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is becoming clearer that the methods of investigation 

 for Biology are the same as those proved correct for 

 other branches of Natural Science, namely, that 

 great problems must be examined with mathematical 

 accuracy, and be solved with mathematical clearness ; 

 the more the method of working recedes from mathe- 

 matical accuracy, the more uncertain, doubtful, and 

 phantastical the results will be. Mendel is a luminary 

 of the first rank in his conception of biological prob- 

 lems, who, through discovering definite laws of 

 Heredity, has given the greatest impulse to the study 

 of the subject. Numberless men of research, 

 zoologists and botanists, have been encouraged by 

 Mendel's teaching. Many volumes could be filled 

 with work based on his results. Herewith the realm 

 of his achievements is not exhausted, rather there 

 remains the best part to be told of his work. By the 

 simplification of the method of attacking problems, 

 by the mathematical spirit with which these are 

 handled, he has become a guide for exact biological 

 research in the subject of Inheritance, although the 

 latter is still in its infancy. 



The Mendel Monument is of white marble. Mendel 

 stands upright, looking from a hedge of flowers into 

 the distance. The plants which climb and are inter- 

 twined are somewhat conventional, but one recognises 

 their species — they are peas and beans, v/hich the 

 artist chose fittingly, because the fundamental trials 

 on which Mendel built up his laws of Heredity were 

 especially made with these plants. 



