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AT its annual meeting on July 21 the Genetical Society completed the twenty-fifth year of its activity. A gathering was called on June 25, 1919, under the chairmanship of William Bateson, at which it Was agreed to found the Society, and the first meeting was held on July 12 of that year. The original list comprised eighty-seven members, and the first president was Mr. A. J. (later Lord) Balfour, who held office until 1930. The Society's eighty-two meetings have been mainly devoted to communications on fundamental genetics, including also addresses by such foreign visitors as Drs. T. H. Morgan, H. J. Muller, A. H. Sturtevant, C. B. Bridges, R. Goldsehmidt and Ø. Winge. Interest has, however, not been confined to this narrower field, but, as Bateson intended, has also covered plant and animal breeding, human and medical genetics and, of course, cytology and evolutionary theory. Visits have been made on a number of occasions to plant and animal breeding centres and exhibitions, as well as to Kew Gardens, East Malling and Rothamsted Research Stations, the Lister Institute and the Gardens of the Zoological Society. Joint meetings have been held with the Society for Experimental Biology and the Entomological Society, and doubtless this kind of activity will increase in the future as the applications of genetics become more widely appreciated. The Society also sponsored the Seventh International Congress of Genetics held at Edinburgh in 1939.
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Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Genetical Society. Nature 154, 111 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154111b0
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