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THE reviewer of Mr. H. Elliot's translation of Lamarck's “Philosophie Zoologique” in NATURE of February 11 remarks: “Unless we have misunderstood, a similar suggestion was made by Mr. J. T. Cunningham in 1908.” The word “similar” refers to an alleged suggestion by Prof. MacBride that hormones may afford a clue to a possible modus operandi of the transmission of modifications. I should be glad to know when and where Prof. MacBride's suggestion was published, as I have not heard of it before. It would seem from the terms of this review that neither Mr. H. Elliot nor J. A. T. are fully acquainted with my paper on the heredity of secondary sexual characters in relation to hormones, published in the Archiv für Entwicklungs-mechanik in 1908. The hormone theory of heredity is elaborated in considerable detail in my paper. I do not think it is possible to misunderstand it, and it is much more than a “suggestion.”
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CUNNINGHAM, J. Hormones and Heredity. Nature 95, 8 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095008b0
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