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The Genetics Society/British Society for Genetic MedicineMeeting 2017, held at The Royal Society, London,

1. Agenda for Annual Business Meeting, including election of new members, and changes to membership rules. 2. Kodak Phase-Contrast Film of Meiosis, presented by Dr. W. Berg with an introduction on the optical principles.

Papers presented by: 1. C. Auerbach - "The influence of experimental conditions on the production of chemical mutations". 2. F. Yates - "The analysis of data from all possible reciprocal crosses between a set of parental lines" 3. P.B. Medawar - "Colour transformation of Guinea-pigs".

Papers presented by: 1. A.G. Cock - "Two cases of lateral asymmetry in the fowl". 2. L.S. Penrose - "The meaning of fitness in human populations" 3. C. Gordon - "The measurement of gene exhibition. A critique of concepts of penetrance and expressivity". 4. H. Grunberg - "Minor skeletal variations in the mouse". 5. J.G. Carr - "Inheritance of a differential response to gonadotropic hormone in mice". Two copies of programme

Papers presented by: 1. J.B.S. Haldane - Introduction 2. S. Wright - "Dominance and factor interaction with special reference to pigmentation of the guinea pig". 3. E.B. Ford - "Genetics of pigmentation in Lepidoptera". 4. W.T.J. Morgan - "The nature of the specific products of the human blood group genes". 5. A. Neuberger - "Inborn errors of metabolism affecting the human red cell". 6. H. Harris - "Biochemical genetics in man". 7. C. Gordon - "The effects of specific nutritional factors on gene exhibition in mutants of Drosophila melanogaster". 8. B. Ephrussi - "Genetical studies on a mutation affecting the respiratory system of yeast". 9. H. Ephrussi-Taylor - "Recent studies on specific transformations of Pneumococci". 10. M. Westergard - "Some aspects of a reverse mutation in a biochemical mutant of Neurospora". 11. D.G. Catcheside - "Gene action and mutation in Neurospora" 12. J.R.S. Fincham - "Amination-deficient mutants of Neurospora". 13. G. Pontecorvo - "Biochemical genetics of Aspergillus nidulans". 14. K.D. Macdonald and G. Pontecorvo - "An efficient technique for the isolation of auxotrophic mutants of micro-organism" 15. G.H. Beale - "Antigen variation in variety 1 of Paramecium aurelia". 16. L.A. Elson - "Strain differences in response of mice to vitamin B deficiency. 1 Activity of the succinoxidase enzyme system" 17. P.C. Koller - "Strain differences in response of mice to vitamin B deficiency. 2. Meiosis and sperm differentiation". 18. J.L. Fyfe and A.K. Chakravarty - "Cyanogenesis in white clover". 19. C. Auerbach and H. Moser - "An analysis of the mutagenic action of formalin" 20. M.H. Bird - "The production of mutations in Drosophila using two classes of compounds, the aromatic nitrogen mustards and the epoxides". 21. H.G. Callan - "Experimental work with amphibian oocyte nuclei". Includes abstracts. Two copies of programme.

Papers presented by: 1. Elizabeth B. Robson - "The genetics of human birth weight". 2. Sylvia D. Lawler - "Linkage studies in three families showing oval red cells (elliptocytosis)". 3. J.N.M. Chalmers, Elizabeth W. Ikin and A.E. Mourant - "Two blood group antigens in Africans, associated with the MNSs system". 4. Helen Spurway and J.B.S. Haldane - "Intersexuality in Drosophila subobscura". 5. D. Wilkie - "Incompatability in Pteridium aquilinum (bracken)". 6. H. Gloor - "Paper electrophoresis of haemolymph from normal and muatnt Drosophila larvae". 7. E.C. Richardson - "Inheritance of white in the 'English' rabbit". 8. Sir Ronald Fisher - "Linkage values for polydactyly and leaden". 9. H. Daday - "Distribution of gene frequencies in Trifolium repens L". 10. A.R.G. Owen - "Equilibrium of populations and the possibility of sustained large-scale oscillations". 11. J.N. Hartshorne - "A suppressor in Chlamydomonas Reinhardi". 12. J.P. Cooper - "Genetic control of inflorescence development in Lolium".

Papers presented by: 1. Miss A.R. Haygarth Jackson - ""Ecological and Genetical studies in Drusophila melanogaster Meig.". 2. A.R. Gopal-Ayengar - "The cytology of primary, transplanted and ascites tumours". 3. S.H. Revell - "A new hypothesis for 'chromatid' aberrations". 4. Miss A.P. Wyliue - "The origin of Rosa Wilsoni Borr". 5. Alan Robertson and J.M. Rendel - "The genetic effect of artificial insemination on milk production". 6. A.G. Searle - "The effect of diet on variation in a pure line of mice". 7. B.A.D. Stocker, N.D. Zinder and J. Lederberg - "Phage transduction of flagellar characters in Salmonella". Includes abstracts. Two copies of programme - second programme includes accounts for The Genetical Society for the Year Ending 31 May 1953.

Papers presented by: 1. B. Woolf - "Biometrical analysis in quantitative inheritance". 2. F. Yates - "The assessment of differences in mutation rates produced by two treatments tested in a number of experiments". 3. H.G. Callan - "The meiosis of a male species hybrid between Triturus vulgaris meridionalis female x Triturus helveticus". 4. D.S. Falconer - "Selection for large and small size in mice". 5. J.L. Crosby - "A suggestion concerning the inheritance of 'acquired characteristics'". Two copies of programme

Papers presented by: 1. J.M. Thoday - "Effects of stabilising and disruptive selection". 2. C.H. Ockey - "Chromatid abberations induced by substituted ethyleneimines". 3. J.A. Pateman and J.R.S. Fincham - "Enzyme production by mutant alleles at the am locus in Neurospora crassa". 4. M. Demerec - "Genetic studies with Salmonella typhimurium". 5. P.E. Hartman and Zlata Hartman - "Histidine-requiring mutants of Salmonella typhimurium: complete and abortive transduction". 6. J.L. Fyfe - "Relational incompatibility in diploid and tetraploid lucerne". 7. J.B.S. Haldane - "The cost of evolution". 8. S.C. Harland and Edna King - "Inheritance of mildew resistance in Fragaria with special reference to cytoplasmic effects". 9. M.B.E. Godward - "Meiosis in Spirogyra". 10. J.M. Thoday - "Accelerated response in selection experiments". 11. G.F. Leedale - "Nuclear division in the Euglenineae".