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had previous military training, gave military drill, not only to members 

 of the Eugenics Record Office and the Station for Experimental 

 Evolution, but also to men in the nearby village of Cold Spring Harbor. 

 He has served as captain of the company and is commissioned by the 

 State, which soon recognized his company as part of the State defense. 

 In consequence of the training received, those who have gone into 

 the service of the United States Army or Navy have been of especial 

 value in that service and have soon become officers. 



During the year Dr. Arthur H. Estabrook, field investigator, was 

 commissioned as first lieutenant and detailed on the staff of Major 

 R. M. Yerkes, at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, engaged in weeding out 

 mental defectives from the army. Mr. Tracy E. Tuthill, archivist, 

 has been commissioned first lieutenant in the Infantry Reserve Corps, 

 Plattsburg Barracks. Mr. Leslie E. Peckham, clerk in the adminis- 

 trative department, has joined the colors as private in the training 

 camp at Yaphank, New York. 



EUGENICS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION. 



On June 21 and 22 the sixth annual meeting of the Eugenics Research 

 Association was held at the Eugenics Record Office. This society, 

 now affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, is the outgrowth of the field studies of this office, in col- 

 laboration with the growing body of independent investigators. There 

 are approximately 250 persons in the United States now intimately 

 enough acquainted with the purpose of eugenical studies, or engaging 

 professionally in them, who are eligible to membership in this society. 

 Of this number 115 are actually associated with it. The president for 

 the year 1918-19 is Mr. Madison Grant. 



TRAINING COURSE FOR FIELD WORKERS. 



The training course for field workers began July 3 and ended 

 August 13. It was composed of 8 students, thus bringing the total 

 number of persons trained in the course up to 179. 



THE EUGENICAL NEWS 



The Eugenical News is pubhshed monthly (octavo, 8 pp.) by the 

 Eugenics Record Office. Its first number appeared January 1916. 

 At present 1,000 copies of each issue are printed. This periodical 

 serves a number of purposes: first, to keep the newly organized body 

 of eugenical workers in touch with each other; second, to review 

 matters of eugenical interest which appear currently in the scientific 

 magazines ; and third, to review and analyze current biographies in the 

 light of the relation between natural traits and juvenile promise on 

 the one hand, and adult performance on the other. 



