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(1900): 257–271; De Vries, “Sur la loi de disjonction des hybrids: Note de M. Hugo
de Vries, présentée par M. Gaston Bonnier,” Comptes Rendues Academy of Sciences (Paris)
130 (1900): 845–847.
2. Robin Marantz Henig, The Monk in the Garden (New York: Houghton Mifflin,
2000), 179.
3. C. G. Correns, “G. Mendel’s Law concerning the Behavior of Progeny of Varietal
Hybrids,” trans. Leonie Kellen Piternick, in Curt Stern and Eva R. Sherwood,
The Origin of Genetics: A Mendel Source Book (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1966), 119.
4. A. H. Sturtevant, A History of Genetics (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001), 25; Wilhelm Olbers Focke, Die pflanzen-mischlinge: Ein
beitrag zur biologie der gewächse (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntrager, 1881). Focke’s book was
the acknowledged reference on hybridization since its publication in 1881.
5. Hugo de Vries, “Sur les unités des charactères spécifiques et leur application à
l’étude des hybrides,” Review général de botanique 12 (1900): 271.
6. Letter from Correns to Roberts, Jan. 23, 1925, in H. F. Roberts, Plant Hybridization
before Mendel (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1929), 335.
7. H.-J. Rheinberger, “When Did Carl Correns Read Gregor Mendel’s Paper? A
Research Note,” Isis 86 (1995): 612–616.
8. Beatrice Bateson, William Bateson, F.R.S. Naturalist: His Essays and Addresses Together
with a Short Account of His Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1928), 73.
9. Robert Olby points out that, strictly speaking, it was possible that it was Mendel’s,
not De Vries’s, paper that Bateson read on the train. Bateson would have had
to have received De Vries’s Berichte paper no later than Monday, May 7, then read it,
noted the reference to Mendel, gone to the Cambridge University library to borrow
the Brunn Verhandlungen for 1865, and taken it on the train (Robert Olby, “William
Bateson’s Introduction of Mendelism to England: A Reassessment,” British Journal
of the History of Science 20 [1987]: 399–420).
10. William Bateson, “Societies: Royal Horticultural Lecture,” Gardeners’ Chronicle 3
(1900): 303, quoted in Olby, “William Bateson’s Introduction,” 401.
11. Hugo de Vries to William Bateson, Oct. 18, 1900, William Bateson Manuscripts,
microfilm, American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia (hereafter Bateson
MSS), reel C, no. 15.
12. Hugo de Vries to William Bateson, Oct. 25, 1900, Bateson MSS, reel C, no. 15.
13. Hugo de Vries, “On Crosses with Dissimilar Heredity,” Journal of the Royal Horticultural
Society 25 (1901): 251 (translated from Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft
18 [1900]: 435).
14. Ibid., 254.