Series V:

Records of the Pavlovian Society

    Brief History of the Society

    The Pavlovian Society was founded in 1955, at a celebration of the Johns Hopkins Pavlovian Laboratory's 25th Anniversary. Gantt wished not only to provide a forum for Pavlovian psychiatry, but also to create an interdisciplinary society, where physiologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists could meet on equal terms, a society not "dominated by authoritarian psychoanalysts." (Gantt to Reese, May 10, 1955. Box 97/2). As he wrote in the preamble to the Society's constitution, Gantt hoped that "productivity and originality," rather than formal regulations, would characterize society proceedings. (Preamble, Constitution Pavlovian Society. Box 97/4). This hope translated into a loosely organized governing structure, dominated by Gantt himself. He selected new members, hand picked officers, and even furnished the money for awards and secretarial help. Eventually several of the members began to chafe at Gantt's control, and an "Ad Hoc Committee on Future Directions" was formed in 1974. Although the direction of the Society eventually passed into other hands, it retained its focus on conditioning and associative processes, reflecting Gantt's continued influence, and by its very existence gave testimony to Gantt's unremitting devotion to Pavlovian principles. In 1985, the first of the Gantt Memorial Lectures was given at the annual meeting of the Society.

Sub-series V/A:

Records of the Pavlovian Society
    These records include founding documents, minutes of executive committees, membership records, records of the secretary/treasurer, publicity, and correspondence. Information regarding the Society's policies and activities is found in Gantt's voluminous correspondence with officers, prospective members, and other scientists. In addition, Gantt issued hundreds of invitations to join the society or to attend meetings, but this correspondence is mostly pro forma. The minutes of committee meetings are sketchy, but the collection does include a complete run of Society programs up to 1980, many annotated by Gantt. The records of the Secretary/treasurer, an office held by Harry A. Teitelbaum for most of Gantt's lifetime, reveal the Society's financial straits and Gantt's personal sacrifices to keep it alive.

	Folder 97/1	Gantt's founding proposal. — 1955
	Folder 97/2	Suggestions for newsletter. — 1956
	Folder 97/3	"Retrospect and Prospect". — 1956
	Folder 97/4	Pavlovian Society Constitution. — 1964
	Folder 97/5	Pavlovian Society Constitution, revised versions. — 1975-1978
	Folder 97/6-23	General correspondence, to and from Gantt. — Jul 7 1943-Dec 29 1975
	Folder 98/1-6	General correspondence, to and from Gantt. — Jan 6 1976-Mar 11 1980
	Folder 98/7	Minutes of business and executive committee meetings. — 1955, 1956, 1974-1976
	Folder 98/8-9	Secretary-treasurer, general correspondence, Teitelbaum. — Aug 22 1968-Feb 13 1980
	Folder 98/10	Secretary-treasurer, financial reports. — 1961-1977
	Folder 98/11-13	Secretary-treasurer, correspondence concerning dues and membership fees. — 1955-1980
	Folder 98/14	Secretary-treasurer, requests for corporate funding. — Feb 8 1968-Dec 16 1975
	Folder 98/15	Secretary-treasurer, correspondence concerning reimbursement of speakers' expenses. — Dec 15 1975-Dec 29 1975
	Folder 98/16-17	Secretary-treasurer, correspondence relating to travel and accommodations. — Feb 4 1966-1978
	Folder 98/18-19	Secretary-treasurer, correspondence concerning annual banquet. — Oct 24 1966-Jan 4 1974
	Folder 99/1-2	Secretary-treasurer, memos--unorganized. — 1957-1979
	Folder 99/3-5	Miscellaneous business correspondence. — 1958-1978
	Folder 99/6-7	Secretary-treasurer, bank statements. — 1967-1977
	Folder 99/8-12	Secretary-treasurer, receipts and purchase orders (unorganized)
	Folder 99/13	Pavlovian Society medallion--facsimile drawing
	Folder 100/1-14	Pavlovian Society membership lists. — 1961-1979
	Folder 100/15-17	Membership applications, A-D
	Folder 101/1-11	Membership applications, E-Z
	Folder 102/1-4	General announcements to members. — 1960-1980
	Folder 102/5-28	Membership invitations and responses. — 1955-1969
	Folder 103/1-27	Membership invitations and responses. — 1970-1980
	Folder 104/1	Ballots voting for meeting-place-time-symposia topics. — 1969
	Folder 104/2	Ballots voting for meeting-place-time-symposia topics. — 1972
	Folder 104/3	Registration lists, annual meetings. — 1971-1975
	Folder 104/4	P. — Plans for 1956 meeting
	Folder 104/5	Programs of meetings. — 1955, 1956, 1961, 1962, 1967
	Folder 104/6-7	Programs of meetings. — 1968-1980
	Folder 104/8	Dinner address, B. F. Skinner--"Some Responses to the Stimulus 'Pavlov'". — 1966
	Folder 104/9	Abstracts of papers presented. — 1962
	Folder 104/10	Abstracts of papers presented. — 1966-1967
	Folder 104/11	G. — Gantt notes on symposium 1969 meeting
	Folder 104/12-13	Abstracts of papers presented. — 1969-1970
	Folder 104/14-16	Abstracts of papers presented. — 1972-1979
	Folder 104/17	Awards. — 1966-1978
	Folder 104/18	Concerning presentation of Gantt's bust. — 1974
	Folder 104/19	Publicity. — 1955-1968
	Folder 104/20	Early history of the Pavlovian Society--by William G. Reese. — 1982

Sub-series V/B:

Records of the Pavlovian Society's journal
    The Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science was first published in 1966, under the title Conditional Reflex. Gantt was senior editor from its founding until his death in 1980. During his fourteen-year tenure, Gantt was also a chief contributor to the Journal. His editorials, articles, and reviews provide an excellent overview of his work and philosophy. Gantt was also responsible for the administration of the Journal's production and business affairs. Though J. B. Lippincott underwrote and published the Journal, Gantt was responsible for ensuring subscriptions and arranging contributions of articles.
    Along with issues of the Journal, the records include manuscripts of Gantt's editorials and reviews, as well as correspondence. The correspondence (approximately 3,400 letters) includes general correspondence, subscription correspondence, correspondence with Lippincott, and correspondence regarding papers to be submitted for publication. Most of the correspondence focuses not so much on content as on the difficulties of publishing: financial difficulties, complaints about papers never published, subscriptions not filled, inadequate advertising by Lippincott, late proofs, etc.

	Folder 105/1	"Purposes and Editorial Policy of Pavlovian Journal". — 1965
	Folder 105/2	Voting records for title. — 1965
	Folder 105/3	Lists of editorial board. — 1966-1974
	Folder 105/4	Secretarial guidelines and schedules
	Folder 105/5	Publicity. — 1965-1974
	Folder 105/6	Subscription list. — n.d.
	Folder 105/7-21	Correspondence, general. — May 20 1955-Feb 5 1980
	Folder 105/22-34	Correspondence, subscription. — Aug 19 1965-Feb 12 1980
	Folder 106/1-12	Correspondence with publisher, general. — Jun 6 1962-Oct 8 1979
	Folder 106/13-23	Correspondence with publisher concerning production. — Jan 14 1966-Apr 19 1979
	Folder 107/1-26	Correspondence concerning submissions. — Feb 27 1965-Apr 19 1979
	Folder 108/1-23	Correspondence concerning submissions. — Jan 5 1972-Dec 29 1971
	Folder 109/1	Correspondence, orders for Gantt's reprints. — n.d.
	Folder 109/2	Gantt editorial, The meaning of the cardiac condition reflex. — 1966
	Folder 109/3	Gantt editorials. — 1966
	Folder 109/4	Gantt editorial, Conditioned and conditional. — 1966
	Folder 109/5	Gantt editorial, Humility in science. — 1967
	Folder 109/6	Gantt editorial, Conditioned senility. — 1967
	Folder 109/7	Gantt editorial, Pavlov's higher nervous activity. — 1968
	Folder 109/8	Gantt editorial, Inhibition. — 1968
	Folder 109/9	Gantt editorial, Organ responsibility, negative exp, and bandwagon research. — 1970
	Folder 109/10	Gantt editorial, Organ system responsibility. — 1971
	Folder 109/11	Gantt editorial, A fragmentary critique of the conditional reflex concept and visceral conditioning after 72 years. — 1972
	Folder 109/12	Gantt editorial, Analysis of effect of person. — 1972
	Folder 109/13	Gantt editorial, Pattern of scientific research. — 1972
	Folder 109/14	Gantt editorial, Pain, conditioning and schizokinesis. — 1973
	Folder 109/15	Gantt editorial, Objective and subjective: pain. — 1973
	Folder 109/16	Gantt editorial, Autokinesis, schizokinesis, and organ system responsibility. — 1974
	Folder 109/17	Gantt editorial, Pollution in science. — 1975
	Folder 109/18	Gantt editorial, Conditioning and mental disorder. — 1976
	Folder 109/19	Gantt editorial, Patty Hearst, brainwashing, and Pavlov. — 1976
	Folder 109/20	Gantt editorial, Experimental preventive psychology. — 1976
	Folder 109/21	Gantt editorial, The objective and subjective. — 1976
	Folder 109/22	Gantt editorial, Bicentennial editorial. — 1976
	Folder 109/23	Gantt editorial, Autokinesis and proflex. — 1977
	Folder 109/24	Gantt editorial, E. Cowles Andrus (1896-1978) eighth President of the Pavlovian Society. — 1978
	Folder 109/25	Gantt editorial, Century's ebb. — 1978
	Folder 109/26	Gantt editorial, Do consciousness and free will require physical energy. — 1978
	Folder 109/27	Gantt editorial, B. F. Skinner shapes American behaviorism. — 1979
	Folder 109/28	Gantt editorial, Operant and classical. — 1979
	Folder 109/29	Gantt editorial, The role of teleology in higher nervous activity. — 1979
	Folder 109/30	Gantt editorial, Biofeedback and the changing vestments of science. — 1979
	Folder 109/31	Gantt editorial, Biocontact as an element in the effect of person. — 1979
	Folder 109/32	Gantt editorial, Is there a science of the internal universe?. — 1979
	Folder 109/33	Gantt editorial, Philosophy and higher nervous activity. — 1979
	Folder 109/34	Gantt review, Biofeedback and self-control. — 1971
	Folder 109/35	Gantt review, Book by Luria. — 1966
	Folder 109/36	Gantt review, A Biologist Remembers, by Karl Frisch. — 1969
	Folder 109/37	Gantt reviews. — 1968-1979, undated
	Folder 109/38	Gantt review, Conditional Reflexes and Neuron Organization, by Jerzy Konorski
	Folder 109/39	Gantt review, Biofeedback and the Internal Universe, by R. W. Sperry
	Folder 109/40	Gantt review, Biology and Neurophysiology of the Conditional Reflex and its Role in Adaptive Behavior, by Anokhin. — 1975
	Folder 109/41	Gantt review, Reflex Epilepsy, Behavioral Therapy, and Conditional Reflexes, by Francis Forster. — 1979
	Folder 109/42	Gantt review, Congruent Psychophysiological Principles of Covert Behavior, by F. J. McGuigan. — 1979
	Folder 109/43	Gantt review, Higher Cortical Functions of Man, by A. R. Luria. — 1979
	Folder 109/44	Gantt review, Kempf on Lincoln. — 1970
	Folder 109/45	Gantt review, Skinner autobiography. — 1979
	Folder 109/46	Gantt on symposium, "Mechanisms of behavior". — 1971
	Box 110	Pavlovian Journal: Issues of Conditional Reflex. — 1966-1972     Missing v. 5 no.2, 4; v. 6; v. 7, no. 3
	Box 111	Issues of Conditional Reflex. — 1973
	Box 111	Issues of Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science. — 1974-79     Missing v. 12, 1-3