American Eugenics Society photograph with caption "Mongolian Idiots Hands." Four boys with Down's Syndrome with hands on a white sheet.; Original scrapbook no. 575.06:Am3 no. 003
Subject(s): Punnett, Reginald Crundall; Publication; Conferences and symposia; Invitations; Political issues; Eugenics; Genetics of plants; Baur, Erwin; Laughlin, Harry Hamilton; Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict; Morgan, Thomas Hunt
This volume is an extract of Whitney's unpublished autobiography, giving a partial account of various episodes in his life as a supporter and practitioner of eugenics. There are observations on the American Eugenics Society, the Eugenics Record Office, the Leopold-Loeb murder trial, as well as mentions of Charles B. Davenport, Clarence Darrow, Harry H. Laughlin, and Margaret Sanger.
Subject(s): Punnett, Reginald Crundall; Publication; Conferences and symposia; Invitations; Political issues; Eugenics; Genetics of plants; Baur, Erwin; Laughlin, Harry Hamilton; Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict; Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Subject(s): Punnett, Reginald Crundall; Publication; Conferences and symposia; Invitations; Political issues; Eugenics; Genetics of plants; Baur, Erwin; Laughlin, Harry Hamilton; Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict; Morgan, Thomas Hunt