THE TREASURY OF HUMAN INHERITANCE 



ISSUED BY 



THE FRANCIS GALTON LABORATORY FOR 

 NATIONAL EUGENICS 



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 a collection of published and unpublished family pedigrees, illustrating 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 The already collected although unpublished material is probably 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 standard- 

 ized 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 publica- 

 tion. When necessary the characteristic will be illustrated by photo- 

 graphy 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 publica- 

 tion, 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 six 

 to ten 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) contain pedigrees of Diabetes In- 

 sipidus, Split-Foot, Polydactylism, Brachydactylism, Tuberculosis, 

 Deaf-Mutism, and Legal Ability. Price 14s. 



Part III contains pedigrees of Angioneurotic Oedema, Hermaphro- 

 ditism, Deaf-Mutism, Insanity, and Commercial Ability. Price 65. 



Part IV contains pedigrees of Hare-Lip, Cleft Palate, Deaf -Mutism, 

 and Congenital Cataract. Price los. 



Parts V and VI just ready will contain pedigrees of Haemophilia. 



The subscription to each set of four parts will in future be 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., 

 2,7 Soho Square, London, W., either directly or through any bookseller. 



