10 THE MENDEL JOURNAL 



Not long after the publication of Mendel's experi- 

 ments in the modestly planned and unobtrusively 

 executed essays which explained the law of Heredity, 

 and which slept so long among the journals of a 

 society little known in the world, so that in scientific 

 circles absolutely no notice was taken of them, thev 

 were accepted in the celebrated collection which 

 is edited by Ostwald under the name of " Classical 

 Authors on the exact Natural Sciences/' 



Here Mendel's name shines beside those of 

 the greatest scientists who have worked in the 

 field of Natural Science ; beside Maipighi, Knight, 

 Briicke, Theodor de Saussure, and Pasteur. Now 

 the capital of the land of Moravia can rejoice in 

 possessing within its walls the statue of a man who 

 laboured here many years^ and created a work which 

 has brought appreciation and even fame to Austrian 

 Natural History Science Research, as few others 

 have done, and whom we can with every right place 

 beside such men as Rokitansky, Briicke, Endlicher, 

 and Franz Unger, 



To conclude, I would mention that Mendel's 

 law has not alone a theoretical interest. In our 

 time, in which all the technical and practical sciences, 

 aided by Natural Science, progress with giant strides, 

 theory is quickly transformed into practical applica- 

 tion. See how Bacteriology, one of the most modern 

 sciences, seized hold of Medicine, Hygiene, and the 

 technique of fermentation, and how quickly the 

 discoveries of Uertz led to wireless telegraphy, 

 and how rapidly the Rontgen rays became useful to 



