A JOR special section devoted to the 100th anniversary of Michael James Denham White

BIDAU CLAUDIO J. & MARTI DARDO A.

JOURNAL OF ORTHOPTERA RESEARCH

Orthopterists' Society

Año: 2010 vol. 19 p. 161 - 163

1082-6467

Long ago, when one of us (CJB) started research towards my PhD dissertation on the population cytogenetics of some South American grasshoppers, He had already been strongly influenced by the first Spanish translation (by Francisco A. Sáez, 1951) of Michael White’s ‘Animal Cytology and Evolution’ (1945). He had also been fortunate enough to attend lectures on chromosomes by Francisco Sáez, the pioneer of orthopteran cytogenetics in South America who had been fascinated by a lecture delivered by Clarence McClung on grasshopper chromosomes at La Plata University (Argentina) in the late twenties’ of the XXth century. Sáez was a friend of Michael White’s whom he had met at the 12th International Congress of Genetics (Tokyo). CJB will always remember a photograph kept at my major professor’s (Juan H. Hunziker) room at Buenos Aires University in which Michael White, Francisco Sáez, Theodosius Dobzhansky and Bruce Wallace were enjoying a good time in Japan.