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Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders

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Papers of and relating to Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders including the following:

Memorandum on the context of the establishment of the Committee, Jan 1936
Letters to and from Carr-Saunders relating to his resignation as Chairman of the Committee, his successor, finances, research activities including the Inquiries into the Trend of Intelligence with the Scottish Council for Research in Education and the 1946 Maternity Survey, Population Studies, the constitution of the Committee, David Glass, applications for funding, and the establishment of the Committee, 3 Feb 1936 - 31 Jan 1958
Memorandum on the position and poilcy of the Committee, 22 Jan 1940
Draft application to the Nuffiled Foundation for a grant of &pound5000 a year for five years, 9 Apr 1945
Draft of Promising Families Inquiry questionnaire, 28 Dec 1953
Obituary taken from The Times with additional memoriam by C.P. Blacker for the Eugenics Review, 1966

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