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Leonard Doncaster

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and acted as Superintendent of the Museum of Zoology from 1909 to 1914. He became University Lecturer in Zoology in 1914 and won the Trail Medal of Linneaean Society in 1915. In 1915, he was also elected to the
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After WWI he was Professor of Zoology at Liverpool University from 1919 until his death in 1920. He died at age 42 of sarcoma in Liverpool.
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During the First World War he served as a bacteriologist to the First Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge, and later in the
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Doncaster L., Raynor G.H. (1906). "Breeding experiments with Lepidoptera".
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Doncaster L., Raynor G.H. (1906). "Breeding experiments with Lepidoptera".
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Some Scientific Difficulties in the Way of Religious Belief
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published in 1906. He wrote a number of books on Mendelian
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Sheffield
University of Cambridge
sex linkage
Fellow
Royal Society of London
Genetics
lepidopterology
animal breeding
King's College
Birmingham University
University of Liverpool
geneticist
zoology
Birmingham University
University of Liverpool
insects
Abbeydale, Sheffield
Leighton Park School
King's College, Cambridge
Cambridge University Museum of Zoology
Mendelian
geneticist
sex linkage
Abraxas grossulariata
genetics
sex determination
Lamarckian inheritance
Cambridge University
Royal Society of London

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