BATESON, WILLIAM (1861-1926), British biologist, was born at Whitby, Aug. 8 1861. He was educated at Rugby school and St. John's college, Cambridge, and became known for his biological investigations, which included important researches on Mendelism and the determination of sex. In 1894 he published Materials for the Study of Variation. In 1907 he gave the Silli man lectures at Yale university, from 1908 to 1909 was professor of biology at Cambridge, and in 191 o was appointed director of the John Innes Horticultural Institution at Merton Park, Surrey. From 1912 to 1914 he was Fullerian professor of physiology at the Royal Institution, and in 1914 was president of the British Association. He received the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society, of which he was a fellow and a royal medallist, in 1904, and was also the recipient of other British and foreign awards. His works include Mendel's Principles of Heredity (1902) and Problems of Genetics (1913). He died at Merton, Surrey, on Feb. 8, 1926.
See B. Bateson, William Bateson, his Essays and Addresses (1928).