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AT the International Congress of Genetics held at Ithaca, N.Y., in 1932, it was resolved that the genetical societies of all countries be asked to cooperate in preparing recommendations regarding the problem of standardizing genetical symbolism, in order to discuss them at the next International Genetical Congress. Prof. Tine Tammes (Groningen), who was appointed to take charge of this work; produced a preliminary report in conjunction with Dr. H. de Haan and then turned over the task to the International Union of Biological Sciences. This body, together with the International Institute for Intellectual Co-operation at Paris, convoked a meeting of delegates from various countries, which was held in the rooms of the Linnean Society of London on August 14–15, 1939, with Prof. M. J. Sirks (Groningen) as chairman. The delegates were Dr. A. Establier and Miss N. Nicolsky (from the I.I.I.C. in Paris), Prof. O. Winge (Denmark), Dr. B. Ephrussi (France), Prof. H. Nachtsheim (Germany), Prof. R. R. Gates, Prof. J. B. S. Haldano and Mr. A. E. Watkins (Great Britain), Prof. K. v. Körösy (Hungary), Dr. K. Ramiah and Dr. S. N. Venkatraman (India), Prof. M. J. Sirks and Dr. S. J. Wellensiek (Holland), Prof. O. L. Mohr (Norway), Prof. M. Skalinska (Poland), Dr. O. Tedin (Sweden), Prof. F. Baltzer, Prof. A. Ernst and Prof. E. Hadorn (Switzerland), and Prof. E. W. Lindstrom (U.S.A.). The delegates from Belgium, Finland, Italy and Japan were unable to attend. A preliminary series of rules for the symbolizing of genes and chromosome aberrations was drawn up at this meeting.
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Standardizing Genetical Symbolism. Nature 144, 935 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144935a0
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