Note 293 — VIII. THE SUPPOSED TRANSMISSION OF MUTILATIONS.
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It is true that he based his opinions upon entirely erroneous theories as to the constancy of species. Compare Brock, ‘Einige ältere Autoren über die Vererbung erworbener Eigenschaften’ in ‘Biolog. Centralblatt,’ Bd. VIII, p. 491 (1888): see also Hugo Spitzer, ‘Beiträge zur Descendenz-theorie und zur Methodologie der Naturwissenschaft,’ Leipzig, 1886, pp. 515 et seq.