| Description | Folder 1:
Bills, correspondence, and statements relating to expenditure, staff salaries in the Galton Laboratory and Department of Applied Statistics and Eugenics (1904-1923).
Correspondence and account book relating to copyright and sales of a portrait of Karl Pearson, (1925-1936).
Folder 2:
Notebook containing record of bibliographic accessions to the Galton Laboratory for the period 1947-1967.
Notebook labelled 'Departmental Account - Eugenics', recording departmental expenditure over the period 1932-1939.
Folder 3:
Ledger labelled 'Record of sales by Cambridge University Press - Eugenics Laboratory Publications' and 'Book II, 1953-1959 CUP Sales, Book finished. Contains accounts of the Eugenic Laboratory Series, including 'Memoir Series', 'Lecture Series', 'Treasury of Human Inheritance', 'Revised Weight Charts', and 'Life History Album' (1953-1959); Biometric Laboratory Publications, including 'National Deterioration', 'Technical Series', 'Day and Fray Questions', 'Biometric Series', and 'Tracts for Computers' (1953-1959); and printing costs of 'Annals of Eugenics' (1953) and 'Annals of Human Genetics' (1954-1960). Also includes ts 'Division of proceeds of sales of publications of the original Biometric and Eugenics Laboratories' glued to the inside cover.
Ledger labelled 'Current Book, Book I, 1934-1953, CUP Sales' and 'CUP Sales Continued 1960-'. Contains accounts of the Eugenics Laboratory Series, including 'Lecture Series', 'Memoir Series', 'Treasury of Human Inheritance', 'Revised Weight Charts for Male and Female Babies', Galton's 'Life History Album', and Galton & Schuster's 'Noteworthy Families' (1934-1953 & 1960-1964); Biometric Laboratory Publications, including 'Studies in National Deterioration', 'Technical Series', and 'Questions of the Day and Fray" (1934-1953 & 1960-1964); and printing costs of 'Annals of Eugenics' (1949-1953), 'Treasury of Human Inheritance (1957-1958) and 'Annals of Human Genetics' (1960-1966). Also includes ts 'Division of proceeds of sales of publications of the original Biometric and Eugenics Laboratories' glued to the inside cover, with pencil note on number of subscribers as of April 1966.
Folder 4:
Accounts ledger. Split in two sections, showing accounts for Galton Fund and the Drapers' Company Grant, from 1918 to 1924. |