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Goring (1909) On the Inheritance of the Diatheses of Phthisis and Insanity

Goring, Charles. 1909. On the Inheritance of the Diatheses of Phthisis and Insanity. A Statistical Study Based Upon the Family History of 1500 Criminals (London: Dulau and Co.). 28 pp. Studies in National Deterioration number […]

Pearson (1914) Mendelism and the Problem of Mental Defect. III. On the Graduated Character of Mental Defect etc.

Questions of the Day and of the Fray number 9: Pearson, Karl. 1914. Mendelism and the Problem of Mental Defect. III. On the Graduated Character of Mental Defect and on the need for Standardizing Judgments […]

Elderton (1928) On the Relative Value of the Factors Which Influence Infant Welfare

Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs 25: Elderton, Ethel Mary. 1928. On the Relative Value of the Factors Which Influence Infant Welfare (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 307 pp. Subtitled: “An Inquiry by Ethel M. Elderton (Assistant Professor, Galton […]

Elderton et al. (1913) On the Correlation of Fertility with Social Value. A Co-Operative Study

Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs 18: Elderton, Ethel Mary, Amy Barrington, H. Gertrude Jones, Edith M. M. de G. Lamotte, H. J. Laski, and Karl Pearson. 1913. On the Correlation of Fertility with Social Value. A Co-Operative […]

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 […]

Lionel Penrose with Margaret Leathes Penrose plus a child in the Harris Family, 1954 or 1955

Lionel Penrose on Eugenics and anti-Eugenics at UCL

Professor Lionel Penrose FRS (1898-1972) was the third Galton Professor of Eugenics at University College London (UCL). He took up this post in 1945. He retired in 1965. As Galton Professor, Penrose also held associated […]

Shirley Hodgson in Defence of Lionel Penrose

Professor Lionel Penrose (1898-1972) was the third Galton Professor of Eugenics at University College London (UCL). He took up this post in 1945. He retired in 1965. As Galton Professor, Penrose also held associated roles as […]

Conversation about Rare Books and Archives on Eugenics at UCL

Researching Eugenics at UCL: Advice from Archive Experts

What archive materials related to Eugenics does UCL hold? Where can these be found? What is open for inspection? Which parts of UCL collections are digitised? How does UCL’s ‘Galton Papers’ differ from the digitised […]

“Mibiri Creek, Demerara River | Mr Edmonstone’s Wood Cutting Establishment” from Thomas Staunton St. Clair, A Residence in the West Indies and America (London, 1834), vol. 2, facing p. 187.

John Edmonstone: References from Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin made reference to many people in his writings. Most were correspondents who sent him pieces of useful information. Others were writers whose work he used, promoted, or criticised. In his 1871 book, Descent […]

Science of the Great Exhibition, by Robert Hunt (1851)

London in 1851 was site of the Great Exhibition. Formally, it was titled, “The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations“. The press focused attention on the giant glass house containing the […]