BELFAST 



NATURAL HISTORY 

 AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



SESSION 1911-12. 



14th November, iQii* 

 Professor Lindsay, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., President, in the Chair. 



"THE NEW SCIENCE— EUGENICS OR RACE 



HYGIENE." 



By Major Leonard Darwin. 



{Abstract). 



The first meeting of the present session was held on 14th 

 November in the large hall of the Municipal Technical Institute, 

 which was kindly lent for the occasion by the Library and Technical 

 Instruction Committee of the Council of the County Borough of 

 Belfast. The attendance was gratifyingly large and representative, 

 and the fact that Major Darwin is the fourth son of the great 

 scientist, the late Mr. Charles Darwin, F.R.S., naturally added to 

 the size of the audience. 



Sir John Byers, the outgoing president, who was very 

 warmly received, said in the first place he had again to thank the 

 members and the Council of the Belfast Natural History and 

 Philosophical Society for the courtesy extended to him, and his 

 second duty was to introduce — although he needed no introduction 

 — Professor Lindsay, who would in every respect maintain the 

 honour, dignity, and scientific importance of the Society. 



Professor Lindsay, who was very cordially received, said 

 his first duty was to return his sincere thanks to the Council of the 

 Society for the honour which they had conferred upon him. He 



