De-vries definition

The views of de Vries and others as to the importance of " saltatory variation," the soundness of which was still by no means generally accepted in 1910, may be gathered from the articles Mendelismvi and Variation.

A portion of it was regranted to David Pietersen de Vries in 1636 and in 1642 the remainder was erected into a patroonship and granted to Cornelis Melyn.

In 1641 de Vries established a settlement at Oude Dorp (Old Town), near Arrochar Park, near South Beach.

The Kurile Islands were discovered in 1634 by the Dutch navigator Martin de Vries.

Sakhalin, which was under Chinese dominion until the 19th century, became known to Europeans from the travels of Martin Gerritz de Vries in the 17th century, and still better from those of La Perouse (1787) and Krusenstern (1805).