Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2240

WILLIAM BATESON (1861-1926) Mendel's principles of heredity. At the University Press 1909 xiv, 396 pp., illus., front., 6 plates. 23.5 cm.

Bateson is frequently called the father of genetics for his fundamental work in heredity. While not one of the original discoverers of Mendel's work, Bateson was one of its foremost proponents. He extended and enlarged upon Mendel's basic laws of gene segregation and assortment, noting in particular the frequent "linkage" of certain traits and the action of one gene upon another. Bateson also investigated the hereditary nature of certain diseases such as hemophilia and color blindness. The present work is a concise account of Mendelian genetics and contains an English translation of Mendel's classic work, Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden (1865).

Cited references: Cushing B162; Garrison-Morton 244; Waller 10733 (1913 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.