Cuttings on Eugenics and Society

Index and cuttings relating to eugenics and social issues, particularly poverty, delinquency and divorce, and Professor William Ralph Inge's lecture on eugenics and ethics at Bedford College for Women. The index lists articles, letters and reports relating to the following persons:

Report on lecture by Ettie Sayer on "Heredity and Social Reform" before the Eugenics Education Society (EES).

P J Reid letter criticising C T Ewart's conclusions drawn from the EES minority report.

Report on A E Spender's speech "To Kill the Unfit".

C H Norman article "Enemies of the Poor".

Letters to Child by John Lionel Tayler, Mrs A C Gotto, Thomas Claye Shaw, and Caleb William Saleeby, on eugenics and education.

Report on George Bernard Shaw address on "Eugenic Politics" at Caxton Hall.

Report on Robert Newton Crane article on "Marriage Laws and Statutory Experiments in Eugenics in the United States", published in the Eugenics Review.

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Reports on Montague Crackanthorpe's evidence before the Royal Commission on Divorce and Matrimonial Causes.

Note by Max Mügge on the particular contributions of Friedrich Nietzsche and Francis Galton to eugenics.

1909-1910

29 folios

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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.