While aware of the works of various evolutionists in their dotage (Galton, Wallace, Weismann), initially Bateson is likely to have overlooked Hugo de Vries Intracellular Pangenesis. De Vries modified Darwin s hypothesis of pangenesis, according the elements, or pangens that corresponded to individual characters, attributes that we now know to be those of genes. Darwin thought a character acquired during an individual s life time, could, by virtue of the transfer of the corresponding educated pangens (gemmules), be passed on to its children. However, experiments by Galton and Heape d- proved...