T. E. Libatskaia

Prior to 1900, F. Galton's «law» of inheritance enjoyed general acceptance in England. W. Bateson also subscribed to it, but in his studies initiated several years before the rediscovery of Mendel's laws, he used not Galton's biometrical methods but methods very close to Mendel's. By 1900 he had accumulated enough data on experimental hybridizations to prove the stability of variations and that crossings did not lead to the dilution of hereditary changes. Bateson reported these results at the first international conference on hybridization in 1899.