Title:

Letter from Barbara McClintock to Marcus M. Rhoades

Creator:

McClintock, Barbara, 1902-1992

Recipient:

Rhoades, Marcus M. (Marcus Morton), 1903-1991

Date:

9 March 1950

Description:

Third in a series of letters McClintock rushed off to Rhoades in March of 1950. In them, McClintock developed a broadbased theory of the genetic control of development. The letters represent McClintock's extremely excited state: they are difficult to follow and included many addenda, amendments, and margin notes. Her thinking on this matter resulted in an article later that year in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" that further marked her preoccupation with the fundamental theoretical and philosophical problems of genetics.

Original Repository:

The American Philosophical Society. Library. Barbara McClintock Papers

Location:

Box: 1. Folder: 8

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Barbara McClintock Papers, American Philosophical Society.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Mutation, Genes, Plant, and Chromosome Breakage

Format:

Text

Extent:

23 pages

Relation:

Mutable Loci in Maize, 1951
The Origin and Behavior of Mutable Loci in Maize, 1950

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. American Philosophical Society. Library. Barbara McClintock Papers. 10833

Legacy ID:

LLBBGX

NLM ID:

101584613X103

Profiles Collection:

The Barbara McClintock Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584613X103

Story Section:

Controlling Elements: Cold Spring Harbor, 1942-1967