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Image for Heredity of Skin Color in Negro-White Crosses. With appendix, being abridgement of field-notes, chiefly of Florence H. Danielson, Field Worker, Eugenics Record Office.

Heredity of Skin Color in Negro-White Crosses. With appendix, being abridgement of field-notes, chiefly of Florence H. Danielson, Field Worker, Eugenics Record Office.

By: Davenport CB;

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., The Carnegie Institution of Washington: 1913

Seller ID: 160

1913 FIRST EDITION OF 'SCIENTIFIC' MONOGRAPH ON MISCEGENATION PUBLISHED BY THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION. 10 inches tall book with printed paper covers, 106 pages, 13 black & white photographs of families on 4 plates, each with tissue guards with printed tracings identifying each individual, and with facing description of each figure. 1/2 inch piece of upper corner of cover lacking, residual marks to cover from removed library labels, small library handstamp to cover, library numbers top of cover and on spine, 'withdrawn' handstamp to front free endpaper, embossed library stamp to title page, no o...
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National Vitality, Its Wastes and Conservation [Extract from Report of the National Conservation Commission (Senate Document No. 676, Vol. III, Sixtieth Congress, second session)]

By: Fisher, Irving

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1910

Seller ID: 915

1910 IRVING FISHER'S REPORT TO THE NATION ON THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN PROLOGATION OF LIFE. 9 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather on red cloth boards, gilt name (John T. Swift) to front cover, marbled edges and endpapers, paginated 620 to 751, graph of survivorship curves; cover edges rubbed, binding tight, very good. Cited by Comfort in The Science of Human Perfection (2012): "Under the Committee's auspices, in 1909 Fisher wrote the Report on National Vitality, a 138-page essay that marshaled his skills as an economist. If we appraise a human life at only $1700, he wrote, and each yea...
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Family Treasures. A Study of the Inheritance of Normal Characteristics in Man

By: Whitney DD;

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, The Jaques Cattell Press: 1942

Seller ID: 135

1942 ILLUSTRATED POPULAR EUGENICS TEXT FOR AMATEURS! 10 inches tall hardcover, 299 pages, blue cloth binding, gilt title on spine, 234 photographic illustrations. Covers bright and clean, previous owner's signature front paste-down, no other marks, very good. PREFACE: 'This book is written for amateurs in the study of human heredity and for those who are interested in personal inheritance of family traits. It is a simple presentation mainly by photographs of many of the normal traits appearing in families of two or more successive generations. During the past centuries nearly all of the emphas...
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Category: Eugenics

Heredity of Skin Color in Negro-White Crosses. With appendix, being abridgement of field-notes, chiefly of Florence H. Danielson, Field Worker, Eugenics Record Office.

National Vitality, Its Wastes and Conservation [Extract from Report of the National Conservation Commission (Senate Document No. 676, Vol. III, Sixtieth Congress, second session)]

Family Treasures. A Study of the Inheritance of Normal Characteristics in Man