It is not often that one has the opportunity to send a public
birthday greet ing to a friend and colleague of many years, and to
congratulate him on having reached the age of reason. In fact it
happens only once, and comes then as a surprise. Surely it was only
a few years ago that we sat together at an International Genetics
Congress in Ithaca, and only yesterday that we became members of
the same department. The eighth floor of Schermerhorn Hall had a
north end where the flies were and a south end furnished with mice,
and in between, a seminar room and laboratory. There the distances
were short and the doors open and the coffee pot busy. But it now
appears that yesterday has fallen thirty years behind and that we
have grown up. I find it interesting and appropriate that
Dobzhansky's lifetime spans the period of maturation of the fields
to which this volume is devoted. This is true in a chronological
sense for his birth occurred in the same year, 1900, in which
modern genetics began. The rediscovery of Mendel's princi ples and
the interpretation of the nature of heredity and variation to which
this event led were necessary prerequisites to the development of
evolution ary biology as presented in this collection of essays."
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