| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | GALTON/2/13/1/5 |
| Title | Cuttings Containing Letters to Editor from Various Correspondents |
| Date | 1910-1911 |
| Description | Index and press cuttings containing letters to the editors of various newspapers on the subject of eugenics. The index contains the names of the following correspondents:
Dr Horatio Bryan Donkin replying to Karl Pearson's letter criticising his Harveian Oration on "Heredity and Crime".
Sir George Archdall O'Brien Reid, supporting Donkin's discourse on heredity and crime and challenging Pearson's position.
Henry A Blake on "Primogeniture and Heredity".
Professor Alfred Marshall on the Galton Laboratory Memoir on parental alcoholism.
Sir Victor Horsley and Dr Mary D Sturge providing a substantiation of their paper, and defending it from Pearson's criticism.
Sir Thomas Palmer Whittaker reply to Karl Pearson
Charles Roden Buxton comment on Pearson and Edith M Elderton's report as summarised in The Times.
William Cecil Dampier Whetham answering editorial criticism of his letter on national deterioration
Edwin Ray Lankester reply to Francis Galton
William Wyse on the hereditary principle, with reference to primogeniture and the constitution of the House of Lords. |
| Extent | 23 folios |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |
| Related Material | GALTON/2/13/1/4 and GALTON/2/13/1/13 |