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THE Fifth International Congress of Genetics was held in Berlin in September 1927, and its Proceedings have appeared with commendable promptness in two large volumes. The first gathering of this kind was held in London in 1899, before the name of Mendel was known. It was organised by the Royal Horticultural Society and was styled an “International Conference on Hybridization and Plant Breeding”. When the next was held in New York in 1902, Mendelism was still too new to have much effect on the proceedings. In 1906 a third conference was held in London under the same auspices as the first, with Bateson as president, and on this occasion he introduced the term genetics for the study of heredity and variation. The fourth conference was held in Paris in 1911, and the fifth was to have taken place at Berlin in 1916. It was 1927 before this congress was finally held, and in the meantime genetics underwent immense developments, as evidenced in part by the contents of these volumes.
Verhandlungen des 5 Internationalen Kongresses für Vererbungswissenschaft, Berlin, 1927.
Band I. Pp. viii + 784. Band 2. Herausgegeben von Hans Nachtsheim. (Zeitschrift für induktive Abstammungs- und Vererbungslehre, Supplement- band 2.) Pp. viii +785–1647 + Tafein 8–14. (Leipzig: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1928.) Bd. 1–2, 100 gold marks.
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G., R. International Genetics. Nature 124, 295–296 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124295a0
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