508TH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 
MONDAY, MAY 23rp, 4.30 P.M. 
THE VEN. ARCHDEACON BERESFORD Porter, M.A., 
IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 
Announcement was made of the Election of the following Associates : 
Mrs. Lucy Isabella Bartholomew. 
Miss Florence Mary Edensor. 
James Peddie Harper, Esq., M.D., L.R.C.8.E. 
William Sylvester Walker, Esq. 
The following paper was then read by the author :— 
HEREDITY AND EUGENICS. 
By Rev. Professor A. CaLDEcorT, D.Litt., D.D., University 
of London, King’s College. 
AVE Christian believers, and men of religion generally, 
any special interest in the question of Heredity ? Are 
we by our religious convictions inclined towards hoping to 
find that there is no heredity in the life of man, that each 
individual comes perfectly fresh into the world? or towards 
hoping to find that heredity is deep-reaching and comprehensive, 
and that by far the major part of our nature is not at all new, 
but is passed on to us from the generations which precede ? 
A very high doctrine of individuality attracts us by the thought 
that evil results would perish with the doer, giving every child 
afresh start, an open course; while a very high doctrine of 
heredity would commend itself on the ground that it would mean 
that all good results are gathered up and passed on in unending 
service to humanity, so that each child would start from a 
higher level than its parents enjoyed. 
Old Thomas Fuller saw this: considering the genealogy of 
the Kings of Judah, he notes that in four generations a bad 
