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Reprints of journal articles and research papers by Alan Greenwood and Janet Blyth, 1929-1951

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Identifier: Coll-1057/4/2

Scope and Contents

Contains:
  1. 'An Experimental Analysis of the Plumage of the Brown Leghorn Fowl', reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Session 1928-1929, Vol. XLIX, Part IV, No. 25 (1929);
  2. 'The Results of Testicular Transplantation in Brown Leghorn Hens', reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, B., Vol. 106 (1930);
  3. 'Some Experiments Relating to the Ovarian Function in the Fowl', reprinted from the Proceedings of the World's Poultry Congress, London (1930);
  4. 'On Significant Modifications of Feather Type Induced by Injections of Female Sex Hormone (Oestrin) to Capons', reprinted from the Veterinary Journal, Vol. 87, No. 1 (1930);
  5. 'Thymus Extirpation in the Laying Hen', reprinted from the Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Vol. 29 (1931);
  6. 'Reversal of the Secondary Sexual Characters in the Fowl: A Castrated Brown Leghorn Male Which Assumed Female Characters', reprinted from the Journal of Genetics, Vol. XXVI, No. 2 (October 1932);
  7. 'Biological Methods of Diagnosing Equine Pregnancy: II. The Capon Test (also contains 'The Mouse Test' by W.C Miller), reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, No. 798 (November 1934);
  8. 'Variation in Plumage Response of Brown Leghorn Capons to Oestrone: I. Intramuscular Injection and II. Intradermal Injection', reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B., No. 807, with original plates of mounted feathers, inscribed 'Kindest regards, Alan W.G.'(July 1935);
  9. 'On the Relation Between the Site of Injection of Androsterone and the Comb Response in the Fowl', reprinted in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 25, No. 3 (October 1935);
  10. 'Sex Dimorphism in the Plumage of the Domestic Fowl', reprinted from the Journal of Genetics, Vol. XXXVI, No.1 (May 1938);
  11. 'The Influence of Testis on Sexual Plumage in the Domestic Fowl', reprinted from the Journal of Genetics, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2 (September 1938);
  12. 'Experimental Modification of the Accessory Sexual Apparatus in the Hen', reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology and Cognate Medical Sciences, Vol. 28, No. 1 (June 1938);
  13. 'Henny-Feathering in Brown Leghorn Males', reprinted from the Journal of Endocrinology, Vol. 2 (1940-1941);
  14. 'Some Effects of Thyroid and Gonadotrophic Preparations in the Fowl', reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology and Cognate Medical Sciences, Vol. 31, No. 3 (February 1942);
  15. 'Sexual Maturity in Brown Leghorn', reprinted from Poultry Science, Vol. XXV, No. 6 (November 1946);
  16. 'The Problem of Pullet Mortality', reprinted from the Official Report of the Eighth World's Poultry Congress (August 1948);
  17. 'A Repeated Cross Between Inbred Lines of Poultry', reprinted from the Journal of Agricultural Science, Vol. 41, Part 4 (June 1951), (2 copies);
  18. 'Genetic and Somatic Aberrations in Two Asymmetrically Marked Fowls from Sex-Linked Crosses', reprinted from Heredity, Vol. 5, Part 2 (August 1951).

Dates

  • 1929-1951

Language of Materials

English

Conditions Governing Access

Open.

Biographical / Historical

Janet S.S Blyth studied at the University of Edinburgh from 1918-1921, gaining a BSc in Agricultural Sciences in 1921. In the same year, she became a research student in the Department of Animal Breeding, graduating PhD in 1925. In 1926 she began work as assistant to Alan Greenwood in the section of Research on the Sex Physiology of the Fowl, moving across with him to the Poultry Research Centre after 1947.

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