| Content Warning | A review of the Archive catalogue and documents within the Archive relating to Anthropology identified that some contain information that may be offensive or distressing. This includes racist language, and descriptions of historical collecting and research methods. The Museum does not condone unacceptable language and practices of the past, but has not redacted these records to maintain authenticity and facilitate discovery of records for research, including study of the history of science and museums |
| Description | Activities of the blood grouping laboratory in the 1950s and 1960s overseen by Kenneth Oakley with Madeleine Smith undertaking the analytical work including;
‘Annual Report for 1957’
Loans of specimens in relation to M Smith work on the ‘Vedda of Ceylon’
Palaeoserological work conducted on Etruscan bones
Letters in which the Museum Director thanks individuals for assisting Madeleine Smith in her serological work
1 Letter to J Dixon Boyd, Anatomy School, Cambridge
1 Letter to Alister Hardy, Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford
1 Letter to A Buhler, Museum for Volkerjunde, Switzerland
1 Letter to G J Romanes, Anatomy Department, University of Edinburgh
1 Letter to Don Brothwell, Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge
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