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BY the death of Hugo de Vries, on May 20, at the age of eighty-seven years, biology has lost one of its outstanding figures in the history of the last century. He proved himself a master of plant physiology in the period 1870-85 when that science may be said to have had its modern beginnings; but the problems of evolution held his attention from the time when, as an undergraduate at Leyden, he read a German translation of the “Origin of Species”. The transition from experimental physiology to evolutionary theory took place with the publication of his “Intracellular Pangenesis” in 1889, but his earlier work no doubt made it easy for him to intro duce experimental methods into the investigation of evolutionary problems.
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GATES, R. Prof. Hugo de Vries, For.Mem.R.S.. Nature 136, 133–134 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136133a0
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