recessive brown/colour dilution only reliably recorded in a colony of laboratory cats, none of which are believed to have left the laboratory. To make this comprehensible to the non- genetics expert I have referred to "copies of genes" or "versions" of genes although the correct terminology is "alleles". There is also a brief guide to Shaw's terminology at the end as Shaw's writing pre-dated modern "standard" symbols and terminology. Don Shaw was an early feline geneticist in the USA. During the 1950s and 1960s, there was no standard form of genetic coding and Shaw used his own system of genetic coding which can be difficult to read today. He also referred to chocolate, which is a mutation of the black gene, as "chocolate dilution". What modern fanciers call dilution, Shaw called "maltesing" (Maltese i.e. blue cats were a genuine dilution of black). Shaw viewed dilution as being due
got a job waiting on tables. After commencement in February of 1914, he attended graduate school, managing to fall in love twice, once with a brunette, once with the blonde daughter of a movie-house owner. While he was there, a wealthy textile merchant, George Fabyan, who maintained laboratories in acoustics, chemistry, genetics, and cryp- tology (to try to prove that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays) on his 500- acre estate, Riverbank, at Geneva, Illinois, decided that he needed a geneticist to improve the grains and livestock on his farm. He applied to Cornell for a "would-be-er," not an "as-is-er," and hired Friedman, to begin June 1, 1915. Fabyan was a man of no formal education but of intelligence and energy. He had a great desire to be "somebody," and that desire motivated his subsidizing the Baconian studies: proof of this revolutionary thesis would cover its patron as well as its actual discoverers with glory. He himself read little, but he absorbed enough
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