Origins of Mendelism [Sir John Burnett's copy] de Olby, Robert C. (introduction by Professor C.D. Darlington)

Constable Illustrated, small 8vo, pp 204, a couple of pages with a very slight nick on the fore-edge, otherwise very clean internally, in a slightly worn dustwrapper which is faded on the spine, slightly creased and torn on its lower cover. [From the library of Sir John Burnett, with his signature on the front endpaper. A distinguished academic career and a lifelong interest in fungi, botany and nature conservation made him the ideal champion for biological recording in the UK. He held that effective nature conservation could be achieved only if good quality information about species and their habitats was accessible to all who needed it - a belief that made him perfectly suited to run the National Biodiversity Network, founded in 2000. He was convinced that academics with high administrative posts must continue with some personal research, in his case on the myxomycetes.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn and frayed.