3IO Heredity and Eugenics 



Hygiene has been organized and in England exists a Eugen- 

 ics Education Society which, publishes the Eugenics Review, 

 and is organizing an International Congress of Eugenics for 

 191 2. The Eugenics Education Society has fostered the for- 

 mation of several branches in the United Kingdom. For 

 some years Francis Galton maintained a Eugenics Labo- 

 ratory, directed by Professor Karl Pearson, that has pub- 

 lished a valuable Treasury of Human Inheritance, and was 

 lately well endowed at his death. 



In America one of the first undertakings in Eugenics 

 was that of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who was much 

 impressed by the consequences of marriages of the deaf in 

 America. He founded the Volta Bureau in Washington, 

 which contains extensive records of the deaf. 



In 188 1 Mr. Loring Moody, of Boston, who was the 

 organizer of the Association for the Prevention of Cruelty 

 to Children and assisted in the foundation of the Asso- 

 ciation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, organized 

 an Institute of Heredity, but his death soon after brought 

 his plans to naught. 



In October, 19 10, there was started at Cold Spring 

 Harbor on Long Island, the Eugenics Record Office, which 

 seeks to be a clearing-house for data on human blood lines 

 in America. It has collected several hundred records of 

 family traits and made extensive studies into the pedigrees 

 of the feeble-minded, epileptic, paupers, and insane. This 

 office is publishing a Bulletin. In time we shall have there, 

 we expect, data that will be useful to those contemplating 

 marriage. In various directions we hope to play an impor- 

 tant part in creating a sentiment and a knowledge that 

 shall lead to the improvement of the blood of the American 

 people. 



