March 14, 1900 (Wednesday)
- At 1:14 in the afternoon at the White House, President William McKinley signed the Gold Standard Act into law. The President signed the bill using a gold pen presented to him by Congressman Jesse Overstreet of Indiana, who had sponsored the legislation.
- Botanist Hugo de Vries submitted a paper to the German journal Comptes Rendus, outlining a rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity. Both de Vries and German botanist Carl Correns had been working independently of each other in 1900 and found Gregor Mendel's 1865 paper on genetics. Correns paper was completed on April 22. Wrote De Vries, "I draw the conclusion that the law of segregation of hybrids as discovered by Mendel for peas finds very general application in the plant kingdom ... This memoir, very beautiful for its time, has been misunderstood and forgotten."
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