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Cambridge University Eugenics Society was formed in 1911 with the aim of “increasing the awareness of eugenics and heredity in members of the University.” It was active until 1920.[1]
In their notices of election, members were told the objects of the Society were “to promote the Science of Eugenics and to investigate and spread a knowledge of the laws of heredity with particular reference to their bearing on racial and social problems.”[2]
Participants
[edit]Patrons included:
- The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Ely
- The Right Honourable Lord Rayleigh, O.M., Chancellor of the University
The President was:
- Professor Albert C. Seward, FRS
The first Council included:
- The Rev. the President of Queens’
- Horace Darwin, FRS
- Leonard Doncaster
- C. M. Fiddian (King’s)
- Ronald Fisher (Gonville and Caius)
- D. W. Gunston (Trinity)
- T. E. Jones (Clare)
- John Maynard Keynes, Treasurer
- F. Kidd (St John’s)
- Professor Reginald Punnett
- P. Sargant-Florence (Goncille and Caius)
- Rev. H. F. Stewart
- C. S. Stock, Secretary
- William Cecil Dampier Whetham, FRS
In initial notices, twenty other members of the University were listed as “expressing their intention” to join the new Society, and a “Committee of Undergraduates” was noted for the “junior members” of the University. The Society formed in anticipation of the 1912 International Eugenics Conference. The Society’s main activities included reading papers before meetings, sharing information, and networking. After initial enthusiasm among members during its first year, the Society's activities diminished.
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]Records of the Cambridge University Eugenics Society are deposited in Wellcome Collection as part of the archives of the Eugenics Society (London). See their catalogue item SAEUG/E/23 [3]
References
[edit]- ^ Bennett, J. (1983), Natural Selection, Heredity, and Eugenics, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 1–50, ISBN 0-19-858177-7
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - ^ Original in Eugenics Society Archive, folder “Cambridge University Eugenics Society: Papers Read (bound volume inc. cuttings, notices, rules, etc, and texts of papers given)”. "November 1911 notice of election".
- ^ "Cambridge University Eugenics Society: Papers Read (bound volume inc. cuttings, notices, rules, etc, and texts of papers given)"