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THE development of the chromosome theory of heredity during the last twenty years has led to the publication of some thousands of papers devoted to a study which is at once genetics and cytology. These papers have been published partly in the special genetical journals-Genetics, Baur's Zeit-schrift, Genetica, Hereditas and the English and Japanese Journals of Genetics-and partly in the special cytological journals-La Cellule, Cytologia and Messrs. Springer's Zeitschri/t fur Zellforschung und mikroscopische Anatomie. Many also have been published by the older zoological, botanical and general scientific journals. Messrs. Springer have now divided their journal into two parts, which will appear separately this month, marking not inappropriately the centenary of the cell theory. Part A, Allgemeine Zellforschung und mikroscopische Anatomie will continue to deal with the physiological and histological side of cell-study with which the old journal was largely concerned. Part B, under the short title of Chromosoma, will be in effect a new journal. It will deal with the chromosomes in their twin aspects of cell mechanisms and organs of heredity. Dr. Hans Bauer, of the Kaiser Wilhelm-Institut fur Biologie in Berlin-Dahlem, is the general editor. He has secured the collaboration of Dr. Lothar Geitler of Vienna, Dr. T. Caspersson of Stockholm, Dr. A. Miintzing of Lund, Dr. W. v. Mollendorf and Dr. J. Seiler of Zurich, Dr. O. L. Mohr of Oslo, Dr. C. D. Darlington of London, Dr. F. Schrader of New York, and Dr. Th. Dobzhansky of Pasadena. The balance of zoology and botany, chemistry and genetics in this group should ensure a competent discrimination as well as a new point of view in furthering this youngest of the sciences.
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Chromosoma . Nature 143, 372 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143372b0
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