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COLLABORATORS. 



The Eugenics Record Office has come to rely a great deal upon the 

 assistance of collaborators who have furnished large amounts of manu- 

 script material. Among those who have contributed this year are 

 the following: Whittier State School (California), Dr. F. C. Nelles, 

 superintendent, and Bureau of Juvenile Research at Whittier, Dr. 

 J. H. WilHams, director; Dr. David F. Weeks, superintendent Skill- 

 man State Village for Epileptics; Dr. F. C. Haviland, superintendent 

 State Hospital, Middletown, Connecticut; Professor W. S. Monroe, 

 State Normal School, Montclair, New Jersey; Professor E. Whittaker, 

 Elmira College; Professor L. S. Ross, Des Moines; Professor F. S. 

 Chapin, Smith College; Dr. L. W. Rapeer, Washington, D. C; Miss 

 Rosemary F. Mullen, Washington Irving High School, New York; 

 Professor J. E. Peabody, Morris High School, New York; Dr. R. C. 

 Benedict, Stuyvesant High School; Dr. Elizabeth F. Byrnes, Girls' 

 High School; Professor W. M. Barrows, Ohio State University; Pro- 

 fessor A. J. Goldfarb, College of the City of New York. 



TRAINING CLASS. 



In the training class for eugenical field workers 10 young women 

 completed their training. Of these 5 were from New York State and 

 4 of these took the State examination for admission to the civil-service 

 list as an entrance to State hospital service, as field worker. They 

 have all received appointments. Of the others, two are already 

 appointed at Letchworth Village, New York, one at Spring City, 

 Pennsylvania, and one at Washington University Medical School. One 

 is awaiting an expected appointment. The remaining one has married. 



The following clinics were attended : At the State hospitals for the 

 insane at Kings Park, Central Islip,and Ward's Island; at institutions 

 for the feeble-minded at Letchworth Village, Randall's Island, and 

 Brunswick Home, Amityville, Long Island; at the Manhattan Eye 

 and Ear Hospital; at the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled, New 

 York; at the State Hospital for Crippled Children at West Haverstraw, 

 New York; and at the House of Refuge, New York. The medical 

 examinations at Ellis Island were visited. Actual field-work was 

 done at Commack, Long Island; and with the families of inmates of 

 the Kings Park Hospital. Professor H. H. Wilder, of Smith College, 

 and Dr. Frederick L. Reichert, of Johns Hopkins University Medical 

 School, collaborated in the training of this class. 



ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS. 



In accordance with the recommendation of the Executive Committee 

 of the Institution at its meeting of October 15, 1920, the Board of 

 Trustees of the Institution at its meeting of December 10, 1920, voted 

 that a Department of Genetics should be organized by the consolida- 

 tion of the Department of Experimental Evolution and the Eugenics 

 Record Office, and that "the Department of Experimental Evolution 



