Schuster, Edgar Hermann Joseph

Manuscript and typescript letters. Some letters are annotated with Galton's comments.

Letter dated 28 Nov 1904 conveys Schuster's interest in becoming Fellowship in the study of eugenics.

Letters concern retrieval of data. e.g. Letter dated 10 Mar 1905 is about data from Harrow. Letter dated 16 Mar 1905 concerns life assurance data. Letter dated 13 Apr 1905 concerns collecting statistics from the Jewish Statistical Society with possible questions to ask. Letter dated 20 Apr 1906 about gathering data to study statistically the inheritance of success.

Letter dated 19 Arp 1905 - branch of eugenics of personal interest to Schuster was inheritance of disease mental and physical.

Letters dated 11 and 17 Jun 1905 suggest that a second fellow be elected and gave reasons.

Letter dated 9 Dec 1905 has notes of meeting at the Eugenics Record Office attached.

Letters concern sending papers of research and receiving comments.

Letter dated 18 Oct 1906 concerns Schuster's resignation. Formal resignation dated 3 Nov 1906.

Letter dated 15 Jan 1907 has attached list of families for which accounts have been drawn up.

Letter dated 7 Feb 1908 discusses Schuster's two papers on acuity of vision and the spot pattern test.

1904-1911

53 letters, 3 enclosures and 1 envelope

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.