Table 1.

The major exponents of the two main currents of thought on heredity before Mendel’s laws.

Vegetable Hybridists

Hereditarists

Prospero Alpini (also known as Prosperus Alpinus, Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio) (Marostica 1553–Padua 1616) Adam Zaluziansky (Mnichov Hradiště 1558–Prague 1613) Nehemiah Grew (Atherstone 1641–London 1712) Rudolf Jakob Camerer (Tübingen 1665–Tübingen 1721) Carl von Linné (Råshult 1707–Uppsala 1778) Gottlieb Joseph Kölreuter (Sulz am Neckar 1733–Karlsruhe 1806) Thomas Andrew Knight (Wormsley 1759–London 1838) Augustin Sageret (Paris 1763–Paris 1851) Carl Friedrich von Gärtner (Göppingen 1772–Calw 1850) Henri Lecoq (Avesnes-sur-Helpe 1802–Clermont Ferrand 1871) Dominique Alexandre Godron (Hayange 1807–Nancy 1880) Charles-Victor Naudin (Autun 1815–Antibes 1899) Max Ernt Wichura (Neisse 1817–Berlin 1866)

William Wollaston (Coton–Clanford 1660–London 1724) Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (Saint-Malo 1698–Basilea 1759) Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (Montbard 1707–Paris1788) Charles Darwin (Shrewsbury 1809–Downe 1882) Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli (Kilchberg 1817–Munich 1891) Herbert Spencer (Derby 1820–Brighton 1903) Francis Galton (Sparkbrook 1822–Haslemere 1911) Thomas Henry Huxley (Ealing 1825–Eastbourn 1895)