Iltis Mendeliana Collection

Overview

Scope and Contents

Biographical Note

Subject Terms

Administrative Information

Detailed Description

Box 1

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Folder 12

Folder 13

Box 3

Folder 2

Folder 3

Natural History Museum Mendeliana Collection Resource Files

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Box 7

Box 8

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Collection Overview

Title: Iltis Mendeliana Collection, 1841-1984Add to your cart.View associated digital content.

ID: 15/24/56

Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Genetics and Development

Extent: 5.5 cubic feet

Arrangement: By source, and numerical or chronological thereunder

Subjects: Corn, Czechoslovakia, Genetics, Museums

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English, German

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Iltis Mendeliana Collection originally purchased (1955) by the University from the heirs of Dr. Hugo Iltis (1882-ca. 1950) and maintained by the Natural History Museum contains museum display boards and research files including biographical materials relating to Gregor Mendel (1822-84) and original manuscripts (1850, 1880) relating to the completion of his academic studies, Mendel's publications (1862-63, 1865, 1869-70) photographs of Mendel and his colleagues (1863), places in the present Czech Republic associated with Mendel and his research on genetics, a painting by J. O. Flatter of Mendel, plaques and commemorative certificates relating to Mendel, portraits of famous geneticists (including a 1878 photograph of Charles Darwin taken by Leonard Darwin), correspondence, photographs, and publications relating to the history of genetics and Mendel's role in scientific research. This series includes a limited number of original Mendel manuscripts, photographic copies and transcriptions of those manuscripts, and display boards illustrating the principles of genetics developed in the 1940s by Hugo Iltis for a "Mendel Museum" at Mary Washington College (Fredericksburg, Virginia) and boards used by the Natural History Museum, including the"Honor Role of Corn" containing captioned photographs of researchers in the hybridization of corn.

Biographical Note

Courses have been taught in Zoology since 1868 under the Department of General Science and Literature;1 Department of Natural History (1868-69);2 College of Natural History, Zoological Department (1870);3 College of Natural Science, School of Natural History (1871-90);4 College of Science, School of Natural Science (1891-93);5 College of Science, Natural Science Group (1893-1900 );6 College of Science, General Science Group (1900-01);7 College of Science, Department of Zoology (1901-13);8 and in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (1913-73).9 In 1884, the Department became a clearly defined course of study.10 The Department granted B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Zoology and offered courses in genetics, parasitology, ecology, and physiology.11 In 1973, the Department of Zoology was divided into two provisional departments: the Department of Ecology,Ethology, and Evolution and the Department of Genetics and Development within the of Life Sciences. In March 17, 1976 the Board of Trustees approved the reorganized department.12 Genetics and development was approved by the University Senate as one of the specializations within regulatory biology to convey an emphasis of the department.13 The Executive Committee of the School of Life Sciences in 1986 decided to dissolve the Department of Genetics and Development and in 1990 approved a Senate recommendation to terminate the department.14 According to Professor David Nanney the dissolution of thedepartment was a "turf war" concerning genetics and its proper location within the university.15 The Board of Trustees renamed the Department of Anatomical Sciences as the Department of Cell and Structural Biology.16

1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 1st Report, June 13, 1868, p. 50.

2. Ibid, 2nd Report, January 12-22, 1869, p. 5-6.

3. Fourth Annual Circular, Illinois Industrial University, 1870-71, p. 34.

4. Catalogs and Registers, 1878-79, p. 23; 1889-90, p. 35.

5. Catalogs and Register, 1891-92, p. 26.

6. Catalogs and Registers, 1893-94, p. 48.

7. Catalogs and Registers, 1900-01, p. 61.

8. Catalogs and Registers, 1901-02, p. 124.

9. Board of Trustees Transactions, 27th Report, July 5, 1912, p. 71.

10. Catalogs and Registers, 1884-85, p. 67.

11. Graduate Study Catalog, 1971-72, p. 288-293.

12. Board of TRustees Transactions, 58th Report, March 17, 1976, p. 576.

13. Board of TRustees Transactions, 62nd Report, July 21, 1983, p. 298-299.

14. Board of Trustees agenda, June 14, 1990, #17.

15. Daily Illini, Tuesday, June 19, 1990, p. 1, 4.

16. Board of Trustees Transactions, 64th Report, April 14, 1988, p. 514.

Subject/Index Terms

Corn
Czechoslovakia
Genetics
Museums

Administrative Information

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 4/14/2005

Access Restrictions: Access is provided only with the written permission of the University Archivist.

Other Note: 10 Pages

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Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 1: William BatesonAdd to your cart.
Contains photograph and caption.
Folder 2: Charles DavenportAdd to your cart.
Contains photograph and caption.
Folder 3: H. Nilsson-EhleAdd to your cart.
Contains photograph and caption.
Folder 4: Jean de LamarckAdd to your cart.
Contains photograph and caption.
Folder 5: Charles DarwinAdd to your cart.
Contains a photograph (copy of # 132) and caption.
Folder 6: Charles DarwinAdd to your cart.
Contains an original photo (1878?). Presented to Hugo Iltis by Leonard Darwin ca. 1939-40.
Folder 7: Sir Francis GaltonAdd to your cart.
Contains photograph and caption.
Folder 8: Wilhelm L. JohannsenAdd to your cart.
Contains a photograph.
Folder 9: Eleven pear leaves with Mendel’s handwriting, framedAdd to your cart.
See also Box 10.
Folder 10: Gregory Mendel, “Experiments in Hybridisation,” with an introductory note by William Bateson, 26 Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1901Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Gregor Mendel, “Recherches sur des hybrides vegétaux,” translated by A. Chappellier, in unidentified journal pages 372-419.Add to your cart.
Folder 12Add to your cart.
Item 1: Translation into Russian, 1935Add to your cart.
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Item 1: Gregor Mendel, “Uber einige aus kunstlicher Befruchtung gewonnenen Hieracium Bastarde,” and “Meteorlogische Beobachtungen aus Mähren und Schelesien im Jahre 1869,” 8 Verhandlungen des naturforscheneden Vereines in Brünn, 1869-70Add to your cart.
Folder 14: “Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden von Gregor Mendel,” 4 Verhandlungen des naturforscheneden Vereines in Brünn, 1865Add to your cart.
Note: journal title page and first page of Mendel article only, bound into 23-24 Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 1909-10, apparently for display purposes. Also, the ribbon copy of ca. 1950s typescript inventory of the collection and a handwritten list (see first folder in Box 1) describes item 168 as simply “‘Versuche uber Pflanzen-Hybriden’ von Gregor Mendel” and carries felt-tip marginal marking suggesting the document was transferred to the Rare Book Room, but it is unclear whether the current Item 168 (Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science) is what was transferred and later returned or whether it was used by the Natural History Museum as a surrogate.
Folder 15: Hugo Iltis, Life of MendelAdd to your cart.
Contains caption only.
Folder 16: One of Mendel’s original notes given to Hugo Iltis by Father Dr. Clemens Janetschek, one of the closest of Mendel’s friends in the monastery.Add to your cart.
Appears to be list of page numbers. Contains original photo, negative, and caption.
Folder 17: Letter of Prof. Herbert Adolphus Miller of Oberlin College to Hugo Iltis regarding provenance of photo in item 171, June 2, 1922Add to your cart.
Folder 18: The “Deutsche Staats-Realschule”/German State Modern school/Brünn in 1860 showing the building as it looked when Mendel was teaching there from 1854 to 1868Add to your cart.
Contains a photograph, negative, and caption.
Folder 19: Original letter of August Weismann to Hugo Iltis, July 9, 1911Add to your cart.

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