Folia Mendeliana 35-36.

Dans ce livre: Marcela Sohajková, Natural Science Society (Naturforschender Verein). An Important Moravian Learning Center: 5-19 ('Natural Science Society organized Mendel's lecture on hybridization in 1865 and published his well-known paper in 1866 in its annual volume Verhandlungen des naturforschender Vereines'); Zdnenek Polcák, Changes in the Activities of the Brno Augustinian Order St. Thomas Towards Science in the Early 19th Century: 21-30 ('The Augustinian Order St. Thomas in Old Brno reacted to the Imperial Royal decrees, abolishing the monasteries with little use for the state, and offered their service in support of the economic and social development of the state by means of cultivating practical science and teaching activities'); Jan Luzný, Literary Sources on Fruit Tree Growing and the Development of Pomology in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia: 31-41 ('Historical survey of pomiculture development. The data are given in connection with Gregor Mendel's hybridization of pear varieties and apple trees'); Jiri Sekerák, Mendel's Black Box of 1865: A Hidden Mechanism in Action: 43-44 ('Now we can explain Mendel's experimental methodology even the way of his thinking as an illustrative example of the cybernetical black box of Norbert Wiener, 1894-1964'); Anna Matalová, Opposition of Czech Geneticists to Ideologization of Biology in Czechoslovakia in the Fifties and Sixties of the 20th Century: 45-61 ('In 1948 science in Czechoslovakia started conversion according to the Sovjet model. Genetics was labelled a reactionary bourgeois pseudoscience and expurgated... Czech geneticists faced the attacks of ideologized Lysenkoists with honour and personal courage until 1965'); Radan Kvét, G.J. Mendel's Sculptures in Moravia and Silesia: 63-71, 11 ill.; Frantisek Brückner, A Biographical Sketch of a Geneticist in the Era of Lysenkoism in Czechoslovakia: 79-89; Ladislav Lojda, My Personal Remembrance of Repudiation of Genetics in the Time of Lysenkoism in Czechoslovakia: 90-94; Anna Matalová, The End of the Mendel Exhibition in the Augustinian Monastery and the Beginning in the Dietrichstein Palace of the Moravian Museum in Brno: 101-102 ('The Mendelianum was urged by the old Brno Abbot Eugen Martinec to leave the exhibition hall of the Augustinian monastery. The Mendelianum was established and opened for the public in 1965. It will get a place in the Dietrichstein Palace, the seat of the scientific research center of Moravia and Silesia in Mendel's days').