Skip to main content

Inbreeding

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

Inbred pigs - findings from current experiments, August 1957

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/8
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1947-1957. Volume 1 of 19.

Dates: August 1957

Inbreeding as an alternative to outbreeding, 1948

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/12
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1947-1957. Volume 1 of 19.

Dates: 1948

Inbreeding effects contrary to the direction of selection in a poultry flock, March 1957

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/137
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1953-57.

Dates: March 1957

Inbreeding in poultry, 1949

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/17
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1947-52.

Dates: 1949

Intra-generation inbreeding effects in a poultry flock selected for egg production, August 1958

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/233
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1958-61.

Dates: August 1958

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from A.J Pressland, 14 February 1899

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/14
Scope and Contents

Pressland suggests ways of getting information about various long-lived human species, and gives examples of human and animal inbreeding. He puts forward the idea that the Duke of Bedford might take up the study of the subject of inbreeding, and suggests ways in which Ewart might gain an introduction.

Dates: 14 February 1899

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Arthur J. Balding, April 1906

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/12/12
Scope and Contents

Balding provides detailed notes on various points arising in Ewart's book The Penycuik Experiments, based on his own experience of animal breeding. The main points he discusses are: delicacy from inbreeding, science in breeding and reversion and infection in telegony. He also provides some information concerning the provenance of the term 'quagga' and observations on white colouration in breeding.

Dates: April 1906

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Arthur Samuel, 31 January 1902

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/6
Scope and Contents Samuel is asking for some advice as to whether the offspring of consanguineous relationships are more likely to be mentally and physically impaired than the offspring of unrelated parents. He has in his possession correspondence with the Zoological Society in London (of which he is a Fellow) regarding the practice of inbreeding amongst the animals, while his interests lie more with inbreeding in consanguineous human relationships. He questions whether they are not a violation of nature and...
Dates: 31 January 1902