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Friends, Family And Contemporaries Of Charles Darwin
WILLIAM BATESON 1861-1926
British biologist, was born at Whitby Aug. 8 1861, the son of the Rev. W. A. Bateson, some time master of St. John's College, Cambridge. He was educated at Rugby and St. John's College, Cambridge, and became famous for his biological investigations, which included important researches on Mendelism and the determination of sex. In 1894 he published Materials for the Study of Variation.
In 1907 he gave the Silliman lecture at Yale University, from
1908 to 1909 was professor of biology at Cambridge, and in 1910
was appointed director of the John Innes Horticultural
Institution at Merton Park, Surrey. From 1912 to 1914 he was
Fullerian professor of physiology at the Royal Institution, and
in 1914 was president of the British Association. He received the
Darwin medal of the Royal Society, of which he was a fellow, in
1904. His other works include Mendel's Principles of Heredity
(1902) and Problems of Genetics (1913), besides many short
studies on biological subjects.
