Breeding and the Mendelian discovery / by A.D. Darbishire.

  • Darbishire, A. D. (Arthur Dukinfield), 1879-1915.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Breeding and the Mendelian discovery / by A.D. Darbishire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Preface This book deals, as its title indicates, with the facts discovered by Mendel^ and with the bearing of these facts, and of the theory put forward to ex¬ plain them, on the science of heredity and the practice of breeding. It is intended to serve merely as an introduction to the subject. My conception of the most serviceable form of such an introduction has not been to place before the reader a sketch which takes in the whole range of discovery and speculation in this sphere of inquiry, but, rather, to open the door to an intimate familiarity with a few instances of the Mendelian phenomenon, and especially with those studied by Mendel himself. To this end I have given a fuller account of the phenomena observed by Mendel than has yet appeared in popular form : the seven pairs of characters studied by him are all figured for the first time ; and other results of his are illustrated by photographs from specimens which I have bred myself. But, in case the reader takes up the position, with which I heartily sympathise, of refusing to be satisfied with anything short of actually seeing the things which Mendel discovered, I have given full instructions as to how such an « I