Correspondence & Documents
Requesting prints of Holtfreter's Bali pictures. On the possibility of Holtfreter coming to Boston: "( ) Woods Hole is a good place to write a paper, and only 3 hours away ( )".
On his current work with Ambylstoma embryos. On the revision of Hamburger's "Manual of Experimental Embryology". Asks for advice with vital staining.
On his summer course plans for Woods Hole. On his private situation. Second sheet on Holtfreter's planned review on Amphibian embryos, Schmitt's Zipper theory etc. On Roy Gillette. Has critical remarks on Barth's ideas about induction.
On the status of the manuscript by January 11, 1952
On Costello's "Methods for obtaining and handling marine eggs and embryos" (MBL Woods Hole 1957). On Holtfreter's upcoming embryology course at the Bermudas.
On Holtfreter's immigration status.
On Hiroko Holtfreter's NSF grant. On Spemann.
On Hamburger's introduction to the reprint of Jane Oppenheimer's 1941 article on the Non-Homology of Germ Layers in the 50th Anniversary Volume of the Quarterly review of Biology.
Suggesting a topic for Holtfreter's Academy talk. On the upcoming International Congress of Embryology & Paul Weiss: "I am in the same dilemma as you are with respect to the Intern. Congr. of Embr. I have nothing new to say, but I feel that we (you and I) should not absent ourselves when our Europ. Colleagues show up for the first time. Not that we are indispensable, but maybe we would be a good antidote to the Weiss-Nicholas team who would otherwise dominate the scene (organizationally they will do it anyhow), and we might represent the more sober side of those who do the work, together with Twitty etc."
On Baltzer's upcoming 80th birthday.
On induction. On Bill Muchmore collecting material for Holtfreter's Embryology course.
On his teaching appointment in 1968. On frog collecting in Puerto Rico.
On the Growth Symposium. On Hamburger's plans for an article on behalf of Spemann's 100th birthday.
On christmas and family matters. On his upcoming talk on Neuroembryology at the end of January at the Neurobiological Committee of the NRC in Washington.
On Hamburger's and Holtfreter's scientific biography. Remarks on Holtfreter's "artistic" workstyle.
On family matters.
Satirical comment on a review by Paul Weiss of the manuscript of 'Analysis of Development'.
On the history of embryology and its current status.
On the publication and the illustrations of "Analysis of Development".
On "A Manual of Experimental Embryology". On Hamburger's marital problems.
On his recent talk at Cleveland Developmental Biology Center. On M. C. Escher.
On general trends in embryology. On Kuehn. On Rita Levi-Monatlcini's new research program: "Rita is moving into a combination of neuro-embryol. And neuro-physiol. (electro-) with the enthusiastic help of our Chilean friend Nanno Orrego (...)."
On Lowenstein and his work on cell commmunication.
References for the bibliography of "Analysis of Development".