A COURSE OF READING ON HEREDITY 



STUDENTS looking for a broad general treatment 

 of the subject cannot do better than read Professor 

 J. A. Thompson's Heredity (Murray, 1908). The 

 sections dealing with acquired characters and the 

 germ plasm theory are especially good. 



Another general work is Dr. Archdall Reid's 

 Principles of Heredity, which contains an excellent 

 treatment of certain practical questions in man 

 disease, alcoholism, and the like. 



On Mendelism, Professor R. C. Punnett's 

 Mendelism (Macmillan, 1911) is an excellent semi- 

 elementary work. The recognised authority on 

 this subject is Bateson's Mendel's Principles of 

 Heredity (Cambridge, 1909). 



On statistical theory, Elderton's Primer of Statistics 

 is a valuable little book, not dealing with biological 

 problems exclusively. The best larger work which 

 the writer knows is G. U. Yule's Introduction to the 

 Theory of Statistics (London, 1911). 



