John Calhoun wrote extensively. Below you will find a selection of his writings spanning his working years. Some were proposals for a program of study and were never published anywhere. Some of the papers are personal, such as bibliographies and resumes.
1950s
- 1952 May: The Social Aspects of Population Dynamics 1952 The Social Aspects of Population Dynamics
- 1958 December: Calculation of Home Range and Density of Small Animals 12.1958 Calculation of Home Range and Density of Small Animals
1960s
- 1962: A Behavioral Sink 1962 a behavoral sink
- 1962 February: Population Density and Social Pathology Population Density and Social Pathology
- 1962 September: The Study of Velocity 1962 the study of velocity
- 1962: Induced Mass Movements of Small Mammals – A Suggested Program of Study, written while in residence at CASBS 1962 induced mass movements of small mammals
- 1969 May 20: Thoughts following the Conservation Foundation’s Conservations 5.20.1969 Thoughts following the Conservation Foundation’s Conservations
1970s
- 1973 Jan: Death Squared: the Explosive Growth and Demise of a Mouse Population https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1644264/
- 1973 Oct: From Mice to Men 1973 from mice to men
- 1974 Jan: Environmental Design Research and Monitoring from an Evolutionary Perspective 1973 environmental design research and monitoring from an evolutionary perspective
- 1974 The Universal City of Ideas – the first copy of this talk is the version presented at the conference on “The Exploding Cities, held at Worcester College in Oxford, UK April 1st to 6th, 1974. The second copy, dated May of that year, appears to be Calhoun’s recollection of the talk. The document that was scanned was a copy and the quality was not good.
- 1977: Looking Backward from ‘The Beautiful Ones’ 1977 looking backward from ‘the beautiful ones’
Personal
1981 Curriculum Vitae – revised 1984 1981 Curriculum Vitae – revised 1984
1983 Bibliography 1983 Bibliography
JOHN B CALHOUN 
Hi,
I am a PhD student interested in studying the effects of excessive contact on the intensity of realtionships.
Do you know if there is some archive where I can find the detailed observations of the mice behaviour day to day, in the experiments explained in “Death Squared: the Explosive Growth and Demise of a Mouse Population”?
Best,
Michelle
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Hi Michelle – I assume what you are looking for are tables of raw data or graphs that track the movements of each mouse on a daily basis. This must have existed at some point but I do not have it. I know the rats in earlier experiments were color coded and their activity recorded but, again, I do not have those records. It is possible that the material my mother gave to the National Library of Medicine may have included this data but I do not know. As far as graphs of mice or rats and their movements, I do not recall that either. On the other hand, I have not scanned all of the papers I have.
I am sorry I cannot be of more help.
Cat
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Yes, exactly.
I’ll contact the National library of medicine.
Thank you very much, Cat!
Best,
Michelle
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PS I am going through papers looking for a particular diagram and I came across a paper that MIGHT be more what you are looking for. Not day by day but definitely more graphs & tables. Go to the section Papers – from Calhoun’s private collection and look at the paper titled 1975 Social Modification of Activity Rhythms in Rodents. I did not read it closely so it may not be what you need.
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Thank you, Cat! I will look into it.
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Hi Guys
Thanks for john’ papers.
I am interested in all of this. Vitamin A hoarding in dense population? I must be a utopia mouse.
I wonder if this will get more research?
I might be missing something, would you show the data from all the different utopias?
Thanks
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Sorry about the delay. Work & holidays. I do not have the data from each of the utopias. Any info on them would be in the papers he wrote and I am far from finished scanning them. Due to other claims on my time the project progresses in fits and starts.
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