Lewis, Edmund Oliver

Correspondence regarding the activities of the Research and Clinical Committee on Mental Deficiency of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association, and its discussion concerning racial theories, blood groups and Down's syndrome, with enclosed minutes. The file also contains correspondence regarding methods to document patient family histories; intelligence distribution studies; and comments by Lewis and Penrose on each other's papers.

Also enclosed are a copy of Lewis's obituary in the Lancet, and related correspondence.

1932

37 letters plus 2 postcards plus 7 enclosures

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