Talk:Charles Davenport

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CSH Laboratory Director
The article states "Davenport became director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1910", but the CSH web ite has him as the founding director from 1898. see http://www.cshl.edu/about/history/index.html 115.128.42.25 (talk) 05:09, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you. 1910 was when the Eugenics Records Office was founded. I have corrected this mistake and added the source you provided. Muad (talk) 20:04, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Aside from the above problems, the article should clarify the history of CSHL. It began as the Long Island Biological Laboratory (or "BiLab") in 1890. Davenport became its director in 1898, but as the lab operated only in the summer he kept his university job--at the Univ. Chicago. In 1904, Davenport opened the Station for Experimental Evolution, sponsored by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, on land purchased by the Carnegie Institution adjacent to the BiLab. The ERO was the 3rd "jewel" in Davenport's "crown," opening in 1910 and coming under CIW control from 1918 until its closing in 1939. The unified "Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory" didn't exist until 1960. See Lee Hiltzik's dissertation on the history of the BiLab and Jan Witkowski's book on the history of science at Cold Spring Harbor.

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Badly written, grammatical errors
The paragraph that begins "Together with his assistant Morris Steggerda, Davenport attempted..." is poorly written and has obvious grammatical errors.Conscientia (talk) 09:27, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Sources and a bit of sanity
It took only a few minutes to turn up sources for Davenport, so why are they not in the article? He was actually pretty significant in the early days of genetics, as can be seen from two sources off my shelf: A.H. Sturtevant 1965. A history of genetics. Harper & Row, p42. and F.A.E. Crew 1966. The foundations of genetics. Pergamon Press, p81/82. Both make the point that Davenport was responsible with G.H. Raynor for recognising the sex-linked mode of inheritance in the moth Abraxas. I suppose if someone has been in favour of eugenics, then no need to do any real attempt to to understand them or even to check sources... Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:46, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

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