THE MENDELIAN SOCIETY IN LUND AND 

 ITS PERIODICAL, HEREDITAS 



BY 



ROBERT LARSSON 



EDITOR, LUND 



THE REDISCOVERY OF THE MENDELIAN LAWS HAS GREATLY 

 influenced every field of biological science. New lines of study were 

 opened up by botanists and zoologists. From 1900 and onwards the ex* 

 perimental study of genetics was taken up the world over. The biologists at the 

 University of Lund also participated in this work. The need of co-operation in 

 matters of genetics was felt pretty soon. After some discussion the Mendelian 

 Society was founded. This was on the 10th of december, 1910. The Society 

 succeeded in obtaining the distinguished geneticist, Dr. H. Nilsson»Ehle, as head 

 of the Society. He still holds this position. The work of the Society has con» 

 sisted in arranging lectures and discussions on heredity and related topics. The 

 Society has also had the privilege of seeing three of our most distinguished gene= 

 ticists as its guests, Dr. W. Johannsen from Copenhagen, Dr. E. Baur and Dr. 

 C. CoRRENS from Berlin. These gentlemen have also joined the Society as bono* 

 rable members. 



The Society enlarged its program essentially last year when a periodical, Here= 

 ditas, owned and edited by the Society, was started. The purpose of this perio* 

 dical is to publish Scandinavian, principally Swedish, research on heredity. The 

 first volume is complete, and two parts of volume II have been published; the 

 third part of the volume is in print. The five parts already completed contain 

 various contributions from the vast field of genetics. The table of contents in* 

 eludes the following titles: 



VOL. I: 



Part 1: H. Nilsson'Ehle: Ueber Resistenz gegen Heterodera Schachti bei 

 gewissen Gerstensorten, ihre Vererbungsweise und Bedeutung fiir die Praxis. — 

 H. Lundborg: Hereditary Transmission of Genotypical Deaf=Mutism. — Nils 

 Heribert^Nilsson: Zuwachsgeschwindigkeit der FoUenschlauche und gestorte Men* 

 delzahlen bei Oenothera Lamarckiana. (With a summary in English.) — Hans 

 Tedin: The Inheritance of Flower Colour in Fisum. — Emanuel Bergman: A 

 Family with Hereditary (Genotypical) Tremor. — Hans Rasmuson: Ueber einige 

 genetische Versuche mit Papaver Rhoeas und Papaver laevigatum. — A. Akerman: 

 Speltlike Bud*sports in Common Wheat. — J. Rasmusson: Mendelnde Chloro* 

 phyll*Faktoren bei Allium cepa. 



Part 2: H. Lundborg: Rassen* und Gesellschaftsprobleme in genetischer und 

 medizinischer Beleuchtung. — Hans Rasmuson: On some Hybridisation Experi* 

 ments with Varieties of CoUinsia Species. — Halfdan Bryn: Researches into 



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