Publication Date:
2023-01-12
Description:
Reminiscences and group discussion, made two days before Dr. Conklin's death
Description:
Originally APS Recording 26, transferred from phonograph record to open reel tape for the APS by the Library of Congress in 1970.
Description:
Reformatted digital
Description:
Conklin recounts with pride his first (1896) acceptance by the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia) following presentation of his paper on evolution at a symposium -- Came to Woods Hole summer of 1890 to work on embryology of Crepidula for this PhD thesis, sponsored by Brooks,. Names of older scientists mentioned include Agassiz, HV Wilson (US Fish Commission), Thomas Hunt Morgan. -- 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
Description:
Audio
Keywords:
American Philosophical Society
;
Embryology--History
;
Biology--United States
;
People
;
People
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Language:
English
Type:
Recording, oral
Format:
10m22s
Format:
audio/mp3
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