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laboratory, and I am glad to say he has consented 

 to take it, for the present at least, under his very 

 able superintendence ; as I am too old and infirm now 

 to be able to look properly after it. Valuable 

 memoirs are being published by the Laboratory from 

 time to time, and the young institution promises to 

 be a permanent success. 



The authorities of the newly established Socio- 

 logical Society were disposed to take up the subject 

 of Race Improvement, so I gave lectures at two of 

 their meetings in 1904 and 1905, which are published 

 in Vols I. and II. of the Sociological Papers [168]. 

 The subjects were on, " Eugenics, its Scope and 

 Aims," "Restrictions in Marriage," ''Studies in 

 National Eugenics," and " Eugenics as a Factor in 

 Religion." Eugenics is officially defined in the 

 Minutes of the University of London as " the study 

 of agencies under social control that may improve 

 or impair the racial qualities of future generations, 

 either physically or mentally." 



Skilful and cautious statistical treatment is needed 

 in most of the many inquiries upon whose results the 

 methods of Eugenics will rest. A full account of the 

 inquiries is necessarily technical and dry, but the re- 

 sults are not, and a " Eugenics Education Society" has 

 been recently established to popularise those results. 

 At the request of its Committee I have lately joined 

 it as Hon. President, and hope to aid its work so far 

 as the small powers that an advanced age still leaves 

 intact may permit. 



A true philanthropist concerns himself not only 

 with society as a whole, but also with as many of the 



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