Excerpt from The Heredity of Acquired Characters in Plants With regard to definite variations, Sir E. R. Lankester is also at variance with Darwin. These are now regarded by him as what are called acquired characters which, he asserts, cannot be handed on by inheritance to a new generation. They are, he says, a direct re action to the environment. It does not affect the stirps, the inner reproductive germs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.