The American Genetic Association 



OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION 



President, DAVID FAIRCHILD, 



Agricultural Explorer in Charge of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, Bureau 



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



Vice-President, W. E. CASTLE, 

 Professor of Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., and Research Associate 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Secretary, GEORGE M. ROMMEL, 



Chief of Animal Husbandry division, Bureau of Animal Industry, Department 



of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Treasurer, CORCORAN THOM, 

 Vice-president American Security and Trust Company, Washington, D. C. 



Editor, PAUL B. POPENOE, Washin«;ton, D. C. 



COUNCIL 



Alexander Graham Bell W. E. Castle Bleecker Van Wagenen 



O. F. Cook David Fairchild Arthur W. Gilbert 



W. C. RucKER George M. Rommel T. H. Kearney 



COMMITTEES ON RESEARCH 

 Plants 



Chairman, ARTHUR W. GILBERT. 

 Professor of Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithaca, Xew York. 



Vice-chairman, LOUIE H. SMITH. 

 Professor of Plant Breeding. University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



Secretary, HERBERT J. WEBBER, 



Professor of Plant Breeding. University of California, Director of Citrus Substation and 



Dean of Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture, Riverside, Calif. 



Animals 



Chairman, W. S. ANDERSON'. 



Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry, State University of Kentu:ky, and in charge of 



Horse Breeding. Kentucky Experiment Station. Lexington, Ky. 



Vice-Chairman, LEON J. COLE. 

 Associate Professor of Experimental Breeding. University of Wisconsin, Madison.^Wis. 



Secretary, JOHN DETLEFSEN. 

 As.sistant Professor of Genetics. University of Illinois. Urbana. 111. 



FAigenics 



Chairman. BLEECKER VAN WAGENEN. 

 Trustee of the Vineland. N. J.. Training School, New York. N. Y. 



Vice-Chairman, Dr. ADOLF MEYER. 

 Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University, and Director of Henry Phipps' 

 Pyschiatric Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. 



Secretary. CHARLES B. DAVENPORT. 

 Director Department of Experimental Evolution (Carnegie Institution of Washington), Cold 

 Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. 



