Twin research from the time of Francis Galton to the present-day

Abstract

In the course of the exchange of professors between the Royal society and the Kaiser wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, I have received the honoured invitation for this lecture. I feel bound to express my thanks to you, Mr President. I accepted the invitation with great pleasure, and have seized the opportunity to cultivate personal relations with our English colleagues and to further the connexion between English and German science. In the library of the University Institute for Human Genetics and Eugenics, founded and led by me, there hangs a single picture, that of Francis Galton. We honour in him the founder of our science. It was quite a special pleasure for me to visit to-day the famous Galton Laboratory and to make the acquaintance of the present successor of Galton, Professor Fisher. The connexion with the Galton Laboratory, which I have always cultivated, has thus become closer and more personal.