Cousin Marriage
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It is a great honour to be invited to contribute a lecture to this long-established series* founded to commemorate a very eminent physician of the Bristol Medical School an a member of a family distinguished for services to medicine and to the City over man/ years. I have also seen with particular pleasure that the first Long Fox lecture ^ given by John Beddoe, a pioneer of British anthropology and one of the greatest mfn of science that this City has produced. His writings, particularly The Races of have been an inspiration; and, like many others, I have turned to his tables as a sour
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