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Drosophila

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Figures and plates for 'Genetic Control of Wing Development in "Drosophila"' Waddington, "Journal of Genetics", 41, pp.75-139 (1940), 1940

 Item
Identifier: Coll-41/4/1
Scope and Contents

Contains illustrations and photographs of Drosophila wings and legs. The material also includes photocopied sections of the published essay.

Dates: 1940

Figures for 'The development of some 'leg genes' in "Drosophila"', Waddington, "Journal of Genetics" 45, pp.29-43 (1943), 1943

 Item
Identifier: Coll-41/4/5
Scope and Contents

Contains original figures 4,5 and 6 of Drosophila wings and legs and some printed copies of the figures.

Dates: 1943

Figures from 'Genetic assimilation of the bithorax phenotype', Waddington, "Evolution", 10, pp.1-13 (1956), 1956

 Item
Identifier: Coll-41/4/11
Scope and Contents

Contains two original figures depicting two Drosophila mutations, and two photocopied printed figures.

Dates: 1956

Laboratory notebook marked 'He. Substances P', relating to experiments on "Drosophila" and xenopus toads, cross-breeding, and grafting on early embryos, 1954

 Item
Identifier: Coll-41/1/19
Scope and Contents

Lined 'Silver Series No. 8' notebook containing pencil notes and drawings. The volume contains one page marked with the date '21.4.54', so it is likely that the notebook dates from this time.

Dates: 1954

Laboratory notebook titled 'R 1956, S 1957' relating to experiments on axolotl and "Drosophila" embryos, 1956-1957

 Item
Identifier: Coll-41/1/20
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The series chiefly includes laboratory notebooks containing data and notes from various experiments.

Dates: 1956-1957

Laboratory notes and diagrams relating to "Drosophila" wing and mutation experiments, [c.1947]

 Item
Identifier: Coll-41/1/11
Scope and Contents

'Century' ringbound notebook, written in from both ends.

The volume is undated, although one page is marked 'Department of Genetics accounts' so the volume must date from after 1947, when Waddington was fully established in the Institute of Animal Genetics.

Dates: [c.1947]

Laboratory notes relating to experiments with mutant Drosophila embryos, [c.1938]

 Item
Identifier: Coll-41/1/9
Scope and Contents

'University Loose Leaf Note Book' ring binder.

The volume is undated, although it also contains an invoice from Cambridge University Press, dated 1938, for 'reprints'.

Dates: [c.1938]