Correspondence & Documents
On his job prospects in the US.
On reading Thoreau's "Walden". On the ph stability of different structures.
On literature for the chapter on induction and his own chapter.
On Hamburger's upcoming visit at McGill.
On job offers in the US (including an assistant professorship with Curt Stern). Letter has several important remarks on the outline of his theoretical work. "My reluctance to give up research at this moment derives from the feeling that lately several threads have come together in my hands, threads, which, I think, can be woven into a nice pattern of a synthesis of some important embryological processes." "We should really know a bit more about the physico-chemical properties of the living matter."
On keeping a frog colony in his Rochester lab. On frog development. Critical remarks on Locke's editorial work.
On the plan to publish a collaborative book on "Analysis of Development" with Weiss et al. On his upcoming papers on cell polarity & mechnaics of neuralization. On Roy Gillettte.
On becoming Tracy H. Harris Professor of Zoology in 1964. On Holtfreter's paper dedicated to Hamburger's 65th birthday. On a conference on "Epithelial-mesenychmal interactions". On Rolf and Eveline Lehmann from Freiburg visiting Holtfreter's lab.
Invitation to Montreal. On his difficulties visiting the US.
On teaching undergraduates. On prospective successors of Curt Stern.
Programmatic letter on Holtfretrer's conception to embryology. On recent experimental results on egg polarity.
On Holtfreter's criticism of Paul Weiss. On Niewkoop's "sloppy experiments". Critical remarks on Goldschmidt's "Theoretical Genetics". On his upcoming Jessup lectures at Columbia.
On a recent manuscript by Harris and his criticism of Steinberg. On the death of Waddington.
On the correction of the manuscript.
On his summer travel plans.
On his poem for Baltzer's birthday.
On the program for the President's Symposium at the E. Lansing Meetings.
On Hamburger's historical account of Spemann's work style in the November issue of "Experientia".
On Bill Muchmore. On a lecture by Paul Weiss on Biological Adaptation at Rochester.
On finishing their book manuscript. On Yamada's upcoming visit.
On the manuscript of "Analysis of Development". On the program for the upcoming Growth symposium. On his recent visit at Cold Spring harbor.
On his travel plans. On corrections for a manuscript.
On the new textbooks by Kuehn and Waddington. On his criticism of Trinkaus. On Paul Weiss. Programmatic letter on his research program.