xi. "botanists" not "botanist";
"naturforschenden" not "naturforschended"
xii. "historians who came" not
"historians who come"
xiii. "associate" not "associated";
"make" not "makes"
xv. "Kasserjian" not "Kasserjain"
xviii. "lustre" not "luster"
xx. "1888-1889" not
"1898-1899"
4. "Bursar" not "Burser"
11. "an honor" not "and honor"
19. "is in Bateson's library"
not "is not to be found in Bateson's libary" [The original statement is
technically correct but, thank you Sarah Wilmot (2014), at some point the
book, which has WB's undated signature, was moved in the John Innes
collection from the Bateson's Library section to the general History of
Genetics section, where DRF overlooked it.]
35. "Balanoglossus" not "Balanglossus"
40. "[Bell]" not "[Duncan]"
47. "augur" not "auger"; "Brooks" not "Brooks'"
65 & 67. "discernible" not
"discernable" [Galton got it right]
69. "De Vries held" not "De Vreis
held"; "those hereditary elements"
not "those heredity elements"
70. "leaves" not "leafs"; "Bateson's" not "Bateson"
71. "with some degree of accuracy" not "with a some degree of
accuracy"
78. "wanderings" not
"wonderings"
79. "pickle" not "picker"
80. "oracular" not "cracular"
92. "Bateson sought" not "Bateson's
sought"
96. "that my" not "that her"
105. "thrown" not "throw"
129. "marvellous" not
"marvelous" [somewhere along the line Huxley's spelling was discarded]
132. "by Romanes" not "by
Romanes's"; "One of " not "It is likely that one of"
141. "Correns" not "Corrins"
143. "Madeira" not "Madiera"
148. "baby cuckoo" not "baby
cockoo"
157. "wrested" not
"wrestled"
159. "Telegony" not "Telogony"
160. "Biscutella" not "Biscatella"
and "vespertina" not "verpurtina"
161. "with the Scientific" not "with Scientific"
162. "in spite of" not "inspite
of"
163. "Amphidasys" not "Amphidasis"
176 "Larmor" not "Larmer"
178. "measurable" not "measureable"
179. "all-or-none" not "all-or-non";
"On this occasion" not "In this
occasion"
185. "P. L. Sclater" not "P. J.
Sclater"; "wrote to Sclater" not
"wrote to Schlater"
187. "Mevrouw" not "Meurouw"
197. "Botanische" not "Botanishe";
"Gesellschaft" not "Gesellshcaft"
201. "Nageli (whom many think" not
"Nagali (whom many think"
209. "Matthiola" not "Mattiola"
218. "Beatrice noted" not "Beatrice"
219. "f.l." not "f. l."
226. "Staples Browne" not
"Staples Brown"
229. "eyes were now" not "eyes now"
258. "l'hybride ne saurait" not
"l'hybrid ne saurait"
264. "defections" not
"defects"
273. "Belgian hare" not "Belgium
hare"
274. "Geikie" not "Giekie"
277. "in spite of" not "inspite
of"
282. "extend" not
"extending"
291. "alkaptonuria" not "alkaptanuria"
292. "seriatim" not "seriatum"
295. "Carmania" not "Carmenia"
297. "we may speak of" not "we
make speak of"
299. Perhaps "Sargent's" not "Seargent's"
300. "itinerary" not "itinery";
"beetles" not "beatles"
325. "chemically changed" not
"chemical changed"; "its scabbard"
not "is scabbard"; "its partner"
not "it partner"
337. "Biffen" not "Biffin"
344. "nucleus of each spermatid" not
"nucleus of the each spermatid"
359. "which must be very nearly" not
"which much be very nearly"
366. "more in line" not "more
inline"
369. "Hybridization" not "Hybidization"
383. "Biffen" not "Biffin"
384. "Herringham" not
"Herrington"
385. "Herringham" not
"Herrington"; "Colombo" not
"Columbo"
386. "Jane Austen" not "Jane
Austin"; "Coningsby" not "Coningby"
391. "soothe" not "sooth";
"to study corn breeding" not "to
studying corn breeding"
393. "Margaret" was probably shortened
to "Margie"
394. "Gesellschaft" not "Gesellshaft"
406. "Cunningham's point" not
"Cunningham point"
411. "information it conveys" not "information in
conveys"
413. "there has been" not "there as been"
415. "due to" not "due to
as"
417. "to the question" not "to question"
432. "Hygiene" not "Hygeine"
437 "see no reason" not "see not
reason"
450. "Rayleigh" not
"Raleigh"; "Azaleas" not "Azalias"
456. "luxuriance" not "luxurience"
457. "Verrall's" and "Verrall"
not "Verral's" and "Verral"
459. "Britannica" not "Brittanica"
472. "data" not "date"
473. "Croydon" not "Croyden"
477. "Mechanismus" not "Mechanisus"
480. "They throw" not "The
throw"
481. "address" not
"addressed"
485. "indifferent as to its diffusion"
not "indifferent as its diffusion"
501. "Brunstschweilen" not "Brumftschhwielen".
Various misspellings are on pages 502, 562, 571, 572-576, 583
508 "Åkarp" not "Akarp"
509. "do not culminate" not "do
no culminate"
513. Rosemary Harvey suggests "Siarus"
may be an anagram for "Russia", perhaps
indicating that other messages are hidden in the document; "Catherine
Suharov" was called "Katya",
otherwise "Yekaterina N. Sakharova"
514. "geneticists" not "geneticist';
Michurin was portrayed as a Lamarckist by Lysenko's bureaucratic ally, Prezent.
522. "crossed swords" not
"cross-swords"; "Corpus Christi"
not "Corpus Christie"
523. "Bursar" not "Burser"
529. "them to shapes" not "them
into shapes"
535. "Britannica" not "Brittanica"
549. "Hartog" not "Hartoz"
556. "fiancee" not
"fiance"
559. "merkmale" not "merkmal"
563. "Menchen werden" not "Menchen
warden"
564. "Przibram" not "Przibrum"
574. "on the other hand" not "an
the other hand"
579. "like a spot of black ink" not
"like to spot of black ink"
591. "dying" not "dieing"
592. "Belgian native" not
"Belgium native"
594. "Schuster" not "Shuster"
595. "Biologiques" not "Biologique";
"no doubt" not "not doubt"
609. "minor" not "miner"
616. "portentous" not "portentious"
628. "over to America" not "over
the America"
629. "as about Bateson" not "but
about Bateson"
630. "than of its sarcasm" not
"that of its sarcasm"
632. "than segregation" not "that
segregation"
635. "dedicated his/her" not
"dedicated to his/her"; "sleight" not "slight";
"Dawkins' attack" not "Dawkins
attack"
641. "likened" not "liked"
643. "Patrick Matthew" not
"Patrick Mathew"; "On Naval"
not "on Naval"; "Centre"
not "Institute"
650. "was as far as" not "was far
as"
653. "test of time" not "test if
time"; "determine" not
"determination"
664. "Majestic" not "Magestic"
668. "1979" not "1978"
670. "sword of one chromosome can pair"
not "sword of one strand can pair"
674. "supernumerary" not "supernumary";
"Regard to Discontinuity" not
"Regard to the Discontinuity"
675. "Hybridization" not "Hybidization"
684. "Cambridge University" not
"Cambridge University Press"
687. "Entomologist's" not
"Etomologist's"
694. "[- - New York, October 1st, 1902; Bateson's
remark on chromosomes is on page 123.]" not "[- - New York,
September, 1902.]"
700. The paper listed as "Centaurus (submitted for publication)"
was published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology (2009)
702. That the anonymous reviewer for The Atheneum was probably James
Ward was inferred by P. J. Pauly (1982) Victorian Studies 25,
161-180. This fits in with Bateson's remark on Ward (p. 552).
711. "his uncle F. W. Bateson" not
"his father F. W. Bateson" [Thank you PB for this correction.]
713. "tuning in" not "tuningin"
716. Biffen is also mentioned on pages 337 and 383
720. Correns is also mentioned on page 141
726. "Geikie" not "Giekie"
731. "Lord Rayleigh" not "Lord
Raleigh"
740. "Sclater, P. L." not "Sclater
P. J."
