Dr. Elof Axel Carlson, a graduate student of H.J. Muller's at Indiana University, a geneticist, and a historian of genetics, donated this collection to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives. He began gathering the material in this collection while studying with H.J. Muller, although he obtained the bulk of the collection while conducting research for Genes, Radiation and Society, his biography of H.J. Muller. He received materials from Dorothea Muller (the wife of H.J. Muller), from friends and correspondents of H.J. Muller, and by copying materials from collections at the Lilly Library at Indiana University and other libraries. He also took some reprints from the Demerec and Davenport reprint collections, currently housed in the basement of the Banbury Center at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Elof Carlson Collection of Hermann Muller, 1907-1982