He wrote at once to its director, William Bateson, famous for having introduced the word "genetics" into biology.
William Bateson was credited as the scientist who first brought Mendel’s theories to the English speaking world, and the coiner of the term 'genetics'.
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This was very much in tune with William Bateson's own beliefs, and Bateson's views on this topic were revered by many other geneticists worldwide, including Theodosius Dobzhansky.
In 1889, William Bateson observed in detail the way that decorator crabs fix materials on their backs.
As an example of linkage, consider the classic experiment by William Bateson and Reginald Punnett.
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Genetic linkage was first discovered by the British geneticists William Bateson, Edith Rebecca Saunders and Reginald Punnett shortly after Mendel's laws were rediscovered.
William Bateson, Materials For The Study Of Variation: Treated With Especial Regard To Discontinuity In The Origin Of Species (Macmillan and Co., 1894)
This view was expressed in the writings of key founders of genetics, including Thomas Hunt Morgan, Reginald Punnett, Wilhelm Johannsen, Hugo de Vries, William Bateson and others.
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She was sister of the geneticist William Bateson, his son was the anthropologist and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson, and sister of Mary Bateson (historian).
In 1903 she joined William Bateson's genetics lab at Cambridge where she began her study of the inheritance of petal color in Antirrhinum (snapdragons).