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WEISMANN'S ESSAYS UPON HEREDITY, 

 ETC 1 



IT is certainly not too much to say that Professor 

 Weismann's " Essays on Heredity," are the most 

 important contribution to speculative biology 

 which has been made since the " Origin of Species " 

 was published. Yet, except to professed biologists, 

 Professor Weismann's work has till lately been 

 little known in England. Attention was first 

 drawn to it by an article, entitled " Death," in the 

 Nineteenth Century for May, 1885, by Mr. A. E. 

 Shipley ; this was followed up by two excellent 

 articles in Nature by Professor Moseley, which 

 gave in summary the main conclusions arrived at ; 

 and in 1887, at the Manchester meeting of the 

 British Association, Professor Weismann himself 

 took part in a discussion introduced by Professor 

 Ray Lankester, on " The Transmission of Acquired 

 Characters." 



1 Essays upon Heredity, etc. By Professor August Weismann. 

 Edited by Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., etc., Tutor of Keble 

 College, Oxford, Dr. Schonland, Ph. D., and A. E. Shipley, M.A. 

 Oxford | Clarendon Press. 



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