Editor of The Quarterly Review of Biology
H. Bentley Glass took which position between Apr 1949 and Nov 1952?
H . Bentley Glass Hiram Bentley Glass ( January 17 , 1906 – January 16 , 2005 ) was an American geneticist and noted columnist . Career . Born in China to missionary parents , he attended college at Baylor University in Texas . He then furthered his education at the University of Texas , where he received his Ph.D . degree under the mentorship of geneticist Hermann Joseph Muller . His first major academic appointment was at Johns Hopkins University , at which time he was also a regular columnist for the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper . He taught at Stephens College in Columbia , Missouri and at Goucher College in Maryland before joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins . Glass was a frequent attendee of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposia . In 1965 , Glass became the first Academic Vice-President and Professor of Biological Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook . Glass was a critic of creationism . He was an honorary member of the National Association of Biology Teachers . Glass scientific papers were donated to and are available at the American Philosophical Society . Throughout his long scientific career , he held many distinguished academic titles , including - Editor of The Quarterly Review of Biology , 1944-1986 - Editor of Science , 1953 - President of the American Institute of Biological Sciences ( AIBS ) , 1954-1956 - President of the Maryland Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) , 1955-1965 - President of the American Association of University Professors ( AAUP ) , 1958-1960 - Chairman of the Board of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study ( BSCS ) , 1959-1965 - President of the American Society of Human Genetics ( ASHG ) , 1967 - President of Phi Beta Kappa , 1967-1970 - President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ) , 1969 - President of the National Association of Biology Teachers ( NABT ) , 1971 Glass on Genetic Determinism . Like his doctoral mentor H . J . Muller , Bentley Glass was deeply concerned about eugenics . In response to the views of Charles Davenport , Morris Steggerda and others , Glass wrote Geneticists Embattled : Their Stand Against Rampant Eugenics and Racism in America During the 1920s and 1930s . The following excerpt is emblematic : Let us remember that the genes which are passed down in the egg and sperm from one generation to another are simply molecules of DNA , selected over eons as providing individuals to survive in a real world and to reproduce when mature . The genes control only the kinds of proteins that are actually made in the cell and tissues of the growing , developing individual , or control the turning on and turning off of these synthetic processes at appropriate times and in appropriate tissues during development . Their effects , whether fortunate or unfortunate , depend on the circumstances of the environment , biological , social cultural . Behavior reflects the changes in state and attitude assumed by a growing , developing being as its situation becomes altered . Darwinian evolution is based on the selection ( read “preservation” or “perpetuation” ) of whatever genetic differences promote survival and reproduction , although that may include even such forms of behavior as altruism if thereby genes like those of the self-sacrificing individual are preserved in the related beings saved from death or infertility . But the circumstances—-that is , the environment—-define what is a “good” gene and what is a “bad” one . The flaw in Social Darwinism , and likewise in the over-extended sociobiology , is to ignore the interdependency of genes and environment—-to think in absolute terms of good or bad genes , good or bad phenotypes . Selected bibliography . - Bentley Glass Progress or Catastrophe : The Nature of Biological Science and Its Impact on Human Society ( Praeger Publishers , 1985 ) . - Bentley Glass , Owsei Temkin , William L . Straus , Jr . Forerunners of Darwin , 1745-1859 ( The Johns Hopkins University Press , 1968 ) - Bentley Glass The Biology of Nuclear War , The American Biology Teacher , Vol . 24 , No . 6 ( Oct . 1962 ) , pp . 407–425 . - Bentley Glass Ethical Basis of Science ( Haifa , Technion-Israel Institute of Technology , 1969 ) - Bentley Glass Science and ethical values ( Greenwood Press , 1981 ) - Bentley Glass “Geneticists Embattled : Their Stand Against Rampant Eugenics and Racism in America During the 1920s and 1930s,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , Vol . 130 , No . 1 ( 1986 ) pp . 130–155 External links . - Audra Wolfe . Bentley Glass , Centurys Son . Mendel Newsletter n.s . 12 ( 2003 ) . A publication of the American Philosophical Society Library . - Boston Globe Obituary