MendelWeb 97.1

[Roger Blumberg]

February 22, 1997

A new edition of MendelWeb (97.1) is now available at Netspace 
(http://www.netspace.org/MendelWeb/), the University of Washington at
Seattle 
(http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/mirrors/MendelWeb/),
and at the Scholarly Technology Group, at Brown University 
(http://www.stg.brown.edu/MendelWeb/). Major additions include: Robert
C.
Olby's previously unpublished essay, "Mendel, Mendelism, and Genetics"; 
Viteslav Orel's "Heredity Before Mendel", the second chapter of his
recent 
biography, GREGOR MENDEL: THE FIRST GENETICIST; and "In the Footsteps of 
Mendel", a an illustrated account of a journey to Brno, by Margaret 
Peaslee.  The MendelWeb Timeline has been revised and expanded, as have
the Bibliography and Reference pages. MendelWeb is a Web-based teaching 
and learning resource, constructed upon Gregor Mendel's famous pea-plant 
paper of 1865.