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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number PENROSE/2/10/1/1
TitleReviews 1931-1950
Date1931-1950
Date21952
Date31963
Description<p>Reviews of scholarly books and articles, consisting of:</p>
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<p>Reviews by Penrose, 1931, of <i>Genetic Studies of Genius, volume 3: The Promise of Youth</i>, edited by L M Terman, and <i>The Problem of Genius</i> by W Lange-Eichbaum, in <i>The Eugenics Review</i>;</p>
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<p>Reviews by Penrose of <i>Psycho-analysis and Medicine</i> by Karin Stephen, and <i>Psycho-analysis and its Derivatives</i> by H Crichton-Miller, in <i>The New Statesman and Nation</i>, 29 July 1933;</p>
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<p>Review in <i>The Medical Officer</i>, 23 April 1932, of a paper by Penrose on Down's syndrome published in <i>The Lancet</i>, 20 February 1932;</p>
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<p>Review of Penrose's paper "Heredity and Environment in the Study of Human Genetics (with special reference to Mongolian Imbecility)" in the <i>Journal of Genetics</i>, published in <i>The Medical Officer</i>, 30 July 1932;</p>
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<p>Review in <i>The Medical Officer</i>, 9 September 1933, of three papers by Penrose on the genetics of mental defection;</p>
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<p>Proof abstract of <i>Heredity and Mental Hygiene</i> by L S Penrose, 1938;</p>
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<p>Review in the German publication <i>Die Weltwoche</i>, 10 May 1963, about Penrose's chromosomal research on Down's syndrome patients;</p>
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<p>TS review by Penrose of J S Huxley's <i>Man Stands Alone</i>, with accompanying letter from the American Eugenics Society requesting the review, 1941;</p>
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<p>Proof review by Penrose of a revised version of <i>A Culture-Free Test of Intelligence</i>, published in <i>The Mental Measurements Yearbook, 1948</i>;</p>
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<p>Review by Penrose in <i>Annals of Eugenics</i>, 13, 1946, of <i>Les Cirrhoses Hépatiques Familiales</i> by C Pognan, 1943;</p>
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<p>TS review by Penrose of <i>Mental Deficiency</i> by A F Tredgold;</p>
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<p>TS review by Penrose of <i>Mongolism and Cretinism</i> by C E Benda, 1948;</p>
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<p>TS review by Penrose, March 1947, of "Klinische und Erbbiologische Unterschungen über die Heredoataxien" in <i>Acta Psychologica et Neurologica Scandinavica Supplementum</i>, 27, by T Sjöberg;</p>
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<p>TS review by Penrose, July 1947, of <i>Animal Genetics and Medicine</i> by H Grüneberg;</p>
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<p>Letter from the Editor of <i>The Mental Measurements Yearbook</i>, dated January 1948, regarding the galley proof of Penrose's test review;</p>
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<p>Review by Penrose in <i>The Silent World Magazine, March 1948</i> of <i>How I Perceive the World</i> by O Skorokhodova;</p>
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<p>Letter from <i>The Lancet</i>, dated November 1946, to Penrose asking for a contribution on the nobel prize winner Hermann Joseph Muller. The contribution is appended;</p>
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<p>Letter from Penrose to Dr Guiver, dated January 1946, enclosing a TS of the article "An Intelligence Catalyst" in <i>The Lancet</i>, volume 246, issue 6370, 29 Sep 1945;</p>
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<p>Letter from <i>The Lancet</i>, dated November 1947, enclosing a response from R R Gates to a review of his book <i>Human Genetics</i>. The enclosed cutting is from <i>Eugenics Review</i>;</p>
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<p>TS review by Penrose, April 1948, of <i>Genetics, Medicine and Man (the Messenger Lectures)</i> by H J Muller, C C Little and L H Snyder;</p>
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<p>TS review by Penrose, April 1948, of <i>Genetics in Relation to Clinical Medicine</i> by F A E Crew;</p>
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<p>TS review by Penrose of <i>Congenital Malformations, 2nd edition</i> by Douglas P Murphy;</p>
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<p>TS review by Penrose, July 1950, of <i>Children with Mental and Physical Handicaps</i> by J E Wallace Wallin;</p>
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<p>TS review by Penrose, November 1948, of <i>Soviet Biology</i> by T D Lysenko;</p><p>
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<p>Letter from Penrose, dated July 1950, to the Editor of the <i>British Journal of Delinquency</i> regarding additions to his review of Wallin's book;</p>
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<p>TS review by [Penrose], September 1949, of <i>Dictionary of Genetics</i> by R L Knight;</p>
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<p>TS review by [Penrose] of <i>Die Vererbung Innerer Krankheiten</i> by Wilhelm Weitz;</p>
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<p>TS review by Penrose, 1952, of <i>Sterilization in North Carolina</i> by Moya Woodside;</p>
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<p>TS review by [Penrose] of <i>The Race Question in Modern Science: The Race Concept</i> by UNESCO;</p>
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<p>TS review by Penrose, July 1949, of <i>Biometrical Genetics</i> by K Mather.</p>
Extent82 folios
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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