Cassell and Company Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1912 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's full blue clothes, no dust-jacket fort In-8 1 vol. - 294 pages
4 Colour plates, 24 plates with black and white figures, and 1 figure in the text (complete), 1 folded-plate in frontispiece 2nd edition Contents, Chapitres : Preface, Contents, List of plates and illustrations, xii, Text, 282 pages - Breeding and heredity - The Mendelian phenomena of inheritance, the result of crossing tall with dwarf peas - The inheritance of four other characters of the culinary pea studied by Mendel - General characteristics of the Mendelian phenomena illustrated by the case of the Andalusian fowl and the inheritance of eye-colour in man - The inheritance of the characters of the seed in the culinary pea - Throwing back, or reversion - Relation between characters belonging to distinct pairs - Interpretation of reversion - The nature of the Mendellian pair of characters - Carrying out a breeding experiment with a plant - Mendel's explanation of his results - Antecedents and fate of Mendel's discovery - Theory to account for the results which follow a cross involving two pairs of characters - Theory of reversion - Some new principles of breeding based on Mendel's Theory - Inheritance of sex - Origin of the Mendellian mode of inheritance - Glossary and index The binding is near fine, the spine is lightly browning, the inside part of the spine-end on the bottom board is very lightly used, inside is near fine, no markings, few foxings, the last page after text (after page 282) had been cut, it's still a very good copy