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Eugenics

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

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research, 1896-1979

 Sub-subfonds
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/G1
Scope and Contents Material regarding the Moray House Tests, c1920s-1970s; Northumberland Mental Tests, c1920s; Sample tests, 1920-1987; Testing Samples, United States, c1920s-1950s; Publications, 1896-c1978; Godfrey Thomson, c1930s-1947; Correspondence...
Dates: 1896-1979

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Frederick Lort-Phillips, 05 February 1912

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/4
Scope and Contents

Lort-Phillips provides comments on Ewart's treatise on 'eugenics and the breeding of light horses', which suggests ways in which funding from the Board of Agriculture should be used to approach such a scheme of breeding.

Dates: 05 February 1912

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sybil Gotto, 15 February 1912

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/7
Scope and Contents

Gotto asks Ewart if he would be willing to assist in organising a governing council for a potential branch of the Eugenics Education Society in Edinburgh.

Dates: 15 February 1912

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selbourne, 16 January 1916

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/13
Scope and Contents

Palmer, who signs himself 'Selbourne', thanks Ewart for sending him his articles on eugenics and the breeding of light horses. He writes that the reason Ewart has not been summoned to a meeting of the Standing Committee for the last two years is that there has not been a meeting.

Dates: 16 January 1916

Material relating to the Eugenics Society, 1959-1968

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Identifier: Coll-41/6/9
Scope and Contents

The material contains meeting papers, minutes, annual reports and correspondence between Waddington and various individuals involved in the Society.

Dates: 1959-1968

Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1310
Scope and Contents Biographical and personal papers, c mid 19th century-1972; Publications authored and co-authored by Thomson, 1904-1954; Unpublished materials by Thomson, 1897-1954; Publications collected by Thomson regarding education, intelligence, psychology, and statistics, 1879-1971 Unpublished material collected by Thomson and authored by others, c mid 20th...
Dates: c1890s-1978

Points of view - Filtered (The Scotsman), 8 Jun 2001

 Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/5/21
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: 8 Jun 2001