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BATESON, WILLIAM. Materials for the Study of Variation Treated with Especial Regard to Discontinuity in the Origin of Species. 209 text illustrations. xv, [1], 598, [2] pages, including final ad leaf. 8vo, original dark green cloth, covers slightly blistered; foxing on opening leaves and on fore edges toward end. Signature of G. H. Hardy (probably not the mathematician) on half-title. London & New York: Macmillan, 1894
first edition of Bateson's major scientific work before turning his attention to genetics; second issue binding. "Bateson was convinced that discontinuity was the more important type of variation among animals and plants . . . He showed that Darwin's concept of variation needed modification"--Garrison-Morton 237. Norman 134.
