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Died. Dr. George Harrison Shull, 80, longtime (1915-42) professor of botany and genetics at Princeton University, developer (in a never-ending series of experiments begun in 1905) of hybrid corn (along with Harvard's Edward Murray East, who was experimenting independently at the same time), which has resulted in a 25%-50% increase in corn production per acre; after long illness; in Princeton...
GEORGE H. SHULL...
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Professor Emeritus George H. Shull, of Princeton, had this to say: "Why did I invest in a perpetual subscription? Believe it or not, I did it because I thought that in this way I could help in the establishment of a type of periodical previously non-existent and which seemed to me to promise the greatest possible contribution to a self-governing democracy...
...Wallace was one of the first to market a commercial strain of hybrid seed, but he did not invent the process. Many present-day methods of hybrid corn production can be traced back to the work of Professor George H. Shull around 1906 at the Station for Experimental Evolution in Cold Spring Harbor...