AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



local natural history of Brunn and they 

 were published as two brief papers in the 

 obscure proceedings of this obscure soci- 

 ety of local naturalists. And there they 

 lay apparently unnoticed for thirty years. 

 Odd how an epoch-making thing can be 

 put into the world, and lie unnoticed for a 

 third of a century! 



In 1900 three eminent European bot- 

 anists, one in Austria, one in Germany 

 and one in Holland, working separately 

 on heredity problems, each independently 

 and all almost simultaneously, discovered 

 and made known Mendel's work. Today 

 Mendelian inheritance, Mendelism and 

 Mendel are words of almost as much 

 significance to naturalists as Darwinian 

 selection, Darwinism and Darwin. 



With the work and theories of Mendel 

 and the three botanists, Tschermak, 

 Correns and De Vries, as stimulus and 

 basis, there has been an energetic pushing 

 on of heredity studies, with a rapid 

 gaining of many facts and much under- 

 standing until now we are able con- 

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