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advice in such cases. With a view to remedying this deficiency our Secre- 

 tary, Dr. Blacker, is now engaged in editing a book, to which medical men 

 with special knowledge of diseases recognized as hereditary are contributing, 

 in order to place before the general practitioner the information at present 

 available for giving eugenic prognosis. It is hoped that the publication of 

 this book will stimulate the production of more accurate and abundant data 

 than at present exist. And in this connection I may add that Dr. Blacker 

 has prepared a schedule for recording the pathological elements in pedigrees, 

 and also a second schedule designed for the preparation of full pedigree 

 records for genealogical purposes in such a way as to bring out their eugenic 

 aspects. 



Although, then, I cannot claim that any real impression has yet been made 

 upon the fertility of those individuals and classes whose reproduction must 

 be considered racially undesirable, this brief account of the recent activities 

 of the Eugenics Society, and especially its concentration on the questions of 

 the Social Problem Group and Sterilization, will show that steady advance 

 is being made. The importance of the subject of Eugenics is now much 

 more generally recognized than at any previous period, both by the leaders 

 of public opinion in this country, and by the public at large. 



