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DR. C. D. DARLINGTON has been appointed to succeed Sir Daniel Hall as director of the John Innes Horticultural Institution, Merton. Dr. Darlington was educated at St. Paul's School, Hammersmith, where he was a Foundation Scholar, and the South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye. He went to the John Innes Horticultural Institution in 1923, in Dr. Bateson's time. Here his interest was attracted to chromosome studies by the late W. C. F. Newton. As the importance of this kind of work in relation to breeding became recognized, it was considerably extended at the John Innes Institution, and in 1937 Dr. Darlington was appointed head of the Cytology Department. In 1929, he travelled to Persia and Transcaucasia to investigate the origin of cultivated forms of Prunus and Tulipa. During 1932–33, he worked in the United States for eight months as a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar, visiting Japan and India on his way home. In the winter of 1937–38, he was a delegate to the Indian Science Congress jubilee meeting. He is at the present time acting as recorder to the Cytology Section of the International Genetical Congress. Dr. Darlington, who is well known for his work in the field of genetics and cytology, has published “Chromosomes and Plant Breeding” (1932), “Recent Advances in Cytology”(1932; second edition 1937), “The Evolution of Genetic Systems”(1939), together with numerous scientific communications. He is a collaborating editor of the new journal Chromosoma (see p. 372 of this issue). The appointment takes effect from October 1, 1939.
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Dr. C. D. Darlington. Nature 143, 369 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143369a0
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