Mendel's principles of heredity : a defence /

Abstract

The first half of this paper is reprinted with additions and modifications from the Journal of the Eoyal Horticultural Society, 1900, vol.xxv., parts 1 and 2. Written almost immediately after the rediscovery of Mendel, it will be seen to be already in some measure out of date, but it may thus serve to show the relation of the new conceptions to the old. B.1The present paper is written in the hope that it may in some degree help to clear the ground of these difficulties by a preliminary consideration of the question, How far have we got towards an exact knowledge of heredity, and how can we get further?Now this is pre-eminently a subject in which we must distinguish what we can do from what we want to do.We want to know the whole truth of the matter ; we want to know the physical basis, the inward and * See later.Galton gave a simple diagrammatic representation of his law in Nature, 1898, vol.lvii.p. 293.t These we now recognize as examples of Mendelian ' dominance.'

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