dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-09T14:01:02Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-09T14:01:02Z
dc.date.created	1944-11-12
dc.date.issued	2017-07-18
dc.description	On Hamburger's review of Holtfreter's manuscript. On theories about induction: "I find that all this kind of speculating, including my own stuff on proteins, is rather cheap. I did it only because I thought it to be a little bit more fitting than what I had read about induction, especially in Waddington's revelations. Anybody today who takes the risk of interpreting induction in general terms is bound to be caught as a blunderer. I find that all these theories of Waddington, Dalcq, Barth etc. are not much else than a hitting upon an analogy and the attempt to elaborate upon it. Some of them sound a bit more pleasant, others less so, but all are 99% poetry. Harrison and Spemann were wise enough never to go far along the slippery road of speculations but they were nevertheless kept going by the phantasmagorias of Driesch [,] Weismann, Roux and the like. Anyway, persons who emit their theories abut induction should follow them up experimentally as far a[s] possible, otherwise they are just annoying."
dc.description	Handwritten. Has note by Hamburger on first page: "Barth induction 99% poetry".
dc.description	3-page letter
dc.description	Viktor Hamburger collection, Box 1, Folder 49, Holtfreter Correspondence 1933-1945, Marine Biological Laboratory Archives
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1912/18272
dc.publisher	Marine Biological Laboratory	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Viktor Hamburger
dc.subject	Publications
dc.subject	People
dc.title	Johannes Holtfreter to Viktor Hamburger, November 12, 1944
dc.type	Text
dspace.entity.type	Publication

Johannes Holtfreter to Viktor Hamburger, November 12, 1944

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