I was surprised to see that On the construction of balanced incomplete block designs by Raj Chandra Bose was published (in 1939) in a journal named Annals of Eugenics (see [here][1]) (published between 1925 and 1954).

I double checked and it [seems][2] that the journal was indeed focused on eugenics and the article does not relate to eugenics or genetics in any way. So why would a mathematician decide to publish in such a journal and why was the article accepted?

It appears that there are also [other][3] mathematics articles published in the same journal.


  [1]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-1809.1939.tb02219.x
  [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_Eugenics
  [3]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-1809.1937.tb02160.x