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Hitherto no case of resolution of a compound allelomorph 
has been completely followed out ; and it appears not 
impossible that many apparent cases of this kind may be 
shown to follow Mendel’s Law, by the aid of the conception 
of latency, or by an extension of the view of de Yries. It is 
a serious objection to Bateson’s view of the above case that 
upon this supposition the white parent contributes less than 
half the total characteristics of the offspring. An equal 
contribution from the two parents is of the essence of 
Mendel’s theory. Judgment upon this point may, however, 
be reserved until further evidence is forthcoming. 
CONCLUSION. 
The preceding account is incomplete in many respects, 
but it may serve to give some idea of the kind of problems, 
upon which those experiments bear, which will be detailed in 
a following paper. 
A particularly noticeable omission has been the absence of 
any adequate notice of the views expressed by Bateson and 
Saunders (6), who give, at the conclusion of their paper, a full 
discussion of the theoretical bearings of the Mendelian and 
post-Mendelian results. It is impossible to abstract their 
argument in any reasonable compass. And I would specially 
refer the reader to it for a disquisition upon the subject of 
false hybridism (Monolepsis of these authors) as well as upon 
the theoretical relation of the Mendelian theory to the 
problems of evolution. 
The experiments, also, described by these authors, 1 have 
passed over almost in silence ; partly because they relate to 
plants and animals of which I have no personal experience, 
but chiefly owing to their complexity, which renders neces¬ 
sary an examination of further generations before the results 
can be completely understood. A further account and 
discussion by the authors themselves may be looked forward 
to with interest. 
