Correspondence & Documents
Reports that he was asked to name a potential zoologist for a hire at McGill and inquires if Conklin is interested.
Reminder for a lecture; brief discussion of personal life.
Discusses about some revised plates that might have gotten lost and says he will talk to the publisher. Also, discusses Wilson's research ideas.
Discusses an article Conklin is going to get published by Ginn & Co. and that should appear along with one by Mead.
Wants to know whether Conklin is interested in the offer Whitman made.
Assignment of a bursar to a lab by trustees. Room assignment for summer investigators.
Discusses a subscription, a publication, and the upcoming summer.
Asks Conklin a favor: Whitman will not be able to arrive to Woods Hole when the course starts, and offers Conklin $100 extra pay to replace him.
Talks about some of Conklin's papers' reprints. At this time, Conklin was at Univ. Pa.
Discusses the time he wants to schedule the lectures, which he says should happen all together so that they can be published in the same journal issue. Morgan's lecture will be on Spallanzani.
Talks about some events and says that he hopes Montgomery can participate.
Comments on Bumpus, Mead, Peck, Montgomery, and others
Announces that he shall explain during the meeting of the Naturalists that he's trying to arrange publications with Ginn & Co.; also discusses Peck's death
Talks about Mead's cytological lectures.
Talks about a misunderstanding on whom they should offer a position. Mentions Davenport. Position was offered to Dahlgren.
Discusses some of Conklin's papers, including one on the mechanisms on inheritance. He also discusses courses.
Highlights that Conklin had not been responding. Whitman asks suggestions about who should be teaching particular courses.
Discusses plans for a meeting as well as some publications.
Thanks Conklin for accepting to come to Woods Hole the upcoming summer.
Whitman suggests that the Biol. Bulletin becomes a medium of publication for people involved with the Morphological Society. Kingsley adds to the letter and forwards to Conklin to further discuss the issue.
Plans for the Journal of Morphology
Says that Kingsley suggested to talk to Conklin to secure abstracts of the meeting in Baltimore for the Bulletin.
Discussion of publication efforts
Talks about various publications, including the Bulletin.