THE METHODS AND SCOPE OF 

 GENETICS 



The opportunity of addressing fellow- 

 students pursuing lines of inquiry other than 

 his own falls seldom to a scientific man. One 

 of these rare opportunities is offered by the 

 constitution of the Professorship to which 

 I have had the honom- to be called. That 

 Professorship, though bearing the compre- 

 hensive title 'of Biology," is founded with 

 the understanding that the holder shall apply 

 himself to a particular class of physiological 

 problems, the study of which is denoted by 

 the term Genetics. The term is new; and 

 though the problems are among the oldest 

 which have vexed the human mind, the modes 

 by which they may be successfully attacked 



