Kammerer

noun

Paul. 1880–1926, Austrian zoologist: noted for his controversial experiments, esp with the midwife toad, apparently demonstrating the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Accused of fraud, he committed suicide

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Throughout Kammerer's papers this is used almost as a technical term.
Problems of Genetics
William Bateson
It will suffice to remind the reader of the Austrians Kammerer and Stellmacher.
Anarchism and Socialism
George Plechanoff
Very remarkable are the hereditary changes which Kammerer established in Alytes obstetricans—the midwife toad.
Abstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics Congress
Various
Kammerer's experiments, however, show that we are dealing with the direct effects of definite outside forces.
Darwin and Modern Science
A.C. Seward and Others