Some Laws of Inheritance; and their application to Man, by 
8. 8. Buckman, F.G.S. Read February 23rd, 1892. 
PREFACE. 
The substance of a considerable portion of the first 
part of this Paper was written early in the year 1891;* and 
the Paper itself was read before the Cotteswold Field Club, 
on February 23rd, 1892. In the subsequent discussion, objec- 
tion was taken by Professor Harker that I had not considered 
the views of Weismann; and I have accordingly added at the 
end a short argument concerning his theories. Some other 
additions, the result of fresh observations, or to make the 
arguments clearer, have been incorporated in the Paper since 
it was read before the Field Club. All such additions have 
been enclosed in square brackets; and these brackets will shew 
that, in works studied since the paper was read, I have found 
confirmation of several of my surmises. 
In the main, the laws of Heredity set forth are based on a 
study of the morphological phenomena of Ammonites; but — 
they have had to be extended, in many cases, to meet the 
necessities of a wider field. 
The laws of ‘earlier inheritance and its limitations” 
have from time to time been stated in a condensed form in my 
Monograph: here they are all fully considered together. 
*See Monogr. Ammonites ; Paleont. Society. Vol. for 1891, p. 290 
