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De Vries   /di vriz/   Listen
De Vries

noun
1.
Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935).  Synonyms: deVries, Hugo De Vries, Hugo deVries.






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"De Vries" Quotes from Famous Books



... very glad that you will again discuss the view of the turgescence of the cells being the cause of the movement of parts. I adopted De Vries' views as seeming to me the most probable, but of late I have felt more doubts on this head. (763/2. See "Power of Movement," page 2. De Vries' work is published in the "Bot. Zeitung," 1879, ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin

... the pungent words quoted with approval by Hugo de Vries at the end of his "Species and Varieties" (pp. 825, 826), "Natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of ...
— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price

... the Swedes for occupation, especially after they had purchased the Indian title. It was certainly true that the Dutch efforts to plant colonies in that region had failed; and since the last attempt by De Vries, six years had elapsed. On the other hand, the Dutch contended that they had in that time put Fort Nassau in repair, although they had not occupied it, and that they kept a few persons living along the Jersey shore of the river, possibly the ...
— The Quaker Colonies - A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware, Volume 8 - in The Chronicles Of America Series • Sydney G. Fisher

... not, of course, always literally true that each parent supplies exactly half the heredity, for, as we see among animals generally, the offspring may sometimes approach more nearly to one parent, sometimes to the other, while among plants, as De Vries and others have shown, the heredity may be ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis



Words linked to "De Vries" :   botanist, plant scientist, Hugo deVries, phytologist, deVries



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