THE EUGENICS COMMITTEE 



To aid in guiding public interest in eugenics along scientific lines, and to 

 increase this interest by propaganda, the President of the Association has 

 appointed the following as members of the Committee on Education and Ex- 

 tension, which was created by the council of this association last winter: 



David Starr Jordan, Chancellor of Leland Stanford Junior University, California 

 (chainnan). 



Dr. 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, National Civic Federation, New York, N. Y. (second vice-chairman). 



Dr. W. C. Rucker, Assistant Surgeon General, U. S. Public Health Service, 

 Washington, D. C. (secretary). 



Irving Fisher. Professor of Political Economy, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 



Dr. Elnora Cuddiback Folkmar, Superintendent of Women's Auxiliary Clinic, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey, New York, N. Y. 



The Very Reverend Walter Taylor Sumner, Dean of the Cathedral of St. 

 Peter and St. Paul, Chicago, 111. 



Talcott Williams, Dean of the School of Journalism, Columbia Universitv, New 

 York, N. Y. 



Mrs. Huntington Wilson, Washington, D. C. 



The letter of invitation sent to those selected as members (all of whom have 

 accepted) states that "The object of this committee will be to promote the 

 education of public sentiment throughout the country, in order that a 'eugenic 

 conscience' may be formed in as many individuals as possible; to oppose pre- 

 mature legislation and, if necessary, to suggest desirable legislation, on the 

 basis of scientific data. The work of this committee will be focused in the 

 organ of the association, The Journal of Heredity." 



The committee expects to adopt every means possible to further the interests 

 of conservative and constructive eugenics, but its principal work, for some 

 time at least, will i:)robably be the formation of local societies for the study of 

 the subject, the arrangement of ])ublic meetings and lectures by men of 

 science, and the publication of results of research which have direct application 

 to the {problems of human heredity. The committee will in this way supplement 

 the Committee on Research in Eugenics of the American Genetic Association, 

 and will also, it is hoped, occupy a new field, which has hitherto been left prac- 

 tically unoccupied, but in which there is the j^ossibility of doing a great deal 

 of useful work. 



International Eugenics Committee 



At the request of ihe Permanent International Eugenics Committee, whose 

 function is to decide the time and place of each International Congress, and to act 

 in a general deliberative and advisory ca])acity. President Fairchild of the American 

 Genetic Association has ai)pointed the following members to represent the United 

 States of America: David Starr Jordan, Dr. Frederick Adams Woods, Dr. Rupert 

 Blue, Charles B. Daven])ort. 



Major Leonard Darwin is jjresident of this committee, and Mrs. Gotto honorary 

 secretary. The next meeting is to be held in London August 8. Belgium, Den- 

 mark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway and Sweden are rejirescnted on it, in addi- 

 tion to I'2ngland and America. 

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