Leonard Doncaster

Leonard Doncaster
Born 31 December 1877
Died 28 May 1920
Nationality British
Fields Genetics, Lepidopterist, Animal Breeding
Institutions Cambridge University
Influences William Bateson

Leonard Doncaster (31 December 1877 – 28 May 1920) was an English geneticist.[1][2]

Career

After education at Leighton Park School and Cambridge University he became an academic at Cambridge University. He was an early Mendelian geneticist who discovered sex linkage, while writing up the results of the Reverend G.H. Raynor on the magpie moth Abraxas grossulariata.[3] He later wrote a number of books on Mendelian genetics and on sex determination. He was appointed assistant to the Superintendent of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology in June 1902,[4] and himself filled this position from 1909 to 1914.[5] He was elected to the Royal Society of London on the strength of these achievements in 1915. He died of sarcoma in 1920, and William Bateson wrote his obituary in Nature.[6]

His book Heredity in the Light of Recent Research (1910), is notable for explicitly dismissing Lamarckian inheritance.[7]

Publications

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Doncaster, Leonard (DNCR896L)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ↑ "DONCASTER, Leonard". The International Who's Who in the World. 1912. p. 390.
  3. ↑ Doncaster L., Raynor G.H. (1906). "Breeding experiments with Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1: 125–133.
  4. ↑ "University intelligence" The Times (London). Friday, 6 June 1902. (36787), p. 11.
  5. ↑ "Cambridge University Museum of Zoology: Archives & Histories".
  6. ↑ Bateson, W (10 June 1920). "Prof. L. Doncaster, F.R.S.". Nature 105: 461–462. doi:10.1038/105461a0.
  7. ↑ Jones, Andrew F. (2011). Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture. Harvard University Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-674-04795-2

Some publications

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