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been for some time in progress. Should 

 he desire further information, he will find 

 material in the chapter on evolution in the 

 author's ' Grammar of Science ' (second edi- 

 tion, A. and C Black, 1900), in some of the 

 essays in the author's ' Chances of Death ' 

 (E. Arnold, 1897), but more especially in 

 the numerous statistical memoirs which have 

 appeared in the four published volumes of the 

 journal Biometrika (Cambridge University 

 Press, 1901-1905). 



APPENDIX II 



RECENT WORK IN HEREDITY 



An Abstract of a Lecture delivered in 

 November, 1 904 



THE lecturer regretted that the title of his 

 discourse was somewhat deceptive, but ex- 

 plained that it was framed while matters 

 were comparatively peaceful, before the con- 

 troversy now raging about the subject of 

 inheritance had begun. He stated that 

 throughout the lecture he should avoid con- 

 troversial points as far as possible, simply 

 giving his audience an account of the work 

 which had recently been done in his labora- 



