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Papers relating to the Scottish Mental Survey including the following:

Newsletters of the Scottish Council for Research in Education, Nov 1968 and May 1969
Tables relating to migrants and non-migrants, 1975
Correspondence predominantly between David Glass and James Maxwell relating to the follow-up surveys and publications, 2 May 1962 - 28 Mar 1975
Proposal for Inquiry into Differential Fertility for Intelligence by James Maxwell, Feb 1966
Suggestions for a future mental survey, 2 Nov 1959
1947 Survey Follow-up reports, May 1958 - Feb 1964
Report on Follow-up on 1932 Scottish Survey, with text and tables, Dec 1968

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