Original: He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity and biological inheritance , and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns .
Simplified: Bateson , Beatrice , William Bateson , naturalist : his essays and addresses together with a short account of his life ; Cambridge University Press , 1928 ( reissued by the publisher 2009 , ISBN 978-1-108-00434-3 )