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TRANSLATIONS

OF

FOREIGN BIOLOGICAL MEMOIRS

IV.


London

HENRY FROWDE

Oxford University Press Warehouse

Amen Corner, E.C.


ESSAYS UPON HEREDITY
AND KINDRED
BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

BY

Dr. AUGUST WEISMANN

PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG IN BREISGAU

AUTHORISED TRANSLATION

EDITED BY

EDWARD B. POULTON, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S.

TUTOR OF KEBLE COLLEGE, OXFORD

LECTURER IN NATURAL SCIENCE, JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD

SELMAR SCHĂ–NLAND, Ph.D.

SUB-CURATOR OF THE FIELDING HERBARIUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

AND

ARTHUR E. SHIPLEY, M.A., F.L.S.

FELLOW AND LECTURER OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

DEMONSTRATOR OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1889