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THE University of Cambridge is to be congratulated in respect of the professorship of biology, which it founded last year, with the aid of an anonymous benefactor. It is to be congratulated because it has had the wisdom to recognise the import and the promise of a kind of inquiry which is still young (though it justified itself long ago at Down, at Brünn, and elsewhere), and has hitherto had very little academic recognition; for although the professorship bears the comprehensive title “of biology,” it was founded with the understanding that the holder should apply himself to a particular class of physiological problems—those of heredity and variation—the study of which is denoted by the new term “genetics.” Some years ago, in the University of Edinburgh, thanks, we believe, to the energy of Prof. Cossar Ewart, whose “Penycuik Experiments” have been so important in themselves and in their incentive, there was established a lectureship on the physiology of reproduction, which has been filled by Dr. A. H. H. Marshal with conspicuous success.
The Method and Scope of Genetics.
An Inaugural Lecture delivered on October 23, 1908. By Prof. W. Bateson. Pp. iv+49. (Cambridge: University Press, 1908.) Price 1s. 6d. net.
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T., J. The Method and Scope of Genetics . Nature 80, 396 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080396a0
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