HEREDITY AND EUGENICS
The lecture to be given to-morrorf evening by Dr. Davenput should be one of the most valuable and most interesting of those given by the visiting men of science. The, lecturer is the Director of the well-equipped and wellendowed Department of Experimental Evolution of the Carnegie Institution, and he is in the first rank of the men that have already made that institution famous. His work in * experimental breeding of plants and animals gives liim special qualifications in dealing with the subject- he has chosen, "Heredity, in, Relation to Eugenics." The lecture is ; one of those arranged by tho committee of the Science Congress, and frill be given in the Town Hall at ,8 o'clock. Advantage will be taken of tho occasion of Dr. Davenput's lecture to present the Hector Memorial medal to Mr.! Elsden Best, and tho Hutton Memorial medal to Dr. Cockayhe. The former medal is given this year for researches in anthropology; tho latter for. researches in botany. The presentation, will be made by Professor Chilton, pre-' sident of the? New Zealand Institute. l The. chair will bo taken by Sir Ernest Rutherford.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2246, 4 September 1914, Page 6
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189HEREDITY AND EUGENICS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2246, 4 September 1914, Page 6
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