2) gemmule. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...postulated to be the mediating factor in the production of new cells in the theory of pangenesis. French, from Latin gemmula, diminutive of gemma, bud. See gembh-...

3) heredity. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of acquired characteristics served as an explanation of its mechanism. The theory of pangenesis, as it was termed in a modified version in Darwinism, was strongly...

4) I. Philosophers: Bibliography. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Hereditary genius, its laws and consequences. 1869. Experiments in Pangenesis. 1871. English Men of Science, their nature and nurture. 1874. Inquiries into the Human...