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THE Royal Society has appointed Dr. W. S. Bullough, lecturer in zoology at McGill University, Montreal, to be Sorby research fellow in the University of Sheffield in succession to Dr. K. Mellanby. Dr. Bullough is a graduate of the University of Leeds. While holding first a research fellowship and later a lectureship in the Department of Zoology there, Dr. Bullough carried out investigations on the internal and external environmental control of reproductive cycles in fishes, birds and mammals. His researches on the endocrine glands in relation to bird behaviour throw much light on the reality of the distinction between British and Continental races of starlings, and evidence has been adduced for regarding Continental immigrant starlings as carriers of foot and mouth disease, responsible for outbreaks in British cattle. An important conclusion,arising from his work on mammals is the power of the oestrogens to stimulate cells in the ovary to mitotic activity, thus leading at the post-ovulation period to a replenishment of the ovary with a new stock of oogonia. This mitogenic function of the sex hormones would seem to be the field of research now to be explored by Dr. Bullough in his tenure of the Sorby fellowship in the Department of Zoology at Sheffield. He hopes to take up his new work during the summer.
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Sorby Fellowship: Dr. W. S. Bullough. Nature 157, 187 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157187d0
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