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Simunek Michal , Hoßfeld Uwe , Thümmler Florian and Breidbach Olaf (eds.), The Mendelian Dioskuri: Correspondence of Armin with Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg, 1898-1951 . Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities 27. Prague: Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences , Prague, and Department of Genetics/'Mendelianum' of the Moravian Museum, Brno , 2011. Pp. 259. ISBN 978-80-87378-67-0 . Price unknown (paperback).
Simunek Michal , Hoßfeld Uwe , Thümmler Florian , and Sekerák Jirí (eds.), The Letters on G.J. Mendel: Correspondence of William Bateson, Hugo Iltis, and Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg with Alois and Ferdinand Schindler, 1902-1935 . Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities 28. Prague: Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences , Prague, and Department of Genetics/'Mendelianum' of the Moravian Museum, Brno , 2011. Pp. 131. ISBN 978-80-87378-73-1 . Price unknown (paperback).
Michal Simunek, Uwe Hoßfeld, and their co-editors are doing a great service to the Mendel Industry with their recent collections of primary sources. They are reopening some old questions about Mendel's life and 'rediscovery'; raising some new ones about the Austrian, Moravian and Bohemian contexts; and providing resources for answering them.
Under review here are the volume of letters about Mendel by his nephews, Alois and Ferdinand Schindler, and the volume of correspondence between the brothers Tschermak (also known as von Tschermak-Seysenegg) - Erich, the plant breeder and co-rediscoverer of Mendel's famous paper, and Armin, the animal physiologist. An earlier volume on Mendel's reception in Moravia and Bohemia has already been reviewed in this journal ((2011)...