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462 Index<br />

Mayr, Christa (daughter, Mrs. Menzel)<br />

310<br />

Mayr, Ernst<br />

– Ancestry 10–11<br />

– Brothers 12–15<br />

– Daily routine 288, 302–303<br />

– Family 8–14, 104–105, 245, 310–311<br />

–Parents 11<br />

– Wedding 102<br />

–Personality(q.v.)<br />

Mayr, Helene (mother) 9–11<br />

Mayr, Margarete (‘Gretel,’ wife) 102–105,<br />

311<br />

Mayr, Otto (father) 8–11<br />

Mayr, Susanne (daughter, Mrs. Harrison)<br />

310<br />

Medical student 23<br />

Meise, Wilhelm 36, 43, 48, 129, 240<br />

Meyer, Father Otto 68<br />

Meyer de Schauensee, Rodolphe 112<br />

Miller, Alden H. 112, <strong>123</strong>, 197<br />

Moore, John A. 136, 297<br />

Move to Cambridge, Massachusetts 256<br />

Murphy, Robert Cushman 26, 78–79, 118,<br />

131, 144<br />

Museum colleagues 118–119<br />

Museum exhibitions, biological 43<br />

Museum of Natural History Berlin 35<br />

Museum tasks 116–118<br />

Mutationists 45<br />

National Academy of Sciences 312<br />

National Science Foundation 311<br />

National Socialist (Nazi) regime 299<br />

Native hunters 58, 84–85<br />

Naturalist <strong>and</strong> observer 7, 378<br />

Natural selection 48, 226, 350, 369<br />

Nature walks 12<br />

Naumburg, Elsie M. B. 120<br />

Nervous relapse 85<br />

Neumann, Oscar 43<br />

New systematics 46, 199, 202<br />

Nice, Margaret Morse 110, 127<br />

Noble, Gladwyn K. 127<br />

Nomenclature, zoological 332–337<br />

O’Brien, Charles 120<br />

One hundredth birthday 304<br />

Ornithological seminar series in New York<br />

109<br />

Ornithological studies 148–163<br />

Pacific zoogeography 171<br />

Palmer, T. S. <strong>123</strong><br />

Papal encyclica 295<br />

Parasites 278<br />

Peripatric speciation 218<br />

Personality <strong>and</strong> general views 283–300<br />

– “a nice guy” in personal contact 287<br />

– aggressive in arguments 287<br />

– ambitious <strong>and</strong> self-confident 287<br />

– character 283<br />

– Christian belief 69, 295<br />

– concern for generalizations 291<br />

– cooperative 284<br />

– enthusiastic 291<br />

– generous with time <strong>and</strong> money 284,<br />

291, 294, 381<br />

– leadership <strong>and</strong> spokesmanship 288<br />

– self-confident 283, 380<br />

– strong opinions <strong>and</strong> sense of humor<br />

292<br />

– unselfish 284<br />

Peter, Karl 38<br />

PhD thesis <strong>and</strong> examination 35–36<br />

Phenetics 322<br />

<strong>Philosophy</strong> of biology 360–374<br />

Phyletic species lineage 213<br />

Phylogenetic species concepts 204<br />

Plan for book on the Natural History of<br />

Birds 129<br />

Plate, Ludwig 197, 204, 230<br />

Population systematics 202<br />

Population thinking 2, 275, 350, 361–363<br />

Polytypic species taxon 210<br />

Post-synthesis developments 270–273,<br />

357<br />

Pough, Richard 131<br />

Poulton, Edward 230<br />

Princeton conference (1947) 184, 235<br />

Progress in evolution 271<br />

Punctuated equilibrium theory 219, 280<br />

Radiation, adaptive 172<br />

R<strong>and</strong>, Austin L. 120<br />

Range expansion 165<br />

Rare Birds of Paradise 88–89

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