APPENDIX M 277 



COMMENTS OF THOSE WHO DISSENT FROM 

 CERTAIN PARTS OF THE REPORT. 



Comments by Professor SiMS WOODHEAD. 



As one of the Committee, I sign the Report as a whole, 

 because we have agreed to send out a statement which may 

 prove of service in drawing attention to the inebriety question. 

 As to sections 12 and 14, 1 cannot say that I am satisfied with the 

 evidence that has been brought forward in support of them. I 

 think, however, that they ought to stand, as embodying the 

 opinions of certain members of the Committee, and that even 

 those of us who do not sign these sections are of opinion that the 

 theses (or rather the thesis) embodied form a basis for further 

 research; but I think for the present they are only open to 

 academic discussion, and that they only touch a small part of the 

 whole question. Sims Woodhead, Cambridge. 



Comments by Dr LONGBURST. 



1. Too bald and abstract a statement without evidence in 

 support of it. 



2. The taste for drink, not necessarily inborn, may be 

 acquired. 



3. Increased desire for, not delight in, drink. 



4. The inborn capacity for enjoying alcohol is occasionally 

 heritable, but not always so. 



5. In my opinion, evidence does exist that acquired char- 

 acters are heritable, as is stated by Virchow and others. 



6. If no actual or experimental evidence is available, family 

 experience in successive generations supports belief that acquired 



