RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE NATURAL SCIENCES 159
Babcock now has need of additional trained assistants,
and to make this possible the sum of
$12,000 has been appropriated to the University
of California for use over a three-year period beginning
July 1, 1935. This support aids in carrying
forward a new program of research planned
along the same general lines as the Crepis investigations.
It is proposed to concentrate all efforts on two
large genera which are closely related to Crepis,
namely Prenanikes and Lactuca. The principal
object is to throw new light on the general problem
of the evolution of the higher plants with
reference especially to the nature of the genetic
processes involved. As in the Crepis work, the
method of attack involves the synthesis of
analytic data derived from cytology, particularly
a study of the chromosomes of as many
species as possible.
Roacoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory
Mammalian Genetics
For a variety of technical and practical reasons
the preponderant share of the known facts of
genetics relates to fruit flies and
to certain
plants, particularly corn. A
large amount of
experimental work with small mammals, such
as mice, must however be done as a necessary
step in the general progress toward knowledge
of the genetics of that most important mammal,
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