The American Genetic Association 



President. DAVID FAIRCHILD. 



VUt-Presidenl, W. E. CASTLE. 



Secretary. GEORGE M. ROMMEL. 



Trtasurer. CORCORAN THOM. 



Vice-Pre«. American Security & Trust Co. 



Washington, D. C. 



First President. JAMES WILSON. 



Former Secretary of Agriculture. 



First Secretary, WILLET M. HAYS. 



Former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. 



Editor, PAUL POPENOE. 

 (Now in the National Army.) 



COUNCIL 



ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, Director, Genealogical Record Office. Washington. D. C. 



W. E. CASTLE. Professor of Zoology. Harvard University, and Research Aijsociate of the Carnegie loatitution 

 of Washintrton; Cambridge. Mass. 



G. N. COLLINS, Botanist. Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Washington, D. C. 



O. P. 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. Assistant Surgeon General. U. S. Public Health Service. Washington, D. C. 



FREDERICK ADAMS WOODS. Lecturer on Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Brookline. 

 Mass. 



COMMITTEES ON RESEARCH 



Plant Breeding 



G. N. COLLINS, Chairman, Botanist. Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C. 



WALTER T. SWINGLE. Vice-Chairman. Physiolo- 

 gist in Charge of Crop Physiology and Breeding 

 Investigations. 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 HUME. Glen Saint Mary Nurseries. 

 Glen Saint Mary, Fla. 



R. A. EMERSON. Professor of Plant Breeding. 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Animal Breeding 



T. S. PALMER, Chairman, Assistant Chief of Bio- 

 logical Survey. Washington. D. C. 



LEON J. COLE, Vice-chairman. Professor of Experi- 

 mental Breeding. University of Wisconsin, Madi- 

 son, Wis. 



CHARLES R. STOCKARD, Secretary. Professor ol 

 Anatomy. Cornell Medical College. New York, 

 N. Y. 



GEORGE W. FIELD. Chairman Massachusetts 

 Commissioners of Fisheries and Game, Boston, 

 Mass. 



HENRY B. WARD. Professor of Zoology. University 



of Illinois. Urbana. 111. 

 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. NY. 

 FREDERICK ADAMS WOODS, Chairman. 



Lecturer on Biology. Massachusetts Institute of 



Technology, Brookline. Mass. 

 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. D.AVENPORT. Secretary. Director 



Department of Experimental Evolution (Carnegie 



Institution of Washington). C^ld Spring Harbor, 



Long Island, N. Y. 

 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. 

 HOMER FOLKS. Secretary, State Charities Aid 



Association, New York City. 

 AUGUST HOCH. Director Psychiatric Institute. 



Ward's Island. N. Y. 

 A. J. ROSANOFF. Resident Physician. Kings' 



Park State Hospital. Long Island, N. Y. 

 THOMAS W. SALMON. Medical Director. 



National Committee for Mental Hygiene, New 



York City. 



COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND EXTENSION 



DAVID STARR TORDAN. Chancellor of Leiand 

 Stanford Junior University. California (chairman) 



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-chainnan) . 



W. C. RUCKER. Assistant Surgeon General. 

 U. S. Public Health Service, Washington. D. C. 

 (secretary). 



IRVING FISHER. Professor of PoUtical 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. 



TALCOTT WILLIAMS. Dean of the School of 

 Journalism, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. 



NATIONAL CAPITAL flllSt, INC.. KAIHINaiON, B. C. 



