The American Genetic Association 
President, DAVID FAIRCHILD. 
Vice-President, W. E. CASTLE. 
Secretary, GEORGE M. ROMMEL. 
Treasurer, CORCORAN THOM, 
Vice-Pres. 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. 
COUNCIL 
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, Chairman of the Board of Scientific Directors of the Eugenics Record 
Office, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I.; Washington, D. C 
W. E. CASTLE, Professor of Zoology, Harvard University, and Research Associate of the Carnegie Institution 
of Washington; Cambridge, Mass. 
BLEECKER VAN WAGENEN, Trustee of the Vineland, N. J., Training School; New York, N. Y. 
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 
ARTHUR W. GILBERT, Professor of Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
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. 
DR. W. C. RUCKER, Assistant Surgeon General, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. 
COMMITTEES ON RESEARCH 
Plant Breeding 
ARTHUR W. GILBERT, Chairman, Professor of 
Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
G. N. COLLINS, Vice-chairman, Botanist, Bureau 
of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture, 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. 
WALTER T. SWINGLE, Physiologist in Charge of 
Crop Physiology and Breeding Investigations, 
Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
ROBERT A. HARPER, Professor of Botany, 
Columbia University, New York, N. Y. 
H. HAROLD HUME, Glen Saint Mary Nurseries, 
Glen Saint Mary, Fla. 
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 of 
Anatomy, Cornell Medical College, New York, 
N.Y 
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GEORGE W. FIELD, Chairman Massachusetts 
Commissioners of Fisheries and Game, Boston, 
Mass. 
HENRY B. WARD, Professor of Zoology, University 
of Illinois, Urbana, III. 
DAVID WHITCOMB, Seattle, Wash. 
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. 
DR. FREDERICK ADAMS WOODS, Chairman, 
Lecturer on Biology, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Boston, Mass. 
DR. ADOLF MEYER, Vice-chairman, Professor of 
Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University, and Direc- 
tor of Henry te Psychiatric Clinic, Johns 
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. 
CHARLES B. DAVENPORT, Secretary, Director 
Department of Experimental Evolution (Carnegie 
Institution of Washington), Cold 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. 
DR. AUGUST HOCH, Director Psychiatric Insti- 
tute, Ward's Island, N. Y. 
DR. A. J. ROSANOFF, Resident Physician, Kings’ 
Park State Hospital, Long Island, N. Y. 
DR. THOMAS W. SALMON, Medical Director, 
National Committee for Mental Hygiene, New 
York City. 
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND EXTENSION 
DAVID STARR JORDAN, Chancellor of Leland 
Stanford Junior University, California (chairman). 
DR. RUPERT BLUE, Surgeon General, ay 
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). 
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 CUDDEBACK FOLKMAR, Super- 
intendent of Women's Clinic Auxiliary, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 
MRS. WORTHAM JAMES, New York, N. Y. 
MRS. CHARLES ARY RUMSEY, New York, 
Nurs 
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. 
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