(1) Organic Inheritance in Man (2) Being Well-Born: an Introduction to Heredity and Eugenics

Abstract

HERE we have two more works added to the long list, which claim to enlighten man on the facts of his inheritance and to indicate—at any rate in brief outline—how these facts may be applied to racial betterment. It has become a custom, almost a necessity, we might say, for every professor of biology, be he zoologist or botanist, to publish a treatise on eugenics. The subject has become fashionable, and his pupils demand instruction; the academic lectures are given, and later the book appears. In the beginning of last century, every medical man, from Erasmus Darwin downwards, held himself to be a trained biologist; in the latter half of the century every anatomist was ipso facto an anthropologist, and in this new century every biologist must of necessity publish his views on eugenics.

(1) Organic Inheritance in Man.

(University of Birmingham, Faculty of Medicine: William Withering Memorial Lectureship.) By Dr. F. A. E. Crew. Pp. xxviii + 214. (London and Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1928.) 12s. 6d. net.

(2) Being Well-Born: an Introduction to Heredity and Eugenics.

By Prof. Michael F. Guyer. Second edition. Pp. xv + 490 + 9 plates. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1928.) 21s. net.