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Raphael Weldon
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Professor Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, F.R.S., who died suddenly in London on Friday last, was not the least distinguished member of the younger school of biologists.
Born in 1960, he took a first-class degree in Natural Science at Cambridge in 1881 and became a Fellow of St. John's in 1884. For several years he held the Chair of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology at University College, London, resigning it in 1890 to become Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Oxford. In 1900 he took the D.Sc. degree and, as Linacre Professor, held a fellowship at Merton.
Professor Weldon was a constant attendant at the meetings of the British Association, on the general committee of which body he served as a vice-president of Section D. (Zoology). Professor Weldon took an active part in the proceedings of this section, and at the Cambridge meeting in 1904, he was one of the protagonists in a sharp encounter between the champions of the "Mendelian" and the "Ancestrian" theories of heredity. Mr. William Bateson, as president of Section D for that year, had devoted his address to a vindication of Mendelian principles with regard to heredity and varlation, and subsequent discussion on the same subject provoked some rather severe criticism from Professor Weldon and Professor Karl Pearson, to which Mr. Bateson replied. The debate, which was conducted before a large and somewhat agitated audience, resolved itself into a dialectical duel between the president of the section and Professor Weldon and developed quite a considerable amount of heat.
Professor Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, F.R.S., who died suddenly in London on Friday last, was not the least distinguished member of the younger school of biologists.
Born in 1960, he took a first-class degree in Natural Science at Cambridge in 1881 and became a Fellow of St. John's in 1884. For several years he held the Chair of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology at University College, London, resigning it in 1890 to become Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Oxford. In 1900 he took the D.Sc. degree and, as Linacre Professor, held a fellowship at Merton.
Professor Weldon was a constant attendant at the meetings of the British Association, on the general committee of which body he served as a vice-president of Section D. (Zoology). Professor Weldon took an active part in the proceedings of this section, and at the Cambridge meeting in 1904, he was one of the protagonists in a sharp encounter between the champions of the "Mendelian" and the "Ancestrian" theories of heredity. Mr. William Bateson, as president of Section D for that year, had devoted his address to a vindication of Mendelian principles with regard to heredity and varlation, and subsequent discussion on the same subject provoked some rather severe criticism from Professor Weldon and Professor Karl Pearson, to which Mr. Bateson replied. The debate, which was conducted before a large and somewhat agitated audience, resolved itself into a dialectical duel between the president of the section and Professor Weldon and developed quite a considerable amount of heat.
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