The MendelWeb Bibliography

Here you will find bibliographic information for the books and articles referred to, and/or used in the construction of, MendelWeb. Where titles are highlighted, they are linked to electronic versions of the texts. For additional bibliography at MendelWeb, see the list of recent journal articles concerning Mendel's life and work, as well as the notes and references to the papers in the Essays and Commentary section. An ascii version of this bibliography is also available. Send corrections, or suggestions for additional items, to Roger Blumberg (rblum@netspace.org).


Allaby, Michael (ed.) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Botany (Oxford University Press, 1992).

André, C. C. "Rede bey der ersten Eröffnung der vereinigten Gesellschaft des Ackerbaues, der Natur- und Landeskunde." In Erster Schematismus der k.k. Mähr schles. Gesellschaft zur Beförderung des Ackerbaues, der Natur- und Landeskunde, edited by C. C. André. (Brünn), pp. 93-111 (1815).

André, C. C. "Anerbeiten, Gutbesitzern auf dem kürzesten Wege zu höchsten Veredlung ihrer Schafherden behülflich zu seyn." Oekonomische Neuigkeiten und Verhandlungen (Prague), 24, pp. 181-83 (1812).

André, C. C. Der Zoologe, oder Compendiöse Bibliothek des wissenswüdigen aus der Thiergeschichte und allgeneinen Naturkunde, (Eisenach und Halle, 1795).

André, R. Anleitung zur Veredlung des Schafviehs. Nach Grundsätzen, die sich auf Natur und Erfahrung stützen. (Prague: Calvé, 1816).

Anonymous. "Ueber die durch kreuzende Befruchtung bewirkte Veränderung in der Farbe der Erbsen." Allgemeine Deutsche Gartenzeitung, (Bayern), 15, pp. 213-14 (1837).

Anonymous. "Wie muss man die Getreidearten veredeln." Mittheilungen (Brünn), 42, pp. 333-34 (1834).

Anonymous. "Wirksamkeit der Ackerbaugesellsachaft in Brünn." Oekonomische Neuigkeiten und Verhandlungen (Prague), 38, pp. 297-304 (1818).

Barnhart, Robert K. (ed.) The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology (H.W. Wilson, 1988).

Bateson, William. "The Problems of Heredity and Their Solution." Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1900, vol. xxv, parts 1 and 2. Reprinted in Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence. (Cambridge University Press, 1902).

Bateson, William. Mendel's Principles of Heredity. (Cambridge University Press, 1909/1913).

Barry, M. "Researches in Embryology." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 130, pp. 529-93 (1840).

Bartenstein, E. "Ueber Vererbung in der Schafzucht." Mittheilungen (Brünn), 50, pp. 393-95 (1837).

Baumgartner, A. and Ettinghausen, von A. Die Naturlehre nach ihrem gegenwärtigen Zustande mit Rücksicht auf mathematische Begründung, 7th edition, (Vienna: Gerold, 1842). The first edition appeared in 1823.

Bazerman, Charles. Shaping Written Knowledge (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988).

Beeman, William O., Anderson, Kenneth T., Bader, Gail, Larkin, James, McClard, Anne P., McQuillan, Patrick, and Shields, Mark. "Hypertext and Pluralism: From Lineal to Non-lineal Thinking." Hypertext '87 Proceedings (New York: ACM) , pp. 67-87 (1989).

Bennett, J. H. Experiments in Plant Hybridisation, (London: Oliver and Boyd, 1965).

Bernard, Claude. An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine. Translated by H. C. Greene. (Henry Shuman, 1927).

Blumberg, Roger B. (ed.) MendelWeb (http://www.mendelweb.org/, 97.1, 1997) . MendelWeb is mirrored at http://www.stg.brown.edu/MendelWeb/ and http://hermes.astro.washington.edu:80/mirrors/MendelWeb/.

Blumenbach, J. F. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Göttingen. (1780). The 12th edition was published in 1830.

Blumenbach, J. F. Über den Bildungsterieb und das Zeugungsgeschäft. Göttingen. (1771). The 3rd edition appeared in 1791.

Brannigan, Augustine. The social basis of scientific discoveries (Cambridge University Press, 1981)

Brannigan, Augustine. "The reification of Mendel," Social Studies of Science, 9: 423-54.

Burger, J. Lehrbuch der Landwirtschaft. (Vienna, 1819).

Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think." in Nyce and Kahn [1991], pp.88-110. Html and Ascii versions of Bush's essay are available at Simon Fraser University. British Columbia.

Catano, James V. "Poetry and Computers: Experimenting with the Communal Text." Computers and the Humanities, 13, pp. 269-275 (1979).

Changeux, Jean-Pierre and Alain Connes. Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics, translated and edited by M.B. DeBevoise. (Princeton University Press, 1995).

Chruchill, F. B. "William Johannsen and the genotype concept." Journal of the History of Biology, 7, 1974, pp. 5-30.

Corcos, Alain F. and Floyd V. Monaghan. Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids. (Rutgers University Press, 1993).

Corcos, Alain F. and Floyd V. Monaghan. "More About Mendel's Experiments: Where is the Bias" Journal of Heredity 76, 1986, p. 384.

Correns, Carl. "G. Mendel's Regel über das Verhalten der Nachkommenschaft der Rassenbastarde," Berichte der deutschen botanischen Gesellschaft 18 (1900), pp. 158-168. An English translation by Leonie Kellen Piternick, "G. Mendel's Law Concerning the Behavior of Progeny of Varietal Hybrids," appears in Genetics [1950], pp. 33-41, and Stern and Sherwood (1966), pp. 119-132.

Crozier, A. A. A Dictionary of Botanical Terms. (Henry Holt and Company, 1892).

Darwin, Charles The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. 2 vols. (London: John Murray, 1868).

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection. (London: John Murray, 1859).

Daubenton, L. J. M. Instructions pour les bergers et pour les propriétaires de troupeaux, (Paris, 1782).

Dewey, John. The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy (Henry Holt, 1910).

Diebl, F. "Ueber den nothwendigen Kampf des Landwirthes mit der Nature, um die Veredlung und Erhaltung seiner Kultur-Gebilde." Mittheilungen (Brünn), 34, pp. 270-71 (1839).

Diebl, F. Abhandlungen aus der Landwirtschaftskunde für Landwirthe, besonders aber für diejenigen, welche sich der Erlernung dieser Wissenschaft widmen. II. Von dem Pflanzenbau. (Brno: Rohrer, 1835).

Diebl, F. "Bermurkungen über die von Freiherrn v. Witten hinsichtlich der verschiedenen Weizensorten geäusserten Ansichten." Mittheilungen (Brünn), 23, pp. 177-79 (1829).

Di Trocchio, F. "Mendel's Experiments: A Reinterpretation." Journal of the History of Biology, 24 (1991), pp. 485-519.

Duhamel, M. La physique des arbres, ou il est traité de l'anatomie de plantes e de l'économie vegetale. (Paris, 1758).

Edwards, A.W.F. "More on the too-good-to-be~ true paradox and Gregor Mendel," The Journal of Heredity, 77:138 (1986).

Ehrenfels, J. M. "Schriftlicher Nachtrag zu den Verhandlungen der Schafzüchter-Versammlung in Brünn, am 10. Mai 1836." Mittheilungen (Brünn), 1, pp. 2-4 (1837).

Ehrenfels, J. M. "Fortsetzung der Gedanken des Herrn Moritz Beyer über das Merinoschaf." Mittheilungen (Brünn), 18, pp. 137-42 (1831).

d'Elvert, C. Geschichte der k.k. mähr. schles. Gesellschaft zur Befördurung des Ackerbaues, der Natur- und Landes- kunde, mit Rücksicht auf die bezüglichen Cultur-Verhältnisse Mährens und Oestrr. Schlesiens. (Brno: Rohrer, 1870).

Ettinghausen, von Andreas. Die combinatorische Analysis als Vorbereitung zum Studium der theoretischen höhren Mathematik, (Vienna: Wallishauser, 1826).

Festetics, E. "Bericht des Herrn Grafen Emerich Festetics als Repräsentaten des Schafzüchter-Vereins in Eisenburger Comitate." Oekonomische Neuigkeiten und Verhandlungen (Prague), 19, pp. 25-28 (1820).

Festetics, E. "Weitere Erklärung des Herrn Frafen Emerich Festetics über Inzucht." Oekonomische Neuigkeiten und Verhandlungen (Prague), 22, pp. 85-86 (1819).

Fisher, R. A. "Has Mendel's Work Been Rediscoverd?" in Annals of Science 1 pp. 115-137 (1936). Reprinted in Mendel [1965], and Stern and Sherwood [1966], pp. 139-172. (MendelWeb page references are to the Stern and Sherwood version)

Fraas, K. N. Geschichte der Landwirtschaft, oder: Geschichtliche Übersicht der Fortschritte landwirtschaftlicher Kenntnisse in den letzten 100 Jahren. Volumes I and II (Prague: Calvé, 1852).

Franke, H. and Orel, V. "Christian Carl André (1763-1831) as a mineralogist and an organizer of scientific sheep breeding in Moravia." In Gregor Mendel and the Foundation of Genetics, edited by V. Orel and A. Matalová, (Brno: Moravian Museum), pp. 47-56 (1983).

Freeman-Grenville, G.S.P. Chronology of World History. (New Jersey: Rowan and Littlefield, 1975).

Freudenberger, H. The industrialization of a Central European city: Brno and the fine woollen industry in the 18th Century. (Wiltshire: Edington, 1977).

Frey, M. Abhandlungen Über die Kultur des Johannisbeer-strauches und dessen Nutzen." Mittheilungen (Brünn), 11, pp. 81-85; 12, pp. 89-95; 13, pp. 97-101 (1839).

Futuyma. Douglas J. Evolutionary Biology. 2nd edition. (Sinauer Associates, 1986).

Gärtner, F. C. Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreiche. (Stuttgart: K.F. Herring, 1849).

Gedda, Luigi. Novant' anni delle Leggi Mendeliane (Rome: Instituto Gregorio Mendel), pp 5-99, 1956.

Genetics. The Birth of Genetics: Mendel, de Vries, Correns and Tschermak in English Translation. Supplement to Genetics 35, September 1950, No. 5 pt. 2.

Geschwind, R. Die Hybridation und Sämmlingszucht der Rosen, ihre Botanik, Classification und Cultur nach den Anforderunge der Neuzeit. (Leipzig: H. Voigt, 1885).

Geschwind, R. "Die Hybridation der Forstgehölze." Oesterreichische Monatsschrift für Forstwesen, 14, pp. 399-417 (1864).

Gillispie, Charles Coulston (ed.) The Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 16 volumes. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981)

Godron, D. A. "Des hybrides végétaux, considérés au point de vue de leur fécondité et de la perpétuité ou non-perpétuité de leur caractères." Annales sciences naturales, 4(e)me série, Botanique, 19, pp. 135-179.

Goss, J. "On the variation in the colour of peas, occasioned by cross-impregnation." Transactions of the Horticultural Society (London), 5, pp. 234-36 (1824).

Gray, Asa. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany. (Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co., 1857).

Gray, Wallace. Homer to Joyce. (New York: MacMillan, 1985)

Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. (Simon and Shuster, 1975).

Hackler, P. A. "Bericht der Landwirthschaflichen Section an die Gesellschaft, betreffend die Preiswerbungsschrift: Geschichtliche Übersicht der Fortschritte landwirtschaftlicher Kenntnisse in den letzten Hundert Jahren." Mittheilungen (Brünn), 1, pp. 81-93 (1851).

Halliday, M.A.K. and Martin, J.R. Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive Power. (Universtiy of Pittsburgh Press, 1993).

Hardy, G. H. "Mendelian Proportions in a Mixed Population" Science 28, 1908, pp. 49-50. (An electronic version, in Adobe's pdf format, is available courtesy of Classic Papers in Genetics.)

Harkenfeld, von Sedlácek. Zustand de mährischen Weinbaues und Vorschläge ihn durch Einführung der Rebenschulen von den edelsten Sorten zu Vervollkommen. (Brünn: Mittheilungen) , 21, pp. 161-67 (1826).

Harris, Zellig. Language and Information. (Columbia University Press, 1988)

Hartl, Daniel L. Principles of Population Genetics (Sinauer Associates, 1980).

Hartl, D. L. and V. Orel. "What did Gregor Mendel think he discovered?" Genetics 131: 245-253, 1992.

Hedwig, R. Sammlungen seiner Abhandlungen und Beobachtungen über botanisch-ekonomische Gegenstände, Vol. II (Leipzig, 1797).

Hellemans, Alexander and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science. (Simon and Shuster, 1988)

Hempel, G. C. L. "Ueber die Entstehung und Wichtigkeit der verschiedenen Sorten der Getreidearten." Oekonomische Neuigkeiten und Verhandlungen (Prague), 21, p. 161-65 (1820).

Hornschuh, Ch. F. "Ueber Ausartung der Pflazen." Flora, 2, pp. 17-28; 3, pp. 33-44; 4, pp. 50-64; 5, pp. 66-86 (1848).

Hyam, R. and R. Pankhurst. Plants and Their Names: A Concise Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 1995).

Iltis, A. "Gregor Mendel's Autobiography." The Journal of Heredity,45, pp. 231-34 (1954).

Iltis, Hugo. Life of Mendel, trans. Eden and Cedar Paul. (Hafner Publishing, 1932/1966).

Iltis, Mrs. Hugo. "Gregor Mendel's Autobiography," in Journal of Heredity, 38, p. 234.

Jackson, Benjamin Daydon. A Glossary of Botanic Terms. (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1900).

Janko, J., and Orel, V. "The cell in Purkyne's concept of procreation." Folia Mendeliana, 24-25, pp. 49-57. (1989-90).

Kölreuter, D. J. G. Vorläfige Nachricht von einigen das Geschlecht der Pflanzen betreffenden Versuchen und Beobachtungen, nebst Fortsetzung 1, 2, 3. (Leipzig: Glredisch, 1761-66).

Knight, T. A. "Some remarks on the supposed influence of the pollen, in cross-breeding, upon the colour of the seed-coats of plants, and the qualities of their fruits." Transactions of the Horticultural Society (London), 4, pp. 278-80 (1823).

Knight, T. A. "XXIII. On the comparative influence of male and female parents on their offspring." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 11, pp. 392-99 (1809).

Knight, T. A. "Versuche über die Befruchtung der Pflanzen." Oekonomische Hefte (Leipzig), 5, pp. 322-40. (1800). A German translation of (Knight 1799).

Knight, T. A. "An account of some experiments on the fecundation of vegetables." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 89, pp. 195-204 (1799).

Krízenecky, J. "Wie J. E. Purkyne im mährischen Karst philosophierte -- Purkyne und Gregor Mendel." Folia Mendeliana, 22, pp. 69-80 (1987).

Krízenecky, J. Fundamenta Genetica: The revised edition of Mendel's classic paper with a collection of 27 original papers published during the rediscovery era. (Prague: Academia, 1965).

Leuckart, R. "Zeugung." in Handwörterbuch der Physiologie mit Rücksicht au physiologische Pathologie, Vol. 4, (ed. R. Wagner). pp. 707-1000. (Brunswick: F. Vieweg, 1853).

Lull, Richard Swann. Organic Evolution. (New York: MacMillian, 1927).

Matalová, Anna. "Bibliographical note on Mendel's Hieracium paper." Folia Mendeliana, 9, pp. 225-230 (1974).

Matalová, A. "A critical review of different editions of Mendel's Pisum paper." Folia Mendeliana, 8, pp. 243-254 (1973).

Mayr, Ernst. "Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter's contributions to Biology." Osiris, 2, pp. 135-76 (1986).

Mayr, E. The Growth of Biological Thought . (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982).

Mendel, Gregor. "Die Grundlage der Wetterprognosen." Mittheilungen (Brünn), 59, pp. 29-31 (1879).

Mendel, Gregor. "Die Windhose vom 13. October 1870." Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines, Abhandlungen, Brünn 9, pp. 54-71 (1871).

Mendel, Gregor. "Meteorologische Beobachtungen aus Mähren und Schlesien für das Jahr 1869." Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines, Abhandlungen, Brünn 8, pp. 131-43 (1870b).

Mendel, Gregor. "Ueber einige aus künstlichen Befruchtung gewonnenen Hieracium-Bastarde." Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines, Abhandlungen, Brünn 8, pp. 26-31 (1870a). An English translation appears in Stern and Sherwood (1966).

Mendel, Gregor. "Meteorologische Beobachtungen aus Mähren und Schlesien für das Jahr 1866." Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines, Abhandlungen, Brünn 5, pp. 160-72 (1867).

Mendel, Gregor. "Gregor Mendel's letters to Carl Naegeli. 1866-1873." Translated by L.K. Piternick and G. Piternik. Genetics, 35, 5, part 2 (Supplement: "The Birth of Genetics"), 1950. Reprinted in Stern and Sherwood [1966], pp.56-102.

Mendel, Gregor. "Meteorologische Beobachtungen aus Mähren und Schlesien für das Jahr 1865." Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines, Abhandlungen, Brünn 4, pp. 318-30 (1866).

Mendel, Gregor. "Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden." Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines, Abhandlungen, Brünn 4, pp. 3-47 (1866). English translations appear at Blumberg (1997), in Matalová (1973), in Stern and Sherwood (1966), Bennet (1965), and Peters (1959).

Mendel, Gregor. Experiments in Plant Hybridisation, edited by J.H. Bennett. (London: Oliver and Boyd, 1965).

Mendel, Gregor. "Meteorologische Beobachtungen aus Mähren und Schlesien für das Jahr 1864." Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines, Abhandlungen, Brünn 3, pp. 209-20 (1865).

Mendel, Gregor. "Meteorologische Beobachtungen aus Mähren und Schlesien für das Jahr 1863." Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines, Abhandlungen, Brünn 2, pp. 99-121 (1864).

Mendel, Gregor. "Bemerkungen zu der graphisch-tabelarischen Uebersicht der meteorologischen Verhältnisse von Brünn." Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines, Abhandlungen, Brünn 1, pp. 246-49 (1863).

Mendel, Gregor. "Ueber Bruchus pisi, mitgeteilt von V. Kollar." Verhandlungen des Zool.-botanischen Vereines, Wein 4, pp. 27-28 (1854).

Mendel, Gregor. "Ueber Verwüstung am Gartenrettich durch Raupen (Botys margaritalis)." Verhandlungen des Zool.-botanischen Vereines, Wein 3, pp. 116-18 (1853).

Mendel, Gregor. "Autobiography." English translation by A. Iltis in Iltis (1954), and Olby (1985), pp. 175-78 (1850). Miller, P. The gardener's and florist's dictionary or complete system of Horticulture. (London, 1731). Translated into German as: Das englische Gartenbuch, oder Gärtner-Lexicon. (Nüremberg, 1751). The book appeared in eight English editions between 1731 and 1768.

Müller, Prof. Hermann. The Fertlisation of Flowers translated and edited by D'Arcy W. Thompson, with a preface by Charles Darwin. (MacMillan, 1883).

Mylechreest, M. "Thomas Andrew Knight (1759-1838) and the Altenburg connection in the origin of mendelism." Folia Mendeliana, 23, pp. 27-32 (1988).

Napp, C. F. and Diebl, F. "Nachricht und Aufforderung zu einer Preisbewerbung vom mähr. schles. pomol. önol. Vereins-Ausschusse." Mittheilungen (Brünn), 120, pp. 157-58 (1838).

Naudin, C. "Nouvelles recherches sur l'hybridité dans les végétaux." Annales sciences naturales, 4(e)me série, Botanique, 19, pp. 180-203 (1863).

Nestler, J. K. Amts-Bericht des Vorstandes Über die vierte, zu Brünn von 20. bis 28. September 1840 abgehaltene Versammlung der deutschen Land- und Forstwirthe. (Olomouc: A. Skarnitze, 1841).

Nestler, J. K. "Ueber Vererbung in der Schafzucht." Mittheilungen (Brünn), 34, pp. 265-69; 35, pp. 273-79; 36, pp. 281-86; 37, pp. 289-300; 38, pp. 300-303; 40, pp. 318-20 (1837).

Nestler, J. K. "Ueber den Einfluss der Zeugung auf die Eigenschaften der Nachkommen." Mittheilungen (Brünn), 47, pp. 369-72; 48, pp. 377-80; 50, pp. 394-98; 51, pp. 401-404 (1829).

Nestler, J. K. and Diebl, F. Die allgemeine Naturgeschichte. (Brno, 1836).

Novitski, C. E. "Another look at some of Mendel's results." Journal of Heredity 86, 1:62-66 (1995).

Nyce, James M. and Paul Kahn. From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine. (Academic Press, 1991). An html version of Bush's "As We May Think" is also available at Duchier's site in Ottawa.

Olby, R. C. "Mendels Vorlaüfer: Kölreuter, Wichura, und Gärtner." Folia Mendeliana, 21, pp. 49-67 (1986).

Olby, R. C. Origins of Mendelism. (University of Chicago Press, 2nd edition, 1985).

Olby, R. C. "Mendel, no Mendelian?" History of Science 17: 53-72 (1979). Reprinted in Olby [1985], pp. 234-258.

Orel, Vítezslav. Gregor Mendel: The First Geneticist. (Oxford University Press, 1996). Chapter 2, "Heredity Before Mendel," is available at MendelWeb.

Orel, Vítezslav. "Embryonální 'genetische Gesetze' zverejnené v Brne pred Mendelovym narozením." Dejiny ved a techniky, 28, pp. 15-23 (1994).

Orel, Vítezslav. "Genetic laws published in Brno in 1819." In Proceedings of the Greenwood Genetic Center (South Carolina), 8, pp. 81-82 (1989).

Orel, Vítezslav. "History of plant hybridization according to Mendel's contemporary Rudolf Geschwind." History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 8, pp. 251-263 (1986).

Orel, Vítezslav. Mendel, trans. Stephen Finn. (Oxford University Press, 1984).

Orel, Vítezslav. "Heredity in the teaching programme of Professor J. K. Nestler (1783-1841)." Acta universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis, fac. rer. nat., 59, pp. 79-98 (1978c).

Orel, Vítezslav. "The influence of T.A. Knight (1759-1838) on early plant breeding in Moravia." Folia Mendeliana, 13, pp. 241-60 (1978b).

Orel, Vítezslav. "Selection practice and theory of heredity in Moravia before Mendel." Folia Mendeliana, 12, pp. 179-221 (1977).

Orel, Vítezslav. "Das Interesse F. C. Napps (1792-1867) für den Unterricht der Landwirtschaftslehre und die Forschung der Hybridisation." Folia Mendeliana, 10, pp. 225-40 (1975).

Orel, Vítezslav. "The prediction of the laws of hybridization in Brno already in 1820." Folia Mendeliana, 9, pp. 245-54 (1974b).

Orel, Vítezslav. "The scientific milieu in Brno during the era of Mendel's research." The Journal of Heredity, 64, pp. 314-18 (1974a).

Orel, Vítezslav and Daniel L. Hartl. "Controversies in the interpretation of Mendel's discovery" History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 16, pp. 423-464 (1994).

Orel, Vítezslav, and Janko, J. "Purkyne's concept of procreation and Mendel's research in heredity," in Jan Evangelista Purkyne, edited by J. Purs (Prague: Ceskoslovenská akaemie ved, 1988), pp. 657-670.

Orel, Vítezslav, Janko, J. and Geus, A. "The enigma of generation in connection with heredity in the teaching of J. E. Purkyne (1787-1869)." Folia Mendeliana, 22, pp. 7-33 (1987).

Orel, Vítezslav, and Wood, R. "Early development in artificial selection as a background to Mendel's research." History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 3, pp. 145-70 (1981).

The Oxford English Dictionary. Prepared by J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2nd edition, 1989)

Paul, Diane B. and Barbara A. Kimmelman. "Mendel in America: Theory and Practice, 1900-1919". In Ronald Rainger, Keith R. Benson and Jane Maienschein, editors, The American Development of Biology. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988), pp. 281-310.

Pilgrim, Ira. "A solution to the too-good-to-be-true paradox and Gregor Mendel," The Journal of Heredity , 77:218-220 (1986).

Pilgrim, Ira. "The Too Good To Be True Paradox and Gregor Mendel," The Journal of Heredity 75: 501-502 (1984).

Priestley, J. "Letter from Dr. Priestley to Sir John Sinclair, President of the Board of Agriculture." Communication of the Board of Agriculture on subjects relative to the husbandry and internal improvement of the country, 1, pp. 363-366 (1797). Reprinted in Artificial Selection and Development in Evolutionary Biology, vol. 4, edited by C. J. Bajema, (Stroudsburg: Hutchinson Ross, 1982), pp. 37-40.

Purkinje, J. E. "Bunka zváreci." Riegruv slovník nauncny, 1 (Prague), pp. 988-89 (1860).

Purkinje, J. E. "Erzeugung (generatio, genesis, procreation)." Encyclopádisches Wörtbuch der medicinischen Wissenschaften, Berlin, XI, pp. 515-548 (1834).

Purkinje, J. E. Symbolae ad ovi avium historiam ante incubationem. Vratislaviae typis universitatis (Bratislava University Press, 1825). English translation by G. W. Bathelmez, in Essays in Biology in Honour of H. M. Evans (University of California Press, 1943), pp. 53-93.

Peters, James Arthur. Classic Papers in Genetics. (Prentice-Hall, 1959).

Piegorsch, Walter W. "Fisher's contributions to genetics and heredity, with special emphasis on the Gregor Mendel controversy." Biometrics 46 (1990) pp. 915-924.

Quine, W. V. Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary. (Harvard University Press, 1987).

Roberts, H. F. Plant Hybridization Before Mendel. (Princeton University Press, 1929).

Sagaret, M. "Considération sur la production des hybrides, des variantes et des varétés en général, et sur celles de la famille des Curcurbitacées en particulier." Annales science naturelle, Prem. Série, 8, pp. 294-314 (1826).

Sapp, Jan. "The Nine Lives of Gregor Mendel". In H.E. Legrand (ed.) Experimental Inquiries (Kluwer, 1990) pp. 137-166.

Schams, F. "Beschreibung der Weinberge Mährens." Landwirthschafts-Kalender auf das Schalt-Jahr 1836, (Brno), pp. 5-18 (1836).

Seton, A. "On the variation in the colour of peas from cross-impregnation." Transactions of the Horticultural Society (London), 5, pp. 236-37 (1824).

Shapin, Steven. "Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle's Literary Technology." Social Studies of Science, 14: 481-520.

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