Other Biographical Information
In his later years he was a friend and confidant of the German Erwin Baur. Their correspondence includes their discussion of eugenics.
His son was the anthropologist and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson.
He was elected in June, 1894 a Fellow of the Royal Society and won their Darwin Medal in 1904 and their Royal Medal in 1920. He also delivered their Croonian lecture in 1920. The John Innes Centre holds a Bateson Lecture in his honour at the annual John Innes Symposium.
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