Charles Zeleny Papers, 1890-1939, 1944 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Papers of Charles Zeleny (1878-1939), professor of zoology (1909-39), including correspondence, research and lecture notes, lectures and related material concerning zoological research and teaching, the University of Minnesota (1896-1909), graduate work at Chicago, Naples and Columbia (1901-04), field and laboratory work at Indiana (1904-09), academic appointments and departmental affairs, publications, family and financial affairs (correspondence with brothers Anthony, John, Frank and Joseph, 1897-1909), lecture notes (1903-04), lectures (1905-08), course materials (1905-37) and administrative, scientific and general correspondence (1890-1939). Of particular significance is Prof. Zeleny's correspondence with brother John, a physicist, on university affairs and research, with Charles B. Davenport, Carl H. Eigenman, Frank E. Lutz, Thomas H. Morgan, Alfred H. Sturtevant and Edmund B. Wilson concerning research in regeneration, experimental embryology and heredity and with Henry B. Ward on departmental affairs. The papers include a six-page 1944 biographical sketch by Mrs. Zeleny and reprint copies of 54 articles relating to regeneration and embryology.