Mendel's Principles of Heredity.

Bateson is the occupant of a newly founded chair in the University of Cambridge, founded and endowed for five years with the purpose of special study and inquiry into heredity and variations, or genetics, the more modern term.

This book, which is clearly written and well illustrated, aims to give a succinct account of the discoveries and developments in the field of heredity resulting from the application of Mendel's now well-known methods of research. In the first part Bateson deals with introductory matters and with Mendel's discovery; he then discusses the material investigated by himself and his associates and the numerical consequences and recombinations. Several chapters are devoted to heredity of color, heredity and sex, and double flowers. Chapter XII is devoted to a discussion of the evidences of Mendelian inheritance in man; and various examples of hereditary diseases and malformations are cited and illustrated with diagrams of heredity. The