1-158-548 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

Mendelian inheritance of colour of flower in the culinary pea, 1912. Pink-flowered race (left), white-flowered race (right), and a cross between the two (centre). The Austrian monk Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) read his paper on 'Plant Hybridisation' in 1865, but it went unnoticed for 34 years. Mendel's Laws of Inheritance or Mendelism formed the basis of later studies in genetics. From Breeding and Mendelian Discoveryby AD Darbishire, (London, 1912).