Reviews 1951-1955

Date:
1951-1956
Reference:
PENROSE/2/10/1/3
Part of:
L. S. Penrose Papers
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Reviews of scholarly books and articles, consisting of:



TS review by Penrose, 1951, of The Expectation of Mental Infirmity in a Sample of the Danish Population by K H Fremming;



TS review by Penrose, May 1951, of Human Fertility: The Modern Dilemma by R C Cook;



Galley proof review by Penrose for Heredity, 5, 305, 1951, of Genetics and the Races of Man: An Introduction to Modern Physical Anthropology by W C Boyd;



TS review by Penrose, December 1951, of Soviet Genetics by A G Morton;



TS review by Penrose of two books on chess, One Hundred Selected Games by M M Botwinnik, and Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik by I König;



TS review by Penrose, 1952, of Heredity, Race and Society by L C Dunn and T Dobzhansky;



TS review by Penrose, May 1952, of Eugenics: Galton and After by C P Blacker;



TS review by Penrose, Aug 1952, of The New You and Heredity by A Scheinfeld;



TS review and galley proof of Penrose's review for The Lancet of Human Blood Groups and Inheritance by S D Lawler and L J Lawler, with a covering letter from Penrose to The Lancet, dated March 1952;



TS review by Penrose, February 1952, of the 1951 Census Preliminary Report;



TS review by Penrose of the Journal de Genetique Humaine, vol 1, number 1, 1952;



TS review by Penrose, December 1952, of Genes and Mutations: Cold Spring Harbour Symposia on Quantitative Biology, volume 16;



TS review by Penrose and J H Renwick, 1956, of Clinical Genetics edited by A Sorsby;



Letters between the Editor of The Lancet and Penrose, dated July 1954, regarding the mistaken belief that in a pair of identical human female twins, one is certain to be sterile;



TS review by Penrose, August 1955, of Human Heredity by J V Neel.

Publication/Creation

1951-1956

Physical description

46 folios

Terms of use

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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Location of original

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.

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