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Excerpt from A Second Study of the Influence of Parental Alcoholism on the Physique and Ability of the Offspring: Being a Reply to Certain Medical Critics of the First Memoir and an Examination of the Rebutting Evidence Cited by Them
The Francis Galton Laboratory is issuing in parts at short intervals a collection of published and unpublished family pedigrees, illustrating the inheritance in man of mental and physical characters, of disease and of abnormality.
Students of heredity find great difficulty in obtaining easy access to material bearing on human inheritance. The published material is voluminous, scattered over a wide and often very inaccessible journalistic area. The already collected although unpublished material is probably as copious, but no central organ for its rapid publication in a standardized form exists at present. The Eugenics Laboratory alone possesses several hundred pedigrees of family characteristics and diseases which it is desirable to make readily accessible. Many medical men possess similar material, and there is a growing desire among genealogists to pay more attention to family characters and supplement the merely nominal pedigrees current in the past.
For a publication of this kind to be successful at the present time, it should be entirely free from controversial matter. The Treasury of Human Inheritance will therefore contain no reference to theoretical opinions. It will give in a standardized form the pedigree of each stock. This will be accompanied by a few pages of text describing the individual members of the stock, giving references to authorities, and, if the material has been published, to the locus of original publication. When necessary the characteristic will be illustrated by photography or radiography. In this way, it is hoped in the course of a few years to place a large mass of material in the hands of the student of human heredity. It will not cut him off from, but directly guide him to original and fuller sources of information. Further, the Treasury will provide students of eugenics and of sociology, medical men, and others, with an organ where their investigations will find ready publication, and where as time goes on a higher and more complete standard of family history than has hitherto been usual can be maintained. It is proposed to issue the Treasury of Human Inheritance in quarto parts at about quarterly intervals. Each part will contain about 6 to 10 plates of pedigrees and of such other illustrations as may be needful. The following parts have already been issued: -
Parts I and II (double part) contains pedigrees of Diabetes Insipidus, Split-Foot, Polydactylism, Brachydactylism, Tuberculosis, Deaf-Mutism, and Legal Ability. Price 14s.
Part III contains pedigrees of Angioneurotic Oedema, Hermaphroditism, Deaf-Mutism, Insanity, and Commercial Ability. Price 6s.
Part IV contains pedigrees of Hare-Lip, Cleft Palate, Deaf-Mutism, and Congenital Cataract. Price 10s.
Parts V and VI (double part) contains pedigrees of Haemophilia. Price 15s. net.
Part VII will be ready shortly and will contain pedigrees of Dwarfs.
The subscription to each set of four parts is 24s., and all communications with regard to pedigree contributions should be sent to: The Editors, Treasury of Human Inheritance, Eugenics Laboratory, University College, London, W.C. Subscriptions should be made payable to Miss Ethel M. Elderton, at the above address.
Single parts may be purchased from Messrs Dulau &Co., Ltd. 37, Soho Square, London, W., either directly or through any bookseller.
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The Francis Galton Laboratory is issuing in parts at short intervals a collection of published and unpublished family pedigrees, illustrating the inheritance in man of mental and physical characters, of disease and of abnormality.
Students of heredity find great difficulty in obtaining easy access to material bearing on human inheritance. The published material is voluminous, scattered over a wide and often very inaccessible journalistic area. The already collected although unpublished material is probably as copious, but no central organ for its rapid publication in a standardized form exists at present. The Eugenics Laboratory alone possesses several hundred pedigrees of family characteristics and diseases which it is desirable to make readily accessible. Many medical men possess similar material, and there is a growing desire among genealogists to pay more attention to family characters and supplement the merely nominal pedigrees current in the past.
For a publication of this kind to be successful at the present time, it should be entirely free from controversial matter. The Treasury of Human Inheritance will therefore contain no reference to theoretical opinions. It will give in a standardized form the pedigree of each stock. This will be accompanied by a few pages of text describing the individual members of the stock, giving references to authorities, and, if the material has been published, to the locus of original publication. When necessary the characteristic will be illustrated by photography or radiography. In this way, it is hoped in the course of a few years to place a large mass of material in the hands of the student of human heredity. It will not cut him off from, but directly guide him to original and fuller sources of information. Further, the Treasury will provide students of eugenics and of sociology, medical men, and others, with an organ where their investigations will find ready publication, and where as time goes on a higher and more complete standard of family history than has hitherto been usual can be maintained. It is proposed to issue the Treasury of Human Inheritance in quarto parts at about quarterly intervals. Each part will contain about 6 to 10 plates of pedigrees and of such other illustrations as may be needful. The following parts have already been issued: -
Parts I and II (double part) contains pedigrees of Diabetes Insipidus, Split-Foot, Polydactylism, Brachydactylism, Tuberculosis, Deaf-Mutism, and Legal Ability. Price 14s.
Part III contains pedigrees of Angioneurotic Oedema, Hermaphroditism, Deaf-Mutism, Insanity, and Commercial Ability. Price 6s.
Part IV contains pedigrees of Hare-Lip, Cleft Palate, Deaf-Mutism, and Congenital Cataract. Price 10s.
Parts V and VI (double part) contains pedigrees of Haemophilia. Price 15s. net.
Part VII will be ready shortly and will contain pedigrees of Dwarfs.
The subscription to each set of four parts is 24s., and all communications with regard to pedigree contributions should be sent to: The Editors, Treasury of Human Inheritance, Eugenics Laboratory, University College, London, W.C. Subscriptions should be made payable to Miss Ethel M. Elderton, at the above address.
Single parts may be purchased from Messrs Dulau &Co., Ltd. 37, Soho Square, London, W., either directly or through any bookseller.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
Dettagli del libro
Formato
Brossura
Pagine
43 pagine
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
Aug 24, 2018
Editore
Forgotten Books
ISBN-10
1332281354
ISBN-13
9781332281350