John Innes Centre
William Bateson, first Director of the John Innes Institute, at work in the trial plots at Merton in the eraly 1900s.

Letter from William Bateson to Alan Sedgwick in 1905

First page of handwritten letter in which Bateson first coins the word 'genetics' in 1905. Second page of a handwritten letter in which Bateson first coins the word 'genetics' in 1905.