Genetics and Eugenics: a Text-Book for Students of Biology and a Reference Book for Animal and Plant Breeders

Abstract

THE fact that this third edition is subdivided into forty-two chapters, six of them new, may provide an indication of the variety of the topics which interest the geneticist. In American literature this book, not the least remarkable feature of which is its cheapness, occupies the position which Punnett's “Mendelism” and Thomson's “Heredity” together hold on the eastern side of the Atlantic: it offers to a very wide public an introduction to genetical fact and theory and some notion of the applications of the science in agricultural and sociological endeavour. Associated with this edition there is a laboratory manual which outlines a very useful half-year's elementary experimental course in genetics. Most of the experiments demand the employment of Drosophila melanogaster, but this does not make the manual unsuitable, for there is an adequate supply of this unrivalled experimental material now available in Great Britain as well as in the United States.

Genetics and Eugenics: a Text-Book for Students of Biology and a Reference Book for Animal and Plant Breeders.

By Prof. W. E. Castle. Third edition. Pp. viii + 434 + 60 plates. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1924.) 12s. 6d. net.