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icance,  and  so  also  are  the  large  stained-glass  windows.  There  is 
none  of  that  cheap  and  tawdry  over-display  which  spoils  so  many 
European  chapels. 
With  many  expressions  of  mutual  pleasure  in  my  visit,  I  took 
leave  of  Father  Barcina,  and,  bearing  my  precious  little  "  Andenken" 
I  went  in  company  with  Doctor  litis  to  the  rooms  of  the  Natural 
History  Society,  where,  in  1865,  Mendel  read  the  account  of  his 
experiments  with  peas.  The  room  in  which  the  scientific  meetings 
are  held  is  a  plain  second-floor  room  with  simple  seats  and  desks, 
resembling  somewhat  an  ordinary  school-room.  Doctor  litis  en- 
deavored to  find  a  copy  of  the  report  of  that  momentous  meeting,  to 
present  to  me,  but  the  very  limited  supply  had  doubtless  been 
exhausted.  He  then  accompanied  me  to  the  station,  where  I  took 
train  about  4  p.m.  for  Vienna,  feeling  that  my  day  in  Briinn  had 
been  well  worth  all  my  effort.  * 
In  recognition  of  his  great  service  to  science,  and  regretful  that 
this  service  should  have  been  so  long  unknown  and  unappreciated, 
the  biologists  of  the  whole  world  united  in  1910  in  erecting  in  the 
public  square  beside  the  Konigskloster  a  marble  statue  to  the  mem- 
ory of  Gregor  Mendel.  This  statue  is  of  heroic  size  and  represents 
Mendel  in  his  priestly  robes  standing  before  a  wall  against  which 
pea  vines  are  growing.  On  the  pedestal  are  the  kneeling  forms  of 
a  man  and  woman  clasping  hands  to  symbolize  marriage  and  human 
heredity,  and  the  words  "  To  the  Nature-Student  P.  Gregor  Mendel, 
1822-1884.  Erected  by  friends  of  science."  At  the  same  time 
a  memorial  volume  was  issued  containing  Mendel's  original  memoirs 
and  fourteen  papers  by  investigators  who  are  at  the  present  time 
engaged  in  following  out  the  lines  of  work  suggested  by  those  me- 
moirs. The  contributions  to  this  volume  belong  to  seven  nations 
and  have  been  written  in  three  different  languages,  thus  bearing 
witness  to  the  present  widespread  and  eager  interest  in  the  work  so 
well  begun  by  a  keen-minded  Moravian  monk  more  than  fifty  years 
ago.  The  name  of  Mendel  will  soon  be  as  familiar  a  household 
word  as  that  of  Darwin,  and  as  knowledge  of  the  laws  of  heredity 
becomes  generally  diffused  his  name  will  be  revered  as  a  benediction 
to'  the  human  race. 
