Abstract
IN this book is given a popular lecture on Mendelian hereditv, printed apparently with hardly any alteration; and considered as a lecture it is distinctly good. It is very simply and clearly written, and with the help of the numerous diagrams and figures should make the main outlines of the subject clear to those who have no previous acquaintance with it. It has, however, the unavoidable defect of a lecture, that to avoid confusion essentials must be emphasised to the exclusion of the less important; it would probably have been improved by the addition of footnotes in some places, amplifying or qualifying the statements in the text. For example, the inference (p. 21) that “plants and animals are built up of a number of indivisible unit factors iibon which their characters depend”(author's italics) surely requires a qualifying note to the effect that such unit factors may equally possibly be superposed on a basis which is different in nature.
A Lecture on Mendelism.
By Dr. H. Drinkwater. Pp. iii + 31. (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1910.)
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D., L. A Lecture on Mendelism . Nature 85, 436 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085436b0
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