“The ‘Domestication’ of Heredity: The Familial Organization of Geneticists at Cambridge University, 1895–1910”

Richmond, Marsha L.

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“…The "Newnham College Mendelians" (Richmond 2001) were also well represented, so Bateson, who was president of the congress, was supported by a substantial Cambridge contingent of his colleagues, helpers, and former students, mostly from Caius and Newnham. Further information about the "Cambridge Mendelians" is given by Richmond (2006a) and also in her account of the 1909 Darwin Celebration by the University (Richmond 2006b). …”

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Robert Heath Lock and His Textbook of Genetics, 1906

Edwards

2013

Genetics

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Robert Heath Lock (1879–1915), a Cambridge botanist associated with William Bateson and R. C. Punnett, published his book Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution in 1906. This was a remarkable textbook of genetics for one appearing so early in the Mendelian era. It covered not only Mendelism but evolution, natural selection, biometry, mutation, and cytology. It ran to five editions but was, despite its success, largely forgotten following Lock’s early death in 1915. Nevertheless it was the book that inspired H. J. Muller to do genetics and was remembered by A. H. Sturtevant as the source of the earliest suggestion that linkage might be related to the exchange of parts between homologous chromosomes. Here we also put forward evidence that it had a major influence on the statistician and geneticist R. A. Fisher at the time he was a mathematics student at Cambridge.

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Section: R H Lock 1879-1915mentioning

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Robert Heath Lock and His Textbook of Genetics, 1906

Edwards

2013

Genetics

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“…." For further information about Saunders see Richmond (2001Richmond ( , 2006 and references therein. Lock (1906, p. 200), a member of Bateson's group at the time, says firmly "This phenomenon of partial gametic coupling was discovered by Bateson and Punnett in the Sweet Pea."…”

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Reginald Crundall Punnett: First Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics, Cambridge, 1912

Edwards

2012

Genetics

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R. C. Punnett, the codiscoverer of linkage with W. Bateson in 1904, had the good fortune to be invited to be the first Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics at Cambridge University, United Kingdom, in 1912 when Bateson, for whom it had been intended, declined to leave his new appointment as first Director of the John Innes Horticultural Institute. We here celebrate the centenary of the first professorship dedicated to genetics, outlining Punnett’s career and his scientific contributions, with special reference to the discovery of “partial coupling” in the sweet pea (later “linkage”) and to the diagram known as Punnett’s square. His seeming reluctance as coauthor with Bateson to promote the reduplication hypothesis to explain the statistical evidence for linkage is stressed, as is his relationship with his successor as Arthur Balfour Professor, R. A. Fisher. The background to the establishment of the Professorship is also described.

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“…Vicinus' work on women's colleges makes the essential point that the residential communities that these institutions embodied provided women with an intellectual and social freedom they had never known before (Vicinus 1985: 124). 13 Other scholars have discussed women students and researchers at Cambridge in the context of the history of science, the history of classics, or the history of women's education (Gould 1997;Richmond 1997Richmond , 2006Breay 1999;McWilliams-Tullberg 1998[1975; Vicinus 1985). 14 The history of women in science has shown the difficulties that women experienced in gaining acceptance for studying subjects considered beyond their mental capabilities, or dangerous to their health (Gould 1997: 127, 131).…”

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The Allure of Archaeology: Agnes Conway and Jane Harrison at Newnham College, 1903–1907

Thornton

2011

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Jane Ellen Harrison, eccentric Newnham don and classicist, delivered an annual lecture to first year students. She delivered her lectures in dimness so her lantern slides would be clearly visible, adopting a theatrically high-pitched lecture voice for dramatic effect. 1 In 1903, listening enraptured in the audience, sat Agnes Conway, a first year history student. Conway wrote to her mother afterwards saying: 'it was perfectly lovely -But oh dear, I wish I knew Greek! I am perfectly fired to learn, for it is no good doing Archaeology without it, I have discovered […]'. 2 Agnes Conway's love of archaeology began from that lecture, largely due to Harrison's singular style. Few could match Harrison's delivery; Conway described how another Newnham student's paper on Knossos left her uninspired:I couldn't help thinking how oppositely the same subject affects you when treated by different people […] it is an enthralling subject, but if Miss Harrison had done it, I should have been out of myself by this time and rampant about Archaeology. 3

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“The ‘Domestication’ of Heredity: The Familial Organization of Geneticists at Cambridge University, 1895–1910”

Cited by 44 publications

References 54 publications

Robert Heath Lock and His Textbook of Genetics, 1906

Robert Heath Lock and His Textbook of Genetics, 1906

Reginald Crundall Punnett: First Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics, Cambridge, 1912

The Allure of Archaeology: Agnes Conway and Jane Harrison at Newnham College, 1903–1907

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