| Description | Consists of offprints from the Eugenics Laboratory Lecture Series, issued by the Galton Laboratory. Contains numbers 1, 4-6, 8, and 12-14, and report of the City of Edinburgh Charity Organisation Society on physical condition of school children. Publication details of the lecture series are listed below in number order:
'The Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National Eugenics' by Karl Pearson, 3rd edition, (London: Dulau and Co., 1911), lecture originally delivered as the fourteenth Robert Boyle Lecture before the Oxford University Junior Science Club, 17 May 1907. Eugenics Laboratory Lecture number 1.
'On the Marriage of First Cousins' by Ethel M Elderton, (London: Dulau and Co., 1911). Eugenics Laboratory Lecture number 4.
'The Problem of Practical Eugenics' by Karl Pearson, 2nd edition, (London: Dulau and Co., 1912), derived from the final lecture of a course on the Science of National Eugenics delivered at the Galton Laboratory, 25 May 1909. Eugenics Laboratory Lecture number 5.
'Nature and Nurture: The Problem of the Future' by Karl Pearson, 2nd edition, (London: Dulau and Co., 1913). Eugenics Laboratory Lecture number 6.
'Tuberculosis, Heredity and Environment' by Karl Pearson, (London: Dulau and Co., 1912). Eugenics Laboratory Lecture number 8.
'The Function of Science in a Modern State' by Karl Pearson, 2nd edition, (London: Dulau and Co., 1919), paper first published in 1902 as a prefatory essay to volume 32 of the tenth edition of 'Encyclopedia Brittanica'. Eugenics Laboratory Lecture number 12.
'Side Lights on the Evolution of Man, being a lecture delivered at The Royal Institution, Friday, May 14, 1920' by Karl Pearson, (London: Cambridge University Press, 1921). Eugenics Laboratory Lecture number 13.
'The Right of the Unborn Child, being a lecture delivered on November 13 1926 to teachers from the London County Council Schools' by Karl Pearson, (London: Cambridge University Press, 1927). Eugenics Laboratory Lecture number 14.
'Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, An appreciation' by Karl Pearson, Questions of the Day and of the Fray, No. XII, (London: Cambridge University Press, 1923), lecture delivered to the teachers of the London County Council, March 21, 1923.
Also contains a copy of the City of Edinburgh Charity Organisation Society 'Report on the Physical Condition of Fourteen Hundred School Children in the City', (London: P S King & Son, 1906), annotated 'Francis Galton Laboratory' on inside of front cover. |