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Title: Kenneth V. Thimann papersIdentifier/Call Number: MS.071Contributing Institution: University of California, Santa CruzLanguage of Material: EnglishPhysical Description: 78.4 Linear feet162 boxesDate (bulk): Bulk, 1940-1990Date (inclusive): 1839, 1921-1997Language of Materials: The majority of the collection is in English, but some materials are written in German, French,and Czech.creator: Thimann, Kenneth Vivian, 1904-1997AccessCollection is open for research. The use of certain media requires advance notice. Please contact Special Collections andArchives to request access to media.Publication RightsProperty rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and theirheirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.Preferred CitationKenneth V. Thimann Papers, MS 71, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.Acquisition InformationGift of the Thimann family in 1997.Biographical NarrativeKenneth V. Thimann was an English-born American plant physiologist who is best known for his isolation of the plant growthhormone auxin. His identification of this hormone allowed for the production of several herbicides that were of criticalimportance to agricultural and horticultural industries. Thimann wrote or coauthored over 300 articles and several books,including Phytohormones (1937); The Life of Bacteria (1955); Hormone Action in the Whole Life of Plants (1977); andBotany: Plant Biology and Its Relation to Human Affairs (1982).Thimann was born in Ashford, England, on August 5, 1904 to Muriel Kate Harding and Israel Phoebus Thimann. He earnedhis B.Sc. in Chemistry in 1924 and Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1928, both from Imperial College, University of London. Hemarried Ann Mary Bateman in 1929, with whom he had three children. He became an American citizen in 1941.Thimann taught at the University of London for several years before coming to the California Institute of Technology in1930, where he was an instructor in bacteriology and biochemistry. In 1935, Thimann joined the faculty of HarvardUniversity, where he remained for 30 years. He served as the director of Harvard's Biological Laboratories from 1946-1950,and was the Higgins Professor of Biology from 1962-1965. In 1962, he became the first master of East House at RadcliffeCollege. In 1965, Thimann moved to California, and became professor of biology and the first provost of Crown College atthe University of California, Santa Cruz. He retired as provost in 1972, and moved to Haverford, Pennsylvania in 1989.Thimann was a technical consultant to the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development from 1942-1945. During thistime, he also worked with the Operational Research Group of the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C., London, and Pearl Harbor.Thimann served on numerous international scientific societies, associations, and editorial boards throughout his career. Hewas President of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (1965), the Botanical Society of America (1960), theAmerican Society of Plant Physiologists (1950), the Society for the Study of Development and Growth (1955), the Society ofGeneral Physiologists (1949-1950), the American Society of Naturalists (1955), and the XIth International BotanicalCongress (1969). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1938, the U.S. National Academy ofSciences in 1948, the American Philosophical Society in 1959, as well as several international academies. He was awardedthe Balzan Prize in 1982. He died in 1997 in Haverford, Pennsylvania.For more biographical information:Kenneth V. Thimann: Early UCSC History and the Founding of Crown College (oral history)Kenneth V. Thimann, founding provost of Crown College, dies at 92 Faculty of Arts and Sciences - Memorial Minute: Kenneth Vivian Thimann Scope and Content of collectionThis collection documents the career of Kenneth V. Thimann, particularly his extensive publishing activity and professional involvement in the scientific community. The largest portion of the collection comprises alphabetical subject files that

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reflect his activity within national and international scientific organizations during the 1950s-1970s, such as the NationalAcademy of Sciences. Materials in the collection also document Thimann's editorial work for a number of journals, hislaboratory research at the California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the University of California Santa Cruz,as well as his role as provost of Crown College at UCSC. A small amount of personal and biographical material is alsoincluded.Related Archival MaterialsHarvard University Archives also maintains a collection of Thimann's papers: Papers of Kenneth V. Thimann, 1929-1988. Also see photographs of Thimann in the UCSC Library Digital Collections. Processing InformationUnless otherwise noted, materials are arranged in original order. Most folder titles are copied from the original folder label.Subjects and Indexing TermsThimann, Kenneth Vivian, 1904-1997BotanyGrowth (Plants)

Box 1-38 Writings, manuscripts, editorial work 1926-1996Scope and ContentThis series contains reprints of Thimann's writings and publication files containingmanuscripts, notes, figures, illustrations, and correspondence related to his articles, books,and other publications. Also included are manuscripts of others' writings and relatedcorrespondence that document Thimann's editorial role in a variety of journals andprofessional organizations, such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Processing informationSome publication titles are abbreviated.

Box 1-10 Reprints of writings by Thimann 1926-1989Scope and ContentIncludes reprints of Thimann's writings, and a small amount of correspondence, articledrafts, figures, photographs, and notes relating to specific publications.

Box 1-3 Collected papers 1926-1988

Physical Description: 5 bound volumesScope and ContentIncludes published journal articles by Thimann bound together into volumes.

Box 3-7 Chronological reprint files 1934-1989

Physical Description: 42 folders Box 7 The Effect of Electric Currents Upon Gelatin 1927

Historical noteThimann's Ph.D. dissertation for Imperial College, University of London.

Box 7 Investigations on Gelatin 1927Box 7 The Effects of Salts on Ionisation of Gelatin 1930Box 7 Chemical Change in Gelatin... 1930Box 7 Studies on the Excystment of Colpoda Cucullus 1934Box 7 Chemical Nature of The Root-Forming Hormone of Plants 1935Box 7 Effects of Salts on Emergence from the Cyst in Protozoa 1937Box 7 The Metabolism of the Water-Mold, Leptomitus Lacteus 1940Box 7 Review: Lectures on the Inorganic Nutrition of Plants Hoagland circa 1946

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Box 7 The Chemical Control of Conjugation in Zygosaccharomyces 1943Box 7 Crop Production and Environment 1946Box 7 Review: Spuren von Stoffen... Abderhalden 1946Box 7 Review: Annual Review of Microbiology 1947-1948Box 7 Foreword: Vernalization and Photoperiodism 1948Box 7 Use of 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid Herbicides... 1948Box 7 Studies of Development in Long Shoots and Short Shoots of Ginkgo Biloba 1949Box 7 The Biogenesis of the Anthocyanins 1949Box 7 The Effect of Onion Juice on the Growth Response to Auxin 1949Box 7 Dedication of the Earhart Plant Research Laboratory... 1949Box 7 Application of Herbicides to Cut Stumps... 1949Box 7 Vernalisation und Photoperiodismus 1949Box 7 Metabolism of Stem Tissue During Growth and Its Inhibition 1950Box 7 Brush Control in Cuba 1950Box 7 Translocation of 2,4,5-T in Cuban Marabu 1953Box 7 Conference on Fungicides 1953Box 7 The Nature of Auxin-Induced Water Uptake... 1953Box 7 Studies on the Growth and Inhibition of Isolated Plant Parts 1954Box 7 Dehydrogenase Activity and Respiration 1954Box 7 Plant Physiology at the International Botanical Congress 1955Box 7 The Biochemistry of Growth and Inhibition in Isolated Plant Parts 1950Box 7 Correlations of Growth by Humoral Influences 1954Box 7 Interference in Salkowski Assay of Indoleacetic Acid 1956Box 7 Solar Energy Utilization by Higher Plants 1955Box 8 On the Uptake of Carbon Dioxide and Bicarbonate... 1957Box 8 The Biological Action of Growth Substances 1958Box 8 Effect of Light on the CO2 Absorption and Evolution... 1958Box 8 Evolution of the Phytotron 1958Box 8 Beneficiation of Soils Contaminated by Strontium-90 1959Box 8 Review: Methoden zur Bestimmung... 1959Box 8 Experiments on the Physiology of Apical Dominance 1957Box 8 Plastids of the Avena Coleoptile 1960Box 8 Phototropism; Nature of Photoreceptor... 1961Box 8 How the Other Half Lives: General and Botanical Observations on the USSR... 1961Box 8 Correlative Aspects 1961Box 8 The Effects of Auxins and Kinetin on Xylem... 1962Box 8 Some Characteristics of Movement of Indoleacetic Acid in Coleoptiles of Avena

1962Box 8 Activity of Gibberellin 'D' on the Germination of Photosensitive Lettuce Seeds

1963Box 8 Formation of Anthocyanin in Leaves of Kalanchoe Blossfeldiana 1963Box 8 Effect of Light on Uptake and Transport of Indoleacetic Acid... 1963Box 8 Biogenesis of Anthocyanins 1963Box 8 Biological Utilization of Solar Energy 1951Box 8-9 Miscellaneous reprints 1935-1995

Physical Description: 9 folders Box 9 Miscellaneous reprints (late publications) 1989-1994Box 9 Miscellaneous reprints (senescence and related) 1974-1989Box 10 Reprint requestsBox 10 Reprint lists 1950-1986

Scope and ContentIncludes lists of Thimann's publications.

Box 10 Reprint mailing lists 1984Box 10 Reprint address file undated

Physical Description: 2 small boxes

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Box 11-26 Publication files 1951-1996Scope and ContentIncludes correspondence, reviews, drafts, proofs, reprints, figures, illustrations,photographs, negatives, and research notes related to publications authored andcoauthored by Thimann.

Box 11, Folder 1 Towards a Unified Theory of Plant Tropisms 1959Box 11, Folder 2 Osmosis, Osmotic Pressure and Suction Pressure 1960Box 11, Folder 3 Fundamental Aspects of Normal and Malignant Growth 1960Box 11, Folder 4 Photosensitive Site in Lettuce Seeds 1959Box 11, Folder 5 Lateral Transport of Indoleacetic Acid-C14... 1960Box 11, Folder 6 Growth Promoting Activity of Caffeic Acid 1961Box 11, Folder 7 Conversion of C14 Glucose to Ethylene... 1961Box 11, Folder 8 Effect of Light on Auxin Uptake and Transport... 1962Box 11, Folder 9 Some Characteristics of Movement of Indoleacetic Acid...Basipetal Translocation

1962Box 11, Folder 10 The Plastids of the Avena Coleoptile 1960Box 11, Folder 11 Methods (200S) 1962Box 11, Folder 12 The Development of Anthocyanin in Leaves of Kalanchoe Blossfeldiana 1962-1963Box 11, Folder 13 The Use of 2,4-D on Some Woody Tropical Plants 1947Box 11, Folder 14 The Effects of Auxins and Kinetin on Xylem Differentiation 1961-1962Box 11, Folder 15 The Action of Gibberellic Acid on Lettuce... (Gibberellin "D") 1962Box 11, Folder 16 Transport and Distribution of Auxin... 1962Box 11, Folder 17 Action of Kinetin on Photosensitive Germination of Lettuce Seed... 1962-1963Box 11, Folder 18 Evidence for a Requirement for Protein Synthesis... (Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences) 1963Box 11, Folder 19 The Transport and Distribution of Auxin During Tropistic Response 1962-1963Box 11, Folder 20 Uptake of IAA & IAN by Avena Coleoptile Sections 1962-1963Box 11, Folder 21 The Effects of Temperature on Photosensitive Lettuce Seed Germination 1963Box 11, Folder 22 Release of Lateral Buds from Apical Dominance 1964-1963Box 11, Folder 23 Plant Growth Substances; Past, Present and Future 1963-1965Box 12, Folder 1 On a Crystal Containing Body in Cells of the Oat Coleoptile 1963-1964Box 12, Folder 2 The Effect of Ribonuclease on Anthocyanin Formation in Spirodela Oligorrhiza

1962-1963Box 12, Folder 3 Plant Hormones and Their Role in Agriculture 1963-1965Box 12, Folder 4 The Biogenesis of Anthocyanins 1964-1966Box 12, Folder 5-6 Nitrilase, parts 1 & 2 1963-1964

Physical Description: 2 folders Box 12, Folder 7 Interactions Between Daylength and Light Intensity... 1966Box 12, Folder 8 The Histological Basis for Inhibition of Axillary Buds in Pisum Sativum... 1964Box 12, Folder 9 Control of Development in Acetabularia 1964-1965Box 12, Folder 10 Laurentian Hormone Conference Toward and Endocrinology of Higher Plants

1963-1965Box 12, Folder 11 Molecular Requirements for Auxin Action, part 1 1964Box 12, Folder 12 Studies on the Germination of the Light-inhibited Seed of Phacelia Tanacetifolia

1964-1966Box 12, Folder 13 Pesticides and the President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) 1964Box 12, Folder 14 The Senescence of Leaves, What's New in Plant Physiology 1975-1979Box 12, Folder 15 Phototropism, National Academy of Sciences 1963-1964Box 12, Folder 16 Analysis of the Germination Process of Lettuce Seed... 1964Box 12, Folder 17 Biogenesis of Anthocyanins, X 1951-1964Box 13, Folder 1 The Preparation of Higher Plant Protoplasts 1966Box 13, Folder 2 Histological Studies II 1965-1968Box 13, Folder 3 Protoplasts From the Avena Coleoptile 1965

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Box 13, Folder 4 Spirodela Polyrhiza, Furuya & Thimann undatedBox 13, Folder 5 Terminal Respiration of Vegetative Cells and Zygospores... 1965-1966Box 13, Folder 6 Geotropic Response of Wheat Coleoptiles in Absence of Amyloplast Starch

1965-1966Box 13, Folder 7-9 The Metabolism of Oat Leaves During Senescence, parts 1-3 1972-1975

Physical Description: 3 folders Box 13, Folder 10 The Metabolism of Oat Leaves During Senescence negatives of figures circa 1970sBox 13, Folder 11 Phototropism (chapter in Comprehensive Biochemistry) 1966-1967Box 13, Folder 12 Interactions of Phenolic Acids, Metallic Ions and Chelating Agents... 1966Box 13, Folder 13 Action Inhibitors of RNA and Protein Synthesis on Cell Enlargement 1965-1966Box 14, Folder 1 Biosynthesis of Plant Sterols Conversion of Cholesterol... 1966Box 14, Folder 2 Histological Studies I & II 1964-1965Box 14, Folder 3 Tropisms in Plants 1966-1967Box 14, Folder 4 Role of Seed Coats in Germination of Photosensitive Lettuce Seeds 1963Box 14, Folder 5 Transport and Distribution of Auxin During Tropistic... 1963-1964Box 14, Folder 6 Effects of Red and Blue Light in the Growth of Morphogenesis... 1964-1965Box 14, Folder 7 Bound Indoleacetic Acid in Avena Coleoptiles 1965Box 14, Folder 8 Inhibition of Protein Synthesis... 1964-1965Box 14, Folder 9 Action of Inhibitors of RNA... 1965Box 14, Folder 10 Role of Auxins and Cytokinins in Release of Buds from Dominance 1966-1983Box 14, Folder 11 The Role of Tryptophan and Tryptamine as IAA Precursors 1967-1968Box 14, Folder 12 Bedeutung des Lichtes fur Wachstum, Pigmentierung und

Bewegungsphanomene... 1966Box 14, Folder 13 Transient Effects of Light in Auxin Transport... 1966Box 14, Folder 14 On the Nature of Seed Dormancy in Phacelia Tanacetifolia 1966Box 14, Folder 15 Interactions of Phenolic Acids, Metallic Ions... 1966Box 14, Folder 16 Intracellular Fibers in Oat Coleoptile Cells...Streaming 1966Box 14, Folder 17 Role of Cytokinins in the "Fascination" Disease... 1965-1966Box 14, Folder 18 National Academy of Sciences 1971 symposium: Photosynthesis 1970-1972Box 15, Folder 1 Polymyxa, Sorkin 1958-1962Box 15, Folder 2 Hormonal Regulation in Plant Growth Development, NATO Institute: Izmir, Turkey

1971-1972Box 15, Folder 3 Apical Dominance in Coleus 1970-1971Box 15, Folder 4 The Physiology of Plant Growth and Development (The Auxins for Wilkins) 1968Box 15, Folder 5 Second Positive Phototropism... 1968-1969Box 15, Folder 6 Encyclopedia Universalis 1972-1973Box 15, Folder 7 On Integration in Plants by Rudolf Dostal 1966-1967Box 15, Folder 8 Martin & Thimann, part I & II ( The Role of Protein Synthesis in the Senescence of

Leaves) 1972-1974Box 15, Folder 9 The Senescence of Isolated Chloroplasts, part 3 1974Box 15, Folder 10 Antagonisms Between Kinetin and Amino Acids 1969-1970Box 15, Folder 11 The Effect of Hadacidin on Bud Development... 1970-1973Box 15,Folder 12-13

Book reviews 1939-1985Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 15, Folder 14 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) part 2, figures only 1979Box 15, Folder 15 Thimann and Satler 1978Box 16, Folder 1 Thimann and Tetley, part 5 1972-1976Box 16, Folder 2 Martin & Thimann & Canberra, part 2 1972-1974Box 16, Folder 3 Anthocyanin, part 12 1964Box 16, Folder 4 Seed germination book ( The Physiology and Biochemistry of Seed Dormancy and

Germination) 1976-1977Box 16, Folder 5 The Retention of Photosynthetic Activity by Senescing Chloroplasts 1976-1977Box 16, Folder 6 Chelators, part 3 1972-1975Box 16, Folder 7 Choe & Thimann: Retention of Photosynthetic Activity by Senescing Chloroplasts

of Oat 1975-1977Box 16, Folder 8 12 MIR paper ( Stomatal Aperture and the Senescence of Leaves) 1978-1979



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Box 16, Folder 9 Metabolism of Oat Leaves During Senescence, part 5. Senescence in Light1976-1977

Box 16, Folder 10 Ethylene and Senescence of Oat Leaves 1980-1981Box 16, Folder 11 Pullman meeting undatedBox 16, Folder 12 Plant Hormones: CRM Books 1970Box 16, Folder 13 Changes in ATP Levels During Senescence 1979-1980Box 16, Folder 14 Krebs on Warburg 1979-1980Box 16, Folder 15 Senescence review, Botanical Magazine 1977-1982Box 17, Folder 1 Madison & Colombus 1978-1982

Scope and ContentIncludes photographs for a publication in Proceedings in Life Sciences.

Box 17, Folder 2-3 Ethylene, CO2 ( The Effects of Carbon Dioxide and Light on the Production of

Ethylene by Leaves) 1983-1986, undatedPhysical Description: 2 folders

Box 17, Folder 4-8 Plich, Henry ( Respiration and Ethylene Production in Apple...) circa 1985-1990

Physical Description: 5 foldersScope and ContentIncludes research notebook.

Box 17, Folder 9 The Promise and Future of Plant Science, Asians in Science undatedBox 17,Folder 10-11

Veierskov, Bjarke ( Metabolism of Oat Leaves During Senescence, part 8)1982-1985

Physical Description: 2 folders Box 18, Folder 1 Veierskov, Bjarke (Role of Hormones and Light in Leaf Senescence - NATO grant)

1983-1986Box 18, Folder 2 Veierskov, Bjarke ( The Control of Protein Breakdown and Systhesis...) 1984-1986Box 18, Folder 3 The Balance Between Auxin and Kinetin..., Mathur & Thimann undatedBox 18, Folder 4 Hormone Action in the Whole Life of Plants 1975-1981Box 18, Folder 5 Phytohormones: correspondence on figures 1936-1967Box 18, Folder 6 Giridhar, G. ( Is the Effect of Wounding on Leaf...) 1986-1988Box 18, Folder 7-9 The Interaction of Senescence and Wounding in Oat Leaves 1984-1988

Physical Description: 3 folders Box 18, Folder 10 Singapore ( The Senescence of Leaves: A brief review and a proposed mechanism)

circa 1986Box 18, Folder 11 Dicots ( The Senescence of Detached Leaves of Tropaeolum) circa 1985Box 18, Folder 12 Senescence in nitrogen and the accompanying changes... 1982Box 19,Folder 1-2,Box 18, Folder 13

Experiments on the system forming ethylene from ACC... Bousquet & Thimann1983-1984

Physical Description: 3 folders Box 19, Folder 3 The Multiple Actions of Abscisic Acid in the Senescence of Oat Leaves 1987-1988Box 19, Folder 4 The Role of Serine and of Proteases in the Senescence of Oat Leaves 1983Box 19, Folder 5 A History of the Knowledge of Auxin (SPB Academic Publishing Prague) circa 1988Box 19, Folder 6 Nooden & Leopold forward ( Senescence and Aging in Plants) 1984-1987Box 19, Folder 7 Co2 paper circa 1980sBox 19, Folder 8 Light & Co2 1983Box 19, Folder 9 The Influence of Aliphatic Alcohols on Leaf Senescence 1979-1980Box 19, Folder 10 The Relation Between Nitrogen Deficiency and Leaf Senescence 1983-1984Box 19, Folder 11 National Institute on Aging (NIA) manuscript ( A Glance at Senescence in Plants)

1977-1980Box 19, Folder 12 T. Platt book review ( Physiological bases of phytoplankton ecology) 1982Box 19, Folder 13 Effects of Methyl Jasmonate on Leaf Senescence 1981



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Box 20,Folder 1-2,Box 19, Folder 14

On the Relation Between Respiration and Senescence in Oat Leaves 1982-1985Physical Description: 3 folders

Box 20, Folder 3 Wightman & Thimann ( Hormonal factors controlling the initiation and

development of lateral roots) 1978-1979Box 20, Folder 4-5 Exudation of Solutes During Senescence of Oat Leaves 1982-1983

Physical Description: 2 folders Box 20, Folder 6 Kurt Albin Mothes biographical memoir 1983-1985Box 20, Folder 7 Abscisic Acid (ABA) papers 1974-1980Box 20, Folder 8 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) meeting, Parma, Italy 1979-1981Box 20,Folder 9-10

The Proteases of Senescing Oat Leaves, parts 1-2 1976-1977Physical Description: 2 folders

Botany: Plant Biology and Its Relation to Human Affairs 1963-1992

Physical Description: 34 foldersScope and ContentIncludes manuscripts, figures, photographs, negatives, reprints, and researchmaterials related to the textbook Botany: Plant Biology and Its Relation to HumanAffairs (1982), which Thimann co-authored with Jean H. Langenheim. Also included areteaching materials related to the course, Plants and Human Affairs, which Thimannco-taught with Langenheim at the University of California Santa Cruz. This courseserved as the foundation for the resulting textbook.Processing InformationChapter numbers described here may not correspond to published chapters.

Box 20, Folder 11 Chapter II: Origin of Life 1963-1977Box 20, Folder 12 World agriculture 1980-1984Box 21, Folder 1 Chapter III & IV: World Food 1974-1989Box 21, Folder 2 Chapter IV: Anatomy 1969-1975Box 21, Folder 3-4 Chapter V: Photosynthesis 1971-1988

Physical Description: 2 folders Box 21, Folder 5 Water and minerals papers 1967-1982Box 21, Folder 6-7 Chapter VIII: Nitrogen Metabolism 1975-1989

Physical Description: 2 folders Box 21, Folder 8-9 Chapter X: Growth and development 1988, undated

Physical Description: 2 folders Box 21, Folder 10 Chapter XV: Soils 1980-1982Box 21, Folder 11 Chapter XVI: Cereals 1969-1988Box 21, Folder 12 Chapter XVIII: Sugars 1970-1976Box 21, Folder 13 Chapter XVIII: Fruits 1977-1988Box 21, Folder 14 Chapter XIX: Fiber 1973-1976Box 21, Folder 15 Chapter XX: Roots and Tubers 1983, undatedBox 21, Folder 16 Chapter XX: Fermentation 1978, undatedBox 22, Folder 1 Chapter XXIII: Legumes & Nitrogen Cycle 1977-1986Box 22, Folder 2 Chapter XXVI: Caffeine "with possible additions" 1974Box 22, Folder 3 Medicinals 1972-1989Box 22, Folder 4 Plant diseases 1983-1989Box 22, Folder 5 Chapter XXVI: Phenols 1972-1981Box 22, Folder 6 Chapter XXI: Fiber & Fiber Plants; chapter XXII: Wood, Bark & Forests 1983,

undatedBox 22, Folder 7 Chapter XII: Organizing Diversity; chapter XIV: Plants in Communities undated



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Box 22, Folder 8 Chapter XXI: Caffeine Beverages; chapter XXVI: Plant Phenols undatedBox 22, Folder 9 Chapter XXVII: Terpenoids; chapter XXVIII: Vegetables, Fats, Oils & Waxes

1971-1989Box 22, Folder 10 Chapter XXIX: Global Impact of Plant Diseases and Pests undatedBox 22, Folder 11 Chapter XXXII: Ecosystems 1966-1986Box 22, Folder 12 Lecture transcripts, notes 1974Box 22, Folder 13 Figures, rough notes 1986, undatedBox 22, Folder 14 John Wiley & Sons Publishers, Inc. correspondence 1982-1984Box 22, Folder 15 John Wiley & Sons reviews 1978-1980Box 22, Folder 16 Notes and clippings 1988-1992

Processing informationThese materials were originally enclosed in a copy of Botany: Plant Biology and ItsRelation to Human Affairs.

Box 23, Folder 1 Actin and coleoptile elongation circa 1990sBox 23, Folder 2 Papers on plant senescence circa 1992-1994Box 23, Folder 3-8 Actin and the Elongation of Plant Cells 1992-1996

Physical Description: 6 folders Box 24, Folder 1,Box 23,Folder 9-11

Actin and the Elongation of Plant Cells (Kelly Reese) 1989-1993Physical Description: 4 folders

Box 24, Folder 2 The Control of Branching in Plants 1984Box 24, Folder 3 Why do green plants not make Vitamin B2?, and other projects 1994Box 24, Folder 4 Nitrile Metabolism: Diversity and Versatility 1995Box 24, Folder 5 Stomatal Cycling in CAM Plants 1982Box 24, Folder 6 Senescence and Stomatal Aperture as Affected by Antibiotics in Darkness and

Light 1986-1989Box 24, Folder 7 Senescence in Plants correspondence 1978-1985Box 24, Folder 8 The Second Messenger in Apical Dominance Controlled by Auxin 1988-1989Box 24, Folder 9 Old Age, or "Senescence" in Leaves undatedBox 24, Folder 10 Unidentified manuscript on senescence undatedBox 24, Folder 11 Roses manuscript 1958Box 24, Folder 12 Miscellaneous manuscripts correspondence 1966-1980Box 25, Folder 1 Lysenko: could he be right? 1949Box 25, Folder 2-5 Vitamins and Hormones: Advances in Research and Applications 1943-1985

Physical Description: 4 folders Box 25, Folder 6 The Effect of Light on the Production of Ethylene 1979-1980Box 25, Folder 7 Contributions to encyclopedias 1965-1986Box 25, Folder 8-9 Frits Warmolt Went biographical memoir 1978, 1988-1995

Physical Description: 2 foldersScope and ContentIncludes photographic reprints of Went's father, Friedrich August Ferdinand ChristianWent, and his laboratory in Pasadena.

Box 25, Folder 10 Paul Mangelsdorf biographical essay 1989-1990

Scope and ContentIncludes photographs of Mangelsdorf.

Box 26, Folder 1 Alfred Romer biographical essay 1973-1974, 1982

Scope and ContentIncluded photograph of Romer.

Box 26, Folder 2 John Gordon Torrey Memorial Minute 1992-1995

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Box 26-32 Figures and illustration mockups 1940-1980Scope and ContentIncludes originals and copies of figures and illustrations used in Thimann's publications.Formats include photographs, film and glass plate negatives, various types oftransparencies and enlargements, and paper charts and diagrams. Figures andillustrations can also be found in the Publication files subseries.

Box 26, Folder 3 International Conference on Plant Growth Substances, Lausanne circa 1975Box 26, Folder 4 Hormone Action in the Whole Life of Plants 1947, 1961-1976Box 26, Folder 5 Rice in China circa 1979Box 26, Folder 6-8 Botany: Plant Biology and Its Relation to Human Affairs: originals, Langenheim

chapters 1-3 circa 1970-1980Physical Description: 3 folders

Box 27-28, 31-32 The Life of Bacteria: Their Growth, Metabolism, and Relationships circa

1950s-1968Physical Description: 9 folders

Box 31, Folder 2,Box 27, Folder 4

The Effect of Onion Juice on the Growth Response to Auxin circa 1949Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 27, 29-32 Unidentified figures circa 1940-1980s

Physical Description: 10 folders

Box 27, 33-38 Editorial work 1930-1996Scope and ContentIncludes reprints, manuscript drafts, figures and illustrations, and correspondence relatedto editorial work Thimann performed for various journals and authors. See theProfessional Activity and Correspondence series for more materials related to Thimann'seditorial work.

Box 33, Folder 1-2 Chailakhyan ( Sexuality in Plants and its Hormonal Regulation) 1983-1989

Physical Description: 2 foldersScope and ContentIncludes photographs of figures and illustrations.

Box 33, Folder 3 Joe Cherry & D. James Morre manuscript 1972Box 33, Folder 4 Gershon, David ( Identification of Intracellular Degradation...) 1985Box 33, Folder 5 Goldschmidt, Eliezer E. ( Chlorophyll Catabolism in Senescing...) 1986-1988Box 33, Folder 6 Geoff, Lynda J. ( The Transfer of Nuclei from a Parasite to Its Host) 1983Box 33, Folder 7 Ballio and Adducio ( Reconstitution of a Proton-translocating System...) 1988Box 33, Folder 8 Goldsmith and Martin ( Mathematical Analysis of Chemiosmotic...) 1980Box 33, Folder 9 Ludwig, Robert A. ( Rhizobium Free-living Nitrogen...) 1983Box 33, Folder 10 Matile, Philippe ( Catabolites of Chlorophyll...) 1983Box 33, Folder 11 Mattoo, Autar K. ( Identification of a Unique Isoform...) 1988Box 33, Folder 12 Pickard, Barbara G. ( Voltage Transients Elicited...) 1983Box 33, Folder 13 Poovaiah, B.W. ( Molecular Cloning and Sequencing...) 1988-1989Box 33, Folder 14 Sung, Z. Renee ( Developmental Regulation of Embryogenic...) 1986-1988Box 34, Folder 1 Talamantes, Frank ( Detection of Two Growth Hormone...) 1988Box 34, Folder 2 Sato & Theologis ( Isolation of a cDNA Encoding...) 1989

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Box 34, Folder 3 American Association of Scientific Workers 1940 Peace Resolution 1939-1950,1979-1980

Historical NoteThimann and others resigned from the American Association of Scientific Workers,citing Communist influence in the passage of the 1940 Peace Resolution.Scope and ContentIncludes correspondence relating to a 1979 paper about the American Association ofScientific Workers 1940 Peace Manifesto by Elizabeth Hodes, as well as originalcorrespondence, clippings, and other material related to the drafting, passage, andcontroversy surrounding the Peace Resolution.

Box 34, Folder 4 Snow, R. manuscript ( On the Nature of Correlative Inhibition) 1937Box 34, Folder 5 Dolk, Herman Elisa ( Geotropism and the Growth Substance) 1936

Historical noteTranslation by Mrs. Frans Dolk-Hoek and Kennetth V. Thimann, May 1933.

Box 34, Folder 6 Spallanzani unidentified manuscript ( New Study of the Arguments of Needman...)

circa 1930s-1950sBox 34, Folder 7 Very, Anne-Alienor ( Formation of channel-like structures...) 1996Box 34, Folder 8 Pickard, Barbara G. ( Mechanosensory Calcium Channels in Plant Cells) undatedBox 34, Folder 9 Carr, Dennis J. ( Plant Growth Substances...) 1971Box 34, Folder 10 Waterman-Storer and Holzbauer ( p150Glued interacts with...) 1994Box 34, Folder 11 Kobayashi ( Occurrence of Novel Enzymes...) 1993-1995Box 34, Folder 12 Leopold, Carl ( The Cholodny/Went Theory) 1991Box 34, Folder 13 A Possible Role for Actin in Cell Elongation undated

Scope and ContentIncludes photographs of figures.

Box 34, Folder 14 CRC Press correspondence 1976-1991Box 35, Folder 1-4 Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) manuscripts, figures,

correspondence 1953-1966, 1990-1995Physical Description: 4 folders

Box 35, Folder 5 Auxin papers 1968-1987Box 35, Folder 6 Wye College Plant-Growth Substances conference gallies 1955Box 35, Folder 7 Manuscript evaluations 1966-1988Box 35, Folder 8 Editorials, permissions 1957-1978Box 27,Folder 8-9,Box 36-37

Miscellaneous reprints of writings by others 1956-1994Physical Description: 19 foldersScope and ContentIncludes reprints of articles by various authors with which Thimann was associatedprofessionally, including Annette W. Coleman, Daneil J. Cosgrove and Zhen-Chang Li,Harold J. Evans, P.K. Helper, Erasmo Marre, B.W. Poovaiah and A.N.S. Reddy, TsviSachs, John G. Torrey, Bernhard Witkop, and others.

Box 37, Folder 6 Miscellaneous reprints: "root growth" 1965-1989Box 37, Folder 7 Miscellaneous reprints: "plant papers" 1973-1993Box 38, Folder 1 Miscellaneous reprints: "tropisms" 1981-1989Box 38, Folder 2 Miscellaneous reprints: "exudation" 1973-1980

Professional activity subject files Bulk, 1960-1990 1930-1996International Botanical Congress (IBC) files 1950-1988


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Box 38-115, 134 Professional activity subject files Bulk, 1960-1990 1930-1996Scope and ContentThis series primarily contains files on Thimann's activities within various national andinternational foundations, societies, associations, and other professional organizations, aswell as campus committees and other groups at both Harvard and the University ofCalifornia Santa Cruz. Materials include meeting minutes and agendas, bylaws, topical andfinancial reports, conference programs and proceedings, member lists, newsletters, pressreleases, memos, correspondence, grant applications, photographs, and other materialsrelated to Thimann's professional involvement with these groups. Also included in this seriesare correspondence and other materials related to Thimann's editorial work for scientificjournals and other publications, his consulting work for companies and institutions,international travel, and some materials related to his teaching career and lectures he gaveat various institutions. Additionally, Thimann kept a small number of subject files on variousresearch topics, which generally include correspondence, clippings, and other researchmaterials.

Box 38, Folder 3 Academic Press, Inc. 1968-1984, 1989Box 38, Folder 4 Académie d'Agriculture de France 1980-1988, 1995Box 38, Folder 5 Académie des Sciences (Institute de France) 1978-1988, 1994

Scope and ContentIncludes photographs.

Box 38, Folder 6 Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei 1967-1991Box 38, Folder 7 Aging 1980Box 38, Folder 8 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant 1974Box 38,Folder 9-10,Box 39, Folder 1-6

American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1964-1989, 1995-1996Physical Description: 8 folders

Box 40,Folder 1-5,Box 39, Folder 7-8

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1970-1978Physical Description: 7 foldersBiographical NoteThimann served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for theAdvancement of Science from 1968-1971.

Box 40, Folder 6 AAAS, San Francisco Meeting 1974Box 40,Folder 7-8,Box 41, Folder 1-2

AAAS, Committee on Public Understanding of Science 1972-1976Physical Description: 4 folders

Box 41, Folder 3 AAAS, Committee on Governance 1970-1971Box 41, Folder 4 American Association of University Professors 1970-1980Box 41, Folder 5 American Chemical Products 1964Box 41, Folder 6 American Chemical Society 1967Box 41, Folder 7 American Chemical Society, Chemical Abstracts 1930-1956Box 41, Folder 8 American Chlorophyll, Inc. 1932Box 41, Folder 9 American Council on Science and Health 1980-1981Box 41, Folder 10 American Horticultural Society Congress, Seattle 1972 American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) 1966-1987

Physical Description: 9 folders Box 41, Folder 11 First National Biological Congress 1970Box 41, Folder 12 Second National Biological Congress 1969-1971Box 41, Folder 13 Western Regional Council 1966-1967Box 41, Folder 14 Committee on Reorganization 1968-1973Box 41, Folder 15 American Tables Committee transcript, Naples 1967-1971



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Box 41, Folder 16 Meeting of Society of Presidents 1973Box 41, Folder 17 25th Anniversary Meeting 1966-1973Box 42, Folder 1-2 Bioscience 1966-1987

Physical Description: 2 folders Box 42, Folder 3 American Journal of Botany 1953-1966Box 42,Folder 4-8,Box 43, Folder 1-4

American Philosophical Society 1961-1995Physical Description: 9 folders

Box 43, Folder 5 American Society of Biological Chemists 1967-1988Box 43, Folder 6 American Society for Microbiology 1984Box 43, Folder 7 American Society for Photobiology 1972-1973Box 43-44,Box 134, Folder 1

American Society of Plant Physiologists (ASPP) 1949, 1963-1990Physical Description: 12 foldersScope and ContentIncludes group photograph of Symposium on Plant Growth attendees, University ofWisconsin, 1949.

Box 44, Folder 8 American Society of Plant Physiologists, Northeast section 1963-1965Box 44, Folder 9 American Society of Plant Physiologists, Riverside Meeting 1974Box 44, Folder 10 Annali Di Botanica, Rome 1984Box 44, Folder 11 Annual Review of Plant Physiology 1962-1985Box 44, Folder 12 Anstine v. Allied 1988Box 45, Folder 1 Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 1958-1969Box 45, Folder 2 Argonne National Laboratory 1957-1975Box 45, Folder 3 Asians in Science 1986Box 45, Folder 4 Association for Tropical Biology 1963-1981Box 45, Folder 5 Association of Plant Physiologists of SAARC Countries 1991Box 45, Folder 6 Atomic Energy Agency (International) 1962-1971Box 45, Folder 7 Australian National University 1985Box 45, Folder 8 Energy Research and Development Administration Plant Research Laboratory (AEC)

1976Box 45,Folder 9-11

Balzan Foundation correspondence 1982-1994Physical Description: 3 folders

Box 45, Folder 12 Balzan award acceptance photographs circa 1982-1983

Biographical noteThimann was awarded a Balzan Prize for Pure and Applied Botany in 1982.

Box 45, Folder 13 Balzan award press clippings, UCSC tribute 1982-1984Box 46, Folder 1 Balzan award publications 1982Box 46, Folder 2 Bangalore Conference, August 1985 (International Council on Scientific Unions)

1984-1985Box 46, Folder 3 Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company (Bioscience interview) 1979-1987Box 46, Folder 4 Bibliography on the Gibberellins and related topics circa 1956Box 46, Folder 5 Biochemical Sciences 1941-1972Box 46, Folder 6 Biochemical Society 1973-1984Box 46, Folder 7 Biological Abstracts 1965-1983Box 46, Folder 8 Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations (Advisory Committee) 1975Box 46, Folder 9 Biological Mechanisms in Aging conference 1980-1985, 1995Box 46, Folder 10 BioScience interview 1986



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Box 46-48 Biosciences Information Service (BIOSIS) 1970-1989Physical Description: 9 foldersBiographical noteThimann served on the board of trustees of the Biosciences Information Service in the1970s.

Box 48, Folder 2 Biosciences Information Service 50th Anniversary 1975-1977Box 48, Folder 3-6 Biotron National Advisory Committee 1971-1973 1971-1982

Physical Description: 4 folders Box 48, Folder 7 Pre-Biotron December 1959 conference 1959Box 48, Folder 8 Book orders 1967-1972Box 48, Folder 9 Botanical Gazette 1977-1981Box 48,Folder 10-11

Botanical Society of America 1960-1988Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 48, Folder 12 British Plant Growth Regulator Group 1983Box 49, Folder 1,Box 48, Folder 13

Brno, Czechoslovakia 1985 symposium (University of Agriculture) 1982-1988Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 49, Folder 2 Brookhaven National Laboratory 1948-1966Box 49, Folder 3 Brookhaven visiting committee 1964-1968Box 49, Folder 4 Brown University honorary degree 1989Box 49, Folder 5 Brown University seminar 1982-1987Box 49, Folder 6 Bulgaria (Symposium on Plant Grown Regulators) 1981-1986Box 49, Folder 7 Cabot Foundation ( Physiology of Forest Trees) 1957Box 49, Folder 8 Calgary meeting, Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists (CSPP)/International

Association of Plant Physiologists (IAPP) 1980Box 49, Folder 9 California Botanical Society 1977Box 49, Folder 10 California Horticulture Society 1977Box 49,Folder 11-12

California Legislature (Science and Technology Advisory Council) 1969-1970Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 49, Folder 13 California Native Plant Society 1975-1987Box 49, Folder 14 Canadian Journal of Botany and Forest Research 1964-1975Box 49, Folder 15 Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists 1958-1980

Scope and ContentIncludes group photograph of conference attendees at the 9th Annual ResearchConference in Plant Physiology in Saskatoon, 1958.

Box 49, Folder 16 Carleton University, Ottawa (International Conference on Plant Growth Substances)

1967-1969Box 49, Folder 17 Carleton University visit 1969Box 50, Folder 1 Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford University 1972-1983Box 50, Folder 2 Chemicals (purchasing correspondence) 1956-1982Box 50, Folder 3 University of Chicago lecture 1970-1971Box 50, Folder 4 China (trips, lectures) 1972-1990Box 50, Folder 5 CIBA-Geigy Corporation 1975Box 50, Folder 6 Coconut Symposium (International Symposium on Coconut Research and

Development) 1975-1976Box 50, Folder 7 Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) 1975Box 50, Folder 8 Commonwealth Club of California 1969-1974Box 50, Folder 9 Comprehensive Biochemistry (Elsevier Publishing Company) 1960-1979Box 50, Folder 10 Computing 1982-1985Box 50, Folder 11 Cornell University visits (seminars) 1961-1979Box 50, Folder 12 CRM Books (publishers) 1970-1975



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Box 50, Folder 13 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 1975Box 50, Folder 14 Commission on Undergraduate Education in the Biological Sciences (CUEBS)

1965-1969Box 50, Folder 15 Culture Media, etc. undatedBox 50, Folder 16 Culture requests 1969-1971Box 50, Folder 17 Cytokin Metabolism and Molecular Activities 1980Box 50, Folder 18 Death Valley field trip 1969Box 50, Folder 19,Box 51, Folder 1-5

DDT 1949-1975Physical Description: 6 foldersScope and ContentIncludes photocopied articles, reports, and correspondence related to the study of theenvironmental effects of DDT.

Box 51, Folder 6 Department of Defense 1974Box 51, Folder 7 Delta-T (Degagon Devices) 1986Box 51, Folder 8 Desert Research Institute 1978-1981Box 51, Folder 9,Box 52, Folder 1

Dolk, Herman 1930Physical Description: 2 foldersBiographical noteHerman Dolk was a plant physiologist with whom Thimann worked while at the CaliforniaInstitute of Technology in the early 1930s. Their work related to the isolation of thegrowth hormone auxin. Dolk died in an auto accident in 1933.Scope and ContentIncludes correspondence and research notes sent to and produced by Herman Dolk.Materials relate to the planning and construction of a biological laboratory at Caltech, thepurchase of books and laboratory supplies and equipment, and a publication in theAmerican Journal of Botany.

Box 52, Folder 2 Drugs and their effects 1971-1972Box 52, Folder 3 Duke University talk 1965Box 52, Folder 4 Eastern Europe 1986Box 52, Folder 5 Elsevier Publishing Company 1966-1973Box 52, Folder 6 Electron microscope 1972-1977Box oversize Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund trust document (photostat) 1958Box 52, Folder 7 Endocrinology group (University of California) 1973-1987Box 52, Folder 8 Energy 1974-1978Box 52, Folder 9 Environmental and Experimental Botany 1979Box 52, Folder 10 Environmental Studies 1976Box 52, Folder 11 Equipment & Natural Sciences building (UCSC) 1982-1988Box 52, Folder 12 Evolution 1978Box 52, Folder 13 Exhibits 1977Box 52, Folder 14 Fascination 1967Box 52, Folder 15 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 1963-1984Box 52, Folder 16 Federation of American Scientists 1975Box 52, Folder 17 Federation of Asian and Oceanic Biochemists congress, Singapore 1985-1987Box 52, Folder 18 Federation of Atomic Scientists 1948-1973Box 52, Folder 19 Films (botany) undatedBox 52, Folder 20 Filters 1947-1963Box 53, Folder 1 Florida State University 1978Box 52, Folder 2 Food and population 1974Box 54,Folder 1-2,Box 53, Folder 3-8

Forest History Society 1968-1977Physical Description: 8 foldersBiographical NoteThimann served on the board of the Forest History Society in the early 1970s, and wasthe chair of the Plant and Properties Committee during this time.



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Box 54, Folder 3-4 Forest maintenance and forestry (UCSC) 1969-1985Physical Description: 2 foldersScope and ContentIncludes forest maintenance maps of the University of California Santa Cruz campus.

Box 54-57 Foundation for Microbiology 1951-1991

Physical Description: 21 foldersBiographical NoteThimann served on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Foundation for Microbiologyin the late 1950s through the early 1960s, and on the Board of Trustees from the late1960s through the 1980s.

Box 57, Folder 4 Foundation of the Higher Council for Scientific Research 1964Box 57, Folder 5 Fulbright 1950-1981Box 57, Folder 6 Fundacion de Investigaciones Medicas, Cuba 1953Box 57, Folder 7 GAF Corporation v. Amchem Products 1979Box 57, Folder 8 Galeston 1986Box 57, Folder 9 Garden Magazine 1977-1978Box 57, Folder 10 Gibberellic Acid 1956-1974Box 57, Folder 11 Gif-sur-Yvette conference (Centre National de la Rechereche Scientifique) 1963

Scope and ContentIncludes photographs of conference.

Box 57, Folder 12 Gordon Research Conference on Plant Senescence 1984-1988

Scope and ContentIncludes group photographs of conference attendees.

Box 57, Folder 13 Greenhouse, growth chambers 1961-1987Box 58, Folder 1 Guggenheim fellowships 1988Box 58, Folder 2 Guillotine requests 1962-1969Box 58, Folder 3 Hall of Fame of Great Americans 1976-1977Box 58, Folder 4 Harcourt, Brace and Company (publishers) 1952-1957Box 58, Folder 5 Harvard University Archives 1976-1989

Related Archival MaterialsHarvard University Archives also maintains a collection of Thimann's papers: Papers ofKenneth V. Thimann, 1929-1988.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000604704/cataloghttp://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000604704/catalog



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Box 58-62,Box 134, Folder 3

Herbicides (2,4-D) Bulk, 1974-1987 1950-1987Physical Description: 27 foldersBiographical NoteThimann served as a consultant and expert witness for Dow Chemical Company, StaufferChemical, and other companies for several cases involving the public health effects of theherbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, both of which were used in the herbicide Agent Orange.Scope and ContentThese files primarily include articles, clippings, newsletters, press releases, reports, andother research material on the public health effects of the herbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T.Also included is correspondence with Dow Chemical and its legal representatives, andlegal documents such as briefs, memorandums, witness lists, direct testimonies, and trialtranscripts relating to one or more cases between the Environmental Protection Agencyand the Dow Chemical Company.Some files contain correspondence with Ronald L. Napier and other law firms aboutseveral cases involving these herbicides, including Dupree vs. Woodbury, et al., BryantDupree vs. Southern Mill Creek et al., and Jack Lee Smith vs. Naples Fruit & Vegetables.There is also correspondence relating to a 1981 California State Water Board hearing onthe use of 2,4-D, as well as correspondence with Thimann's colleagues in the scientificcommunity about the agricultural application of 2,4,5-T and other herbicides, their useduring the Vietnam War, and resulting public health concerns.

Box 62, Folder 5 Herman Frasch Foundation 1961-1966Box 62, Folder 6 Hermann Éditeurs Des Sciences Et Des Arts 1983Box 62, Folder 7 Heterosis 1956Box 62, Folder 8 History 1989Box 62, Folder 9 Hopkins Marine Station C. B. van Niel Memorial Lecture group photograph 1986Box 62, Folder 10 IAA-C14 indoleacetic acid 1960-1963Box 62, Folder 11 University of Illinois lecture 1984-1985Box 62, Folder 12 India: "matters arising & general" 1957-1978

Biographical noteThimann was a visiting professor for several universities in India in the summer of 1957under the U.S. Department of State International Educational Exchange Service.Scope and ContentIncludes photograph of Kenneth and Jane Thimann at the University of Poona (SavitribaiPhule Pune University), in Pune, India.

Box 62, Folder 13 Indian Agricultural Research Institute 1983Box 62, Folder 14 Indian Society for Plant Physiology 1959-1982Box 63, Folder 1-2 Indian Ph.D. exams 1954-1989

Physical Description: 2 foldersBiographical NoteThimann served as an examiner of several Ph.D. theses for students in India.

Box 63, Folder 3 Indiana University lecture 1972-1973Box 63, Folder 4 Indole Biochemistry and Gibberellin 1933-1973Box 63, Folder 5 Institut International 1983Box 63, Folder 6 Institute for Education Management report on UCSC 1963Box 63, Folder 7 Institute of Biology 1972Box 63,Folder 8-10

Institute of Experimental Botany international symposiums, Liblice 1984, 1987-1991Physical Description: 3 foldersScope and ContentIncludes photographs.

Box 64, Folder 1 Institute of Medical Research 1981-1982



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Box 64, Folder 2-4 International Association for Plant Physiology 1955-1987Physical Description: 3 folders

Box 64, Folder 5-8 International Biological Program (National Research Council) 1972-1976


International Botanical Congress (IBC) files 1950-1988Physical Description: 52 folders

Box 64, Folder 9 8th IBC, Paris 1950-1957Box 65, Folder 1 9th IBC, Montreal 1957-1959Box 65, Folder 2 10th IBC, Edinburgh 1953-1964 11th IBC, Seattle 1963-1970

Physical Description: 44 foldersBiographical noteThimann served as President of the XIth International Botanical Congress in 1969.

Box 65, Folder 3 11th IBC National Committee group photograph 1969Box 107,Folder 16

Entertainment 1968-1969

Box 107,Folder 17

Eriksson award 1969

Box 107,Folder 18

Exhibits 1969

Box 107,Folder 19

Field Trips 1968

Box 107,Folder 20

Foreign attendees 1968-1969

Box 107,Folder 21

Bulletins 1969

Box 108, Folder 1 Chailakhian (Russian attendee) 1968-1969Box 108, Folder 2 2nd circular 1967-1969Box 108, Folder 3 Executive Committee 1968-1969Box 108, Folder 4 Finance Committee 1967-1969Box 108, Folder 5 Committee on Future Congresses 1969Box 108, Folder 6 Host Committee 1969Box 108, Folder 7 Banquets 1968-1969Box 108, Folder 8 Budget 1967-1969Box 108, Folder 9 Invitations to Thimann 1969Box 108,Folder 10

Journal publications 1967-1968

Box 108,Folder 11

Medals 1968-1970

Box 108,Folder 12-13

General 1963-1969Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 108,Folder 14

National Committee 1968-1969

Box 108,Folder 15

Resolutions Committee 1969

Box 108,Folder 16

"Multi-Matters" 1968-1969

Box 109, Folder 1 Newsletters 1968-1969Box 109, Folder 2 Opening session 1969Box 109, Folder 3 Grant support 1965-1969



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Box 109, Folder 4 Invitations 1968-1969Box 109, Folder 5 Personal 1965-1969Box 109, Folder 6 Personnel- duties 1968Box 109, Folder 7 Pre-congress meetings 1968-1969Box 109, Folder 8 Proceedings 1969Box 109, Folder 9 Program 1969Box 109,Folder 10

Publication sales 1968-1969

Box 109,Folder 11

Minutes (various committees) 1968-1969

Box 109,Folder 12

Resolutions 1969

Box 109,Folder 13

Speakers 1968-1969

Box 109,Folder 14

Speech (Thimann) 1969

Box 110, Folder 1 Commemorative stamps 1968-1969Box 110, Folder 2 Travel support 1967-1969Box 110, Folder 3 Trip schedule and reservations 1968-1969Box 110,Folder 4-5

Vice Presidents 1968-1969Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 110, Folder 6 Symposia 1967-1969Box 110, Folder 7 Thank you letters 1969Box 65, Folder 4-5 12th IBC, Russia 1970-1974

Physical Description: 2 folders Box 65, Folder 6 13th IBC, Sydney 1974-1981Box 65, Folder 7 14th IBC, West Berlin 1987-1988Box 65, Folder 8 Committee on Future Congresses 1959-1973

Box 65, Folder 9

International Congress of Biochemistry, USSR 1960-1962

Box 65, Folder 10

International congresses, general 1949-1971

Box 66, Folder 1-2, Box 65, Box 11-12

International Photobiology Congress 1957-1968


Box 66, Folder 3

International Plant Growth Conference (Boyce Thompson) 1959-1961

Scope and Content

Includes group photograph of conference attendees.

Box 66, Folder 4

International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) 1970-1975



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International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) conference files 1970-1988


Box 66, Folder 5-8

IPGSA 1973 Conference, Tokyo 1970-1974


Box 66, Folder 9

IPGSA 9th Conference, Lausanne 1974-1978

Box 67, Folder 1

IPGSA 10th Conference, Madison 1978-1981

Box 67, Folder 2

IPGSA 11th Conference, Aberystwyth 1981-1983

Box 67, Folder 3

IPGSA 12th Conference, Heidelberg 1985-1986

Box 67, Folder 4

IPGSA 13th Conference, Calgary 1987-1988

Scope and Content

Includes photographs.

Box 67, Folder 5

International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) history 1988

Box 67, Folder 6

International Plant Propagators Society Banquet, St. Paul 1970

Box 67, Folder 7

International Review of Cytology 1976

Box 67, Folder 8

International Textbook Company 1970

Box 68, Folder 1, Box 67, Folder 9-12

International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) 1950-1984


Box 68, Folder 2-3



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International Union of Biological Sciences: XVII General Assembly 1970


Box 68, Folder 4

International Union of Biological Sciences: 1976 Meeting, Bangalore 1974-1977

Box 68, Folder 5

Invitations, various 1965-1972

Box 68, Folder 6

Iowa State University Loomis Lecture 1983-1984

Box 68, Folder 7-8

Isotopes, chemicals, equipment 1952-1988


Box 68, Folder 9

Israel visit 1984

Box 69, Folder 1

Izmir, Turkey (NATO Advanced Study Institute on Plant Regulation) 1978-1983

Box 69, Folder 2

Japan trip & Japan miscellaneous 1972-1973

Scope and Content

Includes photographs.

Box 69, Folder 3

Japan-U.S. Cooperative Science Program 1964-1974

Box 69, Folder 4

John Innes Institute 1977

Box 69, Folder 5

Johns Hopkins University McCollum-Pratt Institute Symposium 1960

Box 69, Folder 6

Journals (sale, donations) 1974-1988

Box 69, Folder 8

Kettering Research Laboratory 1983

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Kirkland & Ellis 1980-1983

Scope and Content

Includes correspondence and testimony drafts for Dow Chemical federal hearings before the Environmental ProtectionAgency about the use of the herbicide 2,4,5-T. See Herbicides files in the Professional activity subject files series for relatedmaterial.

Box 69, Folder 10

Lalor Foundation 1951-1962

Box 69, Folder 11

Lambada Institute (Porometer) 1977-1983

Box 69, Folder 12

Lamps 1946-1964

Box 69, Folder 13

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 1977-1984

Box 70, Folder 1

Leopoldina 1978-1987

Box 70, Folder 2

Library: UCSC & Crown College 1979-1989

Box 70, Folder 3

Life Lab Science Program, Green Acres 1983-1988

Box 70, Folder 4

"Lighter material" (humor) 1940-1965

Box 70, Folder 5

Little, Arthur D. 1952-1963

Box 70, Folder 6

U.S. National Commission Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) 1973

Box 70, Folder 7

Macmillan Publishers 1950-1972

Box 70, Folder 8

Macmillan Publishers ( The Life of Bacteria and Biology of Bacteria) 1952-1966

Box 70, Folder 9

Magazine subscriptions 1968-1971

Box 70, Folder 10

Mark Twain Society 1977-1980



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Box 70, Folder 11

Marquette University Wehr Science Center Dedication 1967

Box 70, Folder 12

McGill University lecture 1968

Box 70, Folder 13

McKnight Foundation 1982-1989

Box 70, Folder 14

Mercury and Better Times Roses (case and experiments) 1957-1958

Box 70, Folder 15-16

Michigan State University Advisory Board: Plant Research Lab 1965-1970


Box 70, Folder 17

Michigan State University lab dedication symposium 1966-1967

Box 71, Folder 1

Michigan State University symposium 1977-1978

Box 71, Folder 2

Monochromators (Bausch & Lomb) 1964-1979

Box 71-82,110-112

National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 1962-1995Physical Description: 91 foldersBiographical noteThimann served on several committees for the National Academy of Sciences. Below is alisting of known committee memberships and positions:Chairman, Botany Section (1963-1965)U.S. Committee for the International Biological Committee (1965)Class II Membership Committee (1966)Chairman, Class II Membership Committee (1967)Council (1968-1972)Nominating Committee for President and Vice President (1972)Executive Committee, Assembly of Life Sciences (1973-1976)

Processing informationThimann's National Academy of Science files, while originally arranged in roughchronological order, were arranged alphabetically for ease of use.

Box 71, Folder 3-4 Annual meetings 1968, 1970

Physical Description: 2 folders Box 72,Folder 1-6,Box 71, Folder 5-8

Assembly of Life Sciences (ALS): general files 1973-1985Physical Description: 10 folders

Professional activity subject files Bulk, 1960-1990 1930-1996National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 1962-1995


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Box 72, Folder 7 Assembly of Life Sciences: budget and authorization request 1975Box 72, Folder 8 Assembly of Life Sciences: Division of Biological Sciences 1975Box 72, Folder 9 Assembly of Life Sciences: Executive Committee meeting minutes 1975Box 72, Folder 10 Assembly of Life Sciences: National Research Council agendas and meetings 1975Box 73, Folder 1 Biographical memoir: David R. Goddard 1985-1991Box 73, Folder 2 Board of Trustees of the Charles Doolittle Walcott Fund 1971-1976Box 73, Folder 3 Committee on Jojoba Utilization report 1974-1975Box 73, Folder 4-5 Committee on Photobiology 1962-1965

Physical Description: 2 folders Box 73, Folder 6-9 Committee on Plant Science Planning 1962-1966

Physical Description: 4 folders Box 74, Folder 1 Committee on Report Reviews 1970Box 74, Folder 2-7 Committee on Research Advisory to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

1969-1973Physical Description: 6 folders

Box 75, Folder 1-2 Committee on Research Advisory to USDA: Subcommittee to Evaluate Research in

Biochemical Sciences in Agriculture 1970-1971Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 75, Folder 3 Committee on Research Advisory to USDA: USDA regional laboratory site visit

(Albany, California) 1970Box 75, Folder 4-7 Committee on Scholarly Communications with Mainland China 1969-1971, 1975

Physical Description: 4 folders Box 75, Folder 8 Committee on Science and Public Policy 1962-1969Box 75, Folder 9 Committee on Science and Public Policy: Plant Sciences Report 1965-1977Box 75, Folder 10,Box 76, Folder 1-4

Council 1968-1972Physical Description: 5 folders

Box 76, Folder 5-6 Class II Committee 1973-1974

Physical Description: 2 folders Box 76, Folder 7 Division of Biology and Agriculture 1953-1966

Scope and ContentIncludes group photograph of participants in the Conference on Mitogenesis andMorphogenesis, 1953.

Box 76-80 NAS general files 1963-1995

Physical Description: 31 foldersScope and ContentIncludes programs, correspondence, memos, meeting minutes and agendas, reports,manuscript drafts, nomination files, and other materials related to Thimann'sinvolvement with the National Academy of Sciences.

Box 80, Folder 6 Nominating Committee 1974-1975Box 80, Folder 7,Box 81, Folder 1-4

Nominations 1972-1978, 1984, 1994Physical Description: 5 folders

Box 81, Folder 5-7 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1973, 1976-1977




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Space Science Board 1962-1973Biographical noteThimann chaired the Conference on Space Biology in the summer of 1969 at UCSC'sCrown College in his capacity as a member of the Space Biology Board of the NationalAcademy of Sciences.Related materialsFor more materials related to the Space Science Board, see Thimann's files on theNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Box 82, Folder 1 Space biology 1962-1964Box 110, Folder 8 Study on Space Science and applications priorities 1970Box 110, Folder 9 Summer Space Study declined invitations 1969Box 111,Folder 1-2

Space Biology summer study report 1969Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 111, Folder 3 Summer Space Study lists and miscellaneous 1969Box 111,Folder 4-5

Space Science Board meeting 1970Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 111, Folder 6 Biosatellite II report 1967-1968Box 112, Folder 1 NASA Life Sciences Program, Woods Hole 1970Box 112,Folder 2-6

NASA report (Summer Space Study) 1969-1973Physical Description: 5 folders

Box 82, Folder 2 Strategic Defense Initiative "Star Wars" newspaper clippings 1985Box 82, Folder 3 Vietnam Herbicides 1974-1976

Box 82, Folder 4-10

Naples station (Stazione Zoologica) 1961-1983


National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 1965-1984

Related materials

For more materials related to NASA and the Space Science Board, see Thimann's files on the Space Science Board in theNational Academy of Sciences (NAS) subseries.

Box 82, Folder 11

Space biology/Space Science Program 1970-1984

Box 83, Folder 1

Mars exploration 1969

Box 83, Folder 2

Symposium on the Biosatellite II Experiments, Washington D.C. 1968

Box 83, Folder 3-4

NASA General 1965-1973



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Box 83, Folder 5

National Institute on Aging 1972-1980

Box 83, Folder 6

National Institutes of Health 1977-1986

National Science Foundation (NSF) 1959-1990


Box 83, Folder 7

UCSC contracts and grants memos 1982-1988

Box 83, Folder 8

National Science Board 1965-1972

Box 83-85

NSF grant files 1965-1982


Scope and Content

Thimann's National Science Foundation grant files include grant proposals, reports, memos, correspondence, and othermaterials related to a series of grants Thimann secured to support his laboratory and research at the University ofCalifornia Santa Cruz.

Box 85, Folder 2-3

NSF grant renewal 1983-1988


Box 85, Folder 4

NSF grant orders 1976-1979

Box 85, Folder 5

NSF grant statements 1976-1988


NSF general files 1962-1990




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Box 86, Folder 2

Division of Biological and Medica Science 1959-1965

Box 86, Folder 3

Proposals (evaluations) 1972-1976

Box 86, Folder 4

Conference on Neotropical Botany, Trinidad 1962

Box 86, Folder 5

National Symposia on Progress in Hormonal Research (School of Life Sciences, Indore, India) 1994-1995

Box 86, Folder 6

New Root Formation in Plants & Cuttings (Jackson) 1983-1985

Box 86, Folder 7

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Study Institute 1971

Box 86, Folder 8

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Study Institute, Parma 1977-1983

Box 86, Folder 9

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) grant 1983-1986

Box 87, Folder 1, Box 86, Folder 10

North Carolina State University Botany Department report 1976-1978


Box 87, Folder 2

Northern California Freedom From Hunger Committee 1966

Box 87, Folder 3

NOVA TV series 1978

Box 87, Folder 4

Nuclear energy 1980

Box 87, Folder 5

Oberlin College seminar 1965-1966

Box 87, Folder 6

Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress) 1984-1985

Box 87, Folder 7

Ohio State University: Waller lecture, etc. 1977-1978

Box 87, Folder 8



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Operations Research Group (U.S. Navy) 1945

Box 87, Folder 9

Oregon State University Department of Botany and Plant Biology report 1969

Box 87, Folder 10

Organization for Tropical Studies, Inc. 1974-1977

Box 87, Folder 11

Ozone 1976

Box 87, Folder 12

Pacific Horticultural Foundation 1980-1981

Box 87, Folder 13

Pacific Science Association 1975

Box 87, Folder 14

Paris-Sorbonne University visit 1972


Patents 1934-1947, 1980-1992


Scope and Content

Includes correspondence, patent claims, affidavits, pleadings, and other materials related to Thimann’s consultation inseveral patent cases involving weed-killing agents and plant growth hormones. Thimann consulted in Sherwin Williams vs.American Chemical Paint Company, Merck & Co. et al. vs. Pennsylvania Chemical Corporation, GAF Corporation vs.Amchem Products, Inc., and other cases. Also includes correspondence, notes, and records of invention for a patent on anoxygen-measuring device Thimann pursued while at the University of California Santa Cruz in the 1980s, as well as a 1949patent for green camouflage paint.

Box 88, Folder 2

Photometers 1966-1981

Box 88, Folder 3

Phycological Society of America 1987-1988

Box 88, Folder 4

Physiologia Plantarum 1988

Box 88, Folder 5

Plant actin project grant (University of Pennsylvania) 1990-1991

Box 88, Folder 6-8

Plant Genetics, Inc. 1981-1989




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Box 88, Folder 9

Plant Growth Regulation (journal) 1981

Box 88, Folder 10

Plant Growth Regulator Society of America annual meetings 1982-1988

Box 88, Folder 11

Plant Growth Regulator Working Group bulletins 1973-1984

Box 89, Folder 1

Plant Physiology journal reviews 1977-1983

Box 89, Folder 2

Plant Population Ecology undated

Box 89, Folder 3

Plant Science Monographs and World Crops 1973

Box 89, Folder 4

Plenum Publishing Corporation 1967-1970

Box 89, Folder 5

President's Committee on the National Medal of Science 1962-1988

Box 89, Folder 6

President's Food and Nutrition Study 1974

Box 89, Folder 7

Princeton University Advisory Council of the Department of Biology 1950-1951

Box 89, Folder 8, Box 155

Princeton University Bicentennial Conference on Chemistry and Physiology of Growth 1946

Scope and Content

Includes group photograph and list of conference attendees.

Box 89, Folder 9

Princeton University Cytoplasmic Streaming symposium 1963

Box 89, Folder 10

Purines 1958

Box 89, Folder 11

Radcliffe College East House 1961-1963

Scope and Content

Includes Executive Committee meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, and brochures. Includes a thank you notefrom Eleanor Roosevelt.



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Box 89, Folder 12

Recommendations to universities 1967-1972

Box 89, Folder 13

Recorder (photographs) undated

Box 89, Folder 14-15

Redwood Institute Research Program (UCSC) 1978-1986


Box 90, Folder 1

Respirometer 1989

Box 90, Folder 2

Romania Academy Exchange visit 1968-1971

Box 90, Folder 3

Roussel Scientific Institute 1984-1985

Box 90, Folder 4-6

Royal Society (England) 1968-1996


Box 90, Folder 7

Royal Society of Edinburgh 1964

Box 90, Folder 8

Royal Society of Chemistry 1988

Box 90, Folder 9

Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) lecture series 1980-1991

Box 90, Folder 10

Saint Louis visit (Monsanto) 1981-1982

Box 90, Folder 11

Salinas seminar (U.S. Agricultural Research Station) 1982

Box 90, Folder 12

Santa Cruz High School 1982

Box 90, Folder 13

Santa Cruz Organization for Progress and Euthenics (SCOPE) 1978



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Box 90, Folder 14

Saratoga Horticultural Foundation 1971

Box 90, Folder 15

Schools (correspondence with grade school students) 1980-1985, undated

Box 91, Folder 1

Science (journal) 1963-1985

Box 91, Folder 2

Science Writing Program (UCSC) 1978-1988

Box 91, Folder 3

Scientific American 1950-1980

Box 91, Folder 4

Scientists for Orlov and Shcharansky 1979-1980

Box 91, Folder 5

Seeds 1960-1988

Box 91, Folder 6

Senescence and aging 1983-1988

Box 91, Folder 7

Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology visit 1985

Box 91, Folder 8

Smithsonian Institution (general) 1968-1986

Box 91, Folder 9

Society for Developmental Biology 1947-1979

Box 91, Folder 10

Society for the Study of Growth and Development 1946

Box 91, Folder 11

Society of American Bacteriologists 1953-1961

Box 91, Folder 12

Society of General Physiologists 1989

Box 91, Folder 13

Society of General Physiologists meeting, Storrs Connecticut 1956

Box 92, Folder 1-3

Society of Sigma XI (Harvard University) 1948-1967




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Box 92, Folder 4

Sorbonne University 1954-1955

Box 92, Folder 5

South Africa visit (South African Association of Botanists) 1975-1976

Box 92, Folder 6

Space Sciences 1975

Box 92, Folder 7

Spray-N-Grow 1977-1987

Box 92, Folder 8

Springer-Verlag Publishers 1969-1987

Box 92, Folder 9

Stanford Research Institute (consulting) 1968-1970

Box 92, Folder 10

Stock (inventory of chemicals, UCSC) 1982

Box 92, Folder 11

Stomata 1983

Student work


Undergraduate student theses 1939-1952


Scope and Content

Includes the theses of David Kaufman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Wiley F. Barker, Joel Rothschild, RuthReichart, and Kevin J. Fenton (Harvard University).

Box 162

Course reports (Harvard) 1950-1954

Access

Student records, including student work, are restricted 75 years after the date of creation. This folder is restricted until2029.

Box 162

Course reports and undergraduate thesis (UCSC) 1971-1983



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Access

Student records, including student work, are restricted 75 years after the date of creation. This folder is restricted until2058.

Box 93, Folder 3

Symposium on roots (Institute on Experimental Biology and Ecology) 1979

Box 93, Folder 4

Syracuse University visit (evaluation of Botany Department) 1970

Box 93, Folder 5

Table Ronde Roussel ("Plant Growth Regulators") 1971-1972

Scope and Content

Includes conference photographs.

Box 93, Folder 6

Tannery Sludge 1979-1980

Box 93, Folder 7

Taxonomy 1981-1982

Box 93, Folder 8

Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin 1959-1976

Box 93, Folder 9

Tropisms 1978, 1982

Box 93, Folder 10

Tropisms review 1979

Box 93, Folder 11

Union of Concerned Scientists 1982

University of California (UC) 1966-1989

Box 94, Folder 1

UC Agricultural Task Force 1973-1976

Box 94, Folder 2

UC Berkeley History of Science (courses) 1978-1979

Box 94, Folder 3

UC Committee on Academic Freedom 1979

Box 94, Folder 4



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UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara 1966-1983

Box 94, Folder 5

UC general 1966-1989

Box 94, Folder 6

UC Irvine 1974-1985

Box 94, Folder 7

UC President's Visiting Committee (Campus Advisory Committee) 1979-1981

Box 94, Folder 8

UC Riverside Annual Symposium on Plant Physiology 1979-1989

Scope and Contents note

Includes floppy disk.

Box 95, Folder 1

UC/Southern University Joint Program 1984

University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) 1961-1994Physical Description: 11 boxesScope and ContentIncludes correspondence, memos, newspaper clippings, reports, photographs, and othermaterials related to his role as provost of Crown College and professor of Biology, and hisparticipation in a variety of campus committees and groups, most notably the UCSCArboretum Affiliates and the Crown Chamber Players.

Box 95, Folder 2 Academic Plan 1977-1979Box 95, Folder 3 Accounting student scores 1986Box 95, Folder 4 Admissions newspaper clippings 1978-1982Box 162 Ad Hoc Committees 1969-1981

AccessPersonnel records are restricted 75 years after the date of creation. This folder isrestricted until 2056.Scope and ContentIncludes personnel records related to faculty appointments and reviews.

Box 95, Folder 5 Advance calendar 1980-1983Box 95, Folder 6 Advanced Placement 1978Box 95, Folder 7 UCSC Affiliates 1978-1983

Scope and Contents noteIncludes photographs and negatives.

Box 95, Folder 8 Affirmative Action 1978-1980Box 95, Folder 9 Affirmative Action Cooperative Extension Program report 1980Box 95, Folder 10 Affirmative Action Personnel Program 1976-1983Box 95, Folder 11 Anthropology 1978-1981

Professional activity subject files Bulk, 1960-1990 1930-1996University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) 1961-1994


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UCSC Arboretum 1961-1994Physical Description: 27 foldersScope and ContentThimann's Arboretum files include correspondence, memos, meeting minutes andagendas of the Arboretum Associates and other Arboretum committees, pressreleases, newsletters, newspaper and magazine clippings, blueprints, slides, and othermaterial related to the planning, development, and funding of the UCSC Arboretum.

Box 95, Folder 12 Building 1985-1988Box 96, Folder 1 Arboretum Committee 1989Box 96, Folder 3 Arboretum/Gardeners of Monterey Bay Area 1975-1986Box 96, Folder 2 Fundraising 1985-1989Box 96, Folder 4 Land 1983-1988Box 96, Folder 5-7 Arboretum and Plantations Committee (Arboretum Advisory Committee)

1967-1986Physical Description: 3 folders

Box 96, Folder 8 Publicity 1979-1987Box 97, Folder 1 Training fellowships 1976-1989Box 97, Folder 2 Tree crews 1971-1973Box 97, Folder 3 William Libby "At Home and Abroad" lecture slides circa 1981Box 98,Folder 1-5,Box 97, Folder 4-8

Arboretum general files 1961-1984Physical Description: 10 folders

Box 99,Folder 1-6,Box 98, Folder 6-7

Arboretum general/Arboretum Associates 1984-1994Physical Description: 8 folders

Box 99, Folder 7 Art, murals (clippings, photographs) 1976-1980Box 99, Folder 8 Arts Fest 1979Box 99, Folder 9 Asian American Studies 1978, 1982Box 99, Folder 10 Athletics upgrading 1979-1985Box 99, Folder 11 Attrition study 1978Box 100, Folder 1 Audit (system wide) 1977Box 100, Folder 2 Audits (general) 1979-1982Box 100, Folder 3 Career Services student employment 1986Box 100, Folder 4 Chancellor search committee 1974Box 100, Folder 5 Committee for reviewing research projects/Faculty Research Lecture Committee

1982-1986Box 100,Folder 6-7

Committee on Academic Freedom 1976-1979Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 100, Folder 8 Committee on Arts and Lectures 1977-1981Box 100, Folder 9 Committee on Committees 1984-1985Box 100,Folder 10

Committee on the 18th Year/20-Year Plan 1977-1985

Box 101,Folder 1-8,Box 102,Folder 1-6

Crown Chamber Players 1967-1996Physical Description: 14 foldersBiographical noteThimann founded the UCSC Crown Chamber Players with his wife Mary Ann BatemanThimann in 1966 while serving as Provost of Crown College.Scope and ContentIncludes programs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, financial statements, andother material related to the development, funding, and management of the UCSCCrown Chamber Players.



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Box 102,Folder 7-8

Environmental Field Program 1978-1981Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 103, Folder 1 Environmental Studies Internship Program 1978-1982Box 103, Folder 2 UCSC Extension 1973-1986Box 103, Folder 3 Herbicides 1975Box 103, Folder 4 Kenneth and Anne Thimann Scholarship 1984-1994Box 103, Folder 5 Landscape Design Master's degree proposal 1979-1980Box 103, Folder 6 Marine Studies 1977-1985Box 162 Natural Sciences Dean search committee 1980

AccessThis folder is restricted until 2040.Scope and ContentIncludes personnel records.

Box 103, Folder 7 Network for Excellence in Education 1984-1986Box 103, Folder 8 Office move 1989Box 103, Folder 9 Open House 1979

Scope and Contents noteIncludes photographs and negatives.

Box 103,Folder 10

Open University 1977

Box 103,Folder 11

Public affairs 1977-1989

Box 103,Folder 12

Re-entry Program 1978,1986

Box 103,Folder 13

Regents investments/Special Committee on Social Responsibility in Investment1978, 1983

Box 103,Folder 14

Regional History Project 1987, 1990Historical noteThe UCSC Regional History Office conduced an oral history of Thimann in 1987entitled Kenneth V. Thimann: Early UCSC History and the Founding of Crown College.It can be viewed on eScholarship at escholarship.org/uc/item/7zs703vf .

Box 103,Folder 15

Research Opportunity Fund 1983-1989

Box 103,Folder 16

Retirement benefits 1985-1986

Box 104, Folder 1,Box 103,Folder 17

Seminars and talks 1967-1985Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 104, Folder 2 UCSC services 1988Box 104, Folder 3 Smoking regulations 1982Box 104, Folder 4 Social Research Unit 1980Box 104, Folder 5 Southeast Asian Studies 1980-1982Box 104, Folder 6 Thursday Lunch Group (UCSC campus planning) 1986-1988

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7zs703vf



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Box 104-106 UCSC General files 1964-1989Physical Description: 14 foldersScope and ContentThimann’s general UCSC files primarily include memos, correspondence, and reportscirculated to the university administration, the academic senate, faculty, and thegeneral campus on a variety of topics related to the planning, growth, organization,and governance of UCSC. Topics covered in most files include administrative andfaculty appointments, narrative evaluations and the grade option, enrollment,affirmative action, student services, employee benefits, sexual harassment, parking,housing, campus planning, campus reorganization, campus facilities,community-university relations, the Research and Development Center, and the LongRange Development Plan.

Box 106,Folder 3-4

Late UCSC-related correspondence and clippings 1990-1996Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 106, Folder 5

University of Kentucky seminar 1978-1979

Box 106, Folder 6

University of Madras international symposium 1980-1981

Box 106, Folder 7

University of Missouri biological sciences panel 1967

Box 106, Folder 8

University of Nebraska visit 1973, 1980

Box 106, Folder 9

University of Rochester 1976

Box 106, Folder 10

University of Santa Clara Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference 1980

Box 106, Folder 11

University of Saskatchewan visit 1963-1965

Box 106, Folder 12

University of Singapore group photograph 1976

Box 106, Folder 13

University of Wisconsin lecture 1980

Box 106, Folder 14

University of Wisconsin symposium (Pathogenesis and Metabolism in Plants) 1964-1965

Box 106, Folder 15

U.S. Department of Agriculture 1971-1987

Box 107, Folder 1



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USSR (scientists in Soviet Union) 1959-1973

Box 107, Folder 2

United Nations (Americans for the Universality of UNESCO) 1984-1986

Box 107, Folder 3

Vanderbilt University visit 1968-1972

Box 107, Folder 4

Vanilla (reprints) 1919-1959

Box 107, Folder 5

Wake Forest University tutorial program 1988-1989

Box 107, Folder 6

Weizmann Centenary Celebration 1974

Box 107, Folder 7

What's New in Plant Physiology 1980-1986

Box 107, Folder 8

Wolf Foundation 1987-1988

Box 107, Folder 9

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship selection committee (Tufts University) 1964-1965, 1973

Box 107, Folder 10

Worth Publishers 1966

Box 107, Folder 11

Yale University (Kline Biology Tower) 1968

Box 107, Folder 12

Zenk, Meinhart H. biographical material undated

Box 134, Folder 4

Zesde Internationaal Botanisch Congres attendees, Amsterdam 1935

Box 107, Folder 13

Zoecon Corporation 1973-1974

Box 107, Folder 14

Zoological matters 1979

Box 107, Folder 15

Miscellaneous unidentified lab photographs, Harvard circa 1930s-1950s

Box 113

Department of Education San Diego Specialized Teacher Project circa 1960s

Documents

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