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“Genetics” was first used in a letter of April 18, 1905, by Bateson to Adam Sedgwick, published in William Bateson, Naturalist, ed. Beatrice, Bateson (London: Cambridge University Press, 1928), p. 93.
Bateson, Mendel's Principles of Heredity — A Defense (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902), pp. 26–29.
Report to the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society, Report I, Experiments Undertaken by W. Bateson and Miss E. R. Saunders, presented Tuesday, December 17, 1901 (London: Harrison & Sons), p. 126.
Bateson, Mendel's Principles of Heredity — A Defense (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902), p. 20.
Bateson, Mendel's Principles of Heredity — A Defense (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902), pp. 21–22.
Evolution Committee Report I, p. 157. Others, including U. Yule and even the biometrician Karl Pearson, argued that the two approaches were not incompatible. For a discussion of their views see P. Froggatt and N. C. Nevin, “The ‘Law of Ancestral Heredity’ and the Mendelian-Ancestrian Controversy in England, 1889–1906,” J. Med. Gen., 8 (1971), 1–36.
E.g., William, Provine, The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971); A. G. Cock, “William Bateson, Mendelism and Biometry,” J. Hist. Biol., 6 (1973), 1–36; and Frogatt and Nevin, “The Law of Ancestral Heredity.”
William, Coleman, “Bateson and Chromosomes: Conservative Thought in Science,” Centaurus, 15 (1970), 228–314. In many respects this is an excellent article, and it has influenced the view of Bateson presented here.
Evolution Committee Report I, p. 125.
William, Provine, The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971) Bateson Papers, Baltimore, no. 15. Quoted in p. 68. A collection of Bateson papers is on microfilm at the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. The society furnishes a guide to the number system. The Bateson Papers are noted hereafter as BPB.
W. E., Castle, “The Beginnings of Mendelism in America,” in Genetics in the 20th Century, ed. L. C., Dunn (New York: Macmillan, 1951), p. 60.
Bateson, Materials for the Study of Variation (New York: Macmillan, 1894).
Bateson, Materials for the Study of Variation (New York: Macmillan 1894). p. 66.
Bateson, “Progress in the Study of Variation, II,” Science Progress, 2 (1898); reprinted in Scientific Papers of William Bateson, ed. R. C. Punnett, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1928), I, 357–370.
Ibid., p. 358.
Evolution Committee Report I, p. 148.
Bateson, Mendel's Principles of Heredity — A Defense (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909), p. 285.
Fleeming, Jenkin, “The Origin of Species,” N. Brit. Rev., 46 (June 1867), 277–318; reprinted in David Hull, Darwin and His Critics: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution by the Scientific Community (Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1973), pp. 319–320.
Bateson, “Progress in the Study of Variation, I,” Science Progress, 1 (1897); reprinted in Scientific Papers, I, 345.
Ibid., p. 354.
Bateson, Materials for the Study of Variation (New York: Macmillan, 1894), p. 10.
Bateson, Materials for the Study of Variation (New York: Macmillan, 1894), p. 6.
Bateson, “Progress II,” p. 348.
Bateson, Materials for the Study of Variation (New York: Macmillan, 1894), p. 574.
Bateson, “Progress I,” p. 351.
Bateson, “On the Variations in Floral Symmetry of Certain Plants Having Irregular Corollas,” J. Linn. Soc. (Botany) 28 (1891); reprinted in Scientific Papers, I, 126–161.
Bateson, “The Inheritance of Variation in the Corolla of Veronica Buxbaumii,” Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc., 10 (1900); reprinted in Scientific Papers, I, 374–388.
Ibid., p. 375.
Bateson, “Progress I,” p. 348.
Bateson, “Hybridisation and Cross-Breeding as a Method of Scientific Investigation,” read July 11, 1899, printed in J. Roy. Hort. Soc., 24 (1900); reprinted in Bateson, ed., William Bateson, Naturalist, p. 161.
Ibid., p. 166.
Bateson, “Experiments in Plant Hybridisation,” J. Roy. Hort. Soc., 26 (1901); reprinted in Scientific Papers, II, 1.
Evolution Committee Report I, pp. 152–153.
Bateson, “Experiments in Plant Hybridisation,” pp. 1–2.
Coleman in “Bateson and Chromosomes” stresses the importance of development in Bateson's thought. See especially pp. 261–263. The term “domain” is used here in the sense of Dudley Shapere in “Scientific Theories and Their Domains,” The Structure of Scientific Theories, ed. Frederick, Suppe (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1974), pp. 518–562.
Bateson, Materials for the Study of Variation (New York: Macmillan, 1894), p. 2.
Bateson, Materials for the Study of Variation (New York: Macmillan, 1894), pp. 25–26.
Bateson, “Heredity, Differentiation, and Other Conceptions of Karl Pearson's Paper ‘On the Principle of Homotyposis,’” Proc. of Roy. Soc., 69 (1901); reprinted in Scientific Papers, I, 404–405.
Also see discussion of this point inBateson, Mendel's Principles of Heredity — A Defense (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909), p. 275.
Bateson, Mendel's Principles of Heredity — A Defense (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909), p. 274.
Also see discussion of this point inBateson, Mendel's Principles of Heredity — A Defense (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909), p. 276.
Bateson, Mendel's Principles of Heredity — A Defense (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909). pp. 2–3.
Published in Bateson, ed., William Bateson, Naturalist, p. 43. BPB 96 is an unpublished, undated manuscript entitled “Vibratory Theory of Linear and Radial Segmentation as Found in Living Bodies.” I agree with Coleman (“Bateson and chromosomes,” n. 151) that it is probably a sketch for the hypothesis to which Bateson refers in his letter. The MS. consists mainly of a list of phenomena which the hypothesis is to explain. It is not a statement of the hypothesis; Bateson mentions “vibrations” and “waves” only briefly.
Bateson, Materials for the Study of Variation (New York: Macmillan, 1894), p. 75. For discussion of the vital force tradition in heredity, see R. S. Cowan, “Francis Galton's Contribution to Genetics,” J. Hist. Biol., 5 (1972), 399–403.
Coleman, “Bateson and Chromosomes,” part IV.
Bateson, Problems of Genetics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1913), chaps. 2–3.
See Dudley Shapere, “The Search for Discrete Units as Explanatory Factors in Science.” Unpublished MS. n. 71.
Coleman, “Bateson and Chromosomes,” pt. IV.
E.g., Provine in Origins uses but never clarifies “discontinuous” and “continuous.”
Darwin's usage has recently been discussed by David Hull in Dawin and His Critics, pp. 345–349, and in “Darwin, Blending Inheritance and Continuous Variations,” forthcoming. See also B. J. Norton, “The Biometric Defense of Darwinism.” J. Hist. Biol., 6 (1973), 283–297.
The point is made clearly by George Gaylord, Simpson in The Major Features of Evolution (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953), p. 103. (I thank David Hull for calling this passage to my attention.)
Hugode, Vries, Mutation Theory, trans. J. B. Farmer and A. D. Darbishire (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1909–1910), I. 48–49.
For example, Ernst Mayr uses this misleading distinction in “The Recent Historiography of Genetics,” J. Hist. Biol., 6 (1973), 141–142. David Hull clarifies some of the confusion in Darwin and His Critics, pp. 345–346.
Charles, Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (New York: Orange Judd and Co., 1868), chap. 27. See my discussion in “Reasoning in Scientific Change: Charles Darwin, Hugo de Vries, and the Discovery of Segregation,” Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci., 7 (1976), 127–169.
Charles, Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (New York: Orange Judd and Co., 1868), II, 479.
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Darden, L. William Bateson and the promise of Mendelism. J Hist Biol 10, 87–106 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00126096
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