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We regret to announce that Dr. Karl Bělař, of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fur Biologie, Berlin, was killed in a motoring accident near Vietorville, California, on May 24. He was returning with friends from a collecting trip in the Mohave Desert. Dr. Bělař's death at the age of thirty-six years is a tragic loss to the science of cytology. He combined a zeal for experiment and observation with a quite remarkable gift for the artistic expression of their results. After he left his native country, Austria, he was chiefly occupied with studies on animal cytology at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut and at the Zoological Station at Naples. He was privat-dozent in zoology at the University of Berlin and a secretary of the Genetical Congress held there in 1927. In 1928 he was invited to the John Innes Horticultural Institution, where he spent two months that were highly profitable to all with whom he came into contact. In 1929 he was invited to visit the newly equipped California Institute of Technology, where he has since collaborated with the Morgan school of geneticists. He was about to return to Europe at the time of his death.
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D., C. Dr. Karl Bělař. Nature 128, 59 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128059a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128059a0