Ferner bemerkt derselbe Beobachter, “dass es auch bei dem Umwandlungsgeschäfte darauf ankommt, welcher Typus und welches Individuum zu der weiteren Umwandlung gewählt wird”.
This same observer notes further, “that it also imperative during the business of transformation which type and which individual is chosen for further transformation”.
observer = Beobachter As in the previous sentence, Mendel again provides a very literal quotation from Gärtner’s book, from a passage he marked in the library copy of the Augustinian Abbey’s library; see Carl Friedrich Gärtner, Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (Stuttgart: Hering, 1849), Mendel Museum, Collection of the Augustinian Abbey, p. 459. On Gärtner, see p. 3, s. 4.
business of transformation = Umwandlungsgeschäfte Gärtner spells this term slightly differently: Umwandelungsgeschäft. Bateson has “transformation experiments”, Sherwood “process of transformation”. Gärtner’s choice of words reflects the long-held view that hybrids in general are a product of art, not nature; cf. p. 43, s. 2.
type = Typus See p. 38, s. 6.