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The Irish scientist John Ball (1818–89), active in the study of natural history and glaciology, held fellowships of both the Royal Society and the Linnean Society. When the Irish Potato Famine took hold, Ball returned from European travel and study intent on helping his countrymen. In 1846 he became an assistant poor law commissioner, and witnessed the deepening crisis at first hand. The first edition of this pamphlet was published in 1847. Reissued here is the second edition of 1849, the year when Ball assumed the more senior office of second poor law commissioner. He uses the pamphlet to argue passionately for the urgent revision of government legislation relating to poor relief, the public works programme, land improvement, labour and taxation, which he felt had exacerbated matters. He also believed the famine had been forgotten by the English and calls for them to show more sympathy towards the Irish

The similarity of crime rates among 617 heroin addicts in New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore was investigated. It was found that aggregate crime rates, participation rates and frequency of crime among addicts in the three cities were remarkably similar. Thus, when "on the street" and addicted, the mean offense rate for addicts in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore were, respectively, 603, 631 and 567 offenses per year. Their respective mean crime-days per year at risk were 217, 269 and 227. Similarities and differences between offense rates and lifetime arrest rates were also analyzed.

Abstract There is a general absence of criminological research within the federal government. Three reasons are advanced to this neglect: (1) criminol ogy is generally considered to be a developing and untried discipline; (2) the legal profession is viewed as encompassing the study of criminal behavior; and (3) the scientific investigation of deviant behavior is perceived as threatening to basic values of society. Following considera tion of impediments to the development of criminology, future prospects and directions for our discipline are discussed.

Regarding the accounts of his brothers, Alwyn Ball, Hugh Swinton Ball, and Elias O. Ball. ; Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

How should he make remittances for his brothers' expenses (Alwyn Ball, Hugh Swinton Ball and Elias Octavius Ball)? ; Transcription by Megan Liptak. Transcriptions my be subject to human error.

Sends his three brothers to the Academy: Alwyn Ball, age 16, Hugh Swinton Ball, age 15, and Elias Octavius Ball, age 14. ; Transcription by Raymond Bouchard. Transcriptions may be subject to error.