Location Guide to Original Materials in Biology

The name of the collection is listed first. If the collection has been digitized, the title of the collection links to the scanned documents. If the collection focuses on an individual or individuals a biography is listed second. Generally the biography will be linked to a Wikipedia article unless no article could be found in which case another biographical source is idenfied. Lastly, there is a link to the finding guide to the collection. The finding guide will also contain a biographical statement in addition to a summary of the scope and contents of the items at hand including an inventory. Most finding guides also provide a name and subject index for the collection.research papers

Biochemistry

Papers and Correspondence of Sir John Cowdery Kendrew at the University of Oxford, UK | Biography | Finding Guide

Biology Education

Deborah Anne Donovan collection, 2003-[ongoing] at Western Washington University | Biography | Curriculum Vitae | Finding Guide

David L. Alles collection, 2001-[ongoing] at Western Washington University | Biography | Finding Guide

Biology, Uncategorized

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Aulsey Thomas Olive Papers, 1954-1968 at Wake Forest University

Biophysics

Reginald G. Harris Collection at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Biography | Finding Guide

Cellular Biology

Chemical and Physical Biology

Embryology

Papers of T. H. Morgan | Biography | Finding Guide

Exobiology

Papers Of Norman Horowitz at Caltech | Biography | Finding Guide

Genetics

Papers of Alfred Hershey at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Biography | Finding Guide

Papers of Charles B. Davenport at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Biography | Finding Guide

Barbara McClintock Special Collection at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Biography | Finding Guide

Herman J. Muller Special Collection at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Biography | Finding Guide

Records of the Carnegie Department of Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Finding Guide

Reprint Collection of the Carnegie Department of Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Finding Guide

Marine Biology

Anna Ruth Brummett (1924-1985) Papers at Oberlin College | Biography | Finding Guide

Microbiology

Papers of Felix d'Hérelle | Biography | Finding Guide

Molecular Biology

Papers and Correspondence of William Thomas Astbury at the University of Leeds, UK | Biography | Finding Guide

Oswald T. Avery Collection at the National Library of Medicine | Biography | Finding Guide

Papers of Seymour Benzer | Biography | Finding Guide

Papers of Sydney Brenner | Biography | http://library.cshl.edu/archives/brenner/index.html Finding Guide]

Papers of Francis Crick | Biography | Finding Guide

Papers of Max Delbrück at Caltech | Biography | Finding Guide

Papers of Rosalind Franklin | Biography | Finding Guide

Salvador E. Luria Papers at the American Philosophical Society | Biography | Finding Guide

Salvador E. Luria Papers digitization project at the National Library of Medicine | Biography | Finding Guide

Linus Pauling Papers at Oregon State University | Biography | Finding Guide

Leo Szilard / Aaron Novick Collection at the University of California, San Diego | Biography 1 | Biography 2 | Finding Guide

Papers of Frank Stahl | Biography | Finding Guide

Gunther S. Stent Papers at the University of California, Berkeley | Biography | Finding Guide

James D. Watson Special Collection at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Biography | Finding Guide

James D. Watson Collection at Harvard University | Biography | Finding Guide

Papers of Maurice Wilkins | Biography | Finding Guide

Museum Biology Collections, General

Papers, 1912-1977 at the Smithsonian Institution

Neuroscience

Neuroscience History Archives at UCLA | Finding Guide
Francis O. Schmitt Papers, 1942-1982 at MIT

Plant Biology

Sax, Karl, 1892- . Papers of Karl Sax 1938-1959: A Finding Aid at Harvard University | Biography | Finding Guide

Proteomics

Radiation Biology

Hugo Fricke Collection at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Biography | Finding Guide

Technological Apparati

(See Also: Physicists)

Papers of Sir Lawrence Bragg at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (*all access restricted until 2021) | Biography | Finding Guide

University Biology Department Collections

Department of Biology and Public Health, Curriculum materials,

1925-1930, AC089 at MIT

Department of Biology Records, 1910-1933: Inventory | Finding Guide
Inventory of the Academic Departments Record Group, Biology Department, 1950-1990 at Wake Forest University | Finding Guide

Virology

Papers of Renato Dulbecco | Biography | Finding Guide

Additional Published Guides on Biology, A Chronological Listing

Joint Committee for the Survey of Sources for the History of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 1975. Survey of sources newsletter. Philadelphia: The Committee.
Bearman, David, John T. Edsall, Margaret Miller, and Matthew Konopka. 1980. Archival sources for the history of biochemistry and molecular biology a reference guide and report. Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society.
Parascandola, John, and Elizabeth Keeney. 1983. Sources in the history of American pharmacology. Madison, Wis: American Institute of the History of Pharmacy.

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