| Description | Papers, primarily comprising draft schemes and correspondence, of the Galton Laboratory Committee concerning foundation of a Research Fellowship and a National Eugenics Laboratory. Consists of institutional letters from the Academic Registrar, University of London, enclosing schemes and correspondence relating to the Chair of Eugenics and proposed National Laboratory, annotated draft copy of the scheme and galley proof, and letter on definition of eugenics in Senate minutes; and personal letters from W S Gosset on appreciation for the laboratory (12 Jul 1920); on a possible bequest from an anonymous donor known only as 'J.B.'; from M J M Hill with proposed resolutions on finance of the Laboratory (1907); and from Galton (ms and photocopy) on editorial freedom of laboratory publications (1907); Appeal Committee papers (1920); and report for the years 1925, 1926, 1927 and 1928-29. |