The fertility of the unfit / [W.A. Chapple].

  • Chapple, W. A.
Date:
1903
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Credit: The fertility of the unfit / [W.A. Chapple]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From Dr. J. G. FINDLAY, M.A., LL.D. Dear Dr. С h apple,— You are aware that I gave your Treatise on the Fertility of the Unfit a very careful perusal. It is a subject to which I have devoted some attention, both at College and since I left College, and I feel competent to say that no finer work on the subject has been accomplished than that contained in your Treatise. I consider it of ralue, not only from a statistical point of view, but also from a point of view of scientific originality. I have no doubt that if the work were published in New Zealand it would be read and bought by a large number of people. I may add that I discussed your views with competent critics, and they share the opinion which I have expressed in this letter. I sincerely hope that the volume will be published, and need not add that my friends and myself will be subscribers for copies. Yours sincerely, J. G. FINDLAY. From MALCOLM ROSS, Esq. Dear Dr. Chapple,— I am pleased to hear that your MS. is to be published. The subject is one that must attract an increasing amount of attention on the part of all who have the true interests of of the state at heart. There can be no doubt that the Parliamentary machine has failed, lamentably, to grapple ^ with the problems you have referred to. At the present time, when some of our most earnest statesmen and greatest
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