Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Botanist |
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| Authors: | Sir Gavin de Beer D.Sc. Hon. D.-ès-L. F.R.S. |
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| Affiliation: | British Museum (Natural History), Membre correspondant de l'Institut de France |
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| Abstract: | It is argued that Hugo de Vries's conversion to Mendelism did not agree with his previous theoretical framework. De Vries regarded the number of offspring expressing a certain character as a hereditary quality, intrinsic to the state of the pangene involved. His was a shortlived conversion since after the ‘rediscovery’ he failed to unify his older views with Mendelism. De Vries was never very much of a Mendelian. The usual stories of the Dutch ‘rediscovery’ need, therefore, a considerable reshaping. |
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