THE SWEDISH RACE=BIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE 



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their armaments and weapons against each other, would expend their revenues, and 

 mutual strength, to combat enemies of this description. I dare hope, that the 

 time is not far distant, when one will be inclined, in public affairs, to allow the 

 word of the biologically educated physician to have as much weight at least as 

 that of the lawyer and soldier, and when sociologists and statesmen become awake 

 to the significance of heredity=hygiene for the future of mankind.* 



The Race^biological Institute of the University is accomodated in 

 the building to the right. 



Parliament has during later years granted Doctor Lundborg a sum of money 

 for undertaking Race*biological investigations in this country, and Uppsala Uni* 

 versity has procured temporary premises for the above purpose, and placed them 

 ^t his disposal. But these arrangements are found to be insufficient. Lundborg 

 himself and other prominent investigators in this country, agree that a well* 

 equipped Institute must be established. A wide^spread opinion in Sweden has 

 supported this idea. "We may below quote the remarks made by well-known 

 investigators, biologists, and physicians. 



»It is sincerely to be hoped» writes Professor H. Nilsson»Ehle of Lund, »that 

 the idea of the Swedish Race^biological Institute, which, during the last few years, 

 has been advanced and strongly supported by several authoritative persons and 

 institutions, may be realized without delay. It is apparent to the theoretical her* 

 edity investigator, that the great and difficult task must lie in the hands of medic* 

 al science. Here are found the necessary qualifications, which consist of a thor* 



