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(Indiana) Reformatory, Indian hybrids (Elbow Woods, North Dakota), 

 and human stature and hare-lip studies in many localities. 



5. To cooperate with other institutions and with persons concerned 

 with eugenical study. Besides the field studies of the office, undertaken 

 independently by the members of its staff, there is a second type of 

 field investigation which has yielded rich returns, these latter studies 

 being conducted jointly by this office and other institutions. The 

 collaborating institutions have, for the most part, been hospitals for 

 the insane and institutions for the delinquent and the feeble-minded. 

 There have been 47 workers placed under the cooperative plan. Under 

 this scheme the Eugenics Record Office trains the worker, pays the 

 salary, provides the field worker's outfit, and criticizes the work; the 

 collaborating institution provides the maintenance and traveling- 

 expense money and has direct supervision over the work, indicating 

 the individual cases in the institution whose family histories shall be 

 worked out from the eugenical point of view by the field worker. The 

 reports are made in duplicate, one copy being retained by the collab- 

 orating institution and the second filed with the Eugenics Record 

 Office. These workers continue under the joint basis for one year, 

 at the expiration of which time the collaborating institution, having 

 learned the value of such work, is expected to, and as a matter of fact 

 generally does, provide for such investigation as a part of its permanent 

 work, independently of the support of the Eugenics Record Office. 

 The work has proven of value because by it not only have new and 

 permanent centers of eugenical study been opened, but the institutions 

 which continue studies of family history independently have quite 

 uniformly continued to deposit duplicate copies of their studies in the 

 files of the Eugenics Record Office, thus greatly enriching our archives. 



Before coming into the control of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, there had been accumulated 51,851 pages of first-hand manu- 

 script data prepared by the workers of this office. 



6. To investigate the matter of the inheritance of specific human traits. 

 The field studies above referred to have a double purpose: (1) to pro- 

 vide a permanent record of the family distribution of traits, with the 

 view to predicting their transmission in true pedigree fashion; (2) to 

 provide data for statistical analyses and for further investigations 

 into the manner of the hereditary transmission of given qualities. In 

 order to advance the collection of pedigree records adequate to these 

 studies the following schedules were prepared: 



A. General biological pedigree investigations. 



1. Record of family traits, a brief general record. 



2. Index to germ-plasm, two sets of the record of family traits to be filled out for the 



families of persons contemplating marrying each other, in order to judge of the 

 eugenical fitness of the proposed marriage. 



3. Genealogical cards — the so-called plan I, for a loose-leaf, indefinitely expansible 



family analysis more detailed than is called for by the record of family traits. 



