| Description | 'Probably you have seen the enclosed!
You may perhaps remember that at a Committee meeting of the G.S. held at Cambridge last autumn I suggested that the Society might do something to combat the grossly unscientific attitude which was being adopted by the Nazis towards the Jews.
I was not able to be present at the meeting myself, but I understand that the Committee thought, at the time, that it would be better to wait till the Nazis had comitted themselves rather more deeply before taking any action.
Don't you think that the passage I have underlined is fairly specific and that, since other British Scientific Societies appear to be moving in the matter, the G.S. might now take a hand?
The idea that inheritance in the individual depends on "blood percentages" is, as I have good reason to know, still widely prevalent; and this would seem to afford a good opportunity of stating that it is devoid of scientific foundation. We should, I submit, be acting within our province in so doing; for Rule 2 states that the Society "is founded to promote the advancement of Genetics".
A letter to the Times signed by our officers on behalf of the Society would, I am sure, meet with the approval of all members.'
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