Mendel’s principles of heredity: A defence.

The first book on Mendelism in English, and the first English textbook of genetics. It contains a reprint of the first English translation of Mendel’s “Versuch über Pflanzen-Hybriden” from the J. Roy. Horticult. Soc., which Bateson had published the previous year together with the first edition in English of Mendel’s second paper on Hieracium (1869). Bateson named the science, “genetics” in 1905-6. He published a much expanded second edition as Mendel’s principles of Heredity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1909.