Abstract
THE work of Section D was formally opened on Wednesday, August 16, with the president's address on “The Distribution of African Fresh-water Fishes,” which has already been printed in NATURE (August 24, p. 413) This was followed by a paper by Mr. L. Doncaster entitled “Recent Work on Gametogenesis and its bearing on Theories of Heredity,” which took the form of a résumé of the most important recent work on the relation between the phenomena of nuclear division and those of heredity. It was shown that whilst ample confirmation had been obtained of Weismann's hypothesis that the chromosomes are the bearers of inherited characters, yet the most recent work on the maturation of the germ cells had demonstrated the fact that they contained a mechanism which seemed precisely adapted to bring about that segregation of characters which forms the most fundamental part of the Mendelian theory; it was difficult, therefore, to believe that the two things were unconnected. The remainder of the paper was devoted to the consideration of certain obvious difficulties standing in the way of a complete correlation.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Zoology at the British Association . Nature 73, 39–41 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073039b0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/073039b0