Hamburger, Viktor
Typewritten letter, 1 page
On the effects of the nerval system on limb development. Has remarks on important references for Wenger's research.
On Willier's summer plans reagrding Woods Hole.
Travel arrangements for Willier's visit at St. Louis.
Handwritten letter, 2 pages, envelope included- postmarked 1 day later, photo attached
Letter of recommendation for a Heermans fellowship in 1946-47.
Typewritten letter, 1 page
Letter about Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
Handwritten letter, 2 pages
Guido Filogamo writes to Hamburger to ask him for references
On Holtfreter's Bali pictures. On his plans visiting the US.
On Hamburger's review of Holtfreter's manuscript. On theories about induction: "I find that all this kind of speculating, including my own stuff on proteins, is rather cheap. I did it only because I thought it to be a little bit more fitting than what I had read about induction, especially in Waddington's revelations. Anybody today who takes the risk of interpreting induction in general terms is bound to be caught as a blunderer. I find that all these theories of Waddington, Dalcq, Barth etc. are not much else than a hitting upon an analogy and the attempt to elaborate upon it. Some of them sound a bit more pleasant, others less so, but all are 99% poetry. Harrison and Spemann were wise enough never to go far along the slippery road of speculations but they were nevertheless kept going by the phantasmagorias of Driesch [,] Weismann, Roux and the like. Anyway, persons who emit their theories abut induction should follow them up experimentally as far a[s] possible, otherwise they are just annoying."