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Evolution and Heredity. The "keynote speech" was delivered by Dr. J. Playfair McMurrich, professor of anatomy at the University of Toronto, President of the Association in 1922 (by custom, the presidential address is given by the president of the preceding year). He devoted his time to a retrospective view of biological science, and particularly to the theory of organic evolution and its place in the scheme of life. Evolution is not dead, he said, nor can it be killed by legislative enactment. Any one who refuses to believe in it today is ignorant or bigoted. In its main outlines...
...McMurrich predicted a great expansion of activity and knowledge in the fields of eugenics and the physiology of ductless glands. The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by the University of Cincinnati...
...Charles Doolittle Walcott, dean of American geologists and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, will preside, and Dr. J. Playfair McMurrich of the University of Toronto, the retiring President, will make a presidential address...
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