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known as “ Genetics, Incorporated.” 
officers of the corporation for the first year are as follows: 
President, Prof. Leshe C. Dunn, Columbia University ; Vice-Presi- 
dent, Prof. George H. Shull, Princeton University; Secretary- 
Treasurer, Dr. C. Stuart Gager, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The 
other incorporators were Dr. Charles B. Davenport, Station for 
Experimental Evolution of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 
old Spring Harbor, Long Island, and Dr. Donald F. Jones, 
geneticist, State Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, 
its 
The incorporators and the 
Connecticut. 
At its first meeting, on June 2, 1939, the Board of Directors 
passed a vote of appreciation and thanks for the services of the 
law firm of Mudge, Stern, Williams and Tucker, and, in particular, 
to Mr. Harlowe I. Bowes, of that firm, for the legal services and 
advice so generously rendered in connection with all the steps and 
work required to bring about the incorporation of “ Genetics, In- 
corporated,” including the preparation of the Certificate of Incor- 
poration, the first draft of the By-Laws and other legal papers; 
for the filing of the Certificate of Incorporation, for the drawing 
up of a new “ Agreement” with the Corporation, for the carrying 
on of necessary correspondence, for stenographic services, for con- 
ferences and consultations, and for the use of its conference room 
for the two required meetings of the members of the Board. 
Tt is a pleasure to make acknowledgment here of these generous 
services with the thanks and appreciation of the Governing Com- 
mittee and the director of the Botanic Garden. 
Incorporation made it necessary for the Garden to enter into 
an “ Agreement” with ‘Genetics, Incorporated,” to take the 
place of the old “ Agreement” with the Editorial Board of 
Genetics. In the new “ Agreement,” as in the old, the business 
management of Geuetics is vested in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 
which appoints the business manager, who is an officer of the 
Garden and not of Genetics, Incorporated. The present director 
of the Garden, now serving as business manager of Genetics, was 
also elected secretary-treasurer of the Corporation. The full text 
of the new “ Agreement”? may be found as Appendix 9, beginning 
on page 139, 
