Reports to the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society. 1-5.

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1902-1910
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    ( REPORTS TO THE EVOLUTION COMMrTT'& ^ OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. EEPORT L—EXPERIMENTS UNDERTAKEN BY W. BATESON, E.R.S., AND, MISS E. R. SAUNDERS. (Presented to the Committee, Tuesday, December 17, 1901.) TABLE OF CONTENTS. Introdnetion. Pages Statement of objects and method. The discovery of Mendel's Law and its consequences 1-12 i£PIZ)0P2'-E'ffi.4, account of experiments deferred 12 Pabt I. Experiments with PLANTS. Choice of subjects and preliminary statement of result 13-15 LYCHNIS 15-19 ATROPA 20-21 DATURA 21-32 MATTRIOLA 32 Evidence in the case of Matthioia. List of types used and their characters 33 I. First cross-bred generation. A. Details as to offspring of hoary x glabrous 35 B. „ ,, glabrous x hoary 35 C. Flower-colour of first cross-bred generation 45 D. Seed-colour of first cross-bred generation 47 II. Posterity, of cross-breds. 1. Offspring of cross-breds produced from (D x E), A. When D and R toere brown-seeded and green-seeded respectively. a. Cross-breds fertilised with reeessives 48 h. Cross-breds self-fertilised. 49 c. Posterity derived from the foregoing B. When D and R loere hotli hrotun-seeded. a. Cross-breds fertilised with reeessives 54 b. Cross-breds self-fertilised 61 c. Posterity derived from the foregoing 64 B