Agronomy and Horticulture Department
Date of this Version
1940
Citation
Journal of Heredity 31 (1940), pp 129-130
Abstract
Mice and men reported from
Edinburgh after the Congress
(JOURNAL OF HEREDITY for
September 1939) but since then there
has been silence, as far as getting into the
record any details of the Congress. On
account of the disruption to trans-Atlantic
travel caused by the declaration of
war between England and Germany,
September 3, the American delegation to
the Congress was considerably delayed
in getting back. Only two failed ultimately
to return, Dr. and Mrs. F. W.
Tinney of the Division of Farm Crops
of the University of Wisconsin. They
were among about a dozen members of
the Congress who took passage on the
ill-fated Athenia. Just how they were
lost is uncertain, but there is reason to
believe they may have been on the lifeboat
which was struck by the propeller
of one of the rescue ships.
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Comments
Copyright 1940 R. A. Emerson