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 Plant Introduction, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington. D. C. 



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 Plant Breeding Investigations, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



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. HARPER, Professor of Botany, 

 Columbia University. New York, N. Y. 



H. HAROLD HUMfi, 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 

 Anatomy, Cornell Medical College, New York, 

 N. Y. 



HENRY B. WARD, Professor of Zoology, University 

 of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



GEORGE W. FIELD, Chairman. Massachusetts 

 Commissioners of Fisheries and Game, Boston, 



E. A. McILHENNY, Avery Island, La. 



Eugenics 



MRS. E. H. HARRIMAN, Honorary Chairman, 

 Founder of Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring 

 Harbor, L. I.; New York, N. Y. 



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, 

 Long 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 



E. E. SOUTHARD, Professor of Neuropathology, 

 Harvard Medical School, Director of the Boston 

 Psychopathic Hospital. 



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. (first vice- 

 chairman) . 



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 Medical 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. 



MRS. CHARLES GARY RUMSEY, New York, 

 N. Y. 



THE RIGHT REVEREND WALTER TAYLOR 

 SUMNER, Bishop of the Diocese of Oregon. 



PAUL POPENOE, General Secretary. American 

 Social Hygiene Association, New York. 



NATIONAL CAPITAL PHU, IttO., WASHINQTON, D. O. 



