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30 De Vries and Bateson have also called attention lately to the remarkable work done by Mendel so long ago as 1855. He carried out a series of experiments in crossing of   Seven pairs of characters were selected,"a large number of crosses were made between  differing in respect of each of those pairs of characteristics. It was found in each case that the offspring of the cross exhibited the character of one of the parents in almost undiminished intensity, and  which could not be at once referred to one or other of the parental forms were next found." The account of these experiments is given by Bateson in a paper on in the Journal of the Royal Historical Society, 1900 and since that time Mendel's original paper has been reproduced. "In the case or each pair of characters there is one which as the first cross prevails to the exclusion of the other. This prevailing character Mendel calls the character, the other being the  character". The interesting point is that was found that by self-fertilizing the original cross-breeds the same proportion was always approached - the proportion being 1 Dominant  2 cross-breeds   ecessive.

The same numerical law followed in each generation.

It is seen that there is here a new law of Inheritance, which has since been called Mendel's Law. The full consequence of this discovery has still to be worked out and many