Saleeby, Caleb Williams

Manuscript and typescript letters. Concerning invitation to write a book on eugenics for the International Series, but Galton declined. Asks Galton to read the proof of his book on eugenics. Advising Messrs Harmsworth to include summaries of some of Galton's works in their forthcoming "World's Great Books".

1904

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Saleeby, Caleb Williams Elijah (1878–1940), writer and eugenist. He trained as a medic, but later abandoned this. In Dec 1904, after attending Galton's lecture on eugenics at the Sociological Society, Saleeby set out to popularize this new creed. He was influential in the foundation of the Eugenics Education Society, founded in 1907, although he fell out with the officers. He continued to lecture on eugenics at the Royal Institution. (From Dictionary of National Biography).

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