THE LAW OF HEREDITY - A study of the cause of variation and the origin of living organisms - by Willian Keith Brooks - 1883 - PREFACE - The subject which is treated in this book has occupied my thoughts for ten years or more, but I have refrtined from publishing my views, as I hope that I may some timc be able to submit them to the test of experiment. Many experiments hare suggceted thcmscles to me, but as most of them involve the cultivation and hybridization, for many generations, of such snimals and plants as will thrie and mzltiply in confinement, they can only be carried out by some one............