REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT, 1918. 17 



"In December 1912 the valuable adjunct of a board of expert 

 directors of the Office was organized, consisting of Alexander Graham 

 Bell (chairman), William H. Welch (vice-chairman), Irving Fisher, 

 Lewellys F. Barker, and E. E. Southard, with Charles B. Davenport as 

 secretary. A year later T. H. Morgan was added to this board. Dr. 

 Davenport has served continuously as resident director and H. H. 

 Laughlin as superintendent of the Office. In the meantime, many 

 investigations have been made, extensive records have been collected 

 and classified, and many pubUcations have been issued, among the 

 more noteworthy of which latter are three volumes published by the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington. The permanent staff of the 

 Office now includes 14 persons and its annual budget amounts to 

 $25,000. There are 6 buildings on the land, namely, a dwelling house, 

 a fire-proof office, a stable, a garage, a pumping plant, and a water 

 tower. 



"Although Mrs. Harriman has furnished the main financial support 

 of the Office from its foundation and the sole support in recent years, 

 other friends of the enterprise have generously given aid for mainte- 

 nance and for certain special purposes.* 



"Since October 1915 Mrs. Harriman has expressed a desire to place 

 the Eugenics Record Office on a more permanent basis and has offered 

 the real estate and the records of the establishment, along with a gift 

 of $300,000 in securities, to the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 

 The acceptance of this offer was recommended to the Board of Trustees 

 of the Institution by resolution of the Executive Committee adopted 

 at its meeting of November 19, 1917. This recommendation was 

 unanimously approved by the Board of Trustees at their meeting 

 of December 14, 1917, and the President was authorized to arrange 

 for formal receipt of the securities and a deed for the real estate 

 involved. Accordingly, the Chairman of the Finance Committee 

 and the President of the Institution received from Mrs. Harriman at 

 her residence, 1 East 69th Street, New York, N. Y., on Friday, Decem- 



*When the Eugenics Record Office was turned over to the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington an inventory showed property of the estimated value of $140,062.61, distributed as 

 follows: real estate, $80,680; furniture and equipment, $7,488.82; archives, $45,209.98; 

 Ubrary, $1,606.85; supplies, $5,076.96. 



The records also showed that the total amount spent by Mrs. E. H. Harriman on the 

 Eugenics Record Office, including cost of property, new buildings, improvements, and 

 maintenance, from October 1, 1910, to December 31, 1917 (data supplied by Robert R. 

 Dunnett, auditor of the estate of E. H. Harriman), was $246,832.82. Other sources and 

 items of income received prior to December 31, 1917, are the following: John D. Rockefeller, 

 for field work, $21,650; Bleecker Van Wagenen, for pubUcations, $1,737.32; W. E. D. 

 Stokes, for field work, $200; Mrs. Lucy W. James, for field lecturer, $2,500. 



The total cost of the enterprise up to December 31, 1917, is therefore $272,920.14. 

 Deducting the amount of the inventory of January 1, 1918, it is seen that the entire cost 

 of the researches of the Eugenics Record Office from its establishment on October 1, 1910, 

 to December 31, 1917, a period of seven years and three months, is $132,857.53. 



