Cuttings on Eugenics and Alcoholism

Date:
1910-1911
Reference:
GALTON/2/13/1/13
Part of:
Galton Papers
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Index and cuttings relating to parental alcoholism and its impact on offspring. Includes nine cuttings reporting on Dr Theo Hyslop's address to the Society for the Study of Inebriety on "The Influence of Parental Alcoholism on the Physique and Ability of Offspring", and eleven cuttings. mainly from the temperance perspective, on Karl Pearson and Edith M Elderton's study of families in Edinburgh and Manchester, which found children of alcoholic parents to be in better condition than those of non-alcoholic parents.

Publication/Creation

1910-1911

Physical description

43 folios

Related material

GALTON/2/13/1/4-5

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

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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.

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