Problems of life and reproduction
Hartog, Marcus
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...most complex process dependent on the exact fulfilment of numerous conditions; so that we are not astonished to find it of regular occurrence in only limited categories of cases."1 The majority of English botanists, like Prof. Reinke of Kiel, have ranged themselves on this side or at least have imitated Wilson's reserve. Prof. S. H. Vines, of Oxford, has written strongly against Weismann; and Prof. Bower, of Glasgow, in his magnum opus "The Origin of a Land Flora (1908)," cites with approval, if not acceptance, Goebel's strongly Lamarckian views.8 Sir William Dyer, however, defends the Weismannic position. The majority of English zoologists are, however, enthusiastic Weismannists and go so far as to deny the possibility of transmission where their master would admit it. Thus in The Times of January 27, 1908, Sir Ray Lankester, whose headship no English zoologist would dream of questioning, writes: 1 Die Vererbung somatogener Variationeu ist also eiu iiberaus kompliziertes, von den gcnauer Erfiillung vieler Bedingungen abhangiges Geschehen, so dass wir uns nicht wunderu werden, wenn es nur in bestimmtcn Kategorien von Fallen regelmiissig gescbeht (" Festschrift zu Mendel." 1911, p. 314).-Bower writes (p. 207): "The question of symmetry of the flower has been treated so lately and so well by Gocbel that it is unnecessary here to discuss it in detail." Then follows an account of Goebel's views in which we find: "According to the sensitiveness of the former lateral flowers to external factors the configuration of the flower will be changed more or less early. Such changes may be inherited..." To the reader of the whole passage it is obvious that Bower fully adopts Goebel's view of the acquisition of bilateral symmetr...
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