| Description Of Item | Notes by Thomas Laycock about the hereditary nature of ‘insanity and imbecility or idiocy’. Face shape and the causes and diagnostic criteria of hereditary conditions are discussed, as well as the influence of sex on the inheritance of certain conditions and disabilities. There are excerpts from volume 1 of History of Civilisation of England by Henry Thomson Buckle, The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt by Leigh Hunt and Researches on Foraminifera by William B Carpenter transcribed by Thomas Laycock. There are also excerpts in French and English from Traité des dégénérescences physiques by Benedict Morel. There is also a press cutting of a reprinted article from the British Quarterly Journal reviewing the essay On Physical and Moral Heritage by Charles Elam pasted onto a page. |