Yes, exactly, he discovered it well enough that people who read his papers years later didn't need for it to be discovered again. I agree, those at the time of

Yes, exactly, he discovered it well enough that people who read his papers years later didn't need for it to be discovered again. I agree, those at the time of publishing didn't even consider it to be about inheritance, but those later did, because his careful work could be replicated... even though Imre Festetics coined the word genetic and did similar work on sheep in the same town many years before (he's mostly forgotten).