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BAUR, ERWIN. EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE EXPERIMENTELLE VERERBUNGSLEHRE.
Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1919. Large 8vo, xii, 410, (2)pp, 142 illus. within text, 10 color plates. Orig. blocked grey boards over green cloth shelfback. ¶ Third edition, revised and improved, of one of the greatest texts on experimental genetics. Erwind Baur (1875-1933), the greatest of German geneticists at the beginning of the century, was the editor of several gentics journals, was the first to breed lupine free of bitter principles, improved several cultured plants, perfromed important research (here described) on the hybridization of snapdragons, and his analysis of the genetic factors of snapdragons (also included) is still referred to as a model of scientific explanation. Bauer's demonstration of 'a lethal gene,' the first such, is also described. Cf. Sturtevant, A History of Genetics, pp.54, 123, 137.
Offered for US$ 25.00 by: Dailey Rare Books - Book number: 6170.