BANG MSS 2004/167 UniversityofCalifornia Berkeley Regional Oral HistoryOffice UniversityofCalifornia TheBancroftLibrary Berkeley, California THEREORGANIZATIONOFBIOLOGY AT THEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. Roderic B. Park Louise Taylor Interviews Conductedby Sally Smith Hughes in 1998 and 1999 Copyright 2003 byThe Regents ofthe UniversityofCalifornia Since 1954 the Regional Oral History Office has been interviewing leading participants in or well-placed witnesses to major events in the development ofnorthern California, the West, and the nation. Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through tape-recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge ofhistorically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. The tape recording is transcribed, lightly edited for continuity and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewee. The correctedmanuscript is indexed, bound withphotographs and illustrative materials, and placed in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and in other research collections for scholarly use. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account, offeredbythe interviewee inresponseto questioning, and as such itisreflective, partisan, deeply involved, andirreplaceable. ************************************ All uses ofthis manuscript are coveredby a legal agreementbetween The Regents ofthe University ofCalifornia and Daniel Koshland, Jr., December 14, 1998; Roderic B. Park, dated May 6, 1999; and Louise Taylor, dated May 13, 1999. The manuscript is thereby made available for research purposes. All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to The Bancroft Library ofthe University of California, Berkeley. No part ofthe manuscript may be quoted for publication without the written permission of the Director of The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, Mail Code 6000, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000, and should include identification of the specific passagesto be quoted, anticipated use ofthepassages, and identificationofthe user. Itisrecommendedthatthis oral historybe citedas follows: To cite this volume: The Reorganization of Biology at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, an oral historyproject ofthe Regional Oral History Office, conducted 1998 and 1999. The Bancroft Library, UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley, 2003. To cite an individual interview: Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., "An Interview with Daniel E. Koshland, an oral history Jr.," conducted in 1998 and 1999, by Sally Hughes in The Reorganization of Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, 2003. Copyno. Daniel E. Koshland