1. Curt Stern, “Richard Benedict Goldschmidt, 1878–1958” Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences 39 (1967): 141–192; quotation p. 153–154..
2. The chromosomal arrangement in Lymantria is just the opposite for that in human beings, or Drosophila, in which males are XY, and females XX.
3. This summary is based on Goldschmidt’s The determination of sex, Nature
107 (1921): 780–784;
4. This summary is based on Goldschmidt’s The determination of sex, Curt Stern’s Genetic Mosaics and Other Essays ( Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1968 ): p. 93.
5. Goldschmidt to Stern, July 8, 1942; Stern’s private correspondence; quoted with permission.