318 GENETICS 



"it is science in a hurry, eagerness to go to market 

 with one's crops before they are fully ripe." 



The most systematic and effective attempt in this 

 country to collect reliable data concerning heredity 

 in man has been initiated under the leadership of 

 Dr. C. B. Davenport in connection with what is now 

 the Department of Genetics of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington. This began in 1910 as the Eu- 

 genics Record Office, with a staff of expert field and 

 office workers and an adequate equipment of fire-proof 

 vaults, etc., for the preservation of records, at Cold 

 Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, under Dr. 

 H. H. Laughlin as superintendent. "The main work of 

 this office is investigation into the laws of inheritance 

 of traits in human beings and their application to eu- 

 genics. It proffers its services free of charge to per- 

 sons seeking advice as to the consequences of pro- 

 posed marriage matings. In a word, it is devoted to 

 the advancement of the science and practice of eu- 

 genics." Already a considerable number of publica- 

 tions have been issued from the Eugenics Record 

 Office. 



The Volta Bureau, founded about thirty-five years 

 ago in Washington by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, is 

 collecting data with reference to deafness and has now 

 systematically arranged particulars concerning the 

 history of over 20,000 individuals. In England, also, 

 the Galton Laboratory for Eugenics, founded in 1905, 

 is systematically collecting facts about human pedi- 

 grees and publishing the results in a compendious 

 "Treasury of Human Inheritance." 



