Leonard Doncaster
Leonard Doncaster | |
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 Painting of Cohen by David Muirhead (1920) | |
| Born | 31 December 1877 |
| Died | 28 May 1920 (age 43) |
| Nationality | British |
| Honours | Elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of London on 6 May 1915 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genetics, Lepidopterist, Animal Breeding |
| Institutions | King's College, University of Cambridge |
Leonard Doncaster (31 December 1877 – 28 May 1920) was an English geneticist and a lecturer on zoology at both Birmingham University and the University of Liverpool whose research work was largely based on insects.[1][2][3]
Early life
Doncaster was born on 31 December 1887 in Sheffield, England.[3]
Career
After education at Leighton Park School and King's College, Cambridge he became an academic at Cambridge University. He was a Quaker and served as a bacteriologist in the Friends Ambulance Unit during the First World War.[4] He was an early Mendelian geneticist who discovered sex linkage, while writing up the results of the Reverend G.H. Raynor on the magpie moth Abraxas grossulariata.[5] He later wrote a number of books on Mendelian genetics and on sex determination. He was appointed assistant to the Superintendent of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology in June 1902,[6] and himself filled this position from 1909 to 1914.[7] He was elected to the Royal Society of London on the strength of these achievements in 1915. He died of sarcoma in 1920, and William Bateson wrote his obituary in Nature.[8]
His book Heredity in the Light of Recent Research (1910), is notable for explicitly dismissing Lamarckian inheritance.[9]
Publications
- Heredity in the Light of Recent Research (1910)
- A review of Heredity and Memory by James Ward (1912)
- The Determination of Sex (1914)
- Some Scientific Difficulties in the Way of Religious Belief (1916)
- An Introduction to the Study of Cytology (1920)
See also
- Sex linkage
- Reciprocal cross
- Sex-limited genes
- Parthenogenesis
- Sex-determination system
- Sexual selection in insects
References
- ^ "Doncaster, Leonard (DNCR896L)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "DONCASTER, Leonard". The International Who's Who in the World. 1912. p. 390.
- ^ a b Entomological News. Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia & The American Entomological Society. November 1920. p. 240. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
- ^ Dictionary of Quaker Biography, Library of Society of Friends
- ^ Doncaster L., Raynor G.H. (1906). "Breeding experiments with Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1: 125–133.
- ^ "University intelligence". The Times. No. 36787. London. 6 June 1902. p. 11. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
- ^ "Cambridge University Museum of Zoology: Archives & Histories". Archived from the original on 2010-11-19. Retrieved 2013-03-22.
- ^ Bateson, W (10 June 1920). "Prof. L. Doncaster, F.R.S." Nature. 105 (2641): 461–462. Bibcode:1920Natur.105..461B. doi:10.1038/105461a0.
- ^ Jones, Andrew F. (2011). Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture. Harvard University Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-674-04795-2
Some publications
- Doncaster L., Raynor G.H. (1906). "Breeding experiments with Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1: 125–133.
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