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During 1999 Council meetings were held as follows:
9 March - 9 Fellows present
15 June - 11 Fellows present
9 November - 11 Fellows present
Sub-committees of Council conducted their business by post and telephone. Six new Fellows and four new Members were elected during the year and there were five losses which included the loss, by death, of the Institute’s longest serving Fellow Naomi Mitchison (writer and critic and sister of JBS Haldane) who had joined the Eugenics Society whilst a student at Oxford in 1918.
The publication of the Institute’s 1998 conference proceedings Human Pedigree Studies attracted some favourable notices. This, and the previous volumes, Essays in the History of Eugenics and Marie Stopes, Eugenics and the English Birth Control Movement continue to sell satisfactorily. Population Crises and Population Cycles by Claire and W.M.S. Russell, comprising original articles first appearing in this Newsletter, was produced as an occasional publication of the Institute.
Council was gratified to receive, from Marie Stopes International, a report on the second year’s activities of the birth control project in Viet Nam which is being funded from the Institute’s Birth Control Trust. An abridged version of this report will appear in the September Newsletter. From 2000 Council will be supporting a further Marie Stopes International birth control project in India. Council was also pleased to approve payment of a small sum of money to Dr Caroline Deys for the purchase of gynaecological instruments for a birth control clinic in Africa with which she is associated.