Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems / Authorised Translation

Chapter 64: THE END. Transcriber's notes:

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A collection of linked essays examining biological inheritance and related problems. It opens with an inquiry into factors that determine organismal lifespan and then develops a theory of heredity centered on the continuity of the germ-plasm. Subsequent essays analyze the significance of sexual reproduction, the number and role of polar bodies, and the conditions that allow parthenogenetic development. Other pieces critically evaluate botanical and experimental claims for the transmission of acquired characters and for the heritability of mutilations. Empirical observations are combined with theoretical interpretation, and the essays are presented as successive stages in a progressively refined research program.

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Transcriber's notes:

Footnotes were collected at the end of each essay and of the appendices for each essay.

On page 198 the formula (1/p) should probably be (1/pn).

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Any inconsistencies in spelling have been left.

“Notes” as used in this volume often means the same as footnotes. The Appendix to Essay I contains the "Notes" as used in that essay. In the footnotes to the Appendix to Essay I, one note refers to a note on another page which has been collected with all the other notes. The note referred to is indicated by a local note in braces.

In the footnotes for Essay VII this
“See ‘Nature,’ vol. 36, pp. 491-407.—E. B. P.”
was changed to
“See ‘Nature,’ vol. 36, pp. 491-507.—E. B. P.”
on supposition of a typo.