Folia Mendeliana 33-34.

Continuation du no 11412. Dans ce livre: Franz Weiling, J.G. Mendel und die Eingabe der sechs Capitularen des Stiftes St. Thomas an den Österreichischen Reichstag von 8. August 1848: 5-10, 2 facs. ('Gregor Mendel is found as scribe of the petition addressed to the Constitutional/Parliament in the revolutionary year of 1848, in which six Augustinian friars demand in the name of humanity freedom for their scientific and teaching activity'); Karel Chroust - Radan Kvét, A Contribution Towards the Use of Pascal's Triangle in Genetics: 11-16, 3 fig. ('Pascal's triangle may be used in genetics for illustrating combinations of the characters ... It cannot be ruled out that J.G. Mendel, an erudite physicist and mathematician, may have considered a similar method when making his discoveries'); N.I. Cercherz, The Penetration of Mendelism into Romania: 57-70, 10 ill. ('After 1900, the rediscovery of results of G.J. Mendel led also in Romania to the understanding of mechanism of heredity and variability of the living world, started by Constantin Sandu-Aldea, 1874-1927'); T. Cheshko, The Initial Stages of the Mendelism-Lysenkoism Clash in the Ukraine: 71-78, 2 facs. ('Interrelationship of genetics, selection practice and plant breeding in the Ukraine before and after 1917 in connection with Soviet political history is discussed'); Jiri Sekerák, Lysenkoism in Czechoslovakia (1918-1966): 79-88, 1 facs. ('Lysenkoism (representing an alternative paradigm) played an indisputably significant role with regard to the history of science in this country, identifying a basic contradiction between the idea of the inheritance of acquired traits and Mendel's concept of heredity'); Anna Matalová, The Unique Attempt by Bohumil Sekla from the Year 1947 to Prevent Ideologization of Biology: 89-97, with a reedition of his lecture "The dialectic principle in the science of life", Prague 1947 ('Sekla was the only one who defended Mendel's genetics against the followers of Lysenko').