Leonard Doncaster
Leonard Doncaster (1877–1920) was an English geneticist.[1][2]
Career
After education at Leighton Park School and Cambridge University he became an academic at Cambridge University. He was an early Mendelian geneticist who discovered sex linkage, while writing up the results of the Reverend G.H. Raynor on the magpie moth Abraxas grossulariata.[3] He later wrote a number of books on Mendelian genetics and on sex determination. He was Superintendent of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology from 1909-1914.[4] He was elected to the Royal Society of London on the strength of these achievements in 1915. He died of sarcoma in 1920, and William Bateson wrote his obituary in Nature.[5]
See also
References
Some publications
- Doncaster, L., Raynor, G.H. 1906. "Breeding experiments with Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1: 125-133.