Reviews 1956-1961

Reviews of scholarly books and articles, consisting of:

TS review by Penrose, October 1956, of Hérédité et Médicine by A Touraine;

TS reviews by Penrose of Nuclear Explosions and their Effects by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India, and Unmeasured Hazards by the World Federation of Scientific Workers, with a letter from Peace News, dated October 1956, thanking Penrose for his agreement to review the books;

Proof review by Penrose for Science Progress of Population Genetics by C C Li;

TS reviews by Penrose, May 1958, of Atomic Radiation Dangers and what they mean to you by H W Heckstall-Smith, and Nuclear War by Kenneth G Robinson;

TS review by Penrose, November 1957, of Fall out: radiation hazards from nuclear explosions, General Editor A Pirie;

Galley proof review by Penrose for The New Statesman and Nation of Adventure in Chess by Assiac;

TS review by Penrose of Rhythmic and Synthetic Processes in Growth, edited by D Rudnick;

Letter by Penrose on "Statistical Argument" published in Education, 11 January 1957;

TS review by Penrose of The Autobiography of Charles Darwin edited by Nora Barlow;

TS review by Penrose of Mental Deficiency: The Changing Outlook edited by Ann M Clarke and A D B Clarke;

TS review by Penrose of What is Cybernetics? by G I Guilbaud;

TS review by Penrose of The Soviet School of Chess by A Kotov and N Tudovich;

Report in The Scottish Educational Journal, 13 March 1959, on Penrose's Godfrey Thomas Memorial Lecture on "The Problem of Heredity and Intelligence";

TS review by Penrose of L'Hérédité en Ophtalmologie by J François;

Review in Archivio di Psicologia, Neurologia e Psichiatria, 18, 1957, of the Italian language edition of L S Penrose's The Biology of Mental Defect;

Offprint review by Penrose in American Journal of Human Genetics of Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the effects of Atomic Radiation;

Review in Annales de Crembloux of Outline of Human Genetics by Penrose;

Offprint of a review by K Mather in Heredity, vol 14, parts 1 & 2, Feb 1960 of Outline of Human Genetics by Penrose;

Offprint of a review by Penrose in Annals of Human Genetics, 25, 1960, of Principles of Human Genetics by C Stern;

Review in an unidentified German organ by F Vogel of Outline of Human Genetics by Penrose;

Copy of Journal de Génétique Humaine, vol 9, no. 1/2, July 1960, containing a review of Outline of Human Genetics by Penrose;

TS review by Penrose of The Chemistry of Heredity by S Zamenhof;

Letters between Penrose and A Pirie, enclosing a TS review by Penrose on An Epidemiological Study of congenital malformations in New York State by J T Gentry, E Parkhurst and G V Bulin Jr.;

Galley proof review by Penrose of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Revised Edition;

Letter from The New Scientist to Penrose thanking him for his review of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions from 'Scientific American' by Martin Gardner. The review is appended;

Covering letter from the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology for the bookThe Sounds of Language by L F Brosnahan. Penrose's TS review is appended;

TS review by Penrose of Genetics and Ophthalmology by P J Waardenburg.