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...Geneticist William Bateson was so backward in school that his headmaster wrote: "It is very doubtful whether so vague and aimless a boy will profit by University life." He remained fabulously vague: he would buy a ticket to a play and show up by mistake at a musical show, grub in his garden in a brand-new suit and go to London in dirty old garden flannels...
...group forms the nucleus from which the officers are chosen. Those elected were George F. Bateson, Hugh F. Colvin, Alfred J. Dickinson, Jr., Schuler C. Rober, Darwin C. Brown, Edwin Ewing, Jr., Charles M. Williams, William Dibble, A. Kendall Oulie, Paul S. Bowers, and William J. English. A tie between Alfred E. Kurts and Hugh F. Warner will be decided shortly...
...foremost scoffer at the gene theory of heredity, England's formidable, bushy-browed Biologist William Bateson, went to the Columbia University laboratories of Thomas Hunt Morgan, examined the data, looked at the jars of fruit flies, stared down the microscopes, announced his conversion. Since then there has been little doubt among geneticists that the chromosomes in the germ cells are the theatres of heredity, that the ultimate agents, called genes, which transmit unit characters, occupy definite and fixed positions along the spindly, crooked chromosomes. Since then fame has come to Dr. Morgan and his flies, and to some...
...British universities announced in London as having been awarded Commonwealth Fund Fellowships to come to the United States next fall for two year's study in American universities four will come to Harvard. They are James McAlston, from the University of Edinburg; to study bacteriology; Frederick N. W. Bateson, from Oxford University, to study 18th century drama; Reginald Jackson, from the University of Sidney, and Oxford, to study philosophy; and Eric Francis Nash, Oxford, to study economics...
Died. Dr. William Bateson, 66, distinguished British biologist, famed investigator of the Mendelian theory of heredity; in London...