Published in 1902, soon after Mendel’s work was rediscovered, this book prints English translations of Mendel’s papers on plant hybridisation alongside Bateson’s essay on the problems of heredity. Its longest section answers W. F. R. Weldon’s attack on Mendel’s laws point by point, setting out why the experimental breeders had found the key to inheritance.
A founding document of genetics, from the scientist who did more than anyone to win Mendel a hearing in English. Download the free EPUB.