Drafts and research material

Typescript paper by Kenna entitled "Joseph Jacobs, 1854-1916 and the Digit Span Test"

Copy of a publication from the American Jewish Historical Society containing a biography and bibliography of Jacobs, Number 25, 1917

Copy of Jacobs' entry in The Universal Jewish Encyclopaedia, Volume 6, 1942

Copy of Jacobs' biography taken from American Jewish Year Book 1916-1917

Copy of a reprint entitled "Joseph Jacobs: A Sociological Folklorist" by Gary Alan Fine, taken from Folklore vol.98 ii, 1987

Copy of an article entitled "George Eliot Manuscripts" taken from the Jewish Chronicle Supplement by Haught, 1931

Copy of an article entitled "A Proposed Society for Experimental Psychology" by Jacobs, published in,Mind January 1886

Copy of an article entitled "A Comparative Estimate of Jewish Ability" by Jacobs published in, Journ.Anthrop. Inst. Feb.1886

Issue of the Australian Jewish Historical Society containing a biography of Jacobs, Vol. III Part III, Sydney, December 1949

Copy of a biography of Jacobs taken from Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2 September 1976 [with accompanying letter]

Copy of an article by Jacobs entitled "Experiments on "Prehension"" (incomplete), undated

Copy of an article by Francis Galton entitled "Supplementary Notes on Prehension in Idiots, undated

Various handwritten notes, a newspaper clipping and an unnamed bibliography pertaining to Kenna's notes on Jacobs

Copy of extract from Jacobs' article entitled "Need of a Society for Experimental Psychology", undated

1960s-1970s

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Deposited in the library at Wellcome Collection by the British Psychological Society in September 2008.

Compiled by the Cataloguing Project Archivist at the British Psychological Society History of Psychology Centre, with minor editing by Wellcome staff.