Variation in animals and plants . NEW YORKHENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1902 COPYRIGHT, 1902, BTHENRY HOLT & CO. THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS,RAHWAY, N. J. PEEFACE. IN this little book I have endeavoured to give a briefaccount of the subject of Variation/ so far as thepresent state of our knowledge admits. Though I didnot in any degree aim at giving a complete representa-tion of the subject, yet I hope that most of the moreimportant and more recent work has been included. Ihave not treated Variation of Plants so fully as that ofAnimals, and from lack of thorough acquaintance withthe literature, have pro


Variation in animals and plants . NEW YORKHENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1902 COPYRIGHT, 1902, BTHENRY HOLT & CO. THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS,RAHWAY, N. J. PEEFACE. IN this little book I have endeavoured to give a briefaccount of the subject of Variation/ so far as thepresent state of our knowledge admits. Though I didnot in any degree aim at giving a complete representa-tion of the subject, yet I hope that most of the moreimportant and more recent work has been included. Ihave not treated Variation of Plants so fully as that ofAnimals, and from lack of thorough acquaintance withthe literature, have probably made some omissions ofreal importance to the adequate comprehension of thesubject in its bearing on living organisms taken as awhole. For such I offer my apologies. I have pur-posely avoided any higher mathematics in discussingthe facts of variation, as it seemed out of place in a bookof this character. An obvious criticism upon the contents of the bookwill be that I have given greater prominence to my ownresearches thavariationinanima00vern


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