Bateson, William, 1861-1926 (English biologist and professor of genetics, University of Cambridge)
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 23 August [1911]
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/48
Scope and Contents
Elwes thanks Ewart for the report, and requests that Watson returns the fleeces to him at once as he wants to show them to a cloth manufacturer as well as to Bateson, who will be visiting. He will send Ewart his Norfolk rams if he wants to try crossing them with some Cheviots. He has received few answers to the circular, and complains of 'the apathy of the average English landowner'.
The year is not written on the letter.
Dates:
23 August [1911]
Letter to Lord Arthur Cecil from William Bateson, 13 November 1898
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/24
Scope and Contents
Bateson writes to Cecil asking for his experience of cross-breeding poultry with other species of birds. Bateson writes that he aims to conduct experiments to determine whether certain distinguishing features of breeds can be blended in crossing, and what differences there are in crossing pure-bred and inbred breeds. He notes that he has been experimenting with White Leghorn chickens, but that he has had difficulty in finding breeds of a strictly recorded pedigree, specifically red combed...
Dates:
13 November 1898
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