The birth of genetics [by] Mendel, De Vries, Correns [and] Tschermak in English translation.

Date:
1950
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Credit: The birth of genetics [by] Mendel, De Vries, Correns [and] Tschermak in English translation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOREWORD Genetics celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the rediscovery of Mendel's work by offering herewith English translations of the first papers in which de Vries, Correns, and Tschermak announced their findings. Preceding the translations of these historic contributions the letters of Mendel to Nägeli, written between 1866 and 1873, are also reproduced in English. Together with the well known translations of Mendel's two genetic papers* all important documents centering around the birth of modern genetics are thus made available to the English speaking world. A study of these writings permits an insight into the origin and development of a great scientific concept in the minds of different individuals. The Editors of Genetics * (1) Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden (1866), translated in Journal of the Royal Horti¬ cultural Society 26: 1-32 (1901). Reprinted in W. Bateson, 1909, Mendel's Principles of Heredity. Cambridge University Press. Available separately as: Gregor Mendel, Experiments in plant hybridisation. Harvard University Press. 41 pp. (1948). (2) Über einige aus künstlicher Befruchtung gewonnene Hieracium Bastarde (1869), trans¬ lated in W. Bateson (I.e.).