Word: shull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would like to inform you of an error in the Jan. ii issue of your fine magazine. In that issue there is a picture of two of the famous scientific Shull brothers looking at a kymograph. You have erred in the captioning of this. The one using the apparatus is a Government botanist (J. M. Shull) as you said, but the other, Dr. G. H. Shull, is not a geneticist from the U. of Michigan but is instead a plant geneticist of Princeton University...
...news last week to two international learned bodies?the International Congress of Eugenics meeting in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and the International Congress of Genetics meeting at Cornell (Ithaca, N. Y.). There are 23,000 primroses in the gardens, whose complete genealogical histories Professor George Harrison Shull sedulously registers. From those histories statisticans deduce laws of heredity which govern primroses, peas, pigs and people. The Japanese beetles were injuring the primroses. Professor Shull obtained a grant-in-aid from the National Research Council to buy some beetle poison...
...other American recipients of the Scholarships were Virginia Moore Shull, of George Washington University, now a graduate student at Yale, and Frank P. Ostrander, Jr. of Williams. Both will go to Oxford, Miss Shull to study dramatic literature and Ostrander to study international relations and diplomacy...
...JESSE C. SHULL Virginia...