OSLER PRESENTATION COPY.


DONCASTER, LEONARD. 1877-1920. Heredity in the Light of Recent Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911. 8vo (167 x 122 mm). Publisher's red cloth. Fading to spine, with small tear to head, a few pen markings to margins.PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM OSLER. Osler's interest in the recent rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's work on heredity, and its implications for the study of disease, can be seen in his decision to present this book to an unnamed friend as a Christmas gift. Leonard Doncaster, an early Mendelian geneticist, was a fellow at Cambridge University when he published this book. See Victor McKusick, "Osler as a Medical Geneticist," Johns Hopkins Medical Journal, 1976.