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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...
Died. A nameless mouse of uncertain age; by devouring (by a pink rat); in Hurstmonceaux, England. His distinction: he was green. He was a triumph of the Rev. Dr. Rosslyn Bruce, an amateur geneticist, who bred 50 mouse generations to achieve the greenness...
...There Geneticist Ralph Phillips will breed the animals toward genetic stability, so that their characteristics will persist when they are released to U.S. farmers, who now tend some 50,000,000 sheep...
Against all this, some German scientists have finally risen. In Der Biologe, Geneticist F. Schwanitz pointed out that the anti-evolutionary outbursts have been quite unsupported by scientific references. He seethed at the "shameless attack upon the supporters of evolutionary theory, i.e., the overwhelming majority of biologists." Another scientist, Chr. von Krogh, writes: "Some have tried to identify a scientific doctrine with the National-Socialist philosophy. Nothing could be more wrong. A detailed scientific theory can never be identified or paralleled with a philosophy...
...most important basic medical discovery of the present generation"; - so one scientist called it. He referred to the theory that mice may get cancer from a virus in their mothers' milk.* This was reported in Science last week by Geneticist John Joseph Bittner, of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., where scientists have worked on this problem for more than seven years...