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AS I have been both misquoted and misrepresented by Prof. MacBride in a recent letter to NATURE (August 21, p. 264), I may be permitted to say a word in my own defence. My remarks on Kammerer's Alytes at the British Association were to the effect that the sections sent by Dr. Kammerer to America showed only asperities, not distinctive glands characteristic of the nuptial pads of other Salientia. The glands in his sections of the controls were the same size as those in his experimentals. Asperities may be formed on different parts of the body in one or both sexes of different species of frogs, and in some cases are apparently not correlated with a sex hormone. In the case of Kammerer's results, the question concerned the inheritance of spines, not of complete pads. Prof. MacBride seems to believe there has been some confusion in my mind on this subject.
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NOBLE, G. Kammerer's Alytes. Nature 118, 518 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118518b0
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