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Summary of material added to the archives during the current nine months. 



Index cards 75,290 Manuscript material — continued. 



Persons-index 350 Genealogical data cards 146 



Manuscript material : Biographies 44 



Field reports 1,326 pp. Collective biographies 5 



Musical schedules 300 pp. Biographical pamphlets 2 



Special traits 322 pp. Genealogies 8 



Records of family traits 200 Genealogical pamphlets 2 



Family distribution of personal Town histories 3 



traits 5 Church histories 3 



Individual analysis cards 34 Vital records 9 



FIELD STUDIES— COOPERATIVE PLAN. 



Miss Bertha Pfister was employed as field worker with the Eastern Pennsyl- 

 vania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic, Spring City, 

 Pennsylvania. 



Miss Clara P. Pond conducted the field investigations for the psychiatric 

 clinic in collaboration with Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, until this 

 clinic was closed for the duration of the war, July 15. 



Miss Ethel H. Thayer continued her work at Letchworth Village, Thiells, 

 New York. 



Miss Mildred S. Covert carried out cooperative field studies with the State 

 Mental Hospital, Provo, Utah, until April 30. 



For the forthcoming year negotiations have been completed whereby this 

 cooperative work will be carried on at (1) Foxborough State Hospital for 

 Inebriates, Foxborough, Massachusetts; (2) Central Islip State Hospital, 

 Central Islip, New York. 



INDEPENDENT FIELD INVESTIGATIONS. 



Dr. A. H, Estabrook, until called to the colors, continued his investigations 

 on the Tribe of Ishmael in Indiana. Since this time the work has been kept 

 aHve through the activities of Mrs. Estabrook, who is able to give a consider- 

 able part of her time to the study. 



Dr. Howard J. Banker continued his special family-history studies in the 

 Genealogical Library, New York City. 



Dr. Elizabeth B. Muncey continued special pedigree studies at Cold Spring 

 Harbor and at Washington, D. C. 



On October 1, 1917, Miss Louise A. Nelson succeeded Lieut. Tracy E. 

 Tuthill as archivist of the manuscript records. 



On November 15, 1917, the Director organized a department of printed 

 archives and placed Dr. Wilhelmine E. Key in charge. She has indexed 68 

 genealogies and town histories. 



CLIPPINGS. 



Clippings bearing on eugenics, with special reference to biographical 

 and family-history data, are accumulated and indexed by this office. 

 The 5 by 8 inch manila cards on which these clippings are pasted are 

 duly indexed in the files of the office. 



STERILIZATION STUDIES. 



The designation ''committee to study and investigate the best 

 practical means for cutting off the defective germ-plasm in the human 

 population" of the old American Breeders Association, which prepared 

 Bulletins Nos. 10a and 106 of the Eugenics Record Office, has been 



