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The Journal of Heredirx' 



\'i(C-Pri\siilnits 



Dr. Cesarc Artoni, C'a^liari, Ital\-. 



Dr. KristiiH' B()nne\ic', Institute for 

 Hert'clity Investigation, rni\-ersity of 

 Krisiiania. Norway. 



Major Leonard Darwin London. 



Dr. \'. Dellino, Buenos Aires, Argen- 

 t in.i. 



Dr. L. M. Last, Har\ard rni\ersity, 

 C'ami)ridge, Mass. 



M. Cianiio. Director Arcliaology and 

 AntliropologN- Cio\ernnient of Mex- 

 ico, Mexico ('it\-. 



Sir Auckland (ieddes, Hr.'tisli Anihas- 

 .sador to the I'niled States Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Dr. Corrado (iini, Rome, Itah'. 



Dr. V. (iiuffrida-Ruggeri, I'liiw of 

 Naples. Italy. 



Hon. Mr. Justice hVank L. Hodgins, 

 Supreme Court of Ontario, Toronto, 

 ('ana(hi. 



Dr. H. S. Jennings. Johns Hopkins 

 l'ni\ersit\-, Baltimore. Md. 



Dr. Ci. H. Knihhs, Melbourne. Austra- 

 lia. 



Dr. Hermann Lundborg. I'ppsala, Swe- 

 den. 



Dr. L. Manou^rier, Paris. I'Vance. 



M. L. March, Paris, France. 



Dr. Jon .Alfred Mjoen. W'inderen 

 Laboratorium. Norwax'. 



Dr. T. H. Morgan. Columbia I nixcr- 

 sit>-, New ^'ork Cit\-. 



Dr. R. Pearl. Johns Hojjkins l'ni\er- 

 sity, Baltimore, Md. 



Dr. Ldmond Perrier, Director, Jardin 

 des Plantes. Paris. 



Dr. Lrnesto Pestalozza, Rome, ItaK'. 



Prof. R. V'ogt, rni\'ersit\' of Copen- 

 hagen, Denmark. 



Prof. N. W'ille, I'nixcrsitN- of Krisii- 

 ania, Norwa>'. 

 In the first .section of the ( "ongress 



will be presented, on the one hand, the 



results of research in the domain of 



pure genetics in animals and plants. 



on the other, studies in himian heri'd- 



it>-. The a|)plication to man of the 



laws f)f heredity and the ph\siolog\- 



of reproduction as worked out on some 



of the lower animals will be presented 

 The .second section will consider 



factors which influence the human 



famiK' and their control; the rclalion 



of fecimdit\- of diffen-nt strain- and 

 families and the cjuestion of .social and 

 legal control of such fecimdity; also 

 the (litTerential mortalit>' of the eugen- 

 icall\- superior and inferior stocks and 

 the influence upon such mortality of 

 special factors, such as war and epi- 

 demics and endemic diseases. First in 

 importance among the agencies for 

 the impro\ement of the race is the 

 marriage relation, with its anteiedent 

 mate selection. .Such selection should 

 be influenced b\- natural sentiment and 

 b\- a knowledge of the significant fam- 

 ily traits of the |)roposed consorts and 

 of the method of inheritance of these 

 traits. In this connection will be 

 brought forward facts of impro\'ed 

 and unimproved faiuilies and of the 

 persistence, generation after genera- 

 tion, of the best as well as the worst 

 characteristics. 



The third section will concern itself 

 with the topic of hiunan racial differ- 

 ences, with the sharp distinction be- 

 tween racial characteristics and the 

 imnatural associations often created 

 l)\- political and national boundaries. 

 In this connection will be considered 

 the facts of the migration of races, 

 the inHuence of racial characteristics 

 on himian histor>'. the teachings of the 

 past with bearings on the policies of 

 the future. Certain prejudices directed 

 toward existing races will be remo\ed 

 when allowance is made for the influ- 

 ence of their social and educational 

 emironment. and their fimdamentally 

 sound and strong racial characteristics 

 are brought to light. On the other 

 hand, limits to dexelopment of certain 

 races and the inalteral)ilit\' through 

 education .md enxironmeiit of the 

 fimdamental characteristics of certain 

 stocks will be considered. I'inally the 

 advantages and disachantages of the 

 mingling of races, of imions which 

 ha\'e pro\'ed fateful to social progress, 

 should be discussed. In this section 

 will be presented the n-sults of research 

 upon raci.d mixture in rcl.ition to 

 lunuan hislor\-. Also the topics of 

 racial differences in di.seases and ps\- 

 chology will be taken U|). The histor\- 

 of race migrations and their inliuence 



