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ments on the transmission through heredity of acquired characters and 

 of diseases, have received due regard. 



Attention is also devoted to the question as to whether the nations of 

 the highest culture are increasingly degenerating. The dying out of 

 certain distinguished families and the decrease in number of those fit 

 for military service is taken into account. The special toxic influence 

 of alcohol and syphilis on germ plasm as well as the influence on the 

 race of inbreeding and race-crossing is considered. Finally, the signif- 

 icance of the intentional prevention of conception, or the Neomalthusia- 

 nismus on the race problem is shown. For further details we must 

 refer to the very comprehensive guide, published by Max v. Gruber and 

 Ernst Eudin, for use in this group of exhibits. This book possesses a 

 value of its own, beyond its mere usefulness as a guide through the 

 momentous group of exhibits. 



Sport Division 



The organization of the sport division of the International Hygiene 

 Exposition, Dresden, 1911, marks an important epoch in the history of 

 bodily exercises. A rigid classification of sports according to physio- 

 logical principles has, for the first time, been rigidly carried out. The 

 scientific committee is represented by such men as Professor Zuntz, 

 Berlin, Professor Schmidt, Bonn, E. von SchenckendorfP, Gorlitz, and 

 many other eminent and learned men. The so-called German Sport 

 Committee stands under the protectorate of the German Committee of 

 Olympic Games : Esz. von Podbielski, U. von Oertzen and Dr. Martin, 

 presidents, and with the chairmen and secretaries of the large German 

 societies as members. The real working committee is the organization 

 committee under the presidency of Dr. Becker. The special divisions 

 under this organization committee are: academies, fishing, automobile 

 and motor sports, aviation, boxing, ice and snow sports, fencing, women- 

 sports, golf, hockey, chase and shooting, bowling, lawn-tennis, military 

 wheel-field-riding sports, roller skating, rowing, swimming, sailing. 



Ideal Figdees of Antiquity. 



