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Reproduction of this work here is not an endorsement or promotion of the views expressed or eugenics in general. Quite the reverse. All articles are published in full, except where necessary to protect individual privacy. We believe there is a clear academic interest in making this historical material more widely available.
Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs 36: Trevor, Jack Carrick. 1953. Race Crossing in Man. The Analysis of Metrical Characters (London: Cambridge University Press). 45 pp. This was reprinted either in 1964 (date on cover of this printing) More…
Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs 42: Court Brown, William Michael, Patricia A. Jacobs, Karin E. Buckton, Ishbel M. Tough, E. V. Kuenssberg, and J. D. E. Knox. 1966. Chromosome Studies on Adults (London: Cambridge University Press, for More…
Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs 41: Moran, Patrick Alfred Pierce, and Cedric Austen Bardell Smith. 1966. Commentary on R. A. Fisher’s Paper on ‘The Correlation between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance’ [published in Transactions of the More…
Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs 19-20: Elderton, Ethel Mary. 1914. Report on the English Birthrate: Part I. England, North of the Humber (London: Dulau and Co.), 246 pp. No masthead on this publication. Number 19 in the More…
Eugenics Laboratory Lectures 1: Pearson, Karl. 1907. The Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National Eugenics (London: Frowde), 45 pp. Based on the Fourteenth Robert Boyle Lecture before the Oxford University Junior Scientific More…
Eugenics Laboratory Lectures number 8: Pearson, Karl. 1912. Tuberculosis, Heredity and Environment; Being a Lecture Delivered at the Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics, 12 March 1912 (London: Dulau and Co.). 46 pp. Eugenics Laboratory Lectures More…
Eugenics Laboratory Lectures number 9: Pearson, Karl. 1912. Darwinism, Medical Progress and Eugenics. The Cavendish Lecture, 1912. An Address to the Medical Profession (publisher not specified). 29 pp. This separate is a hybrid of two More…
Eugenics Laboratory Lectures number 10: Pearson, Karl., 1914. On the Handicapping of the First-Born; Being a Lecture Delivered at the Galton Laboratory, University College, London, March 17, 1914. With Frontispiece and Four Diagrams(London: Dulau and More…
Questions of the Day and of the Fray number 12: Pearson, Karl. 1923. Charles Darwin, 1809-1882. An Appreciation. With Frontispiece Portrait and Plate of Noah’s Ark. Being a Lecture Delivered to the Teachers of the More…
Questions of the Day and of the Fray number 1: Pearson, Karl. 1910. The Influence of Parental Alcoholism on the Physique and Ability of the Offspring. A Reply to the Cambridge Economists (London: Dulau and More…
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