"A fossil was found in Samoa, / Of a species entountered no mo-a, / Possessed of a form / That was far above norm / But constructed so no man could know her.* / *The authors gratefully acknowledge that this study was made with the aid of a boost from the Budweiser Foundation for Social Improvement."
, 1955
"Amitosis is a means / For unlike quantities of genes / To enter daughter nuclei, / Causing many cells to die."
, 1955
"Beta Blockers in the treatment of hypertension," slides and letter from Richard H. Roberts, GEIGY Pharmaceuticals, c.1960s
"DNA Models and Reality," drafts and notes (2 of 4), 1968
"Evolution by mutation," manuscript copy
, 1958
"For a monk Gregor Mendel was odd, / Quitting cloisters to work with the sod. / Thus no treatise on ethics / But the laws of genetics / Were told off by the peas from his pod."
, 1955
"Haldane's Organic Soup", "Hid within a Primeval Tureen / (Though denied by the knave Oparin) / There arose DNA / Or a unit, let's say, / That Muller maintains was THE GENE. / Thus 'twas out of a chemical ooze / Nature fashioned this unit to use. / Was this gene, so unseen, DNA or protein? / That depends on the teacher you choose.", 1955
"Honest Jim" manuscript by J.D. Watson, 1967
"Hunting for the Helix." by Robert Olby, Chapters 19, 20, and 21, handwritten notes by Hamilton, 1974
"I used to read my magazine / 'Til it was sprayed with Triazine. / LITERATURE CITED / 1. Bird / 2. Herskowitz and Schalet / 3. Rapaport / 4. Schalet"
, 1955
"On the second floor of Jordan Hall / Muller and Sonneborn have a ball. / Nucleus and Cytoplasm are a seller / With all that dough from Rockefeller!* / *No connection with any existing organization is implied.", 1955
"Radiation hazards in medicine," handwritten manuscript
, c. 1958
"Said a man who is known as Lamarck, / Of giraffes eating leaves in a Park: / 'One thing is true / Of our friends in the zoo, / When the leaves are all gone they'll eat bark.'"
, 1955
"The Double Helical Pill or How I Planned to Steal a Nobel Prize," for the New Yorker, notes and draft, 1968
"The History of the Development of the Molecular Strucutre of DNA." Comments and letter from Warren Weaver to Dusty (CP Rhoads), 1957, 1955 - 1957
"The Hot Polar Bears* / Fallout ash in the North left a bear / With a few sperm alive and to spare, / But when he met a she / And they made number three / The cub froze-- 'twas deficient for hair. / *Study made under the auspices of the International Commission for Radiological protection of bears."
, 1955
"The double helix and the 'wronged heroine'," Brenda Maddox; notes, reviews of the articles, 2002 - 2003
"There once was a fruit-fly named Joan, / Whose affair with a brash Protozoan / Gave results aggravating / When, soon after the mating, / All her offspring flew off as a clone."
, 1955
'Darwin's Achievement' [handwritten sketch and article for an International Humanist meeting], 1958
'Evolution in the Light of the Modern Mutation Theory' original handwritten manuscript, n.d.
'On the Calculation of Number of Loci Separately Producing a Given Recessive Phenotype' corrected draft, never published?, n.d.
'Talk to Drosophila Group of Inst. On Mutation Technique', 1939
'The Enigma of the Gene and of Its Mutation' original handwritten abstract, n.d.