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exceeding the capacity of our archive room, it became necessary to remove 

 some of the fihng cases to the basement. They are thus rendered relative!}' 

 inaccessible and their distance from the main files adds to the expense of 

 administration. 



An estimate of the extent of the records and their index, made as of Septem- 

 ber 1, 1922, is as follows: 878,971 cards in the index: 1,496 books in archives. 

 The field reports (F) number 53,998 sheets; the special traits file (A) 23,181 

 sheets; the records of family traits (R) and (M) files, 4,679 parts. 



During the summer we had the assistance of a number of college students 

 in preparation of material for the archives and in the analysis of records. 

 Misses Laura Craytor, Esther Powell, and Katherine Belzer collated data on 

 racial social traits, eye and hair color, and somatic proportions of idiot chil- 

 dren. 



Collection of Data. 



Excellent progress has been made this year in securing the cooperation of 

 college teachers in introducing into their courses of biology, sociology, and 

 psychology the exercise of filling out family-history schedules. The Depart- 

 ment offers to furnish the blank schedules in duplicate, with the understand- 

 ing that one copy filled out will be deposited at the Eugenics Record Office. 

 The number of collaborating teachers in this service during the year was 23, 

 too large to acknowledge adequately individually. The number of records 

 of family traits thus supplied totals 552. The teachers and students have 

 found the exercise a valuable one; for the most part the students have evi- 

 dently done the work with thoroughness and accuracy. 



Especial mention must be made of the gift by Dr. Harold Bowditch of 

 manuscript anthropometric records and a number of composite photographs 

 made by his father, the late Dr. Henry P. Bowditch, Professor of Physiology 

 at the Harvard Medical School and a pioneer in biometry in America. Dr. 

 Bowditch also sent us a number of rare biometric books from his father's 

 library and secured the gift from Mrs. Charles P. Bowditch of her husband's 

 genealogy of the Pickering family. From Colonel D. Cornman, U. S. Army, 

 were received 2,000 manuscript pages of Leighton genealogy and 11 printed 

 genealogies and town histories. Professor W. M. Goldsmith, of Southwestern 

 College, Kansas, secured for us 938 records and presented an exhibit, "The 

 Catlin Mark." Dr. R. C. Benedict secured for us 153 eye and hair color 

 schedules and many data for a further study of racial social traits. Mr. Albert 

 Wiggam secured for the Office 250 twin schedules and numerous photographs. 

 The largest collection of records of family traits was one of 268 sent by Pro- 

 fessor W. M. Barrows, of the Ohio State University. The Whittier State 

 School has continued to send carbons of all their extremely valuable case 

 and family histories. 



Training Corps. 



Fifteen women and three men were trained for eugenical field work June 

 28 to August 8. Of these, 8 have secured or are considering appointments in 

 eugenical field work or related positions. To date 233 persons have received 

 this training, which consists chiefly of laboratory work and clinics in institu- 

 tions. This body of trained workers has not only contributed greatly to the 

 building up of our records, but in other respects has proved indispensable to 

 eugenical research. 



