Reviews 1931-1950

Reviews of scholarly books and articles, consisting of:

Reviews by Penrose, 1931, of Genetic Studies of Genius, volume 3: The Promise of Youth, edited by L M Terman, and The Problem of Genius by W Lange-Eichbaum, in The Eugenics Review;

Reviews by Penrose of Psycho-analysis and Medicine by Karin Stephen, and Psycho-analysis and its Derivatives by H Crichton-Miller, in The New Statesman and Nation, 29 July 1933;

Review in The Medical Officer, 23 April 1932, of a paper by Penrose on Down's syndrome published in The Lancet, 20 February 1932;

Review of Penrose's paper "Heredity and Environment in the Study of Human Genetics (with special reference to Mongolian Imbecility)" in the Journal of Genetics, published in The Medical Officer, 30 July 1932;

Review in The Medical Officer, 9 September 1933, of three papers by Penrose on the genetics of mental defection;

Proof abstract of Heredity and Mental Hygiene by L S Penrose, 1938;

Review in the German publication Die Weltwoche, 10 May 1963, about Penrose's chromosomal research on Down's syndrome patients;

TS review by Penrose of J S Huxley's Man Stands Alone, with accompanying letter from the American Eugenics Society requesting the review, 1941;

Proof review by Penrose of a revised version of A Culture-Free Test of Intelligence, published in The Mental Measurements Yearbook, 1948;

Review by Penrose in Annals of Eugenics, 13, 1946, of Les Cirrhoses Hépatiques Familiales by C Pognan, 1943;

TS review by Penrose of Mental Deficiency by A F Tredgold;

TS review by Penrose of Mongolism and Cretinism by C E Benda, 1948;

TS review by Penrose, March 1947, of "Klinische und Erbbiologische Unterschungen über die Heredoataxien" in Acta Psychologica et Neurologica Scandinavica Supplementum, 27, by T Sjöberg;

TS review by Penrose, July 1947, of Animal Genetics and Medicine by H Grüneberg;

Letter from the Editor of The Mental Measurements Yearbook, dated January 1948, regarding the galley proof of Penrose's test review;

Review by Penrose in The Silent World Magazine, March 1948 of How I Perceive the World by O Skorokhodova;

Letter from The Lancet, dated November 1946, to Penrose asking for a contribution on the nobel prize winner Hermann Joseph Muller. The contribution is appended;

Letter from Penrose to Dr Guiver, dated January 1946, enclosing a TS of the article "An Intelligence Catalyst" in The Lancet, volume 246, issue 6370, 29 Sep 1945;

Letter from The Lancet, dated November 1947, enclosing a response from R R Gates to a review of his book Human Genetics. The enclosed cutting is from Eugenics Review;

TS review by Penrose, April 1948, of Genetics, Medicine and Man (the Messenger Lectures) by H J Muller, C C Little and L H Snyder;

TS review by Penrose, April 1948, of Genetics in Relation to Clinical Medicine by F A E Crew;

TS review by Penrose of Congenital Malformations, 2nd edition by Douglas P Murphy;

TS review by Penrose, July 1950, of Children with Mental and Physical Handicaps by J E Wallace Wallin;

TS review by Penrose, November 1948, of Soviet Biology by T D Lysenko;

Letter from Penrose, dated July 1950, to the Editor of the British Journal of Delinquency regarding additions to his review of Wallin's book;

TS review by [Penrose], September 1949, of Dictionary of Genetics by R L Knight;

TS review by [Penrose] of Die Vererbung Innerer Krankheiten by Wilhelm Weitz;

TS review by Penrose, 1952, of Sterilization in North Carolina by Moya Woodside;

TS review by [Penrose] of The Race Question in Modern Science: The Race Concept by UNESCO;

TS review by Penrose, July 1949, of Biometrical Genetics by K Mather.