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The first edition of this work has been exhausted with such unexpected rapidity that I have been unable to make alterations of importance in the body of the book. A better definition, or description, of spontaneous varia tions has been introduced on page thirty-eight. Numerous typographical errors have been corrected, for the discovery of which my thanks are due to several correspondents. The main addition to the first issue consists, however, in two somewhat lengthy appendices. In the first, besides the discussion of one or two allied questions, I have endeavoured to make clearer the all-important distinction between innate and acquired characters. In the second I have dealt in some detail with the mutation theory of evolution and the phenomena of alternative inheritance. Several reviewers, notably that most indulgent of all critics, Dr. C. W. Saleeby, have expressed the opinion that the labours of Mendel and his followers have not been adequately discussed by me. I have tried to rectify the omission.
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