Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor Ernst Mayr concerning developments in the Department of Biology at Harvard

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 198/2/2/10/10
• Dates of Creation:6 May 1958
• Physical Description:
  1 letter (2 pages)

• Scope and Content

  In his letter he explains that James Dewey ("Jim") Watson was unanimously recommended for promotion to Associate Professor and given full tenure and how he had a chat with McGeorge Bundy about Pontecorvo's concerns about moving to Harvard to take up a position there.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Mayr was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. The Library of Comparative Zoology at Harvard was renamed the Ernst Mayr Library in 1995.

• Personal Names

  Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005, biologist,

  Watson, James Dewey, 1928-, molecular biologist, geneticist, and Nobel Prize winner,

• Corporate Names

  Harvard University, c1636-,