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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1922. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good in maroon cloth lettered in gold. The 1922 second (revised) edition. Attractive early bookplate inside front cover. Mild cover wear. The binding is sound, the text is clean and unmarked.Garrison-Morton 246 (first edition): "Summarizes the major early findings of Morgan's Drosophila research group, which based its research on the rapidly reproducing small vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster, often called the fruit fly. This epoch-making book presented evidence that genes were arranged linearly on chromosomes, and that the Mendelian laws could be shown to be based on observable events occurring in cells. The group also showed that heredity could be studied rigorously and quantitatively. Morgan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1933 ['for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity']." Hermann J. Muller was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1946 "for… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1922. Second (revised) edition.
1922 UPDATE OF THE 1915 "EPOCH-MAKING BOOK" BY NOBEL LAUREATE T.H. MORGAN AND DISCIPLES THAT LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR THE NEW GENETICS.
8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, frontis diagram of gene distribution on fruit fly chromosomes, i-xiv, 357 pp, 73 figures. Library numbers bottom of spine, embossed institutional library stamp to title page, library sticker and pocket to back paste-down, binding tight, text bright and unmarked, good+ in custom archival myar cover. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION We have tried to bring the book up to date not only by adding here and there throughout the text the latest results on the subject, but also by adding entirely new chapters, and new maps of the best known mutant factors. Much new material las been added to the chapter on sex; the chapter on selection has been largely rewritten. The new chapters are one on heredity in Protozoa, and one on mutation in the evening… Read More