Cuttings on Eugenics and Alcoholism
- Date:
- 1910-1911
- Reference:
- GALTON/2/13/1/13
- Part of:
- Galton Papers
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
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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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.
Location of duplicates
A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.
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Location of original
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.