HEREDITY AXD GER.MIXAL COXTIXUITV 



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Mendel's name was not recognized as a prominent one 

 in the annals of biological history until the re-discovcrvof his 

 law in 1900; but now he is accorded high rank. It ma\ be 

 remarked in |)assing that the three leading names in the 

 development of the theories of heredity arc those of Mendel, 

 Galton, and Weismann. 



Galton. — The application of statistical methods is well 

 illustrated in the theories of Francis Galton (Fig. 96). This 



Fig. 96. — Francis Galton, Born 1822. 



distiniifuished English statistician was bom in 1822, and is still 

 hving. He is the grandson of Dr. Erasmus Darwin and tin- 

 cousin of Charles. After })ublishing books on his travels in 

 Africa, he beran the ex])erimental studv of hereditv and. in 

 187 1, he read before the Royal Society of London a paper 



