GOTTO, Sybil Katherine - EUGENICS EDUCATION SOCIETY.

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Presentation photograph album depicting delegates of the First International Eugenics Congress. A commemorative album presented to Sybil Gotto, the main organizer of the conference, which was chaired by Leonard Darwin. Thirteen of the photographs are signed by the sitter and four are accompanied by their mounted clipped signature. Along with Darwin, delegates depicted in the portraits include the politician Paul Doumer, the entomologist Vernon Lyman Kellog, and the biologist Raymond Pearl.A social hygienist, Gotto (1885-1955, afterwards Neville-Rolfe) founded the Eugenics Education Society - later the British Eugenics Society - with Francis Galton in 1907. She was an opponent of the "lax morals" that she believed were degenerating society and campaigned for greater contraceptive education, improved treatments for sexually transmitted diseases, and against prostitution.The conference, held from 24 to 30 July 1912, was dedicated to Galton - who had died the previous year - and was attended by Winston Churchill, Arthur Balfour, and William Osler. The proceedings included lectures on biology, education, medicine, sociology, and "Practical Eugenics". A complete list of photographs is available upon request.

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