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Handwritten notebooks and loose pages for a planned genetics text by Hermann J. Muller and Edgar Altenberg while in graduate school at Columbia University, 1912, which was unpublished. "This is the original notebook of Muller's... for the projected…

Notebooks of planned genetics text prepared by Hermann J. Muller and Edgar Altenberg. Handwritten notebooks and loose pages for a planned genetics text by Hermann J. Muller and Edgar Altenberg while in graduate school at Columbia University, 1912,…

Handwritten postcard in German from Raisa Berg to Hermann J. Muller

On the second floor of Jordan Hall / Muller and Sonneborn have a ball. / Nucleus and Cytoplasm are a seller / With all that dough from Rockefeller!* / *No connection with any existing organization is implied.

A fossil was found in Samoa, / Of a species entountered no mo-a, / Possessed of a form / That was far above norm / But constructed so no man could know her.* / *The authors gratefully acknowledge that this study was made with the aid of a boost from…

There once was a fruit-fly named Joan, / Whose affair with a brash Protozoan / Gave results aggrevating / When, soon after the mating, / All her offsrping flew off as a clone.

For a monk Gregor Mendel was odd, / Quitting cloisters to work with the sod. / Thus no treatise on ethics / But the laws of genetics / Were told off by the peas from his pod.

Amitosis is a means / For unlike quantities of genes / To enter daughter nuclei, / Causing many cells to die.

Haldane's Organic Soup, "Hid within a Primeval Tureen / (Though denied by the knave Oparin) / There arose DNA / Or a unit, let's say, / That Muller maintains was THE GENE. / Thus 'twas out of a chemical ooze / Nature fashioned this unit to use. / Was…

I used to read my magazine / 'Til it was sprayed with Triazine. / LITERATURE CITED / 1. Bird / 2. Herskowitz and Schalet / 3. Rapaport / 4. Schalet