De Vriesian

de Vriesian English Etymology From en De Vries -ian. Adjective 1 en not comparable Of or relating to the Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries (1848–1935). en de Vriesian en 23 April 1910 w:George Harrison Shull Germinal Analysis through Hybridization Proceedings of the American Philosophical SocietyHeld at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge XLIX 196 Philadelphia, Pa. w:American Philosophical Society August–September 1910 286 https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofamep49amer/page/286/mode/1up 0003-049X 1480557 However, while the particle hypothesis is not disproved, I have no doubt that the Weismannian, and perhaps also the De Vriesian conception of the genes will seem less and less plausible as new facts accumulate. en 1918 w:William Lawrence Tower Analysis of Heterogeneity in Some Simplest Structural Characters The Mechanism of Evolution in Leptinotarsa Publication No. 263 Washington, D.C. Carnegie Institution of Washington chapter VII (Analysis of Heterogeneity in Some Simplest Characters) 222 https://archive.org/details/carnegieinstitut263carn/page/222/mode/1up 799412 Significat as are the investigations of Wilhelm Johannsen with the genotypes of plants and of Herbert Spencer Jennings in the clones found in Paramœcium with respect to these problems, there still remains in both the idea of quantitative as opposed to qualitative “variations” bearing much the same relation to one another that they do in the original De Vriesian statement. en 2014 Jerry Bergman Darwinists Taught Human Females Are Inferior to Males The Darwin EffectIts Influence on Nazism, Eugenics, Racism, Communism, Capitalism & Sexism Green Forest, Ark. Master Books 237 https://books.google.com/books?id=uiuiBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA237 978-0-89051-837-3 Later, the Mendelian and De Vriesian inheritance models proved that the mother and father contributed equal amounts of somatic chromosome genetic information to both their male and female offspring. en comparable Of, relating to, or characteristic of the American editor and novelist Peter De Vries (1910–1993). 19 July 1959 A. C. Spectorsky In Decency, Conn.: The Tents of Wickedness. By Peter De Vries.276 pp. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. $3.75. https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/19/archives/in-decency-conn-the-tents-of-wickedness-by-peter-de-vries-276-pp.html At any rate, there is fun to be had not only from the De Vriesian virtuosity in pun and parody, but in following his literally incredible plot. https://archive.ph/TEhsk 2026-03-17 19 October 1971 Books of The Times https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/19/archives/one-chuckle-and-two-pshaws.html Wendell Pocock, the hero of Elliott Baker’s third novel, “Pocock & Pitt,” is also a De Vriesian figure—a peg too round for the square apertures of life on the fruited plain. https://archive.ph/JBlhb 2026-03-17 11 October 1993 w:Lee Lorenz; w:Roger Angell Peter De Vries https://web.archive.org/web/20150910011013/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/10/11/peter-de-vries The lifelong irony was distinctive—“De Vriesian,” one would like to say—and can be followed down the rich trail of casuals, reviews, Talk stories, poems and novel excerpts that he contributed to this magazine between 1939 and 1986. 3 October 1994 w:Lorrie Moore Briefly Noted https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/10/10/briefly-noted ALMOST without exception, Moore’s narrators have comic yet dark stories to tell: they fire off crisp, De Vriesian one-liners and then, when you least expect it, sneak in wrenching revelations. https://archive.ph/4szu3 2026-03-17 24 May 2004 w:Jeffrey Frank Riches of Embarassment https://web.archive.org/web/20150910174113/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/24/riches-of-embarassment But it is a real novel, and Mackerel is a real character, for whom things get steadily worse, as they tend to do for the protagonists of De Vries’s fiction: Knopf rejects Mackerel’s book; his prospective mother-in-law believes that he’s a scoundrel; and he reaches a pinnacle of De Vriesian embarrassment when he’s arrested for fighting with a street preacher. en 2016 Guy Szuberla Humor Philip A. Greasley Dictionary of Midwestern Literature 2 (Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination) Bloomington, Ind. w:Indiana University Press 313 https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmidw0002unse/page/313/mode/1up 1 978-0-253-02104-5 Although it turns from his expected farce and comedy toward a series of tragic scenes, the book may still be read as a representative example of De Vriesian humor. Noun 1 An adherent of the views of the Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries (1848–1935). en de Vriesian en 1913 April Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick The Domestication of American Grapes James McKeen Cattell The Popular Science Monthly LXXXII New York, N.Y. The Science Press 351 https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo82newy/page/351/mode/1up 2641-4287 4179801 Whether the orthodox Darwinians or the De Vriesians are right does not matter here. The point is that the fluctuating variations of individuals, upon which Charles Darwin chiefly founded his principle of natural selection, cut but a small figure in the breeding of grapes. en 1918 w:William Lawrence Tower Analysis of Heterogeneity in Some Simplest Structural Characters The Mechanism of Evolution in Leptinotarsa Publication No. 263 Washington, D.C. Carnegie Institution of Washington chapter VII (Analysis of Heterogeneity in Some Simplest Characters) 221 https://archive.org/details/carnegieinstitut263carn/page/221/mode/1up 799412 The biometricians, starting with heterogeneous unknown material, measured anything that was convenient and further complicated it with the application of their treatment of the data, while the De Vriesians, starting with refined material in pedigree cultures, attained an exactness of analysis and refinement of results quite beyond the ken of the former school. en 1920 January 1920 February Amadeus William Grabau Sixty Years of Darwinism: A Look Backward and Forward w:Mary Cynthia Dickerson Natural HistoryThe Journal of the American Museum of Natural History XX 1 New York, N.Y. w:American Museum of Natural History 66 https://archive.org/details/naturalhistory20ameruoft/page/66/mode/1up 2 0028-0712 1759475 Such an abrupt rearrangement of characters De Vries called mutation, others have called it saltation, and it is generally thought of as a process uncontrolled by any known law. To the De Vriesians the new elementary species thus produced are the only variations from the type which count. en eponyms