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Leonard Doncaster
Birmingham University, University of Liverpool

Leonard Doncaster (31 December 1877 – 28 May 1920) was an English

insects.[1][2][3]

Early life

Doncaster was born on 31 December 1877 in Abbeydale, Sheffield.[3] His father was Samuel Doncaster, an iron merchant, of Abbeydale, Sheffield, Yorkshire.[1]

Career

After education at Leighton Park School in Reading South England he studied at King's College, Cambridge, from 1896 onward. He was Scholar of natural sciences in 1898, and Walsingham Medallist in 1902. In June 1902 he was appointed assistant to the Superintendent of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology,[4] From 1906-10 he was a Lecturer in Zoology at Birmingham University.[1]

He was an early

sex determination. His book Heredity in the Light of Recent Research (1910), is notable for explicitly dismissing Lamarckian inheritance.[6]
In 1909 he returned to
Royal Society of London
.

During the First World War he served as a bacteriologist to the First Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge, and later in the Friends' Ambulance Unit at Dunkirk, as he was a Quaker.[8]

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.[1] William Bateson wrote his obituary in Nature.[9]

Publications

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Doncaster, Leonard (DNCR896L)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ "DONCASTER, Leonard". The International Who's Who in the World. 1912. p. 390.
  3. ^ a b Entomological News. Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia & The American Entomological Society. November 1920. p. 240. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  4. ^ "University intelligence". The Times. No. 36787. London. 6 June 1902. p. 11.
  5. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1906.tb08425.x
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  6. ISBN 978-0-674-04795-2
  7. ^ "Cambridge University Museum of Zoology: Archives & Histories". Archived from the original on 2010-11-19. Retrieved 2013-03-22.
  8. ^ Dictionary of Quaker Biography, Library of Society of Friends
  9. doi:10.1038/105461a0
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