Title: Reminiscences of Dr. Edwin Grant Conklin (1863-1952), Biologist [2 of 2]

Type Recording, oral Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952 (2013-06-24): Reminiscences of Dr. Edwin Grant Conklin (1863-1952), Biologist [2 of 2]. American Philosophical Society. Recording, oral. https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/handle/1912/16154

Authors: Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952 ; Frankhauser, Gerhard ; Parpart, Arthur Kemble, 1903- ;

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More information

• OTHER: http://hdl.handle.net/10776/5911
• URI: https://hdl.handle.net/1912/16154
• Language: Eng

Subjects

• lcsh: American Philosophical Society, Embryology--History, Biology--United States
• mblhistory: People
• embryo: People

Dates

• accessioned: June 24, 2013
• available: June 24, 2013
• created: November 19, 1952
• Publication date: June 24, 2013
• createdstandard: November 19, 1952

Notes

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• Copyright American Philosophical Society. For reproduction and permission information, see http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/rights.htm

Contents

Tells of his studies using Crepidula (a limpet, mollusk) which a re classical because this work traced the fates of cells from early cleavage into their final destinations in later germ layers -- Together with EB Wilson's work with embryos of Nereis (a marine worm) Conklin's studies led to the concept of cell lineage and the early determination of the fates of various regions of the egg. -- Conklin had graduated from Ohio-Wesleyan University before going to Johns Hopkins for his PhD. He returned to Ohio-Wesleyan and set up a laboratory "from scratch" -- Conklin kept his research alive by coming summers to the Woods Hole (1891, 1892 et seq) and with encouragement from EB Wilson and Whitman (for whom one of the MBL's buildings is named) got his paper, literally a book, published in the Journal of Morphology. The was about 1893. -- Introduction to tape by Dr. Elsa Keil Sichel

Format

electronic resource

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