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340 ¨ NOTES TO PAGES 245–254
9. H. J. Muller to Curt Stern, Oct. 3, 1929, Curt Stern Papers, American Philosophical
Society.
10. This case, which was called the “Star-Curly” transposition, is described in
Painter and Muller, “Parallel Cytology and Genetics,” 298.
11. H. J. Muller and T. S. Painter, “The Cytological Expression of Changes in Gene
Alignment Produced by X-Rays in Drosophila,” American Naturalist 63 (1929): 198.
12. Ibid., 193.
13. Painter and Muller, “Parallel Cytology and Genetics,” 298.
14. Hermann Muller to Jessie Muller, Aug. 29, 1930, Muller Collection.
15. David Muller, personal communication, Feb. 10, 2004.
16. H. J. Muller to Carlos Offerman, July 2, 1931, Muller Collection.
17. Jessie Muller to Carlos Offerman, June 26, 1931, Muller Collection.
18. H. J. Muller to Jessie Muller, Jan. 22, 1933, Muller Collection.
19. H. J. Muller to Jessie Muller, Feb. 21, 1935, Muller Collection.
20. The suicide note is found in the letters of Edgar Altenburg, Muller MSS.
21. He left around 8 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 10, 1932 (Daily Texan, Jan. 12, 1932).
22. E. A. Carlson, Genes, Radiation, and Society: The Life and Work of H. J. Muller (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1981), 179.
23. H. J. Muller, “The Dominance of Economics over Eugenics,” Scientific Monthly 37
(1933): 40–47.
24. R. C. Cook, “The Eugenics Congress,” Journal of Heredity 23 (1932): 355–360.
25. Curt Stern, “The Domain of Genetics,” Genetics 78 (1974): 30.
26. A. H. Sturtevant, “Unequal Crossing Over at the Bar Locus,” Genetics 10 (1925):
117, 145.
27. To illustrate the process, he represented a chromosome by a string of genes
(or a linear segment containing multiple genes), ABCD.If,then, this string broke
between genes B and C, it would produce two fragments, ABandCD.Iflikewise a
second chromosome, LMNO,brokebetween M and N into fragments LMandN
O, then the chromosome fragments might rejoin at their broken ends, forming
two new chromosomes ABNOandCDNO(H.J.Muller, “Further Studies on
the Nature and Causes of Gene Mutations,” Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress
of Genetics, 1 [1932]: 217–218).
28. Ibid., 246.
29. H. J. Muller to Edgar Altenburg, Mar. 5, 1932, Muller Collection.
30. He’d arranged to spend his Guggenheim year in the lab of the Russian émigré
Timoféef Ressovsky (H. J. Muller to Edgar Altenburg, Sept. 24, 1932, Muller MSS).
31. H. J. Muller to Jessie Muller, Nov. 8, 1932, Muller Collection.