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The Galton Institute
The Galton Institute was renamed as the Adelphi Genetics Forum in 2021 and evolved from the Eugenics Education Society (EES), founded by social reformer Sibyl Gotto in 1907.
Galton Co-Founder Charles Benedict Davenport
“As a rising star in American biology, Charles Davenport persuaded the newly founded Carnegie Institution to underwrite a genetic institute for him at Cold Spring Harbor in 1904. The Station for Experimental Evolution (after 1918, Department of Genetics) became his home until his retirement three decades later.
In addition, he established the Eugenics Record Office and the Eugenics Research Association, which became his empire on the Long Island shore. At the center of the American eugenics movement, both the office and the association exerted enormous influence over the content of human biology and science and their dissemination to the American public up to the 1930s.”1)
Sourcewatch 2009
- Accessed October 2009: [2]
- President Professor Sir Walter Bodmer
- Vice Presidents Professor Timothy Cox, Professor David Galton
- Treasurer Professor John Beardmore
- Secretary Patrick James
- Council
- Melissa Bateson
- Robert D. Cohen
- Tom Dickins
- Dian Donnai
- Lesley Hall
- Graham A. Hitman
- Paul Hurd
- Marcus Pembrey
- Rebecca Sear
- General Secretary Betty Nixon
- Newsletter Editor Professor Robert D. Cohen 2)