Soviet genetics and world science : Lysenko and the meaning of heredity / [Julian Huxley].
- Julian Huxley
- Date:
- 1949
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Soviet genetics and world science : Lysenko and the meaning of heredity / [Julian Huxley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tion of the achievements of Michurinism and of critical exposure of the pseudo-scientific Morgano-Weismannite tendency. 4 (n) The Bureau of the Division of Biological Sciences shall revise the syllabuses at biological insti tutes, bearing in mind the interests of Michurinism. An explanatory statement follows, including the following remarks : ' At a number of Academy institutes formal genetics has not been combated with sufficient vigour. For this the Praesidium of the Academy takes the blame. The Bureau of the Division of Biological Sciences and its head L. A. Orbeli, the distinguished physiologist [who was released from his duties as Academician-Secretary under Resolution I] have failed to give a correct orientation to the biologists of the Academy 4 The report by Lysenko (1948 ; and 3 ), which has been approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party, has exposed the scientific inconsistency of the reactionary idealist theories of the followers of Weismannism —Schmal hausen, Dubinin, Zhebrak, Navashin and others.' It is worth noting here the way in which the fact of the Corrimunist Party's approval was first made public. It was announced by Lysenko himself during the session of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. However, he did not make the announcement in his opening report, but only after the close of discussion, at the beginning of the 10th sitting of the Session, in his Concluding Remarks, which paved the way for the final Resolution passed by the Academy. Here is what he said : Comrades, before I pass to my concluding remarks I consider it my duty to make the following statement. ' The question is asked in one of the notes handed to me, What is the attitude of the Central Committee of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18022777_0055.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
