Galton Institute

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The Galton Institute is a learned society based in the United Kingdom. Its aims are 'to promote the public understanding of human heredity and to facilitate informed debate about the ethical issues raised by advances in reproductive technology'^[1].

It was founded in 1907 as the Eugenics Education Society, becoming the Eugenics Society in 1926 (often known as the British Eugenics Society to distinguish it from others). It was based near Brockwell Park, Lambeth in London SE24. It changed its name to the Galton Institute in 1989.

See Karl Pearson, Francis Galton, Leonard Darwin.

Contents 1 Prominent members 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Prominent members

• Arthur Balfour
• Alfred Ploetz, Vice-president (1916)
• William Beveridge
• Julian Huxley, Vice-president (1937-44), President (1959-62)
• Paul Blanshard
• Walter Bodmer
• Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain
• Chris Brand
• Cyril Burt
• John Cockburn
• Charles Galton Darwin and Leonard Darwin
• Charles Davenport, Vice President (1931)
• Robert Geoffrey Edwards
• Havelock Ellis
• Hans Eysenck
• Ronald Fisher
• Charles Goethe
• Ezra Gosney
• Madison Grant
• David Starr Jordan, Vice President (1916, 1931)
• Franz Josef Kallmann
• John Harvey Kellogg
• John Maynard Keynes, Director 1937-1944 V.P. 1937
• Richard Lynn
• James Meade
• Peter Medawar
• Naomi Mitchison
• Henry Fairfield Osborn and Frederick Osborn
• Margaret Pyke
• Margaret Sanger
• Eliot Slater
• James Mourilyan Tanner
• Richard Titmuss
• Frank Yates

[edit] See also

• American Eugenics Society
• Human Betterment Foundation
• Eugenics
• Arthur Jensen
• Glayde Whitney
• Walter Kistler

[edit] References

1. ^ Galton Institute website.

[edit] External links

• Galton Institute