CONTENTS.
Reading edition
Translator. A. E. Shipley
I. The Duration of Life, 1881 1
II. On Heredity, 1883 67
III. Life and Death, 1883 107
Translator. Selmar Schönland
IV. The Continuity of the Germ-plasm as the Foundation of a Theory of Heredity, 1885 161
V. The Significance of Sexual Reproduction in the Theory of Natural Selection, 1886 251
VI. On the Number of Polar Bodies and their Significance in Heredity, 1887 333
VII. On the Supposed Botanical Proofs of the Transmission of Acquired Characters, 1888. 385
VIII. The Supposed Transmission of Mutilations, 1888 419
Abstracts of Professor Weismann’s Essays on Heredity and Kindred
Problems, already Published in this Country.
I. A short abstract in ‘Nature,’ Vol. XXXVII, pp. 541-542, by P. C. Mitchell.
II. A short abstract in ‘Nature,’ Vol. XXXVIII, pp. 156-157, by P. C. Mitchell.
III. A short article on the subject of this Essay in ‘The Nineteenth Century’ for May, 1885, by A. E. Shipley.
IV. Abstract in ‘Nature,’ Vol. XXXIII, pp. 154-157, by Professor Moseley.
V. Abstract in ‘Nature,’ Vol. XXXIV, pp. 629-632, by Professor Moseley.
VI. Abstract in ‘Nature,’ Vol. XXXVI, pp. 607-609, by Professor Weismann.
VII, VIII. The Essays being of so recent a date no abstract has yet appeared in this country.
A criticism of Professor Weismann’s theories will be found in ‘The Physiology of Plants,’ by Professor Vines, Lecture XXIII, pp. 660 et seqq.
I.
THE DURATION OF LIFE.
1881.