Volume 8

Treasury of human inheritance / edited by Karl Pearson, R.A. Fisher, L.S. Penrose.

Date:
1909-
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Credit: Treasury of human inheritance / edited by Karl Pearson, R.A. Fisher, L.S. Penrose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTE With this publication, the twenty-seventh issue of the Eugenics Laboratory Memoir Series, the twelfth fasciculus of The Treasury of Human Inheritance and the concluding Part Y of the Nettleship Memorial Volume, the present Editor retires from his post. He has done what lay in his power with sparse funds to carry out the aims of his master, Francis Galton, and in recent issues to commemorate the impetus given by his friend, Edward Nettleship, to the study of heredity in diseases and anomalies of the eye. One of the pleasantest memories of his twenty-six years of editorship will be the kindly way in which all his colleagues and collaborators in the series have met the suggestions and criticisms of an often overworked and sometimes irate editor! He trusts that his successor in the Galton chair may find it possible to continue the issue of the Treasury, and perhaps under more auspicious circumstances the Memoir Series itself. K. P. Life is short, and the Art long, the occasion fleeting; experiment is dangerous, and judgment difficult. Hippocrates