Professor Joe Cain

Closed sign during Covid Lockdown, from "When the Roof Blew Off," in Lockdown Cultures - Photo Essay - ProfJoeCain

When The Roof Blew Off – Photoessay – Covid Lockdown Cultures

This photo essay was written in 2021 for a volume about the closure of communities associated with covid pandemic lockdowns. It began as a photoessay to document the closure of my town (Hove, UK) during […]

Benjamin Harrison Cain. 1960. Town and Country Pulpit coverart

Benjamin Harrison Cain (1889-1972) biography and bibliography

Named for the recently elected Indiana-born US President, Benjamin Harrison Cain (“Ben”) was born in Pulaski County, near San Pierre, Indiana. He had five brothers and four sisters. All were raised in a rural culture, […]

New Yorker cartoon showing a museum guide instructing a visitor in the Sanford Hall of Birds, American Museum of Natural History, at the opening of the "Biology of Birds" exhibition.

Ernst Mayr and the Biology of Birds Exhibit at AMNH

When Ernst Mayr arrived in New York in 1931, he carried considerable intellectual baggage.

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Evolution - A Journal of Nature - sample covers

Pro-Evolution Magazine “Evolution: A Journal of Nature,” 1927-1938

This page provides information about this pro-evolution magazine, otherwise lost, from the 1920s and 1930s. It was devoted to promoting the teaching of evolution in US public schools. It was titled, Evolution: A Journal of […]

Eugenics Laboratory Lecture Series - title page

Legacies Digital Library Now Launched

As part of the Legacies of Eugenics project, funded by UCL’s Office of the President and Provost, we’ve developed the Legacies Digital Library. This digital library aims to provide a central hub for quickly accessing […]

Giraffe in Natural history Museum, Dublin, 2004

George Carpenter’s 1894 Essay on Collections to Illustrate Evolution and Geographical Distribution of Animals

George H. Carpenter. 1895. “On Collections to Illustrate the Evolution and Geographical Distribution of Animals,” pp. 106-142, with transcript of discussion at meeting, pp. 142-144, in E. Howarth and H. M. Platnauer (eds.). 1895. Museums […]

G. K. Chesterton. 1922. What is Eugenics? essay

G.K. Chesterton’s essay “What Is Eugenics?” (1922)

G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a well-known essayist in Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a critic of eugenics, as well as a critic of many other issues. Chesterton’s essay, “What […]

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Columbia Biological Series, 1894-1974

The Columbia Biological Series (1894-1974) was produced by the Department of Biology (later Zoology) of Columbia University, New York, and spanned a wide range of topics within the biological sciences. This paper provides a bibliography […]

Albert Edward Wiggam 1927 Shall I Marry This Man?

Albert Edward Wiggam’s 1927 “Shall I Marry This Man?”

Albert Edward Wiggam (1871-1957) was an American psychologist and populariser of eugenics. He was called “one of the most influential promoters of eugenic thought”. He had exceptional skills as a popular lecturer (Wikipedia). Wiggam was the […]

Frontispiece. Heinrich Driesmans 1903 Francis Galton (privately printed). Translated by M. E. Coleridge.

What Happened to the UCL Galton Collection?

UCL Galton Collection is hard to find. It has been made increasingly invisible. This has happened through actions taken by its caretakers to depreciate its digital access, ignore communities of interest, and pretend it no […]