A Guide to the Genetics Collections at the APS
Major Collections


Hubert Dana Goodale Papers

Animal breeder and geneticist. b. 1879. d. 1968.

About 1919 to 1956. Ca. 11,000 items (27 In. ft.). An American pioneer in poultry and cattle genetics, Goodale spent almost his entire professional life, from 1922 to 1962, as the geneticist at the Mount Hope Farm in Williamstown, Mass. In addition to correspondence relating to poultry genetics and egg production, there are significant files of breeding records and data on heredity and the genetics of race. About 50 notebooks kept by Goodale are in addition to some 62 volumes of the Mt. Hope Poultry Farm records from 1919 to 1956. The collection includes photographs.

Table of contents, 17 pp. Presented by Mrs. Goodale and Marion P. Goodale, 1969-72.

Collection abstract


Selected files
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  • Bohren, B.B.
  • Davenport, C.B.
  • Davis, H.P.
  • Demerec, M.
  • Dunn, L.C.
  • Godfrey, Edward F.
  • Gowen, John W.
  • Graham, John C.
  • Hurst, Charles C.
  • Kyle, Wendell, H.
  • Landauer, Walter
  • Lerner, I. Michael
  • Morgan, T.H.
  • Nonidez, José F.
  • Prentice, Ezra
  • Parmalee Prentice, J.
  • Rockefeller
  • Smith, Theobald
  • Wright, Sewall

Additional correspondence of Goodale may be found in the Davenport Papers (86 items, 1911-33).

 

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