Sources Guide: Heredity and Genetics (A&M)
Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue
In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk
Grant David Yeats: letter to John Levett, discussing hereditary diseases, 1801 MS.8584/1
Charles Darwin: one file of autograph letters and notes, 1839-82 MS.7781
George Edward Shuttleworth: papers on mental diseases include ‘Hereditary neurosis in children’, and related material, 1860s-1920s, and letter from Darwin, 1874 MSS.4566-92, 5134-6
Frederick Parkes Weber: numerous files relating to hereditary and congenital diseases in clinical context, as well as on more general issues such as eugenics, 1880s-1950s PP/FPW
Charles Spearman: collection includes some secondary source reference material collated by Spearman covering 19th and early 20th century ideas on intelligence and heredity PSY/SPE/2
Clifford Dobell: papers read to the Cambridge Nature Sciences Club on ‘The Future of Man’, 1907’ and ‘Memory and Organic Evolution, 1908 MS.2197
Eugenics Society: records of society reflect changing understandings of heredity and genetics, 1900s-60s SA/EUG
PLEASE NOTE: this collection is being digitised and parts of it will be unavailable during the process. Check the schedule for further information.
Denis Gascoigne Lillie: lecture on Mendel’s principle of heredity, 1913 MS.3284
Marie Carmichael Stopes: letters from readers of her books on marriage and birth control asking about questions to do with hereditary conditions, 1918-40s PP/MCS
Prof Hans Grüneberg (1907-1982): correspondence with friends and colleagues covering his career from 1922 to his death in 1982 includes substantial amounts of interaction with other significant researchers in this area, and much on his pioneering work on development genetics in the mouse and their implications for medicine; also relating to his later work
on snail genetics PP/GRU
Medical Research Council Blood Group Unit: includes material on inheritance of blood groups, pedigrees, Robert Race’s work on human genetic markers, 1930s-90s SA/BGU
Philip Rainsford Evans: professional papers as paediatrician contain material on congenital and hereditary conditions, including Tay-Sachs disease, 1930s-80s PP/PRE
Population Investigation Committee: f. 1936 out of particular concern over the falling birthrate and fertility decline, but a number of its research projects dealt with trends of intelligence among children over time, the British Peerage, and other matters to do with heredity and genetics SA/PIC
Robert Race and Ruth Sanger: material, including research notes, lectures and involvement with societies and organisations, relating to their work on the genetics of blood grouping, 1939-99 PP/SAR
Charles Enrique Dent: specialist in metabolic disorders, papers include material on inborn metabolic problems, 1940s-70s PP/CED
Arthur Ernest Mourant: material relating to his research on blood groups, population genetics and physical anthropology, 1940s-90s PP/AEM
Professor John Michael Robson: incomplete draft history of the Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh, [post 1945] GC/43
John Angus Black: paediatrician, papers include some material on congenital and hereditary conditions, 1950s-60s MS.8098
Henry Foy and Athena Kondi: material on their research into sickle cell anaemia, 1950s-70s PP/FAK
Sir Alan Sterling Parkes: material relating to his involvement with the Eugenics Society, Galton Foundation, Biosocial Society, 1950s-80s, and more generally on his research on reproductive physiology PP/ASP
Francis Crick: materials relating to his work with James Watson on the elucidation of the structure of DNA and on the transfer of genetic information, 1950s-60s PP/CRI
George Robert Fraser: material relating to his research on genetics, 1950s-2011, including work on various genetic disorders PP/GRF
Sir Peter Medawar: material on evolution, hereditarianism, IQ, nature vs nurture, eugenics, etc, 1960s-80s PP/PBM
Shirley Ratcliffe and the Edinburgh MRC Clinical and Population Cytogenetics Unit Study of Long Term Outcomes for Children Born with Sex Chromosome Abnormalities 1967-1995: Material relating to the MRC’s long term study, following children born with sex chromosome abnormalities from birth to their early twenties, including males with Klinefelter’s
syndrome PP/SRA
Biochemical Society: Frederick Sanger’s research on RNA and DNA, 1960s-80s; also some material among Society’s own records, 1970s-80s SA/BIO
Genetic Alliance UK: founded to give a voice to those people affected by genetic conditions; minutes, annual reports, newsletters and other publications, 1989-2010 SA/GIG
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