The British Society for Population Studies, is a

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in the

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dedicated to promoting the scientific study of biological, economic, historical, medical, social and other disciplines connected with human populations. It is a member of the

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. According to Pauline M. H. Mazumdar, "the British Population Society was formed in 1929. It was a small group of twenty, mainly distinguished academics: economists, statisticians, sociologists and biologists. Fourteen of the twenty were members of the Eugenics Society: their high academic status emphasises the high standing of the Eugenics Society among intellectuals. The Chairman was Sir Bernard Mallet, KCB, Registrar-General from 1909 to 1920, President of the

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and President of the

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; other members of the Eugenics Society included the statistician R.A.Fisher, the biologist

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, the economist J.M.Keynes, the anthropologist G.L.F.Pitt-Rivers, and the sociologist A.M.Carr-Saunders, a ViceChairman of the Society. Those not members of the Eugenics Society included

Sir William Beveridge William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, (5 March 1879 – 16 March 1963) was a British economist and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician who was a Progressivism, progressive and social reformer who played a central role in designing ...

, the Director of the London School of Economics, and Bronislaw Malinowski, the anthropologist. The British Population Society had its offices within the Eugenics Society’s rooms. It was affiliated with the International Union for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems, whose headquarters were at the Institute for Biological Research at

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, but whose Chairman was the animal geneticist Frank A.E.Crew of Edinburgh, a member of the British group and of the Eugenics Society."

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