Abstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics Congress University of London, July, 1912

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I propose to study the effects of age on the physical and moral characters of the children. My researches have extended to numerous criminals and insane persons, as well as to s...

The possibility of infusing eugenical spirit into athletics. The appeal of eugenics to the upper classes. A real versus a sham nobility. The eugenical ideal essentially a matter...

The paper of A. has for its object to examine closely these three arguments based upon very extensive data taken partly from demographic statistics and partly from researches ma...

When we speak of a backward child, we mean any subject which is arrested or retarded more or less completely in its bodily, psychical, and sensorial evolution, in consequence of...

Paternal Alcoholism, as affecting Suckling powers of Daughters, C. 93 with Inter-connection of Tuberculosis, Neuroses and Psychoses of Offspring, C. 94 Lead-poisoning, effect of...

The pedigree of the +family of Zero von Jorger+, figure C 21 (Archiv für Rassen & Gesellschafts biologie I.), shows in a convincing manner how very important for the protection...

In this connection another figure, C 45, by von den Velden ought to be mentioned. He shows, from investigations made by von Riffel, that the +physical condition of childless cou...

Of a materially greater influence than the numerical position of birth or the number of children in each family is the length of interval between births. We point at first to Fi...

+The frequency of syphilis and other venereal diseases in town and country+ is illustrated in Table C 86, which gives the result of the enquiries of the Prussian Government on t...

Even where there is no high degree of inbreeding, the individuals of a people are much more closely related to each other than is generally assumed. Table C 115, "+theoretical n...

The +Malthusian theory of population+ leads to the conclusion that the population of the majority of countries is held in check by lack of food. Therefore, there should be a cor...

Family 4 (Pedigree Chart, No. K 6) illustrates the same kind of facts and conclusions. In the A Generation a Frenchman, whose eye-colour was unknown to my informant, married a f...

A list of experimental tests applied to children of both sexes with a view to measuring their innate capacities for performing mental processes of different levels of complexity...

If, on the other hand, he prefers to reserve a longer time for reply he must reduce the length of his opening remarks, bearing in mind that the whole time at his disposal for th...

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