1. On the development of genetics, see for example, G.E. Allen, Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, 1975); G.E. Allen, Thomas Hunt Morgan. The Man and His Science (Princeton, 1978); C.E. Rosenberg, No Other Gods (Baltimore, 1976); Robert Olby, The Path to the Double Helix (London, 1974): H.F. Judson, The Eighth Day of Creation (New York, 1979); Jan Sapp, Beyond The Gene: Cytoplasmic Inheritance and the Struggle for Authority in Genetics (New York, 1987).
2. See for example, Donald Fleming, ‘Émigré Physicists and the Biological Revolution’, in Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn, eds., The Intellectual Migration: Europe and America, 1930–1960. (Cambridge, Mass., 1969), pp. 152–189; Charles Weiner, ‘A New Site for the Seminar: The Refugees and American Physics in the Thirties’, ibid., pp. 190–233. Nathan Reingold, ‘Refugee Mathematicians in the United States of America, 1933–1941’, Annals of Science, 38 (1981), 313–338.
3. On Richard Goldschmidt, see Scott Gilbert, ‘Cellular Politics: Goldschmidt, Just, Waddington and the Attempt to Reconcile Embryology and Genetics’ in R. Rainger, K.R. Benson and J. Maienschein, eds., The American Development of Biology, (Philadelphia, 1988), pp. 311–346. On Jollos, see Sapp, op. cit. (n. 1), pp. 60–65.
4. On the difference between American and German approaches to heredity between the two world wars, see Sapp, op. cit. (n. 1), pp. 54–86, Margaret Samosi Saha, ‘Carl Correns and an Alternative Approach to Genetics: The Study of Heredity in Germany Between 1880 and 1930’, Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, 1984; Jonathan Harwood, ‘The Reception of Morgan’s Chromosome Theory in Germany: Interwar Debate Over Cytoplasmic Inheritance’, Medizinhistorisches Journal, 19 (1984), 3–32; Jonathan Harwood, ‘Genetics and the Evolutionary Synthesis in Interwar Germany’, Annals of Science, 42 (1985), 279–301.
5. There is, as yet, little secondary literature devoted to the study of the career of Michael White. For brief accounts of his contributions to cytology and evolutionary theory, see William R. Atchley, ‘M.J.D. White: The Scientists and the Man’, in William R. Atchley and David Woodruff, eds., Evolution and Speciation: Essays in Honour of M.J.D. White (Cambridge, 1981), pp. 3–20, and Ernst Mayr, ‘Michael James Denham White’, American Philosophical Society Yearbook, 1984, pp. 156–159. A doctoral dissertation on White’s life and work is being planned by Doug McCann at the University of Melbourne.