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On some Variations of Cardium edule apparently Correlated to the Conditions of Life.
(London, Harrisn and Sons, 1890). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1889, Vol. 180 - Series B. Pp. 297-330 and 1 chromolithographed plate. Fine and clean.
First printing of an importent paper in Bateson's scientific career as it deals with central problems in evolutionary theory, the problem of variations. Bateson favours discontinous variations instead of the Darwinian gradual adaptation. Bateson is also famous to for his rediscovery of Mendel's hereditary laws, which he proved holds for animals as well of plants.
Mendels Vererbungstheorien. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Alma Winckler. Mit einem Begleitwort von R. von Wettstein sowie 41 Abbildungen im Text und 6 Tafeln und 3 Portrats von Mendel.
Leipzig und Berlin, B.G. Teubner, 1914. Orig. hcloth. Spine with gilt lettering. Portrait as frontisp. X,375 pp., 2 portraits, textillustr. and 6 colourplates (4 double-page). Fine and clean.
First German edition of this classic work in biology. The English original was issued 1902. Bateson rediscovered Mendel's papers on heredity and republished them at the end of this work. - Garrison & Morton: 244 (the English ed.)
