University of London: Francis Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics

Abstract

ALL students of genetics will welcome the resumption of publication of “The Treasury of Human Inheritance,” interrupted, like so many other scientific researches, by the War. Prof. Karl Pearson has now been able to issue Part I. of the Nettleship Memorial Volume, devoted to retinitis pigmentosa and allied diseases, congenital stationary night-blindness, and glioma retinag. The report on and pedigrees of these diseases is preceded by a memoir of Edward Nettleship, written by his old colleague, Dr. J. B. Lawford. Nettleship was a fine example of the combination of clinician and researcher, which, to the honour of British medicine, has been frequent in this country and perhaps especially frequent in the department of ophthalmology. Dr. Lawford has well brought out Edward Nettleship's sterling qualities, which added lustre to a family distinguished in the fields of pure scholarship and philosophy. Nettleship possessed, to a very eminent degree, the patience, powers of observation, and natural sagacity which are essential to success in the investigation of problems of inheritance. His career adds one more to the numerous proofs that arduous medical practice is no barrier to distinguished success in pure science.

University of London: Francis Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics.

Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs, 21. The Treasury of Human Inheritance. Vol. II.: Anomalies and Diseases of the Eye. Nettleship Memorial Volume. Part I.: Retinitis pigmentosa and allied diseases; Congenital stationary night-blindness; Glioma retinæ. By Julia Bell. With a Memoir of Edward Nettleship by Dr. J. B. Lawford. Pp. xv + 123 + 26 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1922.) 45s. net.