Eugenics Review

1909-1968. The Eugenics Review was a scientific journal published by the Galton Institute between 1909 and 1968. It was originally published for the Eugenics Education Society (later the Eugenics Society, and eventually the Galton Institute). The goal of the journal was to acquaint members with others in the Society, and to "give expression to the Eugenic movement, and to place Eugenic though, where possible, on a strictly scientific basis" (Galton, 1909, p.1). The periodical also hoped to reach a larger audience than just immediate Society members. Contributors to the Eugenics Review included important scientific, philosophic, and medical members of countries all across the world, including Canada. It was an internationally recognized forum for discussing eugenic principles.

Through revenue collected for the Eugenics Review, numerous organizations and individuals were sponsored by the Society. This included the Annals of Eugenics, now the Annals of Human Genetics, and providing accommodation to the Population Investigation Committee, the Family Planning Association, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (A.S.P., 1968).

Topics covered in the Eugenics Review included legislation, biology, birth control, book reviews, social issues, and exchanges between authors, among others. Contributors included Francis Galton, Julian Huxley, and John Maynard Keynes, among others. The review eventually came to an end, and was replace by the Journal of Biosocial Science (Mazumdar, 2000).

In the final volume of the review, it concludes that:

"Even allowing for some over-enthusiasm in its early days and some later actions susceptible of misinterpretation, one can only conclude, proverbial sayings notwithstanding, that the importance of the Society would have been more widely recognized had it had a less evocative name- doubly evocative after the prostitution of the word "eugenic" by Nazi Germany" (A. S. P., 1968, p.141).

Past issues of the Eugenics Review can be accessed here.

-Colette Leung

  • Galton, F. (1909). Foreword. Eugenics Review, 1(1): 1-2.

  • A. S. P. (1968). Foreword. Eugenics Review, 60(3): 141.

  • Mazumdar, P. M. H. (2000). Essays in the History of Eugenics (review). Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 74(1): 180-183.

Eugenics Review

1909-1968. The Eugenics Review was a scientific journal published by the Galton Institute between 1909 and 1968. It was originally published for the Eugenics Education Society (later the Eugenics Society, and eventually the Galton Institute). The goal of the journal was to acquaint members with others in the Society, and to "give expression to the Eugenic movement, and to place Eugenic though, where possible, on a strictly scientific basis" (Galton, 1909, p.1). The periodical also hoped to reach a larger audience than just immediate Society members. Contributors to the Eugenics Review included important scientific, philosophic, and medical members of countries all across the world, including Canada. It was an internationally recognized forum for discussing eugenic principles.

Through revenue collected for the Eugenics Review, numerous organizations and individuals were sponsored by the Society. This included the Annals of Eugenics, now the Annals of Human Genetics, and providing accommodation to the Population Investigation Committee, the Family Planning Association, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (A.S.P., 1968).

Topics covered in the Eugenics Review included legislation, biology, birth control, book reviews, social issues, and exchanges between authors, among others. Contributors included Francis Galton, Julian Huxley, and John Maynard Keynes, among others. The review eventually came to an end, and was replace by the Journal of Biosocial Science (Mazumdar, 2000).

In the final volume of the review, it concludes that:

"Even allowing for some over-enthusiasm in its early days and some later actions susceptible of misinterpretation, one can only conclude, proverbial sayings notwithstanding, that the importance of the Society would have been more widely recognized had it had a less evocative name- doubly evocative after the prostitution of the word "eugenic" by Nazi Germany" (A. S. P., 1968, p.141).

Past issues of the Eugenics Review can be accessed here.

-Colette Leung

  • Galton, F. (1909). Foreword. Eugenics Review, 1(1): 1-2.

  • A. S. P. (1968). Foreword. Eugenics Review, 60(3): 141.

  • Mazumdar, P. M. H. (2000). Essays in the History of Eugenics (review). Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 74(1): 180-183.

Eugenics Review

1909-1968. The Eugenics Review was a scientific journal published by the Galton Institute between 1909 and 1968. It was originally published for the Eugenics Education Society (later the Eugenics Society, and eventually the Galton Institute). The goal of the journal was to acquaint members with others in the Society, and to "give expression to the Eugenic movement, and to place Eugenic though, where possible, on a strictly scientific basis" (Galton, 1909, p.1). The periodical also hoped to reach a larger audience than just immediate Society members. Contributors to the Eugenics Review included important scientific, philosophic, and medical members of countries all across the world, including Canada. It was an internationally recognized forum for discussing eugenic principles.

Through revenue collected for the Eugenics Review, numerous organizations and individuals were sponsored by the Society. This included the Annals of Eugenics, now the Annals of Human Genetics, and providing accommodation to the Population Investigation Committee, the Family Planning Association, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (A.S.P., 1968).

Topics covered in the Eugenics Review included legislation, biology, birth control, book reviews, social issues, and exchanges between authors, among others. Contributors included Francis Galton, Julian Huxley, and John Maynard Keynes, among others. The review eventually came to an end, and was replace by the Journal of Biosocial Science (Mazumdar, 2000).

In the final volume of the review, it concludes that:

"Even allowing for some over-enthusiasm in its early days and some later actions susceptible of misinterpretation, one can only conclude, proverbial sayings notwithstanding, that the importance of the Society would have been more widely recognized had it had a less evocative name- doubly evocative after the prostitution of the word "eugenic" by Nazi Germany" (A. S. P., 1968, p.141).

Past issues of the Eugenics Review can be accessed here.

-Colette Leung

  • Galton, F. (1909). Foreword. Eugenics Review, 1(1): 1-2.

  • A. S. P. (1968). Foreword. Eugenics Review, 60(3): 141.

  • Mazumdar, P. M. H. (2000). Essays in the History of Eugenics (review). Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 74(1): 180-183.