Breeding and the Mendelian discovery / by A.D. Darbishire ... with illustrations in colour and black-and-white.

  • Darbishire, A. D. (Arthur Dukinfield), 1879-1915.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Breeding and the Mendelian discovery / by A.D. Darbishire ... with illustrations in colour and black-and-white. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    11/370 (page VII)
    PREFACE flights in this sphere, has left the ground of facts below, and attained to altitudes which put the feats of airmen in the shade. I am not arguing that it is desirable that those writers to whom the ground is distasteful should cease to fly, but merely pointing out that, inasmuch as so much energy is at present devoted to enterprise of this kind, there is room for a book that will enable anyone to look closely at some of the facts which, though they constitute the ground over which a great deal of recent discussion has raged, are seldom known at first hand by those who witness, or even in some cases by those who take part in, these battles of the air. My thanks are due, and are readily tendered to Professor de Vries for having taken the photographs which constitute Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive expressly for this book ; and to the trustees of the British Museum for permission to photograph the case of my mice which is reproduced in Plate II. I should claim more credit than is properly mine if I did not acknowledge the help which I have received in the actual carrying out of the breeding experi¬ ments to which such value as this book may possess is in great part due. In connection with the breed¬ ing experiments with mice, now concluded, my thanks are especially due to Mr. Charles Biddolph