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Amy Barrington

Educational Achievements:

In 1902 Amy was introduced to Karl Pearson and became the first voluntary worker in his Biometric laboratory and later a paid assistant in the Galton Laboratory for Eugenics owned by Sir Francis Galton. Karl Pearson was the director of the Galton Laboratory. She carried out many studies in relation to Eugenics such as: (from current wikipedia) -A Preliminary Study of Extreme, Alcoholism in Adults By Amy Barrington (no date available) Hereditary Disorders of Bone Development. By Amy Barrington. At the University Press (1925) -A First Study of the Inheritance of Vision and of the relative influence of Heredity and Environment on Sight, etc (Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs. no. 5.) – 1909 by Amy Barrington (Author), Karl Pearson (Author) -A Second Study of the Influence of Parental Alcoholism on the Physique and Ability of the Offspring: Being a Reply to Certain Medical Critics of the First Memoir and an Examination of the Rebutting Evidence Cited by Them, Issues 13–14 Amy Barrington, Karl Pearson, Ethel M. Elderton, Dulau and Company, 1910 -Dwarfism. With plates, and with a bibliography and iconography by Amy Barrington (Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs. no. 15.) – 1912 by Harold Rischbieth (Author), Amy Barrington On the Correlation of Fertility with Social Value. A cooperative study (Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs. vol. 18.) – 1913 by Ethel Mary Elderton (Author), Amy Barrington.

When Amy was only a girl she developed an interest in heredity. This was before the study of heredity was popular. Amy was interested in distinguishing the different characteristics of her half-brothers and sisters from those of the children of her own mother. Amy believed that the difference of characteristics must have been through the strain of blood and did not realise how important ancestry is in relation to heredity, only usually focusing on the importance of the parents.

Amy also thought in many schools. She completed her Classical Tripos which is the taught course in classics in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge in 1885. (Rest on wikipedia about other schools)