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David Rockwell Goddard papers

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Call Number:
Ms. Coll. 988
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Extent:
4.6 linear feet (12 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Dr. David Rockwell Goddard papers, 1961-1971, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
Date:
1961-1971 (inclusive)
Creator:
Goddard, David Rockwell
Form:
Reports, Clippings (information artifacts), Correspondence, and Pamphlets
Abstract:
David Rockwell Goddard (1908-1985) was a plant physiologist, educator, and provost of the University of Pennsylvania. The collection includes papers related to Goddard's work on several panels, including the Life Sciences Panel; the Commission on Narcotics and Drug Addiction; the Pesticide Panel of the Federal Council for Science and Technology; and the National Academy of Sciences Advisory Committee on the USSR and Eastern Europe. Materials include reports, memoranda, newsletters, pamphlets, meetings minutes and newspaper clippings.

David Rockwell Goddard (1908-1985) was a plant physiologist, educator and provost of the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 as a professor of botany. He later became chair of the Botany Department, and was heavily involved in the creation of a Division of Biology in 1954, of which he became director. His active participation in the administration of the university led to him being named Provost in 1961, a position he held until 1970. He served a four-year term as home secretary for the National Academy of Sciences beginning in 1975. He had previously held a number of significant positions in the Academy, including participation in the Advisory Committee on Science Exchange with the USSR and Eastern Europe (member, 1960-1968; chairman, 1966-1968).

The collection includes papers related to Goddard's work on several panels, including the Life Sciences Panel; the Commission on Narcotics and Drug Addiction; the Pesticide Panel of the Federal Council for Science and Technology; and the National Academy of Sciences Advisory Committee on the USSR and Eastern Europe. Materials include reports, memoranda, newsletters, pamphlets, meetings minutes, and newspaper clippings. There is also correspondence with fellow panel members and members of industry groups and the general public interested in the work of the panels. Goddard's records from the Advisory Committee on the USSR and Eastern Europe (1965-1968) include reports of scientists on visits to the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries as well as proposals and invitations for visits by Soviet scientists to the United States. This section of the collection also includes a report of Goddard's 1966 trip to Hungary as part of the National Academy of Sciences delegation. Aside from the correspondence addressed to Goddard regarding the Drug and Pesticide Panels and the small quantity of documentation about his trip to Hungary, the material in the collection offers more general information about the work of the various committees, rather than Goddard's particular contributions.

Gift of David Goddard, 1968 and 1971.

University of Pennsylvania Archives and Records Center: David Rockwell Goddard papers, 1940-1981, UPT 50 G578.

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University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Finding Aid Author
Justin A. Bortnick
Finding Aid Date
2014 May
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Printed and typed reports and pamphlets, 1962-1965.
Box 1 Folder 1-3

Correspondence, 1962-1963.
Box 1 Folder 4
Newspaper clippings, 1962.
Box 1 Folder 5
Pamphlets and reports, 1953-1966, undated.
Box 1 Folder 6
Pamphlets and reports, 1953-1966, undated.
Box 2 Folder 1-3
Printed miscellaneous information, 1960-1962.
Box 2 Folder 4-5
Drug addiction advisory panels: documents and reports , 1959-1963, undated.
Box 12 Folder 1
Drug addiction advisory panels: printed material and handwritten notes, 1956-1963, undated.
Box 12 Folder 2
Narcotics correspondence and printed material, 1963-1965, 1971.
Box 12 Folder 3

Correspondence, 1962-1963, undated.
Box 3 Folder 1
Newspaper clippings, 1962-1963.
Box 3 Folder 2
Printed and typed reports and pamphlets, 1962-1963.
Box 3 Folder 3-6
Printed and typed reports and pamphlets, 1962-1963.
Box 4 Folder 1-4

USSR: reports on and correspondence regarding US-Soviet scientific relations , 1960-1964.
Box 5 Folder 1
USSR: reports on and correspondence regarding US-Soviet scientific relations , 1965.
Box 5 Folder 2-6
USSR: reports on and correspondence regarding US-Soviet scientific relations , 1966.
Box 6 Folder 1-3
USSR: reports on and correspondence regarding US-Soviet scientific relations , 1967.
Box 6 Folder 4-6
National Academy of Sciences, correspondence and printed material, 1963-1965.
Box 7 Folder 1
National Academy of Sciences, correspondence and printed material, 1966.
Box 7 Folder 2-3
National Academy of Sciences, correspondence and printed material, 1967.
Box 7 Folder 4
National Academy of Sciences, correspondence and printed material, 1968.
Box 7 Folder 5
Bulgaria: correspondence regarding US-Bulgarian relations , 1966-1968.
Box 8 Folder 1
Czechoslovakia: reports on and correspondence regarding US-Czech scientific relations , 1965-1968.
Box 8 Folder 2-4
Hungary: reports on and correspondence regarding US-Hungarian scientific relations , 1964-1967.
Box 8 Folder 5
Poland: reports on and correspondence regarding US-Polish scientific relations , 1963-1968.
Box 8 Folder 6-7
Poland: reports on and correspondence regarding US-Polish scientific relations , 1963-1968.
Box 9 Folder 1
Romania: reports on and correspondence regarding US-Romanian scientific relations , 1964-1968.
Box 9 Folder 2-4
Yugoslavia: reports on and correspondence regarding US-Yugoslavian scientific relations , 1964-1968, undated.
Box 9 Folder 5-6

Trip to Hungary, May 26-June 10 [contains documents appearing to be in shorthand and Hungarian], 1966.
Box 9 Folder 7
Trip to Hungary, May 26-June 10 [contains documents appearing to be in shorthand and Hungarian], 1966.
Box 10 Folder 1-2

Publications and printed material, 1964-1966.
Box 10 Folder 3

Correspondence and reports, 1963-1967.
Box 10 Folder 4

Report of the International Clearinghouse on Science and Mathematics Curricular Developments, 1967.
Box 11 Folder 1
Report of the First Institute on Medical School Administration, 1963.
Box 11 Folder 3
The Enigma of Drug Addiction, 1963.
Box 11 Folder 4
Education and Professional Employment in the U.S.S.R., 1961.
Box 11 Folder 4

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