Raisa Berg Papers, 1898-2006

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Series II: Works and Writings by R.Berg; Research Data and Notes, 1937-2006

The series comprises published and unpublished articles, monographs, papers presented at conferences and congresses, talks, memoirs, reviews, prose and poetry, essays, extensive research notes and data. Arranged in five subseries.


Subseries II.1: Scientific Writings and Works on the History of Science,, 1937-2002

Typescripts, manuscripts, and reprints of writings on Drosophila research, genetics and the history of genetics, general biology and the history of biology. Materials are arranged in several groups: articles and talks, lectures, dissertations, monographs and projects (organized alphabetically within each group); collection of works; reviews, forewords, abstracts, grant proposals, expeditions logbooks, experiments and research logbooks and data (organized chronologically within each group); tables, data, and notes related to various unidentified research and works, slides, photographs, and microfilms with research data and reference materials don't have formal organization.


Articles and Talks (published and unpublished; reprints, typescripts, manuscripts, notes; in English and Russian. See also collection of works in 3 volumes Genetika i evoliutsiia, Boxes 34-35))



Box 27 Folder 1 "Analiz dinamiki mutatsionnogo protsessa v sviazi s izmeneniiami sredy obitaniia u cheloveka na primere chetyrekh form miopatii",, 1972


Box 27 Folder 2 "Dal'neishie issledovaniia po stabiliziruiushchemu otboru v evoliutsii tsvetka",, 1957


Box 27 Folder 3 "Dominance of deleterious mutations in the populations of Drosophila Melanogaster",, 1942


Box 27 Folder 4 "Ecological significance of correlation pleiades", 1960


Box 27 Folder 4 "Ekologicheskaia interpretatsiia korreliatsionnykh pleiad", 1959


Box 27 Folder 5 "Essigfliegen: indicator fur seuchen?", 1975


Box 27 Folder 6 "Fliuktuatsii mutabil'nosti v populiatsiiakh drozofily i cheloveka",, undated


Box 27 Folder 7 "General evolutionary principle underlying the origin of developmental homeostasis",, 1959


Box 27 Folder 8 "Genetic loadas a possible basis of inherent immunity in insects",, undated


Box 27 Folder 9 "Geneticheskii analiz dvukh prirodnykh populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster",, 1941


Box 27 Folder 10 "Geneticheskii analiz populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster Delizhana (Armianskaia SSR)",, 1944


Box 27 Folder 11 "High mutability and hybrid dysgenesis", 1982


Box 27 Folder 12 "Hybridization and selection as tools to reveal and to study the mode of action of mutator genes in natural populations of Drosophila",, 1980s


Box 27 Folder 13 "Inter- und intraspezifische Variabilitat der Flugeladerung in der Familie der Drosophilidae",, 1962


Box 27 Folder 14 "Internal causes of environmental mutagenesis", undated


Box 27 Folder 15 "Istoricheskoe razvitie mekhanizma realizatsii pola", 1942


Box 27 Folder 16 "K probleme povysheniia zimoustoichivosti segoletkov karpa, sazana i ikh gibridov",, 1952


Box 27 Folder 17 "Korreliatsiia mezhdu mutabil'nost'iu i reguliatornoi sposobnost'iu organizma i ee evoliutsionnoe znachenie",, 1945


Box 27 Folder 18 "Korreliatsionnye pleiady", undated


Box 27 Folder 19 "Korreliatsionnye pleiady priznakov u Veronica Serpyllifolia L., V.Chamedrys L. i V.Krylovii Schischk",, 1971


Box 27 Folder 20 "Korreliatsionnye pleiady u rastenii", 1961


Box 27 Folder 21 "Kuidas inimesest sai mikroobi mudel?", 1973


Box 27 Folder 22 "Lowering of the mutation rate as a result of intraspecific hybridization",, 1941


Box 27 Folder 23 "Mesto teorii stabiliziruiushchego otbora I.I.Shmal'gauzena v sovremennykh evoliutsionnykh vozzreniiakh",, undated


Box 27 Folder 24 to 25 "Mutability changes in Drosophila melanogaster populations of Europe, Asia, and North America and probable mutability changes in human populations of the USSR",, 1981-1982


Box 27 Folder 26 "Mutabil'nost' populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster, obitaiushchikh na granitse areala rasprostraneniia vida",, 1942


Box 27 Folder 27 "Mutation rate in populations of Drosophila melanogaster inhabiting boundary areas of the species distribution",, 1942



Box 28 Folder 1 to 5 "Mutator genes in population life and evolution and the membrane hypothesis of mutagenesis",, 1990s


Box 28 Folder 6 "Mutatsiia 'zheltaia' (yellow) v populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster g. Umani",, 1961


Box 28 Folder 7 "Mutatsii steril'nosti u Drosophila melanogaster", 1938


Box 28 Folder 8 "Nasleduiutsia li priobretennye priznaki?", undated


Box 28 Folder 9 "O nekotorykh mekhanizmakh, obespechivaiushchikh optimal'noe chislo naborov khromosom",, 1963


Box 28 Folder 9 "O nekotorykh usloviiakh poiavleniia zhizni na Zemle", 1959


Box 28 Folder 10 "O putiakh evoliutsii genotipa", 1961


Box 28 Folder 11 "O vzaimootnoshenii mezhdu mutabil'nost'iu i otborom v prirodnykh populiatsiiakh Drosophila melanogaster",, 1948


Box 28 Folder 12 "O zakonomernostiakh evoliutsii na primere kompleksnykh preobrazovanii priznakov pri divergentsii vidov veronik (Veronika L., Scrophulariaceae)",, undated


Box 28 Folder 13 "Observation on mutation rate fluctuation in man. Materials and methods",, undated


Box 28 Folder 14 "On mutations at the yellow and singed Loci in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster",, 1976


Box 28 Folder 15 "On populations of Drosophila melanogaster preserving different mutatition frequencies when transferred to identical conditions",, 1942



Box 29 Folder 1 to 4 "On probable mutability fluctuations in human populations of the USSR paralleled by mutability fluctuations in Drosophila melanogaster populations",, 1983


Box 29 Folder 5 "On the dynamics of the mutation process in man", 1974


Box 29 Folder 6 "On the probable mutability changes in human populations of the USSR",, undated



Box 30 Folder 1 "On the sudden and synchronous rise of the abnormal abdomen phenotype in geographically isolated populations of the USSR",, undated


Box 30 Folder 2 "Otnositel'naia rol' mutatsionnogo protsessa i otbora v formirovanii fenotipicheskogo oblika populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster v sviazi s iavleniiami geneticheskoi nestabil'nosti",, undated


Box 30 Folder 3 to 4 Pis'mo uchastnikam konferentsii "Evoliutsiia vselennoi", 2002


Box 30 Folder 5 "Ponizhennaia chastota vozniknoveniia mutatsii pri vnutrividovoi gibridizatsii",, 1941


Box 30 Folder 6 "Populiatsionno-geneticheskii podkhod k izucheniiu dinamiki mutatsionnogo protsessa na primere chetyrekh form miopatii",, 1973


Box 30 Folder 7 "Probable mutability changes in human populations of the USSR and in Drosophila populations of Europe, Asia, and North America",, undated


Box 30 Folder 8 "Probable mutability fluctuations in human populations of the USSR, paralleled by mutability fluctuations in Drosophila melanogaster populations",, undated


Box 30 Folder 9 "Problema tselostnosti zhivykh system v trudakh I.I.Shmal'gauzena",, 1966


Box 30 Folder 10 "Proiskhodit li eliminatsiia osobei geterozigotnykh po letal'nym mutatsiiam v estestvennykh populiatsiiakh Drosophila melanogaster?",, 1943


Box 30 Folder 11 "Properties of ex eye, a mutant with extra eyes", undated


Box 30 Folder 12 "Relative frequency of mutations in different chromosomes of drosophila melanogaster",, 1937


Box 30 Folder 13 "Relative mutation frequencies in Drosophila chromosomes", 1934


Box 30 Folder 14 "Relative roles of stabilization and redifferentiation of the gene in the evolution of the hereditary substance",, 1937


Box 30 Folder 15 "Restriction of P-element insertions at the notch locus of Drosophila melanogaster",, 1987


Box 30 Folder 16 "Rol' malykh mutatsii v evoliutsii mutabil'nosti", 1941


Box 30 Folder 17 "Role of isolation in the evolution of dominance in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster",, 1942


Box 30 Folder 18 "Seminar po evoliutsionnym problemam v Botanicheskom institute im. V.L. Komarova AN SSSR",, 1957


Box 30 Folder 19 "Sind mikroben fur degenerationserscheinungen verantwortlich?", 1974


Box 30 Folder 20 "Site-specific X-chromosome rearrangements from hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster",, 1980


Box 30 Folder 21 "Sluchaina ili zakonomerna evoliutsiia", undated



Box 31 Folder 1 "Sokhranenie razlichnoi mutabil'nosti populiatsiiami Drosophila melanogaster pri perenose ikh v odinakovye usloviia",, 1942


Box 31 Folder 2 "Sopostavlenie dinamiki mutatsionnogo protsessa u filogeneticheski otdalennykh form na primere drozofily i cheloveka",, 1970


Box 31 Folder 3 "Sopostavlenie vnutrividovoi i mezhvidovoi izmenchivosti u veronik (rod Veronika)",, 1973


Box 31 Folder 4 "Soveshchanie po primeneniiu matematicheskikh metodov v biologii",, 1958


Box 31 Folder 5 "Spontaneous mutation process in geographically isolated populations of Drosophila melanogaster and its dependence upon hybridization",, undated


Box 31 Folder 6 "Struktura i razvitie", 1962


Box 31 Folder 7 "Studies in mutability in geographically isolated populations of Drosophila melanogaster during 1937-1941 1944-1947 and from 1957 until now", 1983, 1937-1941, 1944-1947, 1957, 1983


Box 31 Folder 8 "System der mutator-suppressor gene eine zukunstsanpassung bei Drosophila melanogaster",, undated


Box 31 Folder 9 "Tipy polimorfizma", 1957


Box 31 Folder 10 to 14 "Vid kak evoliutsioniruiushchaia sistema", 1944


Box 31 Folder 15 "Vse dorogi vedut k mikrobam", undated


Box 31 Folder 16 "Zavisimoe var'irovanie mutabil'nosti i dominantnosti v predelakh odnoj estestvennoi populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster",, 1944


Box 31 Folder 17 "Zavisimost' mezhdu mutabil'nost'iu i stepen'iu izoliatsii populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster",, 1942


Box 31 Folder 18 "Zavisimost' mezhdu stepen'iu proiavlenii mutatsii v geterozigotnom sostoianii i ikh kontsentratsiei v genotype estestvennykh populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster",, 1944


Box 31 Folder 19 "Znachenie izoliatsii dlia evoliutsii dominantnosti v estestvennykh populiatsiiakh Drosophila melanogaster",, 1942


Lectures


Box 31 Folder 20 Manuscripts for lectures in Germany, undated


Box 31 Folder 21 [History of Genetics]: syllabus, 1972


Box 31 Folder 21 "Teoriia evoliutsii" (syllabus), undated


Dissertations



Box 32 Folder 1 "Nekotorye dannye k voprosu ob evoliutsii nasledstvennogo veshchestva", Leningrad, 1939 (typescript), 1939


Box 32 Folder 2 "Stabiliziruiushchij otbor v evoliutsii razmerov tsvetkov i semian travianistykh rastenii", Leningrad, 1964 (author's abstract, printed), 1964


Monographs and Projects:


Box 32 Folder 3 Nasledstvennost' i nasledstvennye bolezni cheloveka. Leningrad: Nauka, 1971 (including review by V.Efroimson), 1971


"On the history of Genetics in the Soviet Union", 1980s (typescripts, manuscripts, drafts):, 1980s


Box 32 Folder 4 to 6 "Fate of genetics in the USSR. A battle for intellectual freedom. Insight of a witness."


Box 32 Folder 7 to 13 "On genetics in the Soviet Union"



Box 33 Folder 1 to 5 "On genetics in the Soviet Union"


Box 33 Folder 6 to 12 "On the history of genetics in the Soviet Union. Science and politics. The insight of a witness"



Box 34 Folder 1 to 7 "Two types of intellectuals in Soviet Russia and their role in the history of genetics in the USSR"


Collection of works in 3 volumes Genetika i evoliutsiia, , 2000


Box 34 Folder 8 Foreword


Box 34 Folder 9 to 12 Early articles (typescripts)


Box 34 Folder 13 to 16 Works for 1st volume (typescripts, reprints, photocopies)



Box 35 Folder 1 List of works for 2nd volume


Box 35 Folder 2 to 3 Works for various volumes


Box 35 Folder 4 List of corrections


Box 35 Folder 5 Petition to the Soros Foundation for funding


Box 35 Folder 6 Letters of recommendation and reviews addressed to the Soros Foundation (signed by Aleksandr Ginzburg, V.V.Babkov, V.K.Shumnyi)


Box 35 Folder 7 to 11 Reviews, 1973-1996


Box 35 Folder 12 Foreword to Mekhanizmy biologicheskoi konkurentsii, , 1964


Abstracts, 1940s-1990s


Box 35 Folder 13 1940s-1960s


Box 35 Folder 14 1970s


Box 35 Folder 15 1980s


Box 35 Folder 16 1990s


Box 35 Folder 17 Undated


Grant proposals and reports, 1970s-1990s (including related correspondence. See also Series I--Subseries I.2: Correspondence with Organizations), 1970s-1990s


Box 35 Folder 18 to 25 1970s-1980s



Box 36 Folder 1 to 5 1990s


Box 36 Folder 6 to 9 Undated


Expeditions Logbooks, Experiments and Research Logbooks and Data:


Box 36 Folder 10 to 13 1973-1974 Ararat, Dilizhan, Magarach, 1973-1974



Box 37 Folder 1 to 3 1975-1976


Box 37 Folder 4 to 7 1977



Box 38 Folder 1 to 3 1978


Box 38 Folder 4 1979


Box 38 Folder 5 1980


Box 38 Folder 6 1983



Box 39 Folder 1 1984


Box 39 Folder 2 to 3 1985



Box 40 Folder 1 to 2 1988


Box 40 Folder 3 1991


Box 40 Folder 4 1993 Fialki, 1993


Box 40 Folder 5 to 9 Undated



Box 41 Folder 1 to 15 Tables, data, and notes related to various unidentified research and works, various dates



Box 42 Folder 1 to 26 Slides, photographs, and microfilms with research data and reference materials (including 6 microfilm reels)


Subseries II.2: Memoirs, 1980s-1990s

Manuscripts and typescripts of R. Berg's memoirsSukhovei,its English translationAcquired Traits; Zolotye rytsari v strane sotsializma,and memoir note on Iosif Brodskii. There are also reviews on published memoirs and related materials.


Sukhovei (Russian):



Box 43 Folder 1 to 14 Manuscript, pp. 357-716



Box 44 Folder 1 to 3 Foreword, afterword, list of illustrations


Box 44 Folder 4 to 8 Loose parts


Box 44 Folder 9 to 12 Drafts, corrections, related materials


Box 44 Folder 13 Reviews, 1983-1985


Acquired Traits (English translation of Sukhovei):


Box 44 Folder 14 to 17 Typescript, pp. 1-174


Box 44 Folder 18 to 19 Loose parts and pages


Box 44 Folder 20 Reviews, 1987-1990


Zolotye rytsari v strane sotsializma:



Box 45 Folder 1 to 5 Manuscript, pp.1-253


Box 45 Folder 6 Typescript, pp.1-200


Box 45 Folder 7 Related materials


Box 45 Folder 8 Memoir note on Iosif Brodskii, undated


Subseries II.3: Essays about Various People and on Popular Science; Publicistic Works,, 1950s-2006

Published and unpublished articles and essays; radioscripts; reprints, typescripts, manuscripts, notes; related research materials. Arranged in few groups: personalia, popular science, publicistic works. Contains Manuscripts, typescripts, reprints, andclippings. See also Subseries II.1--Collection of works in 3 volumesGenetika i evoliutsiia:Box 34, Folders 8-16


Personalia (essays, articles, and research materials about various persons. Manuscripts, typescripts, reprints, clippings):



Box 46 Folder 1 Astaurov, Boris:


Box 46 Folder 1 "Life and research of Boris L. Astaurov", 1979


Avetisian, Minas:


Box 46 Folder 2 "Minas Avetisian - Esenin armianskogo sela", 1989


Box 46 Folder 2 "Tragicheskaia sud'ba Minasa Avetisiana", 1988


Berg, Lev Semenovich:


Box 46 Folder 3 [Berg about Berg], undated


Box 46 Folder 4 "Ekspeditsiia L.S.Berga na ozero Balkhash", 1955


Box 46 Folder 5 "Iz istorii ekspeditsionnykh issledovanii L.S.Berga", 1950s


Box 46 Folder 6 "Na ostrovakh Aral'skogo moria", 1954


Box 46 Folder 7 Script for BBC, undated


Box 46 Folder 8 "Zapiski ob ottse", 2000


Box 46 Folder 9 Notes and related materials


Delone, Vadim:


Box 46 Folder 10 "Vadim Delone i ego kniga", undated


Box 46 Folder 11 "Vadim Delone, sinii gusar dvadtsatogo veka", undated


Box 46 Folder 12 About Vadim Delone by other authors (clippings), 1985-1998


Egiaian, Gregor:


Box 46 Folder 13 "V poiskakh Gregora Egiaiana", 1988


Ignatov, P.G.:


Box 46 Folder 14 "Teletskaia ekspeditsiia P.G.Ignatova 1901 g.", 1957, 1901, 1957


Lichkov, Boris Leonidovich:


Box 46 Folder 15 Biographical essay for Dictionaire du Darwinisme, , 1996


Liubishchev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich:


Box 46 Folder 16 to 17 Biographical essay for Dictionaire du Darwinisme,, 1996



Folder 1 Poliakov, Lev:



Box 47 Folder 1 "Lirika i satira L'va Poliakova", 1988


Box 47 Folder 1 Notes, album of his photographs, related materials


Sakharov, Andrei Dmitrievich:


Box 47 Folder 2 "Moi vstrechi s Sakharovym", 1997


Box 47 Folder 2 "O Sakharove", 1996 (script for BBC), 1996


Shmal'gauzen, Ivan Ivanovich:


Box 47 Folder 3 to 6 "Ivan Ivanovich Shmal'gauzen", undated (Russian, English, French), undated


Box 47 Folder 7 "Raboty Ivana Ivanovicha Shmal'gauzena po embriologii pozvonochnykh I ego teoriia stabiliziruiushchego otbora",, undated


Timofeev-Resovskii, Nikolai Vladimirovich:


Box 47 Folder 8 Endless defense, 1992 (letter to editors), 1992


Box 47 Folder 9 to 12 "In defense of Timofeev-Ressovsky", 1990


Box 47 Folder 13 "Nikolai Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovskii", undated


Box 47 Folder 14 "Nikolai Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovskii", 1981 (obituary), 1981


Box 47 Folder 15 to 16 "N.V.Timofeev-Resovsky did not collaborate with the Nazis", 1991


Box 47 Folder 17 to 19 "Nikolai Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovskii - obitatel' dvukh mirov",, 1988



Box 48 Folder 1 "V zashchitu N.V.Timofeeva-Resovskogo", 1990


Box 48 Folder 2 "Why does Muller-Hill accuse Timofeev-Resovsky?", 1988


Box 48 Folder 3 Research and related materials


Tsvetaeva, Marina:


Box 48 Folder 4 "Moia Tsvetaeva", undated


Vernadskii, Vladimir Ivanovich:


Box 48 Folder 5 "V.I.Vernadskii. Sotsial'nye prognozy i zabluzhdeniia", undated


Box 48 Folder 6 to 9 [Vernadskii], manuscript, undated


Box 48 Folder 10 [Vernadskii], script for BBC, 1993


Box 48 Folder 11 "Vernadskii. Osushchestvivshiesia prognozy i zabluzhdeniia", 2006


Box 48 Folder 12 "Vernadskij", biographical essay for Dictionaire du Darwinisme , undated


Box 48 Folder 13 to 15 Drafts


Box 48 Folder 16 to 17 Research and related materials


Box 48 Folder 18 Volodin, Boris Genrikhovich, undated



Box 49 Folder 1 to 9 Popular Science:


Box 49 Folder 1 "Khudozhestvennye zhanry natury", undated


Box 49 Folder 1 "Kordebalet spiashchikh mukh", 1990s


Box 49 Folder 2 "Povest' o genetike", 1980


Box 49 Folder 3 to 6 "Vremia i prostranstvo zhizni", undated


Box 49 Folder 7 "Yeast, raisins, bombs and fruit flies", 1980


Box 49 Folder 8 "Zakonomerna li evoliutsiia, ili Pochemu kuritsa ne revnuet", undated


Box 49 Folder 9 Scripts for BBC, 1990s


Publicistic Works:


Box 49 Folder 10 "K semidesiatiletiiu publikatsii stat'i Stalina 'Golovokruzhenie ot uspekhov' 2 marta 1930 goda v gazete 'Pravda'", 2000, 1930, 2000


Box 49 Folder 11 "Moi monozigoticheskii bliznets", undated


Box 49 Folder 12 "Ostorozhnyi polulegal Daniil Granin", 1988


Box 49 Folder 13 "Regenerating capitalism…", undated


Box 49 Folder 14 to 15 "Sravnitel'nyi analiz elementarnykh sredstv vyrazheniia raznykh vidov iskusstv",, 1963


Box 49 Folder 16 "Stikhiino-informatsionnyi rynok Sovetskogo Soiuza, ego istoki i vzaimootnosheniia s sotsialisticheskoi ekonomikoi v tselom",, undated


Box 49 Folder 17 "Zemel'naia reforma Stalina i kul't ego lichnosti", undated


Subseries II.4: Prose and Poetry, 1940s-1990s

Manuscripts and typescripts of Berg's original prose and poetry of various years.


Prose (manuscripts):



Box 50 Folder 1 to 4 "Skazki antimira", 1960s-1970s


Box 50 Folder 5 to 6 "Ulybka sapozhnika", 1950s-1990s (short stories), 1950s-1990s


Box 50 Folder 7 "Velikoe i smeshnoe", undated (short stories, incomplete), undated


Box 50 Folder 8 to 10 Poetry of various years, 1940s-1990s (English, Russian. Manuscripts, typescripts). See also: "To James F.Crow commemorating his birthday and his return from La Yolla", 1979 (poem, holograph manuscript) in Series I: Correspondence--Subseries I.1: Correspondence with Individuals--Crow (Box 3, Folder 16) and "To Professor Sewall Wright on the occasion of his 89th birthday" (poem, holograph manuscript) in Series I: Correspondence--Subseries I.1: Correspondence with Individuals--Wright (Box 20, Folder 9), 1940s-1990s, 1979


Subseries II.5: Fragments, extracts, notes, and loose pages from various unidentified works, various dates


Box 50 Folder 11 to 22 Fragments, extracts, notes, and loose pages from various unidentified works, various dates