Reeves, Jesse Siddall. Napoleonic exiles in America: a study in American diplomatic history, 1815-1819. pa. 50c. Hopkins.
This pamphlet is uniform with the “Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science.” The study centers about the unfortunate colonial enterprise called Champ d’Asile on the banks of the Trinity river in Texas.
Reid, G. Archdall. Principles of heredity, with some applications. [*]$3.50. Dutton.
“While possessing large and varied interest for the general reader, this work is specially addressed to medical men.... What is new in the work is mainly drawn from evidence, hitherto largely unused, concerning heredity, that he has found in the study of disease, especially of the zymotic kinds, and also of narcotics. This is held to establish conclusively that parental acquirements are never transmitted to offspring and that the great mass of variation has another origin than that of the action of the environment of the germ-cells.”—Outlook.
“What he has written is evidently the result of wide reading and serious logical thinking with regard to the many intricate questions involved. At the same time his work is seldom technical, and will be nearly always readily intelligible even by those who are not familiar with the strictly biological terminology of the subject.”
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“He covers too much ground, and appears to have put together matter written at different times and in pursuance of different trains of thought.”
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[*] “We have one fault to find; in a work on the principles of heredity one would have expected a fuller discussion than is actually given of biometric and Mendelian methods of dealing with that phenomenon.” A. D. D.
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