PREFACE ix 



lay associates are admitted. To the best of the 

 writer's knowledge, it is the only Society within the 

 kingdom that studies inebriety on scientific lines. 

 The Author's thanks are due to Dr A. F. R. Piatt, 

 who compiled Appendix A, and to Dr Laing Gordon 

 for counsel and assistance in preparation of the 

 volume. 



SOUTHSEA, \St Au^st IQOI. 



