprint 136

(2 folders)

1941  Edmund B. Wilson - an appreciation

Reprint 151

1941  Isolating mechanism, evolution and temperature. [?] Paper read before American Society of Naturalists

Reprint 148

1941  Recessive genes causing interspecific sterility and other disharmonies between Drosophila melanogaster and stimulans, by Muller and G. Pontecorvo.

Reprint 144

[1941]  The surprisingly high frequency of spontaneous and induced chromo­some breakage, and its expression through dominant lethals, by Muller and G. Pontecorvo.

Reprint 145

1941  The threads that weave evolution

Reprint 141

1942  Genetics as the alleged basis of Hitlerism  

1942  Mutation rate dependent on the size of the X-chromosome

Reprint 150

1942?  The methods of genetics in their application to problems of life and evolution.  

1943?  Evolutionary trends. Based on paper read before the Committee on Common Problems of Paleontology and Genetics, New York, July 26, 1943.

Also includes notes for seminar give Aug. 20, 1943 on Genetics in relation to Paleological Problems

1943  Further evidence for the proportionality of breakage frequency to chromatin mass, regardless of its arrangement in blocks.  

1943  A physicist stands amazed at genetics, a review of Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? (incomplete).

Reprint 162

1944?  [Aging effects and mutation]

Reprint 156?

1945, Oct. 11  On the need of provision for biology in the proposed legislation for the support of scientific research.  

1945  From article on Variation (Experimental) for Encyclopedia Britannica 1945  

1945  [Gene] Pilgrim Trust Lecture

Reprint 158

1945 or 1946  [Sonneborn/Lindegren's kappa K controversy]  

1946, Mar.  [Age paper ‑ draft and notes] "1st and longer draft of St. Louis paper (incomplete and not used)."  

1946, Mar.  Genetic dangers of high energy radiation, report submitted to Dr. Frank Ellis, for the British Ministry of Labour Panel for Advisory Matters connected with Industrial Radiology  

1946, Dec. 10  Acknowledgement for Nobel Award

[banquet speech]

[1946]  A Comparison of the potentialities of individual loci for different types of visible mutations.

[see also laboratory assistants papers], Reprint 165

1946  Physiological effects on "spontaneous" mutation rate in Drosophila

[abstract] Reprint 159

1946  Two mutants of mosaic expression not caused by gross rearrangement of heterochromatin

Reprint 160

1947, Jan.-Apr.  Changing genes: their effects on evolution.

1) IU convocation address in celebration of the Nobel Prize, Jan. 23;

2) Abridged version given at Oak Ridge, Apr. 8

Reprint 170

(3 folders)

1947, Mar. 6  Address to Indiana Cancer Society, Indianapolis  

1947, Apr.  Mutational Prophyllaxis, for N.Y. Academy of Medicine

Reprint 168

1947, May  Human erosion by mutation, Bacon lecture series given at University of Illinois College of Medicine, May 28;

Lecture also given at Ohio State

1947, June 4  Honors Day address at Indiana University School of Dentistry

Reprint172

1947, June 26  Lecture: Humanity and Mutations. Life insurance executives  

1947, Oct. 24  Address to Orthopedists, Indianapolis  

1947?  [Gene] Article for Encyclopedia Brittanica

Reprint 171

1947  Lecture honoring Dean Payne

[lecture notes]

1948, Feb. 19  Harvey Lecture - Evidence of the Precision of Genetic Adaptation. Correspondence only, 1947-1950

(see: Reprint 194)

1948, Mar. 5  Man's goals

Written for Schroeder Foundation, St. Louis

1948  The destruction of science in the U.S.S.R

Reprint 173

1948  Gene. For Nelson's Encyclopedia

Reprint 179

1948  On the occasion of Dean Fernandus Payne's retirement  

1948  Time bombing our descendants

Reprint 178

1948?  The mutational potentialities of some individual loci in Drosophila, by Muller and J.I. Valencia.

Reprint 183

1949, Mar. 22  Broadcast to Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C.

Text as delivered in speaking and as worded for printing

1949, June 10  Genetics in the scheme of things

Talk given to Emeritus Club of Indiana University.

Also given at 8th International Congress of Genetics, Edinburgh, July 7, 1949.

Reprint 174

1949, Nov. 15  The Russian cultural inquisition

Given at Hunter College.

1949, Dec. 28  Our load of mutations

Presidential address, read before American Society of Human Genetics, New York.

Reprint 199

1949  E.B. Wilson: October 19, 1856-March 3, 1939.

Proof only for publication in Genetics

Reprint 187

1949  The frequency of spontaneous mutations at individual loci in Drosophila, by Muller, J.I. Valencia and R.M. Valencia.

Reprint 190

1949  Genetics and its relations with other fields of knowledge

Broadcast Radio Diffusion Francaise, Feb. 26, 1949

published in The Indiana Teacher

French translation Reprint 208

1949  Is radiation a menace to posterity?

1) broadcast Apr. 23 for Adventures in Science

2) The menace of radiation for Science News Letter for June 11

Reprint 181

1949  The production of mutations at individual loci in Drosophila by irradiation of oocytes and oogonia, by Muller, J.I. Valencia and R.M. Valencia.  

late 40s/early 50s  "For more than a decade, biological scientists...[first line]"

re: Lysenko and Soviet science

1950, June  Science in bondage

Reprint 198

1950, July 11  Through Berlin glasses

Address given to Legal Institute

1950?  Further evidence that most "recessive" genes exert their main action as dominants, by Muller and S.L. Campbell.  (2 folders)

1950?  Implications of a subliminal mutant having a recessive lethal allele.  

1950  The rise and fall of genetics in the U.S.S.R.

Typescript and carbon. Proposed manuscript for 1st of Voice of America broadcast series.

1951, Feb. 15  Mutations in Mankind

[Lecture notes] Lecture at Stetson University, De Land, Florida

1951, Mar. 11  Message to the Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Diamond Jubilee  

1951, Mar. 28  Science and freedom, given at the Indian Congress for Cultural Freedom, Bombay.

Reprint 202

1951, Apr. 25  Introduction of J.S. Huxley...as Patton lecturer at Indiana University.

Holograph Includes undated introduction of James F. Crow

1951, Sept.  The localization of the mutagenic loci at which spontaneous mutants are known, by Muller and J.I. Valencia

Reprint 204

Includes other abstracts for The Genetics Society of America, 1951-1952

1951, Nov.  Genetic effects of cosmic radiation

Reprint 207

1952, Mar. 25  Methods of estimating frequency of induced chromosome breaks.

1952, Apr.  The genetic damage to later generations produced by radiation.  

1952, May 5  Message to scientists behind the Iron Curtain

For Voice of America.

1952, Dec. 8  Can man shape his own future? Review of Charles Galton Darwin's The Next Million Years.

Reprint 216

1952, Dec.  The bogey of cosmic rays  

1952  The calculation of mutation frequency involving groups of mutants of common origin

(The standard error of the frequency of mutants some of which are of common origin - abstract.)

Reprint 211

1952  The contradiction between totalitarianism and scientific progress

(distributed by U.S. Information Services as: Sterility of Soviet Science.)

Reprint 209

1952  Genetics and its relations with medicine  

1952  Preface. Bibliography on the genetics of Drosophila

Reprint 221

1952  Science: Our grandest adventure

1) Talk at science talent search banquet, Indianapolis, Apr. 5

2) Science - Man's hazardous adventure, Reader's Digest , June 26

Will science continue? For Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Reprint 214

1953, Sept.  The betrayal of science under communism

Published as "Russia's shackled science."

Reprint 222

[1953]  Genes--the core of our being

Includes: Student's Guide to The Scientists Speak: Biology , 1959

1953  Radiation genetics

Notes by Frank N. Young

1953-1954  Life

CBS broadcast, Columbia University Bicentennial lecture series.

Reprint 242

Also includes correspondence concerning series

1954, Jan. 7  The Degradation of Science in Russia

Given for Phi Kappa Phi, University of Honolulu.

Lecture notes, clippings

1954, Dec.  [Genetic damage produced by radiation] for Semaine du Monde?  

1954  Another case of dissimilar characters in Drosophila apparently representing changes of the same locus, by Muller and F. Verderosa.

Abstract

Reprint 240

1954  The manner of production of mutations by radiation

Chapter 8 of Radiation Biology, Vol. l, ed. by A. Hollaender

Reprint 225

(7 folders)

1954  The nature of the genetic effects produced by radiation

Chapter 7 of Radiation Biology, Vol. l, ed. by A. Hollaender

Reprint 224

(8 folders)

1954  The relation of neutron dose to chromosome changes and point mutations in Drosophila

I. Translocations. Draft fragments, holograph and typescript copies

Reprint 232

(6 folders)

1954  Science under Soviet totalitarianism

Reprint 228

1955, Apr.  Do A and H bombs damage the hereditary constitution?

Reprint 247?

1955, Apr.  The genetic damage produced by radiation

Reprint 246

1955, June  Effects of radiation and other present-day influences upon the human genetic constitution

Published as: Radiation and human mutation

Reprint 249

1955, July  On the relation between chromosome changes and gene mutations

Reprint 255

1955, Nov.  Controlled fertilization and its larger implications

(aka: Artificial insemination as viewed in the perspective of biology)

1955  Further information concerning the multi-locus nature of the dumpy series in Drosophila, by Muller, Helen U. Meyer and E.A. Carlson.

Reprint 245

1956, Mar.  In the cause of humanity

Acceptance speech as president of the American Humanist Association

Reprint 257

1956, Apr.  Pushing back the frontiers of biology

Reprint 272

1956, June 9  Man's place in living nature

Address delivered at the dedication of Jordan Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, June 9.

Reprint 261

(Revised as: Man and gene in the world picture)

1956, Aug. 18  Toast at close of banquet given by the International Radiobiological Conference, Stockholm  

1956, Aug.  [The effects of radiation on human genetics]

Talk given at WHO meeting

1956-1959  Science for Humanity

Abridgement of: The world view of moderns.

Talk in Indianapolis, Oct. 27; given in revised form at Northwestern University Feb. 19, 1957; and the University of Missouri, June 7, 1957; published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 1959.

Reprint 284A

1956  An estimate of the mutational damage in man from data on consanguineous marriages, by Muller, Newton E. Morton and James F. Crow.

(original title: An estimate of the mutational load...)

Reprint 266

1956  Further studies bearing on the load of mutations in man

Reprint 267

1956  Identification of half-translocations produced by x-rays in detaching attached-X chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster females, by Muller, Seymour Abrahamson and I.H. Herskowitz.

Reprint 258

1956  Man's biological dilemma: Radiation risk or genetic opportunity

(unpublished)

1956  Virchow Society talk  

1956  re: population control; importance of science to humanity, etc.

fragment - pp. 23-29

1957, Mar. 2  Freedom from ignorance

Talk before American Humanist Association, Cincinnati

1957, July 20  Recommendations for research on the genetic effects of radiation and related problems.

Mimeo

1957, Aug. 27  Human values in relation to evolution

Reprint 282

1957, Aug.  The radiation danger

Reprint 280

1957, Nov. 22  Possible advances of the next hundred years: A biologist's view

Statement prepared for symposium "The next hundred years," held by the Seagram Company, New York City.

Reprint 273

1957, Nov.  Man's responsibility for his genetic heritage

Talk at Antioch College, Nov. 24

Also includes lecture notes for talk entitled: Our responsibility for our genetic heritage.

Published as Man's future birthright

Reprint 281

[1957, Dec.]  Can science provide an ethical code?  

1957?  Atomic radiations and hereditary effects

For "World of Mind" radio series.

1957  Mutational damage in relation to radiation dose and biological conditions.

Published as: Damage from point mutations in relation to...

Reprint 268

1957  Potential hazards of radiation

Originally: The need for caution in the use of x rays, presented at the second workshop on preventive dentistry, May 2, 1957

Reprint 270

1957  Principles of back mutation as observed in Drosophila and other organisms, by Muller and I.I. Oster.

Reprint 269

1957  Radioactive fallout and human progress

Reprint 271

1957  The world view of moderns

Reprint 284

1958, Jan.  Evolution by mutation

Reprint 285

1958, Feb.-1960, Aug.   The meaning of freedom

Address before the Unitarian Fellowship of Bloomington, Indiana, Feb. 23, 1958

Given at the Aspen Institute of Human Studies, Aug. 27, 1959

presented at Urbana, Illinois, Oct. 25, 1959;

talk to Rationalists, Wisconsin, Aug. 13, 1960

Reprint 312

1958, May 25  The problem of life on satellites and beyond

For television

1958, May  Direct measurement of mutational effects on human cells in satellites  

1958, June 24  Man, health and hunger

[debate]

1958, July  Advances in radiation mutagenesis through studies on Drosophila.

Reprint 288

1958, Sept.  In search of peace

Reprint 298

1958, Oct. 31  Survival of the fit: ethical implications for a new dimension in education.

Symposium, Springfield College

1958, Nov. 28  One hundred years without Darwinism are enough

Address to Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers, Indianapolis.

Reprint 299

1958, Dec.  Chromosome breakage as the basis of the somatic damage produced in irradiated individuals

Prepared for conference on the genetic aspects of life shortening by radiation damage, Ames, Iowa, Dec. 13-14.

Reprint 280

1958  Approximation to a gravity-free situation for the human organism achievable at moderate expense.

Reprint 287

1958  How much is evolution accelerated by sexual reproduction?

Reprint 295

1958  In recognition of Oscar Riddle

Reprint 378

1958  The mutation theory reexamined

Reprint 289

(2 folders)

1958  The prospects of genetic change

Reprint 303

1959, Apr.  Evolution and genetics

Reprint 311

(2 folders)

1959, June 8  . Genetic nucleic acid: The key to the origin of living matter

Also given as talk at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Reprint 334

1959, June  The chromosomal basis of the mortality induced by x-rays in Drosophila

Reprint 310

1959, July 16  Genetics in relation to medical research, statement...

Statement at hearings before the Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organization of the Committee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate

Reprint 313

1959, July 30  Science in the U.S.S.R. as seen by a geneticist

Talk to Prof. Byrns group of students about to leave for Russia

1959, July  The permissible dose in the light of recent developments

Paper given before International Committee on radiological protection, Munich (ICRP/59/M-44)

Reprint 319

1959, Aug. 4-7  Talks on mutation for filmed course in genetics  

1959, Sept. 2  Lecture on somatic damage from radiation at Denver Medical Center

Based on Reprint 280

1959, Sept. 27  The significance of Darwin's discovery

Talk before Unitarian Fellowship, Bloomington.

Also includes: Introduction of Chauncey D. Leake, at The Indianapolis Unitarian, Nov. 8, 1959.

1959, Sept. 29  Man's conquest of man

Delivered at Seagram symposium on The Future of Man.

Reprint 302

1959, Nov.  Relations between cultural and biological evolution

Statement for "Social and cultural evolution" held by Panel V, Nov. 28, 1959, in the series "Issues in evolution" at the University of Chicago Darwin Centennial Celebration.

Includes notes for lecture given to biology teachers

Reprint 301b?

1959, Nov.  Letters to editors of The Indianapolis Star, Daily Student and Daily Herald-Telephone, concerning eugenics discussion prepared by Muller for Darwin Centennial Celebration.  

1959, Dec. 29  Humanistic factors in the radiation problem

Talk before AAAS symposium.

1959, Dec.  Life forms to be expected elsewhere than on earth

Papers given: 1) National Association of Biology Teacher's luncheon, Chicago meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dec. 29, 1959

2) Oak Park High School, Chicago, Feb. 29, 1960

3) Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, Apr. 24, 1962

Reprint 327

(2 folders)

1959  Evidence of the lower mutagenicity of chronic than intense radiation in Drosophila gonia, by Muller, I.I. Oster and Stanley Zimmering.

Reprint 305

1959  Further evidence of the relatively high rate of origination of "invisible" detrimental mutations, by Muller, and Helen U. Meyer.

Reprint 304

1959  Genetic basis of somatic damage produced by radiation, by Muller and Wolfram Ostertag  

1959  The guidance of human evolution

Paper for the Darwin Centennial Celebration of the University of Chicago, Nov. 24-28, 1959

Reprint 301

(2 folders)

1959  Tolerance of gonial cells of Drosophila melanogaster for heavy x-ray does divided into installments, by Muller, Helen U. Meyer, and Elizabeth F. Ehrlich.

Reprint 300

1960, Mar. 13  The future physical development of man

Talk at Symposium on Human Evolution: Past, Present and Future, Pennsylvania State University.

(unpublished)

(2 folders)

1960, Apr. 12  The integrational role of the evolutionary approach throughout education

Paper given at Philosophy of Education Society, Columbus, OH.

Reprint 314

1960, Apr.  The high effectiveness of fast neutrons in inducing minute deletions, by Muller, Stanley Zimmering and I.I. Oster.

Reprint 315

1960, Apr.  Remarks concerning the content of a high school biology course

(with particular reference to the treatment of genetics and evolution)

1960, May  A sex-linked lethal without evident effect in Drosophila males but partially dominant in females, by Muller and Stanley Zimmering.

Reprint 316

1960, May  Do air pollutants act as mutagens?

Abstract

Reprint 317

1960, June 4  The impact of science on our civilization

Address given at the Alumni Institute Round Table Discussions, Indiana University.

1960, Aug. 17  Results in radiation genetics obtained by the Indiana University Drosophila group since those report in Sept. 1958 at the Second Geneva "Atoms for Peace" conference, report submitted to A.E.C.   (2 folders)

1960, Sept.  The issues concerning man's genetic future, Dartmouth convocation on the great issues of conscience in modern medicine.

Published as: Genetic considerations.

Reprint 320

1960, Oct. 15  The radiation syndrome - a genetic interpretation

Talk at the Symposium on Human Genetics, San Francisco.

1960, Nov. 26  Humanist house

Talk given at dedication dinner, Yellow Springs, OH

1960  Are induced mutations in Drosophila overdominant? by Muller and Raphael Falk.

Reprint 324

(2 folders)

1960  Human evolution by voluntary choice of germ plasm

Reprint 328

1960  The human future

Reprint 326

1960  Mutation by alteration of the already existing gene, by Muller, Elof Carlson and Abraham Schalet.

Reprint 323

1960  Should we weaken or strengthen our genetic heritage?  

1961, Feb. 12  [Inscription] "Presented to President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy for the book of Inaugural inscriptions written by 167 Americans invited to participate in this way"  

1961, Feb. 16  The new light on mutation, introductory remarks at the Symposium held by the Biophysical Society Meeting, St. Louis.  

1961, Apr. 11  Alexander Hamilton award medal acceptance speech, Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, New York City.  

1961, Apr.  The future in the life sciences

address given at symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(see: Reprint 347)

1961, May  Some mutational techniques in Drosophila , by Muller and I.I. Oster.

Reprint 340

(2 folders)

1961, Aug.  Survival

Lecture delivered before IBS, Aug. 28

Reprint 330

(3 folders)

1961, Sept. 28  The impact of science on modern civilization

Speech given to IU Alumni Association, Bloomington.

Pub. REVIEW in 1963

1961, Nov.  Prospectives for the life sciences, based on address given on this theme, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Apr. 8, 1961.

Reprint 347

1961  Genetic nucleic acid: the key material in the origin of life

Addendum and references only

Reprint 334

(2 folders)

1961  Germinal choice, a new dimension in genetic therapy

Reprint 329

1961  Ideals to live by, a review of Science Ponders Religion , edited by Harlow Shapley.

Reprint 321

1961  Long live mediocrity!

A review of The Future of Man, by P.B. Medawar.

Reprint 322

1961  Similarity of x-ray-induced mutation rate in gonia of Drosophila females and males, by Muller and Helen U. Meyer.

Reprint 325

1961  Studies in genetics

Reprint 335

1961  Studies on the action of the dominant female-lethal F1 and of a less extreme allele, Fls, by Muller and Stanley Zimmering.

Reprint 333

1962, Feb. 13  Are we responsible for the genetic heritage of the future?

Address given in the Great Issues Course, Dartmouth College.

1962, Mar. 6  How does man's genetic future concern us of today?

Talk delivered at Colorado College.

1962, Mar. 30  Statement to Radio-Liberty, for broadcasting to the U.S.S.R.  

1962, Apr. 26  Opening statement for "The New Biology," College of the Air, Chicago  

1962, Sept.  The role of biology in general education

Reprint 342

1962, Oct. 16  [Notes concerning radioactive fallout and peace, for lecture, Des Moines, Iowa.]  

1962, Nov. 29  Genetic progress by voluntarily conducted germinal choice

Paper presented at Symposium on "The Future of Man," CIBA Foundation, London.

Reprint 341

1962  Are chronic and acute gamma irradiation equally mutagenic in Drosophila? by Muller, I.I. Oster and Stanley Zimmering.

Reprint 339

(2 folders)

1962  A biographical appreciation of Sir Julian Huxley

Reprint 336

1962  Mechanisms of life span shortening by radiation

Reprint 337

1962  Rains of death, a review of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring .  

1963, Mar. 29  Human genetic betterment

address before American Humanist Association

1963, Mar. 30  Many different ways to climb a mountain

Acceptance speech for Humanist of the Year.

1963, Apr.  Means and aims in human genetic betterment

Ohio Wesleyan University symposium paper.

Reprint 357

1963, Apr. 26  Radiation and heredity

paper given at symposium on Man-His Environment and Health, New York Academy of Medicine.

Reprint 348

(3 folders)

1963, Aug.  The need for recombination to prevent genetic deterioration

simplified account of paper, Genetics Society of America, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Reprint 344

1963, Sept.  Synthesis, for symposium on radiation genetics

Reprint 358

1963  Better genes for tomorrow

Address to American Humanist Association's annual meeting.

Reprint 349

1963  Perspectives for the life sciences

Based on address given at symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Apr. 8, 1961

(see: 1961, Apr.)

1963  The role of scientific education in value formation

Reprint 354

(2 folders)

1964, Jan. 7  Genetic aberrations

Telephone talk arranged by Dr. Novak of Stephens College, Columbia, MO.

Also includes correspondence, schedule, and other related materials

1964, Jan. 10  Dom-tester III, the use of dominant sterility for detecting lethal and other mutations in chromosome III  

1964, Feb. 21  Calculation of risk incurred by descendants of irradiated peoples.  

1964, Apr.  Man in biological perspective

Lectures delivered in a series on "The Prospects for Man," Swarthmore College, Apr. 5 and 12.

Reprint 363

(2 folders)

1964, July 2  Review of Eugenics: Hereditarian attitudes in American Thought , by Mark H. Haller.  

1964, Sept. 20  Address to Diamond Circle, a fund raiser for City of Hope  

1964, Oct. 18  Talk given at dedication of two laboratories for biochemistry, City of Hope Medical Center  

1964, Nov. 15  Acceptance speech, Seventh Annual Salute to Medical Research, City of Hope, Chicago.  

1964  Genetic effects of chemicals

Reprint 353

1964  The relation of recombination to mutational advance and deterioration.

Reprint 350

1965, Jan.-Feb.  Is genetic progress feasible in man?

Lecture given at 1) City of Hope

2) Salk Institute, Feb. 25, 1964

1965, Mar. 8  Bacteriophage: A biological microcosm

Mendel Centennial speech.

Also, notes for introductions to speeches by Curt Stern and Robert S. Edgar, notes for speech at Harvard Biology Department dinner, correspondence and other materials

1965, Aug.  Message to Mendel Memorial Symposium, Czechoslovakia  

1965  Dosage compensation of Drosophila and mammals as showing the accuracy of the normal type, by Muller and W.D. Kaplan.

Reprint 366

(3 folders)

1965  The gene material as the initiator and the organizing basis of life.

Reprint 369

1965  A humanist's view of the encyclical on peace

Reprint 356

1965  Introduction to new edition of E.B. Wilson's The Cell in Development and Inheritance .

Reprint 367

(3 folders)

1966, May 26  Human progress, as conceived by H.J.M.  

1966, Aug. 16  Statement by biologists evoked by evolution debate in Arkansas

Reprint 370

1966, Sept.  What genetic course will man steer?

Reprint 372

(4 folders)

1966?  The greatest moral and spiritual challenge of today.  

[1966]  Translocational Pale Drosophilae and Snaker mice, a semicentennial parallel.

Reprint 371

[1966]  What is the scientific revolution?  

undated  Biological effects of radiation  

undated  "Discussion of Professor Muller's paper"  

undated  The effects of radiation on the human constitution

Article for WHO publication

undated  The genetic effects of radiation  

undated  The influence of x-rays upon heredity  

undated  On the calculation of the number of loci separately producing a given recessive phenotype  

undated  The Sifter technique--a new tool for the quantitative study of mutations in the second chromosome of Drosophila  

D.I.S. (Drosophila Information Service papers):

Contains papers, research notes, abstracts, stock lists, directories by HJM, et al. for publication.

(12 folders)

(see also: individual titles listed above)

Incomplete or unidentified writings  

List of articles mostly by subject, e.g. Genetics in Russia, memorials and tributes, etc.

Probably not inclusive

Mostly assembled by Thea Muller or Elof Carlson.

List of works,1936   

Poems and limericks  

Subseries: Reprints  

Scope Note: Mostly reprints, but also contains complete journals, abstracts, mimeographs, tear sheets, etc. If a copy does not exist in the collection, it is designated as "MISSING"

: Arranged roughly in chronological order. Most of the numbers were assigned by Muller and are preserved.

0.1912  Principles of heredity (from manuscript prepared by H.J. Muller in 1912).

Mimeograph

1. 1911-1912  Erroneous assumptions regarding genes

Published as abstract of: Some genetic aspects of sex, HJM for The American Naturalist, Vol. LXVI, Mar-Apr. 1932.

(for original see: Writings 1911-1912)

2. 1914  A new mode of segregation in Gregory's tetraploid primulas

The American Naturalist, 48:508-512

3. 1914  The bearing of the selection experiments of Castle and Phillips on the variability of genes.

The American Naturalist, 48:567-576

4. 1914  A factor for the fourth chromosome of Drosophila

Science, 39:906.

Photocopy

5. 1914  A gene for the fourth chromosome of Drosophila

The Journal of Experimental Zoology, 17:325-336

6. 1915  The mechanism of Mendelian heredity, by T.H. Morgan, A.H. Sturtevant, H.J. Muller and C.B. Bridges (New York: Holt & Co.)

(See: Lilly 7-6043)

7. 1916  The mechanism of crossing over

The American Naturalist, 50:193-221, 284-305, 350-366, 421-434. Revised

8. 1917  The effect of long-continued heterozygosis on a variable character in Drosophila, by Walter W. Marshall and H.J. Muller.

The Journal of Experimental Zoology, 22:457-470

9. 1917  An Oenothera-like case in Drosophila

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 3:619-626

10. 1918  Genetic variability, twin hybrids and constant hybrids, in case of balanced lethal factors.

Genetics 3:422-499

11. 1919  A series of allelomorphs in Drosophila with non-quantitative relationships.

MISSING

12. 1919  The rate of change of hereditary factors in Drosophila, by H.J. Muller and Edgar Altenburg

Proceedings of the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine , 17:10-14.

Mimeograph

13. 1920  The genetic basis of truncate wing--an inconstant and modifiable character in Drosophila (analysis), by H.J. Muller and Edgar Altenburg.

Genetics, 5:1-59

14. 1920  Are the factors of heredity arranged in a line?

American Naturalist, 54:97-121

15. 1920  Further changes in the white-eye series of Drosophila and their bearing on the manner of occurrence of mutation.

The Journal of Experimental Zoology, 31:443-473

16. 1920  A quantitative study of mutation in the second chromosome of Drosophila

Read before American Society of Naturalists, Chicago, Dec. 31: Title in Science, 53:97, 1921 and Records of the American Society of Naturalists , 3:69, 1921.

MISSING

17. 1921  A study of the character and mode of origin of eighteen mutations in the X-chromosome of Drosophila, by Muller and Edgar Altenburg.

Copied from the Proceedings of the American Society of Zoologists Anatomical Record 20:213.

Abstract

18. 1921  A lethal gene which changes the order of the loci in the chromosome map.

Read before Gen. Sec., AAAS, Toronto, Dec. 1921.

MISSING

19. 1921  A decade of Drosophila

Read at Carnegie Institute, Cold Springs Harbor, Aug. 1921, and deposited in the archives of the Institute.

Published in Russian, 1922 as: "Results of a decade of research on Drosophila."

Russian reprint only

20. 1921  Mutation

Read before 2nd International Congress of Eugenics, New York City, Sept. 1921.

Published in Eugenics, Genetics and the Family , 1:106-112; republished in Newman's Readings in Evolution, Genetics, and Eugenics, pp. 495-502.

Reprint, mimeograph copies, and copy of Proceedings of 2nd International Congress...

21. 1921  Variation due to change in the individual gene

Read before American Society of Naturalists, Toronto, Dec. 1921; published in American Naturalist, 56:32-50.

Reprint and mimeographs

22. 1921  Micromanipulation by light waves

Read and demonstrated before the American Society of Zoologist, Toronto.

MISSING

23. 1922  The measurement of mutation frequency made practicable

Read before The Gen. Sec., Dec. 1922. Anatomical Record , 24:419, Jan. 1923.

Abstract

24. 1923  A simple formula giving the number of individuals required for obtaining one of a given frequency.

American Naturalist, 57:66-73

25. 1923  Recurrent mutations of normal genes of Drosophila not caused by crossing over

Read before Gene. Sec., Dec. 1923. Anatomical Record , 26:397-398, 1924.

Abstract

26. 1923  Observations of biological science in Russia

Scientific Monthly, 16:539-552

27. 1923  Partial list of biological institutes and biologists doing experimental work in Russia at the present time.

Science, 57:472-473

28. 1924  Chromosome breakage of X-rays and the production of eggs from genetically male tissues in Drosophila, by H.J. Muller and A.L. Dippel.

The British Journal of Experimental Biology , 3:85-122; 1925.

Anatomical Record, 29:150. Abstract

Abstract

29. 1924  The latitude of genetic in determination of psychic characters in man, as indicated in a case of identical twins reared apart.

Read before Gene. Sec, Dec. 1924.

Anatomical Record, 29:144-145.

Abstract

30. 1924  A moving model of mitosis and segregation, for use in the teaching genetics

Exhibit before American Society of Zoologists. Anatomical Record, 29:86.

Title only

31. 1925  The regionally differential effect of x-rays on crossing over in autosomes of Drosophila

Genetics, 10:470-507

32.1925 The standard errors of chromosome distances and coincidence, by Muller and J.M. Jacobs-Muller.

Genetics, 10:509-524

33. 1925  Why polyploidy is rarer in animals than in plants

American Naturalist, 59:346-353

34. 1925  Mental traits and heredity as studied in a case of identical twins reared apart

Journal of Heredity, 16:433-448.

Photocopy

35. 1925  The non-functioning of the genes in spermatozoa, by Muller and F. Settles.

Read before Gene. Sec., Dec. 1925.

Zeitschrift fürinduktive Abstammungs-und Vererbungslehre , 43:285-312

Anatomical Record, 31:347.

Abstract

36. 1925  Life histories of identical twins, B. and J.

Mimeographed notes distributed privately.

37. 1926  Determining identity of twins

Journal of Heredity, 17:195-206

38. 1926  Inbreeding versus "accumulation of blood."

Journal of Heredity, 17:240-242

39. 1926  The gene as the basis of life

Read before International Congress of Plant Sciences, Ithaca, Aug. 19, 1926, 1:897-921.

Revised edition in Russian in "Collected Works on Genetics." "Sel' khozgiz" Moscow-Leningrad, PP. 148-177, 1937

40. 1926  Induced crossing over variation in the X-chromosome of Drosophila

The American Naturalist, 60:192-195

41. 1926  Quantitative methods in genetic research

Read before American Society of Naturalists, Philadelphia, Dec. 1926.

American Naturalist, 61:407-419.

42. 1927  Artificial transmutation of the gene

Science, 66:84-87

43. 1927  The problems of genic modification

Read before Fifth International Genetics Congress, Berlin, Sept. 1927.

Verhandlungen des V. internationalen Kongresses für Vererbungswissenschaft: Suplplementband I der Zeitschrift für Induktive Abstammungs-und Vererbungslehre , 234-260, 1928.

44. 1927  Effects of x-radiation on genes and chromosomes

Read before Gen. Sec., Nashville, Dec. 1927.

Awarded the annual prize of the AAAS.

Anatomical Record, 37:174.

Abstract and manuscript copy

45. 1928  The production of mutations by x-rays

Read before National Academy of Sciences, Washington, Apr. 1928

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 14:714-726

46. 1928  Genetics humanized

Journal of Heredity, 19:345-347

47. 1928  The measurement of gene mutation rate in Drosophila, its high variability, and its dependence upon temperature.

Genetics, 13:279-357

48. 1928  Chromosome translocations produced by x-rays in Drosophila, by H.J. Muller and Edgar Altenburg.

Read before Gene. Sec., New York, Dec. 1928.

Anatomical Record, 41:100.

Abstract

49. 1929  The method of evolution

Research professorship lecture read at University of Texas, May, 1928.

Published Science Monthly, 19:481-505, 1929.

Reprinted in revised form under title: Heritable variations, their production by x-rays and their relation to evolution, Annual Report, Smithsonian Institution for 1929 , 345-362, 1930

50. 1929  The cytological expression of changes in gene alignment produced by x-rays in Drosophila

American Naturalist, 63:193-200

51. 1929  Parallel cytology and genetics of induced translocations and deletions in Drosophila, by H.J. Muller and T.S. Painter.

Journal of Heredity, 20:287-298

52. 1929  Variation (experimental

Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th ed., pp. 987-989.

Photocopy

53. 1929  The first cytological demonstration of a translocation in Drosophila

The American Naturalist, 63:481-486

54. 1930  Radiation and genetics

Read before American Society of Naturalists, Jan. 1930.

American Naturalist, 64:220-251

55. 1930  The frequency of translocations produced by x-rays in Drosophila, by Muller and Edgar Altenburg.

Genetics, 15:283-311

56. 1930  Evidence that natural radioactivity is inadequate to explain the frequency of "natural" mutations, by Muller and L.M. Mott-Smith.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science , 16:277-285

57. 1930  Oenothera-life linkage of chromosomes in Drosophila

Journal of Genetics, 22:335-337.

Photocopy

58. 1930  Types of visible variations induced by x-rays in Drosophila

Journal of Genetics, 22:299-334.

59. 1930  Are "progressive" mutations produced by x-rays? by Muller and J.T. Patterson.

Genetics, 15:495-578

60. 1930  Analysis of several induced gene-rearrangements involving the X-chromosome of Drosophila, by Muller and W.S. Stone.

Read before Gene. Sec., Dec. 1930.

Anatomical Record, 47:393-394.

Abstract

61. 1931  Effect of dosage changes of sex-linked genes, and the compensatory effect of other gene-differences between male and female, by H.J. Muller, B.B. League and C.A. Offermann.

Read before Gene. Sec., New Orleans, Dec. 31, 1931.

Anatomical Record, 51 (Suppl.):110.

Abstract

62. 1931  Causes of interregional differences in crossover frequency, studies in individuals homozygous for gene arrangements, by Muller, C.A. Offermann and W.S. Stone.

Read before Gene. Sec., New Orleans, Dec. 1931.

Anatomical Record, 51 (Suppl.):109.

Abstract

63. 1931  Some genetic aspects of sex

Read before American Society of Naturalist, New Orleans, Dec. 1931.

American Naturalist, 64:118-138

64. 1932  Regional differences in crossing over as a function of the chromosome structure, by Muller and C.A. Offermann.

Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Genetics , 2:143-145

65. 1932  The differentiation of the sex chromosomes of Drosophila into genetically active an inert regions, by Muller and T.S. Painter.

Zeitschrift für inductive Abstammungsund Vererbungslehre , 62:316-365

66. 1932  A cytological map of the X-chromosome of Drosophila, by Muller and T.W. Painter.

Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Genetics , 2:147-148.

Photocopy

67. 1932  Heribert Nilsson's evidence against the artificial production of mutations

Hereditas, 16:160-168

68. 1932  Where angels fear to tread?

Review of Gaskell's "What is Life?" and Kraft's "Can Science Explain Life?"

Journal of Heredity, 23:80-86

69. 1932 

Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Genetics , 1:213-255

70. 1932  The dominance of economics over eugenics

Read before 3rd International Congress of Eugenics, New York, Aug. 1932.

Scientific Monthly, 37:40-47

Birth Control, Rev., 16, 1932

Priroda, 1934, No. 1, 100-106, in Russian under title: Eugenics in the service of the National-Socialists

Fact, London, 24:58-75, 1939

71. 1932  Evidence against the occurrence of crossing-over between sister chromatids, by Muller and A. Weinstein.

American Naturalist, 67:64-65.

Abstract

72. 1933  The effects of Roentgen rays upon the hereditary material

The Science of Radiology, Chap. 17:305-318 (London: Balliere, Tindall and Cox, 1934).

Spanish translation in Revista de Radiologia y Fisioterapia , 1934, 1:9-12 and 1935

German translation in Strahlenthereapie, 1936, 55:207-224

73. 1933  Haldane on evolution: Review of Haldane's "Causes of Evolution."

Prog. Mod. Biol., Vol. 2, No. 3:90-92 in Russian

74. 1933  Human heredity

A review of Bauer, Fischer and Lenz's "Human Heredity."

Birth Control Review, 17:19-21

75. 1933  Report on Sixth International Genetics Congress

Prog. Mod. Biol., 2:135-146 in Russian.

Photocopy

76. 1934  Radiation genetics

Proceedings of the 4th Internationaler Radiologenkongress , Zurich, 1934, 2:100-102

Abstract

77. 1934  Apparent gene mutations due to the position-effect of minute gene rearrangements, by Muller, A.A. Prokofyeva and D. Raffel.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 3:48-49

Abstract

78. 1934  The views of Haeckel in the light of genetics

Philosophy of Science, 3:313-322

Priroda, No. 1, 10:128-133, 1936 in Russian under title "Haeckel and genetics."

79. 1934  Inversions; attached X's: rearrangement in general; deficiency; balancing of deleted X-chromosomes; triploids; extension of third chromosome; etherizing bottles; stock lists

D.I.S. 2:57-60, 62-63, 66

Photocopy

80. 1934  Some fundamental lines of development of theoretical genetics and their significance from the standpoint of medicine.

Read before Medico-Genetics Conference, Moscow, May 1, 1934.

Sovietskaya Clinica, 20:17-28 in Russian

80/2. Lenin's doctrines in relation to genetics

Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R., pp. 565-592

81. 1934  Genetics as opposed to the concept of "pure races."

Prog. Mod. Biology, Vol. 3:525:541 in Russian

Photocopy

82. 1934  The problem of the stratostat in connection with problems of interest for genetics.

Academy of Sciences U.S.S.R., pp. 569-573 in Russian

83. 1934  Continuity and discontinuity of the hereditary material, by Muller and A.A. Prokofyeva.

Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, N.S., 4:74-83 in Russian and English.

Reprinted in enlarged and revised form under title: The individual gene in relation to the chromomere and the chromosome, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 21:16-26, 1935

84. 1935  Minute intergenic rearrangement as a cause of apparent "gene mutation," by Muller, A.A. Prokofyeva and D. Raffel.

Nature, 135:253-255.

85. 1935  The optical dissociation of Drosophila chromomeres by means of ultraviolet light, by Muller J. Ellenhorn and A.A. Prokofyeva.

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de l'URSS, N.S. 1:234-241

86. 1935  On the incomplete dominance of the normal allelomorphs of white in Drosophila.

Journal of Genetics, 30:407-414

87. 1935  The origination of chromatin deficiencies as minute deletions subject to insertion elsewhere.

Genetica, 17:237-252

88. 1935  A viable two-gene deficiency phaenotypically resembling the corresponding hypomorphic mutations.

Journal of Heredity, 26:469-478

89. 1935  On the dimensions of chromosomes and genes in Dipteran salivary glands.

American Naturalist, 69:405-411

90. 1935  Invalidation of the genetic evidence for branched chromonemas in the case of the pale translocation in Drosophila, by Muller and K.V. Kossikov.

Journal of Heredity, 26:305-312

91. 1935  Inert regions of chromosomes as the temporary products of individual genes, by Muller and S.M. Gershenson.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 21:69-75

92. 1935  [Genetics]

Cumulative Report of the Committee on Effects of Radiation , Washington, National Research Council, 1928-1934: 16-19.

Photocopy

93. 1935  Introductory chapter in book "Factors of Evolution" by J.B.S. Haldane.

MISSING

94. 1935  Human genetics in Russia.

Journal of Heredity, 26:193-196

95. 1935  The position effect as evidence of the localization of the immediate products of gene activity.

Read before the 15th International Physiological Congress, Leningrad, Aug. 16, 1935. Institute of Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow

96. 1935  Nomenclature of alleles; balancing chromosome-1 with scuteS1 labeling of stock cultures; fly morgue; seeding with yeast, supplying vials with paper.

D.I.S. 3:48, 50, 52.

Abstract

97. 1935  The structure of the chromonema of the inert region of the X-chromosome of Drosophila, by Muller and A.A. Prokofyeva.

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de l'URSS, N.S. , 1:658-660

98. 1935  Out Of The Night: A biologist's view of the future.

(see: Lilly 7-6069)

99. 1935  The present status of the mutation theory.

Read at De Vries Memorial Meeting, Leningrad, Nov. 1935.

Priroda, No. 6:40-50 in Russian

Current Science, Special No., March 1938, pp. 4-15

100. 1936  Bar duplication

Science, 83:528-530.

Mimeograph copies

101. 1936  Construction of homozygous stocks; insertion of foreign chromosome into homozygous host stock; insertion of desired genes into attached X's; combination of invisible genes; to balance sex-linked genes; labor-saving method of starting homozygous or balanced stocks of female-fertile sex-linked genes; balancing of duplications by deficiencies or lethals and vice versa; detection of mutations; accumulation of mutations (negativing of natural selection); accumulation of mutations in given sex.

D.I.S. 6:7-9, 10-11, 12-13, 14-17.

Photocopy

102. 1936  Balanced stocks, by Muller and C.B. Bridges.

D.I.S. 6: 9-10.

Photocopy

103. 1936  Physics in the attack on the fundamental problems of genetics.

Scientific Monthly, 44:210-214

104. 1936  Unequal crossing over in the Bar mutant as a result of duplication of a minute chromosome section, by Muller, A.A. Prokofyeva-Belgovskaya and K.V. Kossikov.

Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Academie des Sciences de l'URSS, N.S. , 1(10):83-84, 87-88 in Russian and English

105. 1936  The determination of the relation between the dosage of irradiation and the frequency of induced mutations.

Strahlentherapie, 55:72-76 in German.

Photocopy

106. 1936  On the variability of mixed races.

Proc. Med. Genet. Inst., 4:213-236 in Russian with English summary

American Naturalist, 70:409-442

107. 1936  The present status of the experimental evidence concerning the nature of the gene.

MISSING

107/2. 1936  Genetics and politics.

Letter to the editor. Journal of Heredity, 27:267-268.

Tear sheet

108. 1937  A further analysis of loci in the so-called "inert region: of the X-chromosome of Drosophila, by Muller, D. Raffel, S.M. Gershenson and A.A. Prokofyeva-Belgovskaya.

Genetics, 22:87-93

109. 1937  Main results of investigations made in the Institute of Genetics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, by Muller, J.J. Lus, T.K. Liepin, A.A. Sapehin, and D. Kostoff.

Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR. (Otd. mat.-est., Ser. biol.):1469-1492 (Russian with English summary)

110. 1937  Reversibility in evolution considered from the standpoint of genetics.

Read before Society for Experimental biology, London, Dec. 21, 1937.

Biological Reviews, 14:261-280

111. 1937  The biological effects of radiation, with especial reference to mutation.

Read before 8th Réunion Internationale de Physique-Chimie-Biologie, Paris, Oct. 1937.

Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles, No. 725, XI:477-494

112. 1937  Evolution as viewed by Morgan.

Review of T.H. Morgan's "Scientific Basis of Evolution."

Book and Proletarian Revolution, No. 8:128-134 in Russian.

113. 1937  The absence of transmissible chromosome fragments resulting from simple breakage, and their simulation as a result of compound breakage involving chromocentral regions, by Muller, A.A. Prokofyeva-Belgovskaya and D. Raffel.

Genetics, 23:161.

Abstract

114. 1937  Further evidence of the prevalence of minute rearrangement and absence of simple breakage in and near chromocentral regions, and its bearing on the mechanisms of mosaicism and rearrangement, by Muller and M.L. Belgovsky.

Genetics, 23:139-140.

Abstract

115. 1938  The remaking of chromosomes.

The Collecting Net, 13:181, 183-195, 198

116. 1938  Bearings of the Drosophila work on problems of systematics.

Proceedings of the Zoological Society, Ser. C, 108:55-57

117. 1938  Gene rearrangement in relation to radiation dosage, by Muller, A.I. Makki and A.R. Sidky.

Read before the Genetical Society, London, Dec. 1, 1938.

Journal of Genetics, 37, No. 3, 1939.

Abstract

118. 1939  Dr. Calvin B. Bridges.

Nature, 143:191-192

119. 1939  New mutants; additions and corrections to symbol list in D.I.S. 9.

D.I.S. 12:39-40.

120. 1939  Bibliography on the genetics of Drosophila.

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, l32 pp.

3 copies

121. 1939  Discriminatory effect of ultraviolet rays on mutation in Drosophila, by Muller and K. Mackenzie.

Nature, 143:83-84

122. 1939  Gene and chromosome theory.

7th International Congress of Genetics.

Nature, 144:813-816

123. 1939  How heredity works.

The Listener, 21:845-847.

Tear sheet

124. 1939  Report of investigations with radium.

Medical Research Council Special Report Series, No. 236:14-15

125. 1939  Report of Dr. .J. Muller and collaborators, working at the Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh.

16th Annual Report, British Empire Cancer Campaign: pp.226-231

126. 1939  Genetics and society.

Fact, 27:92-98.

Galley, tear sheet, print

127. 1939  How Genetic systems come about, review of C.D. Darlington's The Evolution of Genetic Systems .

Nature, 144:648-649

128. 1939  The mechanism of structural change in chromosomes of Drosophila.

Read before 7th International Congress on Genetics, Edinburgh, Sept. 1939.

Journal of Genetics suppl. vol., pp. 221-222. 1941

129. 1939  The geneticists manifesto.

Journal of Heredity, 30:371-373

also under title: Social biology and population improvement. Nature, 144:521-522.

130. 1939  Evidence of the nongenetic nature of the lethal effect of radiation on Drosophila embryos, by Muller and R. Lamy.

Proceedings of the 7th International Genetical Congress, 1939

Journal of Genetics, suppl. vol., pp. 180-181.

Abstract

131. 1940  Bearings of the Drosophila work on systematics.

The New Systematics, ed by J. Huxley (Clarendon:Oxford), pp. 185-268

132. 1940  An analysis of the process of structural change in chromosomes of Drosophila.

Journal of Genetics, 40:1-66.

Reprint and galley

133. 1940  New Mutants.

D.I.S. 13:52.

Photocopy

134. 1941  Report on experiments with gamma radiation.

British Journal of Radiology 14:157-158.

Abstract

135. 1940  Recombinants between Drosophila species the F1 hybrids of which are sterile, by Muller and G. Pontecorvo.

Nature, 145:199-200

136. 1940  Position effect and gene divisibility considered in connection with three strikingly similar scute mutations by Muller and D. Raffel.

Genetics, 25:541-583

137. 1940  The artificial mixing of incompatible germ plasms in Drosophila, by Muller and G. Pontecorvo.

Read before National Academy of Sciences, Oct. 29, 1940.

Science, 92:418, 476.

Abstract

138. 1940  Mutation effects of ultra-violet light in Drosophila, by Muller and K. Mackenzie.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London , Series B, No. 857, 129:491-517

139. 1940  The lethality of dicentric chromosomes in Drosophila, by Muller and G. Pontecorvo.

Genetics, 26:165.

Abstract

140. 1941  On judging the significance of a difference obtained by averaging essentially different series.

American Naturalist, 75:264-271

141. 1941  The threads that weave evolution.

Transactions of The New York Academy of Sciences , Series II, 3:117-125

142. 1941  The role played by radiation mutations in mankind.

National Academy of Sciences.

Abstract

143. 1941  Report on ultraviolet induced chromosome changes and other investigations.

Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, 52:42-43

144. 1941  Recessive genes causing interspecific sterility and other disharmonies between Drosophila melanogaster and simulans, by Muller and G. Pontecorvo.

Read before the Genetics Society of America, Cold Spring Harbor, Aug. 29, 1941.

Genetics 27:157 and Records of Genetics Society of America.

Abstract

145. 1941  The surprisingly high frequency of spontaneous and induced chromo­some breakage, and its expression through dominant lethals, by Muller and G. Pontecorvo.

Read before the Genetics Society of America, Dallas, Dec. 30, 1941

Genetics 27:157-158 and Records of Genetics Society of America.

Abstract

146. 1941  Induced mutations in Drosophila.

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology , 9:151-165

147. 1941  Resume and perspectives of the symposium on genes and chromosomes.

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology , 9:290-308

148. 1941  Isolating mechanism, evolution and temperature.

Paper read before American Society of Zoologists, Dallas, Dec. 1941.

Biological Symposia, 6:71-125

149. 1942  Locus of pale lethal; insertional translocation involved in "In (dp)", viable non-crossover X-chromosome; stock with marked inversions of all major chromosomes.

D.I.S. 16:64-65.

Photocopy

150. 1942  Mutation rate dependent on the size of the X-chromosome.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 11, and Genetics, 28:83

151. 1943  Edmund B. Wilson - an appreciation.

American Naturalist, 77:5-37, 142-172

152. 1943  A stable double X-chromosome

D.I.S. 17:61-62.

Abstract

153. 1943  The mechanism of chromosome breakage by irradiation.

Year Book of the American philosophical Society for 1943:162-165

154. 1944  The non-equivalence of the blocks and the salivary "heterochromatin."

Records of Genetics Society of America, 13:28 and Genetics, 30:15

Abstract

155. 1944  Failure of dissemination by nitrogen; high primary non-disjunction of the insertional double-X; reddish - a new near-normal allele of white; tandem attached X's producing ring chromosomes; use of males with defective Y's to promote the laying of unfertilized eggs.

D.I.S. 18:56-58.

Abstract

156. 1945  Age in relation to the frequency of spontaneous mutations in Drosophila.

Year Book of the American Philosophical Society for 1945:150-153

157. 1945  Genetic fundamentals, I. The work of the genes. II. The dance of the genes.

Messenger lectures at Cornell University, Nov. 1945.

(See: Genetics, Medicine and Man. Lilly QH431 .M958g 1947)

158. 1945  The gene.

Pilgrim Trust Lecture, read before Royal Society of London, Nov. 1, 1945.

Proceedings of the Royal Society, B., 134:1-37

159. 1946  Physiological effects on "spontaneous" mutation rate in Drosophila.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 14:55 and Genetics, 31:225.

Abstract

160. 1946  Two mutants of mosaic expression not caused by gross rearrangement of heterochromatin.

D.I.S. 20:66-68, 88-89, 93-96.

Abstract

161. 1946  New translocations between the X and 4th chromosomes, by Muller, M. Lieb and J. Valencia.

D.I.S. 20:87.

Abstract

162. 1946  A physicist stands amazed at genetics.

Review of Schrodinger's "What is Life."

Journal of Heredity, 37:90-92

163. 1946  The production of mutations.

Nobel Prize lecture read before the Caroline Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 12, 1946.

Journal of Heredity, 38:259-270

164. 1946  Twin needs of science.

Speech given at the Nobel banquet, Stockholm, Dec. 10, 1946.

Journal of Heredity, 38:258

165. 1946  A comparison of the potentialities of individual loci for different types of visible mutations.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 15:61-62 and Genetics, 32:98-99.

Abstract

166. 1946  Thomas Hunt Morgan.

Science, 103:550-551

167. 1947  Reintegration of the symposium on genetics, paleontology and evolution.

Genetics, Paleontology, and Evolution, Princeton University Press, pp. 421-445

168. 1947  Mutational prophylaxis.

Read before New York Academy of Medicine Conference on Problems of Public Health.

Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine , 24:447-469

169. 1947  New mutants, by Muller and J.I. Valencia.

D.I.S. 21:69-71.

Abstract

170. 1947  Changing genes: their effects on evolution.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 3:267-272, 274 and Universitas, 5:569-576 in German, under title: Genmutation und Evolution

171. 1947  Gene.

Encyclopedia Britannica, 10:100-101.

1950. Photocopy

172. 1947  Honors Day address at Indiana University School of Dentistry.

Alumni Bulletin, 3rd Qtr., pp. 5, 13

173. 1948  The destruction of science in the U.S.S.R.

Saturday Review of Literature, Dec. 4, 31:13-15, 65-66; Dec 11, 31:8-10, under title: Back to barbarism--scientifically.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 12:369-371, under title: The crushing of genetics in the U.S.S.R.

174. 1948  Genetics in the scheme of things.

Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Genetics (Hereditas) , suppl. Vol., 1949.

175. 1948  Letter of resignation from the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.

Science, 108:436

176. 1948  Autobiographical note, Les Prix Novel in 1946. Stockholm:109-111

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177. 1948  The construction of several new types of Y chromosomes.

D.I.S. 22:73

Abstract

178. 1948  Time bombing our descendants.

American Weekly, Jan. 3.

Manuscript

179. 1948  Gene.

American Peoples Encyclopedia, 9:349-351.

Photocopy

180. 1949  The Darwinian and modern conceptions of natural selection.

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , 93 (6):459-470

181. 1949  Is radiation a menace to posterity?

Science News Letter, 55 (June 11):374, 379-380, under editor's title: The menace of radiation

182. 1949  Progress and prospects in human genetics.

American Journal of Human Genetics, 1:1-18

183. 1949  The mutational potentialities of some individual loci in Droso­phila, by Muller and J.I. Valencia.

Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Genetics (Hereditas) , Suppl. Vol., 681-683

184. 1949  Simultaneous induction of chromatic and chromosome rearrangements of the same chromosome, by Muller, S. Luria and J.I. Valencia.

D.I.S. 23:93.

Abstract

185. 1949  Formation of attached X's by reverse crossing over in the heterochromatic region.

D.I.S. 23:99-102.

Abstract

186. 1949  Shaw on Lysenko.

Publ. under editor's title: It still isn't science: a reply to George Bernard Shaw.

Saturday Review of Literature, Apr. 16, 32:11-12, 61.

Includes Shaw's: The Lysenko muddle.

187. 1949  E.B. Wilson: October 19, 1856-March 3, 1939.

Genetics, 34:1-9

188. 1949  The lack of proportionality of mutations recovered to dosage of ultra-violet administered to the polar cap of Drosophila, by Muller, Edgar Altenburg, L. Altenburg, and H.U. Meyer.

Genetics, 35:95

189. 1949  Studies on mutations induced by ultraviolet in the polar cap of Drosophila, by Muller, H.U. Meyer, M. Edmondson, and L. Altenburg.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 18:103-104.

Abstract

190. 1949  The frequency of spontaneous mutations at individual loci in Drosophila, by Muller, J.I. Valencia and R.M. Valencia.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 18:105-106.

Abstract

191. 1949  The production of mutations at individual loci in Drosophila by irradiation of oocytes and oogonia, by Muller, R.M. Valencia and J.I. Valencia.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 18:106.

Abstract

192. 1949  The use of rearranged X's and Y's in facilitating class work with Drosophila.

D.I.S. 23:110-111.

Abstract

193. 1949  Russia's counter revolution against biological science.

Review of "Death of a Science in Russia," by C. Zirkle.

New York Herald-Tribune, Dec. 11, 1949, Sec. 7, p. l. Clipping

194. 1950  Evidence of the precision of genetic adaptation.

The Harvey Lectures, Series XLIII, 1947-1948.

Lecture delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine, Feb. 19, 1948 (Chas. C. Thomas: Springfield, Ill.), pp. 165-229

195. 1950  Radiation damage to the genetic material.

Sigma Xi Lecture read Nov. 4, 1948.

American Scientist, 38 (1):35-59, 126 (Pt. I); 38 (3):399-425 (Pt. II).

Reprinted in German in Strahlentherapie, 85:362-390, 509-536, 1951.

Rev. edition: Science in Progress, Chap. IV, pp. 93-165, 481-493. Yale University Press, 1951.

Abstract under title "Radiation damage of genetic origin," Journal of Heredity, 39:357-358, 1948

196. 1950  Some present problems in the genetic effects of radiation.

Oak Ridge Symposium on Radiation Genetics, Mar. 26-27, 1948.

Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology , 35 (Suppl. 1):9-70

197. 1950  Partial dominance in relation to the need for studying induced mutations individually.

A discussion following the paper by Sewall Wright.

Oak Ridge Symposium on Radiation Genetics, Mar. 26-27, 1948

Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology , 35 (Suppl. 1):205-210.

Mimeograph copy

198. 1950  Science in bondage.

Address delivered at the panel on "Science and Totalitarianism" of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, Berlin, June 27, 1950.

Science, 113:25-29 (tear sheet)

Thought (Delhi), 4, no. 3:7-8, 16, 1952.

Tear sheet, mimeograph copy.

199. 1950  Our load of mutations.

Presidential address read before American Society of Human Genetics, New York, Dec. 28, 1949.

Journal of Human Genetics, 2:111-176.

Excerpts published under title: "The growing backlog of genetic defect," The Journal of Heredity, 41:230, 240 (tear sheet)

200. 1950  The development of the gene theory.

Presented at Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 12, 1950 at Golden Jubilee of Genetics.

Genetics in the 20th Century, Chap. V, pp. 77-99 (New York: Macmillan Co., 1951).

201. 1951  Message to university students studying science, Apr. 15, 1951, Tokyo.

Kagaku Asahi, 11, No. 6:28-29.

Mimeograph copy

202. 1951  Science and freedom.

Indian Congress for Cultural Freedom.

Mimeograph copy

203. 1951  Detection of mutations in the second chromosome yb use of the "sifter" stock; homosexual copulation in the male of Drosophila, and the problem of the fate of sperm of males isolated from females; localization of Y:bw+ insertion and cr-u sterile (CRS).

D.I.S. 25:117-118, 118-119, 119

204. 1951  Ultraviolet induction of mutants at loci at which spontaneous mutants are known, by Muller, et al.

D.I.S. 25:119-120

205. 1951  The localization of the mutagenic action of neutron-induced ionizations in Drosophila, by Muller and J.I. Valencia.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 20:115-116.

Abstract

206. 1952  Gene mutations caused by radiation.

Symposium on Radiobiology, June 14-18, 1950.

Chap. 17, pp. 296-332 (New York: John Wiley & Sons).

207. 1952  Genetic effects of cosmic radiation.

Proceedings of Symposium on Physics and Medicine of the Upper Atmosphere , San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 6-9, 1951, Chap. 17, pp. 316-330

208. 1952  Genetics and its relations with other fields of knowledge.

The Indiana Teacher, 96 (No. 8, April):248-249.

Tear sheet

209. 1952  The contradiction between totalitarianism and scientific progress (distributed by U.S. Information Services as: Sterility of Soviet Science).

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210. 1949-1951  A comparative study of mutations arising under different conditions in Drosophila.

4th (pp. 123-124), 5th (p. 153) and 6th (p. 119) annual reports to the American Cancer Society, Division of Medical Science, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

Abstract

211. 1952  The standard error of the frequency of mutants some of which are of common origin.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 21:52.

Abstract

212. 1952  Influence of oxygen and of temperature on the rate of autosomal recessive lethals induced by ultraviolet in the polar cap of Drosophila melanogaster, by Muller and Helen U. Meyer.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 21:48.

Abstract

213. 1952  Influence of aging at two different temperatures on the spontaneous mutation rate in mature spermatozoa of Drosophila melanogaster, by Muller and Helen L. Byers.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 21:14

214. 1952  Will science continue?

Address delivered for the annual talent search, Junior Scientists' Assembly, Indianapolis, Apr. 5, 1952, under title "Science: Mankind's greatest adventure."

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 8, No. 9:301-307

215. 1952  Breeding systems for detection of sex-linked lethals in successive generations.

D.I.S. 26:113-114

216. 1953  Can man shape his own future?

Review of Charles Galton Darwin's The Next Million Year .

Published as: Back to Malthus: A dubious document of doom for the human race. New York Herald-Tribune, Jan. 11, 1953, p. 3.

Tear sheet

217. 1953  Autosomal mutation studies by means of crisscrossed lethals and balanced male steriles.

D.I.S. 27104-105

218. 1953  Autosomal nondisjunction associated with the rotund translocation.

D.I.S. 27:106-107

219. 1953  Further evidence of abnormal types of copulation by the male D. melanogaster.

D.I.S. 27

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220. 1953  The call of biology.

A.I.B.S. Bulletin, 3:4

221. 1953  Preface. Bibliography on the genetics of Drosophila.

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221/2. 1953  Survival in Space.

Letter to editor of Collier's, Mar. 14, 1953.

Mimeograph copy

222. 1953  The betrayal of science under communism.

Published as "Russia's shackled science." New Leader , Oct. 26, pp. 15-16.

Tear sheet and mimeograph copy

223. 1953  Evidence against the healing of x-ray breakages in chromosomes of female Drosophila melanogaster.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 22:79.

Abstract

224. 1953  The nature of the genetic effects produced by radiation.

Radiation Biology, ed. by A. Hollaender, Vol. l, Chap. 7, pp. 351-473

224/2. 1953  Miracle of heredity.

Condensed from a chapter of the book, Out of the Night .

Science Digest, Mar. 1953, pp. 6-7

224/3. 1953  Education in relation to communism.

Excerpts from article in The Indiana Daily Student , March 17, 1953.

Mimeograph copy

225. 1954  The manner of production of mutations by radiation.

Radiation Biology, ed. by A. Hollaender, Vol. l, Chap. 8, pp. 475-626

226. 1954  Damage to posterity caused by the irradiation of the gonads.

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology , 67:467-483

227. 1954  The manner of dependence of the "permissible dose" of radiation on the amount of genetic damage.

Acta Radiologica, 41:5-19

228. 1954  Science under Soviet totalitarianism.

Totalitarianism, ed. by C. Friedrich, Chap. 12, PP. 233-244.

Mimeograph copy

229. 1954  The lack of proportionality between mutation rate and ultraviolet dose in Drosophila, by Muller, L.S. Altenburg, H.U. Meyer, M. Edmondson and Edgar Altenburg.

Heredity, 8:153-185

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230. 1954  Concerning the healing of chromosome ends produced by breakage in Drosophila melanogaster, by Muller and I.H. Herskowitz.

The American Naturalist, 88:177-208

231. 1954  A nonlinear relation between x-ray dose and recovered lethal mutations in Drosophila, by Muller, I.H. Herskokwitz, S. Abrahamson and I.I. Oster.

Genetics, 39:741-749

232. 1954  The relation of neutron dose to chromosome changes and point mutations in Drosophila. I. Translocations.

The American Naturalist, 88:437-459

233. 1954  A semi-automatic breeding system ("Maxy") for finding sex-linked mutations at specific "visible" loci

D.I.S. 28:140-141

234. 1954  A stably breeding attached-X stock ("snoc") designed for discriminating between deletional and other "detachments."

D.I.S. 28:141-143

235. 1954  A stock for automatic accumulation of lethals arising in the female

D.I.S. 28:143-144

236. 1954  Multipurpose stocks for studies of mutagenesis

D.I.S. 28:144-146

237. 1954  Origination of a viable achaete deficiency by nearly homologous nonreciprocal exchange

D.I.S. 28:146-147

238. 1954  Evidence against a straight end-to-end alignment of chromosomes in Drosophila spermatozoa, by Muller and I.H. Herskowitz.

Genetics, 39:836-850

239. 1954  Genetic proof for half-translocations derived from irradiated oocytes of Drosophila melanogaster, by Muller, S. Abrahamson and I.H. Herskowitz.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 23:28.

Abstract

240. 1954  Another case of dissimilar characters in Drosophila apparently representing changes of the same locus, by Muller and F. Verderosa.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 23:72.

Abstract

241. 1954  Characteristics of the far stronger but "spottier" mutagenicity of fast neutrons as compared with x-rays in Drosophila spermatozoa.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 23:58.

Abstract

242. 1955  Life.

Science, 121:1-9

The Humanist, 15:249-261.

Shorter version in "Man's Right to Knowledge" 2nd Series: pp. 19-33.

243. 1955  A comparative study of mutations arising under different conditions in Drosophila.

9th Annual Report of the American Cancer Society, 1953-1954, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., pp. 113-114

244. 1955  The Soviet change of attitude in genetics.

Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 4, 1955.

245. 1955  Further information concerning the multi-locus nature of the dumpy series in Drosophila, by Muller, Helen U. Meyer and E.A. Carlson.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 24

Genetics, 40:585.

Abstract

246. 1955  The genetic damage produced by radiation.

Science, 121:837-840

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 11:210-212

247. 1955  How radiation changes the genetic constitution.

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 11:329-339

248. 1955  Comments on the genetic effects of radiation on human populations.

Journal of Heredity, 46:199-200

249. 1955  Effects of radiation and other present-day influences upon the human genetic constitution.

Published as: Radiation and human mutation.

Read at 5th Annual meeting of Nobel Prize winners, Lindau, Germany, July 14, 1955.

Scientific American, 193:58-68

Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau, Apr. 1956, Seite 127 bis 135.

250. 1955  Correction of localization of crs and breaks of Y:bw+.

D.I.S. 29:146

251. 1955  Improvement of stock "Maxy," for studying mutations at specific loci in the X of the male

D.I.S. 29:146-147

252. 1955  Male-sterility of transformed females despite provision of X:Y balance characteristic of males

D.I.S. 29:147

253. 1955  Testing for third-chromosome mutations by means of crisscrossed lethals

D.I.S. 29147-149

254. 1955  Effect of narcosis on x-ray-induced mutations in sperm treated in inseminated females, by Muller, I.H. Herskowitz and I.I. Oster.

D.I.S. 29:149

254/2. 1955  Disaster by Instalments [sic].

The Nation, Apr. 9, 180:304

254/3. 1955  What will radioactivity do to our children?

Interview with Dr. H.J. Muller.

U.S. News & World Report, May 13, pp. 72-78

255. 1956  On the relation between chromosome changes and gene mutations.

Brookhaven Symposia in Biology, 8:126-147

256. 1956  The effects of radiation on the human constitution.

Proceedings of the Military-Industrial Conference

under title: "Race poisoning by radiation," Saturday Review, June 9, 1956, pp. 9-11, 37-39

revised edition entitled "After effects of nuclear radiation," Journal of the American Society of Safety Engineers , 1:42-48

257. 1956  In the cause of humanity.

Acceptance speech as president of the American Humanist Association.

The Humanist, 16:107-110

258. 1956  Identification of half-translocations produced by x-rays in detaching attached-X chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster females, by Muller, Seymour Abrahamson and I.H. Herskowitz.

Genetics, 41:410-419

259. 1956  The higher efficiency of ordinary x-rays than of 18 MeV electrons in inducing chromosome changes when applied to Drosophila spermatozoa.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 25

Genetics, 41:646-647.

Abstract

260. 1956  The higher susceptibility of ring-shaped Y-chromosomes of Drosophila to loss both spontaneously and on irradiation of spermatozoa, by Muller, and H.U. Meyer.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 25

Genetics, 41:653-654.

Abstract

261. 1956  Man's place in living nature.

Address delivered at the dedication of Jordan Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington (Revised as: Man and gene in the world picture).

I.U. Publications, 15pp.

The Humanist, 17:3-13, 93-102 (1957);

Scientific Monthly, 84:245-257 (1957)

262. 1956  Interview, under editor's title, "Ways to reduce radiation hazards."

Scope Weekly (CIBA), 1, No. 29, pp. 1 & 13.

Tear sheet and abstract

263. 1956  Genetic principles in human populations.

American Journal of Psychiatry, 113:481-491

Scientific Monthly, 83:277-286

264. 1956  Another entire inversion formed by opening of a ring X.

D.I.S. 30:140-141

265. 1956  Reciprocal and half-translocations with a rod X chromosome produced by x-raying sperm and oocytes, by Muller and I.H. Herskowitz.

D.I.S. 30:141-142

266. 1956  An estimate of the mutational damage in man from data on consanguineous marriages, by Muller, Newton E. Morton and James F. Crow.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 42:855-863

267. 1956  Further studies bearing on the load of mutations in man.

Acta Genetica et Statistica Medica, 6:157-168

267/2. 1956  Long-range effect of exposure to radiation.

Journal of the American Medical Association , 162:475.

Mimeograph copy

268. 1957  Mutational damage in relation to radiation dose and biological conditions.

Published as: Damage from point mutations in relation to radiation dose and biological conditions.

Effect of Radiation on Human Heredity, World Health Organization, Geneva, pp. 25-47

269. 1957  Principles of back mutation as observed in Drosophila and other organisms, by Muller and I.I. Oster.

Advances in Radiobiology, pp. 407-415

270. 1957  Present-Day Problems in Radiology, IV. Potential hazards of radiation.

Excerpta Medica, 14:223-224

271. 1957  Radio active fallout and human progress.

Based on address before I.H.E.U., London, July 30, 1957.

Proceedings of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, 2nd Congress, London , 1957, p. 26-35 (also as separate pamphlet: Utrecht, I.H.E.U. Inc., 1958)

Canadian World Government News, No. 2:4-16 (1958, under title: "Radiation Damage and the avoidance of war").

272. 1957  Pushing back the frontiers of biology.

Broadcast in diverse languages, Dec. 23, 1956, over the Voice of America as component of their “Frontiers of Knowledge” series.

Published under editor’s title, “The immediate biological future” in the New Frontiers of Knowledge (Public Affairs Press, Washington, D.C.), p. 56-59, and in German translation under title “Grenzerweiterung der Biologie” in Deutsche Universitätszeitung, 12:14-15 and in Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 11:208-210.

273. 1957  Possible advances of the next hundred years: A biologist's view.

Statement prepared for symposium "The next hundred years," held by the Seagram Company, New York City.

(Basis of address at Centennary of the Seagram Co., Nov. 22, 1957 in New York.)

Published in abridged form, as delivered, in The Next Hundred Years .

A Scientific Symposium (Jos. E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., N.Y.), p. 33-35, and (with errors) in N.Y. Times for Dec. 8, Section 6, p. 13.

274. 1957  Sex-chromosome loss following X-radiation of D. melanogaster sperm, by Muller, I.H. Herskowitz and E.A. Carlson.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 26

and Genetics 42:376

Abstract

275. 1957  Science fiction as an escape.

The Humanist, 17:333-346.

276. 1957  Mutation studies of chromosome-3 simplified by "sifter-3" method.

D.I.S. 31:139-140.

277. 1957  Transposition of entire 4-euchromatin into a fully functional Y, by Muller and Margaret Edmondson.

D.I.S. 31:140.

278. 1957  Suppressor action effective with a subgene deficiency of a normally duplicated locus, by Muller and I.I. Oster.

D.I.S. 31:141-143.

279. 1957  Further improvements in the "Maxy" stock for detection of specific-locus mutations, by Muller and A. Schalet.

D.I.S. 31:144.

280. 1958  Muller, H.J. The radiation danger.

Colorado Quarterly 6:229-254

reprinted in Best Articles and Stories 2:55-64.

281. 1958  Man's future birthright.

An address at the University of New Hampshire, Nov. 21, 1957.

University of New Hampshire, 24 pp.

Sexology, 26:413-415

Spanish edition of Sexology magazine, 8:413-415

281/2. 1958  Hook.

Letter to the editor of The New Leader, Feb. 17, 1958, p.29.

Tear sheet

282. 1958  Human values in relation to evolution.

Science 127:625-629, reprint

Saturday Review, May 3, 1958, pp. 41-44, under title: "The survival of the finest," tear sheet and magazine

283. 1958  Human values (letters to the editor), by Muller and Walter K. Bonsack.

Science 127:1513-1514.

284. 1958  The world view of moderns.

University of Illinois 50th Anniversary Lecture Series separate, 29 pp.

abridged version entitled: "Science for Humanity," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 15:146-150, 176.

285. 1958  Evolution by mutation.

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , 64:137-160.

286. 1958  General survey of mutational effects of radiation.

Ch. 6 of Radiation Biology & Medicine , ed. by W.D. Claus (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., Inc.), pp. 145-177.

286/2. 1958  In recognition of Oscar Riddle.

The Humanist, 2:108-109

286/3. 1958  Letter to the editor.

Frontier, May 1958, p.25

287. 1959  Approximation to a gravity-free situation for the human organism achievable at moderate expense.

Read at Symposium on Possible uses of earth satellites for life-sciences experiments, Washington, D., May 17, 1958.

Science 128:772, reprint

abridged version, mimeograph copy

288. 1958  Advances in radiation mutagenesis through studies on Drosophila.

2nd U.N. International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy , V. 22. ( Biological Effects of Radiation ): 313-321 (Geneva, U.N.), and Progress in Nuclear Energy 6:146-160 (N.Y., Pergamon Press, 1959).

289. 1958  The mutation theory re-examined.

Proceedings of the 10th International Congress Genetics , 1:306-17.

290. 1958  Genetic effects of high doses of x-rays in oogonia, by Muller and Helen U. Meyer.

D.I.S. 32:137-39.

291. 1958  Preliminary evidence of detrimental mutations originating at a comparatively high rate in untreated females, by Muller and Helen U. Meyer.

D.I.S. 32:138-39.

292. 1958  An androgenetic homozygous male.

D.I.S. 32:140.

293. 1958  Pseudo-crossing over near centromeres of the 3rd chromosomes induced in late oocytes by x-rays.

D.I.S. 32:140-141.

294. 1958  Further study of the mutants fx and f+ih, by Muller, I.I. Oster, and Elizabeth Ehrlich.

D.I.S. 32:144-145.

295. 1958  How much is evolution accelerated by sexual reproduction?

Anatomical Record, 132:480-81.

296. 1959  The mutability of 18 Mev electrons applied to Drosophila spermatozoa, by Muller, I.H. Herskowitz and J.S. Laughlin.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 28

Genetics 44:321-27

297. 1959  Darwin's achievement.

International Humanist & Ethical Union Information Bulletin , Jan., no.21, pp. 1-3.

298. 1959  In search of peace.

The Humanist, No. 2:69-70.

299. 1959  One hundred years without Darwinism are enough.

School Science & Mathematics, April, pp. 304-16

The Humanist 3: 139-49.

300. 1959  Tolerance of gonial cells of Drosophila melanogaster for heavy x-ray doses divided into installments, by Muller, Helen U. Meyer, and Elizabeth F. Ehrlich.

Records of Genetics Society of America, 28

Genetics 44:527-28.

Abstract

301. 1959  The guidance of human evolution.

Paper for the Darwin Centennial Celebration of the University of Chicago, Nov. 24-28, 1959.

Biology and Human Affairs, Vol. 26, no. 3, June 1961

in Biology and Medicine 3:1-43

summary in The Centennial Papers: University of Chicago Darwin Centennial Celebration , p. 50-51

excerpts in Eugenics Quarterly 6:245-248; abridged version titled: "Should we weaken or strengthen our genetic heritage?" Daedalus, Summer 1961, pp. 432-450;

301/2. 1959  Relations between cultural and biological evolution.

Two statements for "Social and cultural evolution" held by Panel V, Nov. 28, 1959, in the series "Issues in evolution" at the University of Chicago Darwin Centennial Celebration

302. 1959  Man's conquest of man.

Delivered at symposium, "The Future of Man," Seagram Anniversary, New York, Sept. 29, 1959.

The Future of Man, p. 33-36 (N.Y., Jos. E. Seagrams & Sons, Inc.).

Mimeograph copy

303. 1959  The prospects of genetic change.

American Scientist 47:551-61

under title: The prospects of genetic progress, World Academy of Art and Science, 1:59-75

304. 1959  Further evidence of the relatively high rate of origination of "invisible" detrimental mutations, by Muller and Helen U. Meyer.

Science 130: 1422.

Abstract

305. 1959  Evidence of the lower mutagenicity of chronic than intense radiation in Drosophila gonia, by Muller, I.I. Oster and Stanley Zimmering.

Science 130:1423.

Abstracts

306. 1959  Genetic basis of somatic damage produced by radiation, by Muller and W. Ostertag.

Science 130:1422-23.

Abstract

307. 1959  A simplified breeding system for detecting sex-linked lethals in successive generations.

D.I.S. 33:149.

Abstract

308. 1959  An attached-X chromosome set-up of exceptionally high stability.

D.I.S. 33:149-50.

Abstract

309. 1959  Antimorphic behavior of cataract.

D.I.S. 33:150.

Abstract

310. 1960  The chromosomal basis of the mortality induced by x-rays in Drosophila.

Immediate and Low Level Effects of Ionizing Radiations Conference, Venice, June 1959.

International Journal of Radiation Biology , Spec. Sup., pp. 321-325.

311. 1960  Evolution and genetics.

Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei, Quad No. 47:15-37.

312. 1960  The meaning of freedom.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 16:311-316.

313. 1960  Genetics in relation to medical research, statement.

Statement at Hearings before the Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organization of the Committee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate, 86th Congress, 1st session, in report on “The U.S. Government and the Future of International Medical Research

International Health Study, Pt. 1” pp. 126-134. U.S. Gov’t Printing Office, Washington.

Mimeograph copy

314. 1960  The integrational role of the evolutionary approach throughout education.

Educational Theory 10:274-279.

315. 1960  The high effectiveness of fast neutrons in inducing minute deletions, by Muller, Stanley Zimmering and I.I. Oster.

Science 131:1322.

Abstract

316. 1960  A sex-linked lethal without evident effect in Drosophila males but partially dominant in females, by Muller and Stanley Zimmering.

Genetics 45:1001-1002.

Abstract

317. 1960  Do air pollutants act as mutagens?

Environments of Man, by Jack B. Bresler (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley), 1968, pp. 256-257

3rd Conference on Research in Emphysema, Aspen, Colorado, June 10-12, pp. 55-56, Abstract

American Review of Respiratory Diseases (1961), 83:571-572, Abstract

318. 1960  Letter to the editor, The Humanist , "Modernized magic: a protest"

The Humanist, 20: 227-229.

319. 1960  The permissible dose in the light of recent developments.

Paper given before International Committee on radiological protection, Munich (ICRP/59/M-44.

Transactions of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (meeting with Experts on Somatic and Genetic Radiation Effects, Munich, 1959), pp. 38-43.

320. 1960  The issues concerning man's genetic future.

Published as: Genetic considerations.

The Great Issues of Conscience in modern Medicine , pp. 16-18 (Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire).

Mimeograph copy

321. 1961  Ideals to live by, a review of Science Ponders Religion, edited by Harlow Shapley (Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1960)

The Humanist 21:105-107.

322. 1961  Long live mediocrity!

A review of The Future of Man, by P.B. Medawar.

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 4: 377-380.

323. 1961  Mutation by alteration of the already existing gene, by Muller, Elof Carlson and Abraham Schalet.

Genetics 46:13-226.

324. 1961  Are induced mutations in Drosophila over dominant? I. Experimental design, by Muller and Raphael Falk.

Genetics 46:727-757.

325. 1961  Similarity of x-ray-induced mutation rate in gonia of Drosophila females and males, by Muller and Helen U. Meyer.

Records of the Genetics Society of America 30:92-93

Genetics 46:882-883.

Abstract

326. 1961  The human future.

The Humanist Frame, ed. by Julian Huxley, pp. 401-414.

327. 1961  Life forms to be expected elsewhere than on earth.

The American Biology Teacher 23:331-346

Spaceflight, 5:74-85

328. 1961  Human evolution by voluntary choice of germ plasm.

Science 134:643-649.

329. 1961  Germinal choice, a new dimension in genetic therapy.

Excerpta Medica (Amsterdam), International Congress Series, No. 32, 2nd International Conference Of Human Genetics, Rome, Italy, July 1961, p. E 135 (Abstract No. 294)

Médecine et Hygiène, No. 674, p. 139-140

330. 1961  Survival.

AIBS Bulletin 40:15-24

331. 1961  Frozen fatherhood.

Letter to the Editor, Time 78:12.

332. 1961  Letter to the Editor, Science 134:1914-l9l7.  

333. 1961  Studies on the action of the dominant female-lethal F1 and of a less extreme allele, Fls, by Muller and Stanley Zimmering.

D.I.S. No. 35: 103-104.

334. 1962  Genetic nucleic acid.

The Graduate Journal, Vol. %, no. 1, Spring 1962

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 5:1-23.

335. 1962  Studies in genetics.

Incl. Previously unpublished treatment, "Principles of heredity," 1912, pp. 6-18. 618 pp. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press.

336. 1962  A biographical appreciation of Sir Julian Huxley.

The Humanist No. 2 & 3:51-55.

337. 1962  Mechanisms of life-span shortening.

Cellular Basis and Aetiology of late Somatic Effects of Ionizing Radiation (London and New York: Academic Press), pp. 235-243; discussion pp. 244-245, 346-349.