P007515 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2024-10-21 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2025-10-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007515b.htm corporateBody Eugenics Society The University of Western Australia AACR2 June 1933 c. 1937 Start Place Crawley, Western Australia, Australia End Place Crawley, Western Australia, Australia In June 1933, on the initiative of Muriel Marion, the inaugural meeting of a Eugenics Society in the University of Western Australia was held. The meeting was addressed by Dr H.J. Gray (pathologist) and Dr R.G. Williams (bacteriologist) of the Claremont Hospital for the Insane. A second meeting was held on 13 July 1933 with Mr G. Bourne (MSc) giving a talk on the "The Scientific Basis of Eugenics"'. Correspondence with the Eugenics Society (London) indicated that the 'Eugenics Society of Western Australia' had "gone into recess". Murial Marion had a subscription to the Eugenics Society (London) that lapsed in June 1939.

Other supporters of the Eugenics Society in the University of Western Australia included: Professor E. Nicholls, Professor of Biology; Dr Everitt Atkinson, Commissioner for Public Health; Dr R. Jull. Around 1921 Professor Dakin attempted to create a similar society but failed due to a lack of public support.

 Dakin, William John (John) (1883 - 1950) Jull, Roberta Henrietta Margaritta (1872 - 1961) Nicholls, Edward Dunham Brooke (Brooke) (1877 - 1937) The University of Western Australia (1911 - ) Eugenics Society of Victoria (1936 - 1961)

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 'Eugenics Society', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Eugenics Society Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Eugenics Society in the University of Western Australia Wellcome Collection Eugenics Society in the University of Western Australia SA/EUG/E.5 1933 - 1937 A set of 19 imaged pages including 2 press cuttings (undated and unsourced): mostly correspondence with Muriel Marion addressed to the 'Eugenics Education Society'; also includes correspondence with Dorothea Cass of the Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia Inc. with a list of key references on eugenics supplied by the Eugenics Society (London). Includes references to: Professor Dakin; Professor Nicholls; Dr Roberta Jull; Mr G. Bourne; Dr H.J. Gray; Dr R.G. Williams; and the Claremont Hospital for the Insane. 1 file Digitised paper records