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was opened at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New 

 York, w4th Mr. 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 eugenics. It proffers its serv- 

 ices free of charge to persons seeking advice as to 

 the consequences of proposed marriage matings. In 

 a word, it is devoted to the advancement of the 

 science and practice of eugenics." The publica- 

 tion of results from the Eugenics Record Office has 

 already been begun. 



The Volta Bureau, founded about twenty-five 

 years ago in Washington by Dr. Alexander Graham 

 Bell, is collecting data with reference to deafness 

 and has now systematically arranged particulars con- 

 cerning the history of over 20,000 individuals. In 

 England, also, the Galton Laboratory for Eugenics, 

 founded in 1905, is systematically collecting facts 

 about human pedigrees and publishing the results in 

 a compendious " Treasury of Human Inheritance." 



Besides these special bureaus of investigation, 

 innumerable facts about the inheritance of particular 

 traits are being incidentally brought together and 

 made available in various institutions and asylums 

 throughout the world which are immediately con- 

 cerned with the care of defectives of different types. 

 It is in connection with such institutions for defec- 

 tives that much of the most successful "field w^ork" 

 of the Eugenics Section of the American Breeders' 

 Association is being accomplished in the United 

 States. 



