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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- MEMOIR
- Hybridisation and Cross-breeding as a Method of Scientific Investigation
- Problems of Heredity as a subject for Horticultural Investigation
- An Address on Mendelian Heredity and its application to Man. Delivered before the Neurological Society, London, I. ii. 1906
- Gamete and Zygote. A Lay Discourse. The Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, 1917
- Heredity and Variation in Modern Lights
- Presidential Address to the Zoological Section, British Association: Cambridge Meeting, 1904
- Presidential Address to the Agricultural Subsection, British Association: Portsmouth Meeting, 1911
- Presidential Address to the British Association, Australia: (a) Melbourne Meeting, 1914. (b) Sydney Meeting, 1914
- The Methods and Scope of Genetics. Inaugural Lecture delivered 23 October 1908. Cambridge
- Biological Fact and the Structure of Society. The Herbert Spencer Lecture, 28 February 1912. Oxford
- Science and Nationality. Presidential Address delivered at the Inaugural Meeting of the Yorkshire Science Association
- Common-sense in Racial Problems. The Galton Lecture
- Evolutionary Faith and Modern Doubts. Address to American Association for the Advancement of Science. Toronto, 1922
- Progress in Biology. An Address delivered March 12, 1924, on the occasion of the Centenary of Birkbeck College, London
- EDUCATIONAL ESSAYS
- REVIEWS
- APPENDIX
- INDEX OF PERSONS
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- PLATES I-III (Figs. 1-6) to Mendelian Heredity and its application to Man
An Address on Mendelian Heredity and its application to Man. Delivered before the Neurological Society, London, I. ii. 1906
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- MEMOIR
- Hybridisation and Cross-breeding as a Method of Scientific Investigation
- Problems of Heredity as a subject for Horticultural Investigation
- An Address on Mendelian Heredity and its application to Man. Delivered before the Neurological Society, London, I. ii. 1906
- Gamete and Zygote. A Lay Discourse. The Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, 1917
- Heredity and Variation in Modern Lights
- Presidential Address to the Zoological Section, British Association: Cambridge Meeting, 1904
- Presidential Address to the Agricultural Subsection, British Association: Portsmouth Meeting, 1911
- Presidential Address to the British Association, Australia: (a) Melbourne Meeting, 1914. (b) Sydney Meeting, 1914
- The Methods and Scope of Genetics. Inaugural Lecture delivered 23 October 1908. Cambridge
- Biological Fact and the Structure of Society. The Herbert Spencer Lecture, 28 February 1912. Oxford
- Science and Nationality. Presidential Address delivered at the Inaugural Meeting of the Yorkshire Science Association
- Common-sense in Racial Problems. The Galton Lecture
- Evolutionary Faith and Modern Doubts. Address to American Association for the Advancement of Science. Toronto, 1922
- Progress in Biology. An Address delivered March 12, 1924, on the occasion of the Centenary of Birkbeck College, London
- EDUCATIONAL ESSAYS
- REVIEWS
- APPENDIX
- INDEX OF PERSONS
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- PLATES I-III (Figs. 1-6) to Mendelian Heredity and its application to Man
Summary
mr president and gentlemen: I need not say that I feel it a very high compliment for me, a layman, to be asked to address a professional meeting of this kind. When I received the invitation I hesitated for a moment as to whether anything I could say would have a sufficiently direct bearing on the subjects in which you are interested to justify me in occupying this place. Though I venture to call my paper “Mendelian Heredity and its Application to Man”, I ought to say that that application is rather for the future than for the present. We do know cases in man where the rules of inheritance traced in other animals and plants must certainly apply, but those cases are very few. On the other hand, I feel sure that if members of your profession were to take the matter up and study the phenomena of inheritance with due regard to those points which we now know to be critical, the list will be very soon increased.
The advance in knowledge which I am about to describe is the outcome of the work of Mendel. I have not time to tell you who Mendel was, or how it came about that his paper published in 1865 was completely ignored until 1900, when de Vries and others simultaneously rediscovered it. Nor need I go through the reasoning by which he worked out his discovery.
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- William Bateson, NaturalistHis Essays and Addresses Together with a Short Account of His Life, pp. 181 - 200Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009