IV. News

X International Congress of Genetics

McGill University, Montreal, P.Q., Canada, August 20-27, 1958.

General Organizing Committee-J.W. Boyes, Chairman and General Secretary, E.W. Caspari, M. Demerec, P.C. Mangelsdorf, H.B. Newcombe, Ex-officio, F.J. Ryan, S.G. Smith and N. F. Walker:

" The X International Congress of Genetics will be held at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, from August 20-27, inclusive, 1958. Congress Committees are now actively preparing for your arrival and raising funds for travel grants, particularly for overseas geneticists.

The programme will include symposia, invited papers, short contributed papers, demonstrations, other meetings and exhibits. There will be a special exhibit on " The Role of Genetics in the Service of Man ". Also, we are preparing an interesting programme for the ladies and children and the latter will be cared for in a "Progeny Park".

Pre- and post-Congress tours both local and extending through eastern parts of Canada and the United States are being arranged. University residences, hotels, tourist homes or camping facilities can be arranged for members and their families.

Overseas transportation should be arranged very soon as travel accommodation is already being heavily booked for 1958. Family travel plans should be investigated.

If there is any possibility that you will be able to attend, we ask you to write to us according to the information requested below immediately.

The Secretary General"

Professor J.W. Boyes
Department of Genetics
McGill University
Montreal 2, P.Q., Canada
Please send me further information regarding the X International Congress of Genetics.
Name :
Address :

Wheat Genetics Symposium

By B.C. Jeoekins, Division of Plant Science, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Man., Canada :

"I presume it would be satisfactory to announce that plans are being made to hold the first International Wheat Genetics Symposium in Winnipeg during the week prior to the Genetics Congress in Montreal, August 20 to 27, 1958. I am busy trying to organize the program and make arrangements for this Symposium. More complete details will be sent to interested persons as soon as they become available".

Cited from Wheat Newsletter, III, 1956:

"At the meetings of the Associate Committee on Plant Breeding in Saskatoon, February 18 to 20, a motion was passed in favor of holding a Symposium on Wheat Genetics in Winnipeg in 1958. Tentative dates are August 13-15, the week prior to the International Genetics Congress to be held in Montreal. Dr. B.C. Jenkins, from the University of Manitoba, was elected general chairman for the symposium. The actual staging of the symposium will depend on a sponsor being found for it, but it is expected that this will be arranged shortly.-D.R. Knott"