CONTENTS 



1. A TRANSLATION. 



GREGOR MENDEL. Illustrated. T. v. Wiesner. Trans- Page 

 lation by Countess Bertha de Scheler ... ... ... 3 



2. PAPERS READ TO THE MENDEL SOCIETY. 



A SKETCH OF MENDEL'S LIFE AND WORK. Illus- 

 trated ... ... ... ... ... D. J. Scourfield 15 



INHERITANCE OF " THUMB-FINGERNESS." A case 

 of Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Illustrated by three 

 radiographs and two photographs ... H. Drinkwater 35 



ON TABBY CATS. Illustrated R. I. Pocock 53 



3. CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES. 



INHERITANCE IN RACE HORSES, with Pedigree Charts. 



Robert Bunsow 74 



EDITORIAL NOTE ON Mr. BUNSOW'S ARTICLE ... 94 



PLEA FOR OPERATION OF A MORE VIRILE SENTI- 

 MENT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS. 



A CRITICISM Louis Cobbett 103 



A REJOINDER, together with an indictment of the Board- 

 ing-out System of Pauper Children. Geo. P. Mudge 107 



A CRITICISM Miss H. M. Wodehouse 131 



A REJOINDER Geo. P. Mudge 141 



4. METHODS AND RESULTS. 



NOTE REGARDING VARIATION IN THE SINGLE 



COMBS OF FOWLS Raymond Pearl 189 



A REPLY "Ardent Mendelian" 195 



5. MISCELLANEA. c£ 



APOGAMY AND HYBRIDISATION 202 



A NEW THEORY OF SEX HEREDITY 203 



NOTE ON PARTHENOGENESIS ... F. J. Chittenden 205 



A REPLY Mrs. Rose Haig Thomas 20S 



THE INCIDENCE OF PLAGUE AND THE RELATIVE 

 INSENSIBILITY OF HOOLIGANS TO PAIN. 



Geo. P. Mudge 208 



6. REVIEWS OF BOOKS. 



MENDEL'S PRINCIPLES OF HEREDITY. W. Bateson 213 



THE FAMILY AND THE NATION. William Cecil 



Dampier Whetham and Catherine Durning Whetham ... 219 



CHARLES DARWIN AND THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES 



Edward Bagnall Poulton 227 



MENTAL AND MORAL HEREDITY IN ROVALTY 



Frederick Adams Wood 232 



HERBERT SPENCER AND ANIMAL EVOLUTION 



Gilbert Charles Bourne 239 



7. SIR FRANCIS GALTON. 



AN APPRECIATION 243 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Statue of Gregor Mendel 2 Chart of Height, Span and Reach ... 48 



pZY/1' "n^'f^^l-^V^^t'^'. ■■ ••■■■ It Photograph of Striped Tabby Cat ... .S4 



l^edigree Chart of I humb-tingerness ... 34 



Bones of the Fingers 37 ,, Blotched ,, •■ 55 



Radiograph of "Thumb-engered" hand ... 43 ! Pejigree of the Racehorse " Postumus"... S5 



., ,. „ oi Child 45 



foot .- 47 Pedigree Chart of the grey Arabian Stallion 



Photograph of "Thumb-fingered " hand ... 39 " Celle-Amurath " and his brother 



„ ,, ,, and " Holstein-Amuralh" 90 



normal hand ... 41 , 



