The American Genetic Association 
President, DAVID FAIRCHILD. 
Vice-President, W. E. CASTLE. 
Secretary, GEORGE M. ROMMEL. 
Treasurer, BOYD TAYLOR. 
Washington Loan & Trust Co. 
Washington, D. C. 
First President, JAMES WILSON. 
Former Secretary of Agriculture. 
First Secretary, WILLET M. HAYS, 
Former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. 
Managing Editor, OLIVER OLSON 
COUNCIL 
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, Director, Genealogical Record Office, Washington, D. C. 
W. E. CASTLE, Professor of Zoology, Harvard University, and Research Associate of the Carnegie Institution 
of Washington; Cambridge, Mass. 
G. N. COLLINS, Botanist, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
O. F. COOK, Bionomist in Charge of Office of Crop Acclimatization, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
DAVID FAIRCHILD, Agricultural Explorer in Charge of Foreign Seed and Pl i 
Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, WachiautonsD: Gc end Pisek te pdaeaos, Boe 
GEORGE M. ROMMEL, Chief of Animal Husbandry Division, Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C 
T. H. KEARNEY, Physiologist in Charge, Alkali and Drought-Resistant Pl i igati 
Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, estate D "at Bereta toe 
W. C. RUCKER, Chief Medical Adviser, Bureau of War Risk Insurance, Washington, D. C. 
FREDERICK ADAMS WOODS, Lecturer on Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
COMMITTEES ON RESEARCH 
Plant Breeding 
WALTER T. SWINGLE, Chairman, Physiologist 
in Charge of Crop Physiology and Breeding 
Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
G. N. COLLINS, Vice-Chairman, Botanist, Bureau of 
Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. 
HERBERT J. WEBBER, Secretary, Professor of 
Plant Breeding, University of California, Director 
of Citrus Substation and Dean of Graduate School 
of Tropical Agriculture, Riverside, Cal. 
ROBERT A. ARPER, Professor of Botany, 
Columbia University, New York, N. Y. 
H. HAROLD HUME, Glen Saint Mary Nurseries, 
Glen Saint Mary, Fla. 
R. A. EMERSON, Professor of Plant Breeding, 
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
WALTER VAN FLEET, Plant Breeder, U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture. 
Animal Breeding 
T. S. PALMER, Chairman, Assistant Chief of Bio- 
logical Survey, Washington, D. C. 
LEON J. COLE, Vice-chairman, Professor of Genetics, 
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 
CHARLES R. STOCKARD, Secretary, Professor of 
ems Cornell Medical College, New York, 
HENRY B. WARD, Prof f Z iversi 
a liicacie: Oetase: Minep nee oot begs. 
GEORGE W. FIELD, Chairman, Massachusetts 
Commissioners of Fisheries and Game, Boston, 
Mass. 
E. A. McILHENNY, Avery Island, La. 
Eugenics 
MRS. E. H. HARRIMAN, Honorary Chairman, 
Founder of Eugenics Record Office, Cold ing 
H r, L. I.; New York, N. Y. a Sa 
FREDERICK ADAMS WOODS, _ Chairman, 
Lecturer on Biology, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology. 
ADOLF MEYER, Vice-chairman, Professor of 
Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University, and Direc- 
tor of Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Johns 
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md 
CHARLES B. DAVENPORT, Secretary, Director 
Department of Experimental Evolution (Carnegie 
Institution of Washington), Cold Springs Harbor, 
ng Island, N. Y. 
HOMER FOLKS, Secretary, State Charities Aid 
Association, New York City. 
THOMAS W. SALMON, Medical Director, 
National Committee for Mental Hygiene, New 
York City 
EDWARD L. THORNDIKE, Professor of Educa- 
tional Psychology, Columbia University. 
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND EXTENSION 
TALCOTT WILLIAMS, Chairman, Dean of the 
School of Journalism, Columbia University, New 
York, N. Y. ¥ 
RUPERT BLUE, Surgeon General, U. S. Public 
Health Service, Washington, D. C. (lirst vice- 
chairman). 4 
MRS. JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, former National 
Chairman, Woman's Welfare Department, Na- 
tional Civic Federation, New York, N. Y. (second 
vice-chairman), 
W. C. RUCKER, Chief Medica! Adviser, Bureau of 
War Risk Insurance, Washington, D. C. (secre- 
tary). 
STEPHEN P. DUGGAN, Professor of Education, 
College of the City of New York. 
ELIZABETH E. FARRELL, Inspector of Ungraded 
Classes, Public Schools of New York City. 
IRVING FISHER, Professor of Political Economy, 
Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 
ELNORA CUDDEBACK FOLKMAR, Superin- 
tendent of Women’s Clinic Auxiliary, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 
MRS. WORTHAM JAMES, New York, N. Y. 
i CHARLES CARY RUMSEY, New York, 
THE RIGHT REVEREND WALTER TAYLOR 
SUMNER, Bishop of the Diocese of Oregon. 
PAUL POPENOE, General Secretary, American 
Social Hygiene Association, New York. 
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