| | 1 | Author: | American Eugenics Society | | | | | The American Eugenics Society was organized in 1921, following the Second International Conference on Eugenics. At first called the Eugenics Committee of the U.S.A., its name was shortened and adopted in 1925. In 1972 the American Eugenics Society was reorganized and renamed The Society for the Study of Social Biology | |
| | | Title: | American Eugenics Society Records
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Records | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1916-1973 | | | | Extent: | 12 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | Committee records, accounts, correspondence, meeting records, membership lists, legislative records, local society records, published and unpublished Society reports and memoranda, history of the Society by Frederick Osborn (1971). Particularly interesting are the records of the Selective Immigration, Legislative, and Research Committees. Most of the material deals with the period of the Society's incorporation after 1926. There is documentation interspersed throughout the collection dealing with the topic of heredity versus environment in producing cultural achievement. Material on mental and physical inheritance, differential cross-cultural fecundity, and race hybridization is also present. | | | | Source: | American Eugenics Society Records (575.06 Am3) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
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