OLIVER AND BOYD,
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
HEREDITY. By J. Arthur Thompson, M.A., LL.D., Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. With numerous Illustrations. 9s. net.
Contents
Heredity and Inheritance: Defined and Illustrated--The Physical Basis of Inheritance--Heredity and Variation--Common Modes of Inheritance--Reversion and allied Phenomena--Telegony and other Dispute Questions--The Transmission of Acquired Characters--Heredity and Disease--Statistical Study of Inheritance--Experimental Study of Inheritance--History of Theories of Heredity and Inheritance--Heredity and Development--Heredity and Sex--Social Aspects of Biological Results--Bibliography--Subject-Index to Bibliography--Index.
"We all know books of science which we ought to read with pleasure, but to which we turn with shrinking. Full, perhaps, of new facts and ideas, they are so expressed as to bore consumedly. 'Heredity' belongs to another category. He who runs may read, even if he be a beginner, and he who reads will probably not cease to run until he has traversed the last page."--Nature.
"This is certainly the best modern book on heredity to recommend to the student and the intelligently curious."--Science Progress.
"May be regarded as the standard work of reference on this subject. As a judicial summary of an exceedingly difficult and controversial subject it is masterly, while in the matter of clearness of exposition it has no rival."--Knowledge.
RECENT ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF VARIATION, HEREDITY AND EVOLUTION. By Robert H. Lock, M.A., sometime Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, late Assistant-Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon. With Portraits and other Illustrations. Revised by L. Doncaster, D.Sc., F.R.S. With a Biographical Note by Bella Sidnay Woolf (Mrs R. H. Lock). Crown 8vo.