Title:

Letter from Almiro Blumenschein to Barbara McClintock

Creator:

Blumenschein, Almiro

Recipient:

McClintock, Barbara, 1902-1992

Date:

5 August 1966

Description:

In 1962, McClintock involved herself with a Rockefeller funded program that trained Latin American scientists in cytogenetics. Through it she met and became an informal mentor to Almiro Blumenschein, who was one of the fellows in the program. The Dr. Brown noted in the letter is William Brown, a research scientist who designed the fellows' research programs and monitored their progress along with McClintock. The Dr. Stephens mentioned is likely noted cotton geneticist S.G. Stephens. In this letter, Blumenschein related many of his findings on maize knobs, on which McClintock had increasingly focused her attention in order to trace the origin of the races of maize. The accompanying map shows locations from which maize samples were collected.

Original Repository:

The American Philosophical Society. Library. Barbara McClintock Papers

Location:

Box: 1. Folder: 5

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Genre:

Letters (correspondence)
Cartographic materials

Subject:

South America, Genetics, Zea mays, and Chromosomes

Format:

Text

Extent:

6 pages

Relation:

Letter from Barbara McClintock to Almiro Blumenschein, 1966

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

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

Legacy ID:

LLBBDZ

NLM ID:

101584613X63

Profiles Collection:

The Barbara McClintock Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584613X63

Story Section:

Searching for the Origins of Maize in Latin America, 1957-1981