1.1 Mendels Experiments The results of his work were published in german in an 1866 paper entitled experiments in Plant Hybridization The paper was distributed fairly widely through libraries but mendel's contemporaries did not understand his findings, probably partly because of the mathematical explanations astery in 1868 and published nothing further on heredity by the rest of the scientific community until 1900, when three botanists Carl Correns in Germany, Hugo de vries in the Netherlands, and erich von Tschermak in austria rediscovered his work after each had apparently independently reached similar conclusions1.1 Mendel’s Experiments The results of his work were published in German in an 1866 paper entitled “experiments in Plant Hybridization.” The paper was distributed fairly widely through libraries, but Mendel’s contemporaries did not understand his findings, probably partly because of the mathematical explanations astery in 1868 and published nothing further on heredity by the rest of the scientific community until 1900, when three botanists, Carl Correns in Germany, Hugo de Vries in the Netherlands, and Erich von Tschermak in Austria, rediscovered his work after each had apparently independently reached similar conclusions